Tournament: Greenhill Fall Classic | Round: 6 | Opponent: Loyola DW | Judge: Katie Gjerpen
Grid expansion now – the plan speeds up renewable development – collapses reliability
Garrison 10  http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADS950.pdf)

Adding Mexico grid interconnections means increased renewable investment kills spare capacity – causes overstretch and blackouts
The Economist 11  http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/09/reliability-grid)

Blackouts risks nuclear meltdowns
Cappiello, 11 (3/29/2011, Dina, “AP IMPACT: Long blackouts pose risk to US reactors,” http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2011/mar/29/ap-impact-long-blackouts-pose-risk-to-us-reactors/)

Impact is on par with nuclear warfare – fallout will be massive and global
Drell, 9 (THE NUCLEAR ENTERPRISE High-Consequence Accidents: How to Enhance Safety and Minimize Risks in Nuclear Weapons and Reactors, pg. 1-3)

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: College Prep BY | Judge: Chris Leonardi
Neoliberalism is dying in Latin America in the status quo – post the US shooting itself in the foot via ratification of the 1960 embargo and alienating itself from other latin American powers, there has been a successful transition to nationalized economies – the aff is an attempt to triage the falling order of neoliberalism
 Dr. Ronn Pineo, Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, and Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Towson University – Posted on April 11, 2013 - See more at: http://www.coha.org/22227/#sthash.L5CsywQs.dpuf
Poverty in Latin America has …It is time for some good economics. 

Expansion of the neoliberal model of capitalism ensures extinction – increased focus on consumption and growth makes war and violence a nessessity while systematically neglecting the planets ecosystems
Nhanenge 7 Jytte Masters @ U South Africa, “ECOFEMINSM: TOWARDS INTEGRATING THE CONCERNS OF WOMEN, POOR PEOPLE AND NATURE INTO DEVELOPMENT
There is today an increasing critique of economic development, whether it takes place in the North or in the South. Although the world on average …for the present purpose. (Ekins 1992: 1). 

Voting neg “de-marketizes” the neoliberal model of capitalism – the tools for the alt are present in the status quo, it is just a matter of signing the ballot
EMIR SADER, PhD Poli Sci Univ of Sau Paolo   THE WEAKEST LINK? Neoliberalism in Latin America  New Left Review 52, July-August 2008 http://newleftreview.org/II/52/emir-sader-the-weakest-link-neoliberalism-in-latin-america
Why has a full-fledged challenge to capitalism not emerged? … in the post-neoliberal model.

Tournament: IHSSA State | Round: 1 | Opponent: someone | Judge: Kyle Joseph
Listen, We’ve gone for Nietzsche maybe every round since the January. That’s why it isn’t in there every round

The aff’s rejection of chaos constructs an unreal perfect world opposite reality that they order themselves to – this engenders ressentiment. They blame the chaos that is a part of them on their neighbor, and try to eradicate it.
Saurette, 96 Paul Saurette, PhD in political theory at John Hopkins U, in 96 "I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them': Nietzshce, Arendt and the Crisis of the Will to Order in INternational Relations Theory." Millenium Journal of International Studies. Vol. 25 no. 1 page 3-6
The Will to Order and Politics-as-Making The Philosophical Foundation of the
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, the Will to Order becomes .the fundamental philosophical principle of modernity. 

Disorder and insecurity are inevitable—attempting to control danger is impetus for destruction.
Der Derian 98 James, On Security, pg. 29
The will to power, then, should not be confused with a Hobbesian perpetual
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owes this artificial strength to the illusion of being protected by a god." 

Our alternative is to “Do nothing in the instance of the plan.” The refusal to act accepts the inevitability of struggle, allowing us to understand pain positively.
Nietzsche, ‘78 The anti-christ Human, All too Human. Aphorism #284 1878
The means to real peace.— No government admits any more that it keeps an
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indeed you know, comes from a cloud—and from up high.

Tournament: Greenhill Fall Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: College Prep BY | Judge: Chris Leonardi
Cuba is a human rights abuser and restricts the freedoms of its people
Perales 1o (August 2010The United States and Cuba: Implications of an Economic Relationship Edited by José Raúl Perales,* Senior Program Associate  WOODROW WILSON CENTER LATIN AMERICAN PROGRAM http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/LAP_Cuba_Implications.pdf - BRW)
However, there are important pitfalls … status quo in bilateral economic relations will start 

Shunning human rights violators is necessary to uphold a moral order – protecting rights is an a-priori concern
Beversluis, 89 (Eric H. April 1989. “On Shunning Undesirable Regimes: Ethics and Economic Sanctions.” Public Affairs Quarterly, April, vol. 3, no. 2)

A fundamental task of morality is resolving conflicting interests….as ancient communities might have put it.

Tournament: Greenhill Fall Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: College Prep BY | Judge: Chris Leonardi
The United States federal government should add Canada, France, Briton, Germany, The Republic of South Korea, Brazil, Tibet, India, Norway, Iceland, South Africa, and Sweden to the State Sponsors of Terrorism list. 

Counterplan solves the aff – every addition of illegitimate sponsers of terrorism undermines the credibility of the list
CDA 5/3 – Center for Democracy in the Americas, research group on US/Cuban policy (“LA Times: Political Calculus Keeps Cuba on U.S. List of Terror Sponsors”, CDA, 5/3/13, http://www.democracyinamericas.org/blog-post/la-times-political-calculus-keeps-cuba-on-u-s-list-of-terror-sponsors/) EO
Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times – Cuba’s communist leadership was …that has manifestly failed for nearly 50 years.”¶

Tournament: Greenhill Fall Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: College Prep BY | Judge: Chris Leonardi
A- interpretation-Economic Engagement is solely economic
Rose and Spiegel ’08 (Andrew K. Rose and Mark M. Spiegel, Non-Economic Engagement and International Exchange The Case of Environmental Treaties, July 17, 2008, http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/arose/RepRev.pdf, BG)
Countries, like people, interact with …, in both theory and practice, is positive.                               

b. Violation – Plan goes beyond the realm of strictly economic engagement

c. That’s a voter – De-limits the topic – results in millions of tiny affs – irreparably skews the debate and crushes any educational value from the discussion of the aff
Hayden 13 (Dr. Craig Hayden is an assistant professor in the International Communication Program at American Universityand#39;s School of International Service. “Engagement” is More Convenient than Helpful: Dissecting a Public Diplomacy Term.”, http://intermap.org/2013/06/20/engagement-is-more-convenient-than-helpful-dissecting-a-public-diplomacy-term/
I think this tension is readily apparent in … efforts to reach foreign publics.