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cp - advantage
Tournament: | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: That solves the economy – business attraction and cost reductions Kadlec 11 (Charles Kadlec, contributor, Forbes,Founder of the Community of Liberty, author, “Restoring America’s Economic Future,” Forbes, February 1, 2011, http://www.forbes.com/sites/charleskadlec/2011/02/01/restoring-americas-economic-future/) The cost of outsized and unpredictable judgments against doctors and businesses of all kinds is AND United States more attractive for U.S. and foreign businesses alike.
Health is key to economic growth Zussman 4 - Tracy has been with Eldis since 1996, having previously worked in the information sector, in both engineering and development libraries, (“Investing in health for economic development (Report) Addressing the potential benefits of investing in health in Mexico”, 2004, http://www.eldis.org/go/country-profilesandid=18375andtype=Document#.Ui4AyMbrwvV) Being healthy is, on an individual and social level, considered an essential part AND poverty traps in situations of crises to takesteps towards a universal medical insurance system
Criegeebiradical key to offset warming in a short time frame Science Daily 1/13/12, (“Offsetting Global Warming: Molecule in Earth’s Atmosphere Could ‘Cool the Planet’”, January 31, 2012, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120112142232.htm)EB In a breakthrough paper published in Science, researchers from The University of Manchester, AND natural ecosystems could be playing a significant role in off-setting warming."
Cp solves ecosystems CIES 11 - Founded in 1983 by the eminent ecologist Dr. Gene E. Likens, the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies is a world-renowned leader in applying the ecosystem approach to some of society's most pressing problems, from the quantity and quality of freshwater resources to the health of our forests. The unbiased scientific information produced by our scientists is essential to sound environmental policy, management decisions, and education curricula, (“Fluctuations before the fall: Predicting and preventing environmental collapse”, April 28, 2011, http://esciencenews.com/articles/2011/04/28/fluctuations.fall.predicting.and.preventing.environmental.collapse) By closely monitoring environmental conditions at a remote Wisconsin lake, researchers have found that AND red flag would only work for identifying food web shifts in freshwater lakes.
Conceeded metabarcoding plank solves CAS et al 13 - The research was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council UK, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation of China, and the Yunnan provincial government, (“Insect Soup' Holds DNA Key for Monitoring Biodiversity, August 5, 2013, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130805092312.htm) Scientists at the University of East Anglia have shown that sequencing the DNA of crushed AND tiny fraction of their overall populations and pose no threat to endangered species.
That solves democratization Carothers, 7 Thomas Carothers is vice president for studies—international politics and governance at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “U.S. Democracy Promotion During and After Bush”, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/democracy_promotion_after_bush_final.pdf The next administration will have a significant opportunity to put U.S. democracy AND democracy building efforts, and strengthening the core institutional sources of democracy assistance.
That bolsters soft power Quigley and Riefel, 08 President, National Peace Corps Association Lex Rieffel Nonresident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, September, “TEN TIMES THE PEACE CORPS: A SMART INVESTMENT IN SOFT Power”, http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2008/09_peace_corps_rieffel/09_peace_corps_rieffel.pdf The world will be looking for a sea change in U.S. foreign AND not aid recipients. Social scientists would call this building international social capital. That uniquely solves soft power Ignatieff 02 Professor of Human Rights at Harvard University, Legal Affairs, May/June Instead, American history and geography have created a strong link among self-sufficiency AND unelected legal experts who seek to make abolition of the death penalty universal. Prediction is key CIES 11 - Founded in 1983 by the eminent ecologist Dr. Gene E. Likens, the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies is a world-renowned leader in applying the ecosystem approach to some of society's most pressing problems, from the quantity and quality of freshwater resources to the health of our forests. The unbiased scientific information produced by our scientists is essential to sound environmental policy, management decisions, and education curricula, (“Fluctuations before the fall: Predicting and preventing environmental collapse”, April 28, 2011, http://esciencenews.com/articles/2011/04/28/fluctuations.fall.predicting.and.preventing.environmental.collapse) By closely monitoring environmental conditions at a remote Wisconsin lake, researchers have found that AND red flag would only work for identifying food web shifts in freshwater lakes. Solves Disease SBRI, 12- Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, 06/05/12, “Scientists Work Together To Achieve Milestone Against Deadly Diseases”, accessed at http://www.seattlebiomed.org/press-release/scientists-work-together-achieve-milestone-against-deadly-diseases, accessed on 11/7/12) Since 2007, the SSGCID, headed by Dr. Peter J. Myler of AND diseases, as well as providing a blueprint for development of new drugs. The CP solves – bolsters detection and neutralization capability Morgan et al. 03 (Sarah Morgan East Texas Baptist University, Silverio Colon, Arizona State University Department of Bioengineering College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Judith A. Ruffner and John A. Emerson, Organic Materials Department, “Biomanufacturing: A State of the Technology Review” September 2003, http://www.che.ncsu.edu/academics/concentrations/documents/Biomanufacturing-AStateofTechRev.pdf) Perhaps the most unique and advantageous aspect of biomanufacturing is the excellent control that may AND National Laboratories has the expertise to contribute to any one of these fields.
Solves back civil war Sweeney 94 - John P. Sweeney is a former Policy Analyst at The Heritage Foundation, (“Why the Cuban Trade Embargo Should Be Maintained”, nov 10, 1994, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/1994/11/bg1010nbsp-why-the-cuban-trade) Demand that U.S. allies in the Western Hemisphere, including Mexico and AND Naval Base at Guantanamo in anticipation of attack by pro-Castro forces. The U.S. has over 100,000 troops in Europe Carter, 4 (Phillip, former army officer, 8/14/04, http://www.slate.com/id/2105295/) Currently, theUnited States has 116,400 military personnel from all four services assigned AND Turkey, Britain, and Italy each host several thousand soldiers, too. Accommodation with China solves Taiwan conflict White 13 – Hugh White is a professor of strategic studies at ANU and a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute and a former Australian deputy secretary of defense, (“Obama and Xi, a Meeting of Equals”, June 6, 2013, http: online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323844804578528422057244626.html) For instance, it is quite possible that China and Japan will come to blows AND confront it as a rival, with all the deadly risks that entails.
UN-US collaboration solidifies multilateralism Forman 9 –Johanna Mendelson Forman is a senior associate with Americas Program at CSIS AND New Multilateralism A Smart Power Approach to the United Nations”, January 2009) Among the organizations formed in the wake of World War II, the United Nations AND restoring the legiti- macy of U.S. interests in multilateralism. The CP solves the reasons why conflict will occur in the middle east Beck 13 – Middle East Analyst at The Commentator (Noah, “A nuclear Middle East is doomsday, 5/28/13, http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3633/a_nuclear_middle_east_is_doomsday)//SJF As the Obama administration tries to unbury itself from snowballing scandals, my apocalyptic thriller AND , knowing that it’s not my imagination this time, is far worse. The CP signal deters further aggression in Korea – solves the case Shen 11 (ShenDingli, PhD, Executive Vice Dean of the Institute of International Affairs, Director of the CAS, professor of international relations at Fudan University, “Building Regional Stability on the Korean Peninsula: A Chinese Perspective,” Center for U.S.-Korea Policy, Asia Foundation, January 2011, Vol. 3, No. 1) To turn the Korean peninsula crisis into an opportunity, it is not inconceivable to AND , and would grant China some leverage to moderate its partners’ behavior cooperatively. The CP reaffirms US hegemony Tellis 8-Ashley J. Tellis (male) is a senior associate at the Carnegie Edowment for International Peace, specializtin gin international security defense and Asian strategic issues 2008-9, accessed at http://globalasia.org/pdf/issue9/Ashley_J._Tellis.pdf, “Preserving Hegemony: the strategic tasks facing the United States” US efforts in three areas will reaffirm its role as global leader: supporting a AND , cultivation of key allied support and attentiveness to the views of others.
growth Kadlec 11 (Charles Kadlec, contributor, Forbes,Founderof the Community of Liberty, author, “Restoring America’s Economic Future,” Forbes, February 1, 2011, http://www.forbes.com/sites/charleskadlec/2011/02/01/restoring-americas-economic-future/) Reduce the Corporate Income Tax Rate. The United States now has one of the AND are in actuality a form of government spending on politically favored corporate activities.
That solves the economy – business attraction and cost reductions Kadlec 11 (Charles Kadlec, contributor, Forbes,Founder of the Community of Liberty, author, “Restoring America’s Economic Future,” Forbes, February 1, 2011, http://www.forbes.com/sites/charleskadlec/2011/02/01/restoring-americas-economic-future/) The cost of outsized and unpredictable judgments against doctors and businesses of all kinds is AND United States more attractive for U.S. and foreign businesses alike.
The CP jumpstarts the manufacturing industry Lind and Freeman 12 (Michael Lind, policy director of New America’s Economic Growth Program and a co-founder of the New America Foundation, Joshua Freedman, program associate in New America’s Economic Growth Program, “Value Added: America’s Manufacturing Future,” New America Foundation, April 2012, http://growth.newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/policydocs/Lind,20Michael20and20Freedman,20Joshua20-20NAF20-20Value20Added20America27s20Manufacturing20Future.pdf) To remain competitive, the U.S. needs a strategy to ensure that AND allocates responsibility for learning and upgrading skills among government, employers and individuals.
Accommodation with China solves Taiwan conflict White 13 – Hugh White is a professor of strategic studies at ANU and a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute and a former Australian deputy secretary of defense, (“Obama and Xi, a Meeting of Equals”, June 6, 2013, http: online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323844804578528422057244626.html) For instance, it is quite possible that China and Japan will come to blows AND confront it as a rival, with all the deadly risks that entails. ITAR kills aerospace competitiveness Abbey and Lane 9 (George, Baker Botts Senior Fellow in Space Policy at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University and Neil, Malcolm Gillis University Professor at Rice University 2009, “United States Space Policy: Challenges and Opportunities Gone Astray,” http://amacad.org/publications/spaceUS.pdf) In 2005 we emphasized that the success of the U.S. space science AND to place a high priority on changing this policy and doing so quickly. The CP solves military capabilities – bolsters rapid deployment Meier 01 (John G. Meier III, Business Library, June 2001, “High-Speed Sealift: Enabling Rapid and Flexible response”, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb076/is_3_57/ai_n28858434/) We must remember that no force, no weapons system is of any value if AND or crisis to immediately conduct operations as directed by the National Command Authorities. The CP reaffirms US hegemony Tellis 8-Ashley J. Tellis (male) is a senior associate at the Carnegie Edowment for International Peace, specializtin gin international security defense and Asian strategic issues 2008-9, accessed at http://globalasia.org/pdf/issue9/Ashley_J._Tellis.pdf, “Preserving Hegemony: the strategic tasks facing the United States” US efforts in three areas will reaffirm its role as global leader: supporting a AND , cultivation of key allied support and attentiveness to the views of others.
11/28/13
cp - oas
Tournament: | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: CP Text: The Organization of American States should provide all necessary funding, investment, and technical aid toward renewable energy assistance to Mexico. OAS solves best-cooperation on renewables now OAS 13- Organization of American States (OAS, “Organization of American States Hosted”, March 4, 2013, http://www.oas.org/en/about/offices_events.asp?sCode=STL) ¶ Saint Lucia, March 4, 2013 – The Executive Secretariat of Integral Development AND to create greater public awareness in the Caribbean with regard to energy efficiency.
11/28/13
cp - states
Tournament: | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: A. Text –In an appropriate test case, the United States Supreme Court should issue a narrow ruling that federal authority over monetary distribution of democracy assistance toward student movements commandeers the states’ legislative functions in violation of the 10th and 11th Amendments. The Supreme Court should devolve authority of this narrow ruling to the State Governments and United States Territories. The 50 States and relevant U.S. territories should substantially increase its monetary distribution of democracy assistance toward student movements in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
B. Solvency –
The Court can make this ruling and devolve power to the states – it won’t be rolled back Miller ’98 (Mark A., Attorney at Law – Baker Botts LLP, Cleveland State Law Review, Lexis) The history of the Tenth Amendment is an appropriate starting point in the development of AND any attempt by Congress to pierce the shield of federalism with Article I.
2. Currently all 50 states and US territories conduct foreign policy on a wide array of issues especially in the realm of economy and trade – they have acted collectively in these areas and in Latin America Daniel Halberstam, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School, 46 Vill. L. Rev. 1015 2001 State and local governments have also engaged in foreign policy initiatives with more "political AND and in some cases embraced subnational government views in resolving the underlying issue.
C. Competition – Raich crushed Federalism – extending Lopez is critical to revive it Brandon J. Stoker, J.D. Candidate 2010, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, 23 BYU J. Pub. L. 317 2009 When the Supreme Court decided Gonzales v. Raich n2 in 2005, it marked AND in United States v. Lopez n6 and United States v. Morrison.
Federalism solves species loss Gilroy 05 (Leonard Gilroy, Director of Government Reform at Reason Foundation, “Time to Revamp Endangered Species Act,” Reason Foundation, January 9, 2005, http://reason.org/blog/show/time-to-revamp-endangered-spec) "Under environmental federalism, the national government is responsible for national problems. Global AND that allows them to react more quickly and more creatively than federal agencies."
Extinction Diner, 94 David, Ph.D., Planetary Science and Geology, "The Army and the Endangered Species Act: Who's Endangering Whom?," Military Law Review, 143 Mil. L. Rev. 161 To accept that the snail darter, harelip sucker, or Dismal Swamp southeastern shrew AND , 80 humankind may be edging closer to the abyss.
11/28/13
cp - tep
Tournament: | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: The Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States should issue a Theater Engagement Plan, and corresponding strategic plans that prioritizes normalizing its trade relations with the Republic of Cuba as necessary to achieve the national security goals of the United States. Competes – the counterplan isn’t certain nor immediate Tarbet 99 - Colonel Brian Tarbet Lieutenant Colonel Rick Steinke Senior Service College Fellows, U.S. Army Harvard University Plus Captain Dirk Deverill, U.S. Navy Commander Terry O'brien, U.S. Navy, (“GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT - THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME”, May 6, 1999, http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA366865) The combatant commanders in chief are charged with the responsibility to develop theater engagement plans AND and in most cases has resulted in a 500-page document.1 Theater Engagement Process shapes economic engagement Goff 2k – Edward Goff worked for the US Department of State, (“Theater Engagement Planning; The Role for Economics”, May 15, 2000, http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA381734) Since a favorable international economic environment is a core strategic objective of the United States AND the Joint Staff would include it in JSCP planning guidance for CINC action.
The net benefit is CMR Ackerman, 8 — Senior Correspondent at American Prospect and Former Associate Editor at New Republic (Spencer, “Productive Obama-Military Relationship Possible”, Washington Independent, 11/13/2008, http://washingtonindependent.com/18335/productive-obama-military-relationship-possible) The meeting offered a test for a relationship that might help define Obama’s term in AND in a time of war, which most of the nation has forgotten.”
Extinction Cohen, 2k — Professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and the director of the Strategic Studies department at Johns Hopkins, worked for the Department of Defense, taught at the U.S. Naval War College (Eliot A., “Why the Gap Matters - Gap Between Military and Civilian World”, National Interest, Fall 2000, http://www.24hourscholar.com/p/articles/mi_m2751/is_2000_Fall/ai_65576871/pg_4?pi=scl) At the same time, the military exercises control, to a remarkable degree, AND rather, deeper and more enduring changes in politics, society and technology.
11/28/13
da - accidental eden
Tournament: | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: The plan uniquely harms the environment PBS 10 “Cuba: The Accidental Eden”- ‘Can Cuba build a bridge to its environmental future? Produced- http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/cuba-the-accidental-eden/the-causeway-to-cayo-coco/5808/ PBS 10/27/2010-Educational Broadcast Corporation and Public Broadcasting System Cuba has been called the “Accidental Eden” for its exceptional biodiversity and unique AND some conservationists see Cuba’s position as an opportunity to set a constructive example.
Extinction Diner, 94 David, Ph.D., Planetary Science and Geology, "The Army and the Endangered Species Act: Who's Endangering Whom?," Military Law Review, 143 Mil. L. Rev. 161 To accept that the snail darter, harelip sucker, or Dismal Swamp southeastern shrew AND , 80 humankind may be edging closer to the abyss.
11/28/13
da - asia pivot
Tournament: | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: We are pivoting to the Pacific now but doubts are growing Lobe 13 - Jim, chief of the Washington bureau of Inter Press Service, J.D Berkley, “U.S. “Rebalancing” to Asia/Pacific Still a Priority,” March-3, http://www.lobelog.com/u-s-rebalancing-to-asiapacific-still-a-priority//cmf Amidst growing tensions with North Korea and, to a lesser extent, China, AND Romberg, the head of East Asia programmes at the Stimson Center here. Economic engagement with Mexico ruins the pivot Taylor 2012 (Guy; Obama looks to Asia as trade markets beckon south; Nov 12; www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/12/obama-looks-to-asia-as-trade-markets-beckon-south/?page=all) President Obama’s postelection trip to Southeast Asia presages a greater second-termfocus on that AND “This will make the U.S. much more competitive globally.” That causes the rise of Chinese Hegemony Blumenthal 12 Dan Blumenthal is a resident fellow in Asian studies at the American Enterprise Institute and a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, May 2, 2012, “A strong military keeps the threat of war small”, http://www.aei.org/article/foreign-and-defense-policy/regional/asia/a-strong-military-keeps-the-threat-of-war-small/ We are not in a cold war with China. That is too simple a AND the ships and aircraft our military needs, Americans may buy themselves peace. Extinction Walton 7 – C. Dale Walton, Lecturer in International Relations and Strategic Studies at the University of Reading, 2007, Geopolitics and the Great Powers in the 21st Century, p. 49 Obviously, it is of vital importance to the United States that the PRC does AND a healthy multipolar system that is not marked by close great power alliances.
When Wolfgang Eder and his team started looking around for a site for a new AND to invest in new plants and expand existing facilities in the United States.
Renewables spike prices --- we have a graph. Brook 13 – Barry, ARC Future Fellow in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Adelaide, Australia, Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change, Director of Climate Science at the Environment Institute and co-runs the Global Ecology Lab.“Renewable Energy's Hidden Costs?, March 23, 2013 http://theenergycollective.com/barrybrook/201991/counting-hidden-costs-energy)//a-berg Table 1 omitted, Figure 1 included
A recent Bloomberg press release got wide coverage with its claim that wind power is AND each technology as might apply in the Australian context – see Figure 1.
Figure 1: Total system cost for generation technology (2012) including carbon and grid-level costs Ignoringsuch costs distorts the picture. For example, Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) recently put out a press release headed “Renewable Energy Now Cheaper Than New Fossil Fuels in Australia”, which attracted a great deal of attention.
Low electricity prices key to chemical industry. Perry 12 (Mark, Prof of Economics @ Univ. of Michigan, "America's Energy Jackpot: Industrial Natural Gas Prices Fall to the Lowest Level in Recent History," http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2012/07/americas–energy–jackpot–industrial.html)
Building petrochemical plants could suddenly become attractive in the United States. Manufacturers will " AND seems like a win, win, win, win situation to me.
Chemical industry solves multiple scenarios for extinction. Baker, ’99 - Shenda, Associate professor of chemistry, Harvey Mudd College, MILLENNIUM SPECIAL REPORT December 6, 1999 Volume 77, Number 49 CENEAR 77 49 p.48 Musings page 1, http://pubs.acs.org/cen/hotarticles/cenear/991206/7749spintro2.html
The pace of change in today's world is truly incomprehensible. Science is advancing on AND chemical enterprise share their thoughts about the future of our science and industry.
11/28/13
da - monsanto
Tournament: | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: We’re on the precipice of global food collapse because of overuse of unregulated GMO’s --- the recent conclusion of the fiscal battle means Monsanto’s anti-regulation rider has finally expired Sloan 10/15/13 (Kim Sloan, “Century of Innovating I Toxins,” October 15, 2013, http://www.indypendent.org/2013/10/15/century-innovating-toxins) THE MILLIONS Against Monsanto campaign held a global day of action on October 12 to AND judicial recourse when genetically engineered crops become cross-contaminated with their produce. Unregulated GM crops leads to global spread of bacterial antibiotic resistance Pusztai 01 (Arpad, Ph.D., worked with several universities on genetically modified crop research and has published about 300 primary peer-reviewed papers, “Genetically Modified Foods: Are They a Risk to Human/Animal Health?” June 2001, http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/pusztai.html) GM foods may cause bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics. When food-crops AND and to pinpoint these before allowing a GM crop into the food chain. Extinction --- short-circuits their generic disease defense Collins, 98 (Sharon, Sunday Mirror, Mirror Group newspapers health editor, formerly trained as a specialized medical correspondent, 4-12-1998 “'Doomsday' fear as we over-use antibiotics” lexis) THE golden age of antibiotics, the 20th Century's wonder drug, is over. AND pipeline to replace the life-saving ones to which resistance is developing."
11/28/13
da - protectionism
Tournament: | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: Engagement’s limited now because of opposition by protectionist lobbies Gvosdev 12 – Nikolas K. Gvosdev, Faculty of the U.S. Naval War College and Former Editor of the National Interest, “The Realist Prism: To Reset Latin America Policy, U.S. Must Think Big”, World Politics Review, 4-20, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/11867/the-realist-prism-to-reset-latin-america-policy-u-s-must-think-big) U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere has suffered a series of setbacks AND through the prism of domestic politics -- in this case Florida’s electoral votes. Plan inflames domestic protectionism McGinnis 00 – Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, “The World Trade Constitution”, Harvard Law Review, December, 114 Harv. L. Rev. 511, Lexis It is true that free trade does not make everyone within a nation better off AND are designed to benefit interest groups at the expense of the public. 66 Lobbies will push restrictive regulatory measures --- wrecks trade and the economy Watson 13 – K. William Watson and Sallie James, Trade Policy Analysts at the Cato Institute’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, “Regulatory Protectionism A Hidden Threat to Free Trade”, Cato Policy Analysis, 4-9, http://heartland.org/sites/default/files/pa723.pdf Despite the impressive success of trade liberalization, domestic industries continue to find ways to AND the product of privilege-seeking special interests disguised as altruistic consumer advocates. Extinction Kemp 10 (Geoffrey, Director of Regional Strategic Programs – Nixon Center and Former Director of the Middle East Arms Control Project – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The East Moves West: India, China, and Asia’s Growing Presence in the Middle East, p. 233-234) The second scenario, called Mayhem and Chaos, is the opposite of the first AND expected, with dire consequences for two-thirds of the planet’s population.
11/28/13
da - shunshun
Tournament: | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: 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. If we both want the AND has been made "unclean," as ancient communities might have put it.
11/28/13
da - syria
Tournament: | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: Diplomatic efforts to resolve the Syria dispute will inevitably fail Rebecca Ballhaus 9/11, WSJ writer, “McCain Calls Russia's Syria Plan a Stall Tactic,” 2013, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324549004579068920220114190.html WASHINGTON—Sen. John McCain called a Russian plan for Syria to hand over AND Assad has also been moving his chemical-weapons caches during the pause. That means Congress will have to vote to authorize strikes on Syria --- it will pass but it’s close Politico 9/10 “Congress gets reprieve on tough Syria vote,” 2013, http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/harry-reid-senate-syria-vote-96565.html Congress dodged a politically perilous vote on Syria — for now.¶The surprising development AND chemicals, and so forth if they don’t give up their chemical weapons.” Congress doesn’t want to engage just yet – Maduro must prove himself first Sullivan 13 Mark Sullivan, Mark P. Sullivan, Specialist in Latin American Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division, 4/5/13, Hugo Chávez’s Death: Implications for Venezuela and U.S. Relations, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R42989.pdf Some observers have criticizedthe Obama Administration for making overtures to engage with Maduro, contending AND trafficking and terrorism concerns, including the extent of Venezuela’s relations with Iran. Political capital is key to convincing Congress Paul Lewis 8/31, writer @ the Guardian, “Battle looms in Congress as Obama makes Syria a vast political gamble,” 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/31/barack-obama-syria-congress-vote Barack Obama has taken a potentially huge political gambleby putting the decision over whether to AND leftwing Democrats last month almost passed a motion against the National Security Agency.
Failure of Congress to back up strikes shatters US credibility---causes heg decline, collapse of US leadership in Asia, Middle East instability, and prolif – yes war irrational actors Cordesman 9-1 Anthony, Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy @ CSIS, “President Obama and Syria: The ‘Waiting for Godot’ Strategy,” 2012,http://csis.org/publication/president-obama-and-syria-waiting-godot-strategy If the Congress does not support the President, or should split openly in front AND still will have no meaningful strategy for dealing with the Syrian civil war.
11/28/13
da - tpa
Tournament: | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: It will pass now – bipartisanship and momentum Palmer 13– Doug Palmer is one of the most experienced trade reporters in Washington after nearly 15 years on the beat. He was on the scene when efforts to launch world trade talks failed in Seattle in 1999 to the delight of thousands of protesters who clashed with police throughout the week. Since then, Palmer has covered trade negotiations with more than a dozen countries as well as the long-running Doha round of world trade negotiations, which was launched in 2001 and still has not successfully concluded. Palmer's job currently includes keeping tabs on trade frictions with China and negotiations on two huge regional free regional trade agreements, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, 9/26/13, (“President Obama to dive into Pacific trade talks”, http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/obama-pacific-trade-talks-97419.html?hp=r7) It would be the largest U.S. free trade agreement to date, AND in its passage and hopefully will contribute to further momentum,” he said. Cuba hardliners ensure a political fight Broder 13 (Jonathan Broder, staffer for Congressional Quaterly. 1/5/13. "A New Obstacle to Any Shift Toward Cuba". CQ Weekly. public.cq.com/docs/weeklyreport/weeklyreport-000004201640.html)
Of course, Obama would be taking an enormous political risk if he moves to AND , the other hard-line Cuban-American member of the committee. All of your TPP bad arguments are non-unique as it is inevitable within a year but PC is key to ensure passage of the TPA which creates impetus for US involvement and leverage in the TPP Palmer 13 – Doug Palmer is one of the most experienced trade reporters in Washington after nearly 15 years on the beat. He was on the scene when efforts to launch world trade talks failed in Seattle in 1999 to the delight of thousands of protesters who clashed with police throughout the week. Since then, Palmer has covered trade negotiations with more than a dozen countries as well as the long-running Doha round of world trade negotiations, which was launched in 2001 and still has not successfully concluded. Palmer's job currently includes keeping tabs on trade frictions with China and negotiations on two huge regional free regional trade agreements, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, 10/23/13, (“Does President Obama have chops to wrap up his trade deals?” http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/barack-obama-trade-deals-98712.html#ixzz2id7AmP9e) If the White House tries to finish the TPP negotiations without trade promotion authority, AND like state-owned enterprises, digital trade and regional supply chains.
US involvement key to the wildlife – uniquely prevents forest degradation, overfishing, and invasive species USTR 11 – Office of the United States Trade Representative, (“USTR Green Paper on Conservation and the Trans-Pacific Partnership”, December 2011, http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/fact-sheets/2011/ustr-green-paper-conservation-and-trans-pacific-partnership) Each year, billions of dollars in illegally harvested or taken wildlife and wild plant AND to negotiate a truly 21st-century result for trade and the environment.
Extinction Diner, 94 David, Ph.D., Planetary Science and Geology, "The Army and the Endangered Species Act: Who's Endangering Whom?," Military Law Review, 143 Mil. L. Rev. 161 To accept that the snail darter, harelip sucker, or Dismal Swamp southeastern shrew AND , 80 humankind may be edging closer to the abyss.
11/28/13
da - venezuela
Tournament: | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: Cuba’s close relationship with Venezuela will continue – U.S. is odd one out. Richard Gott, 2-25-2013, the guardian, “Cuba looks forward to closer US ties in a post-Castro world,” http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/25/cuba-us-ties-castro-raul Diaz-Canel has also been a strong advocate of the existing close relationship with AND in the US have begun to forget what the quarrel was all about. Cuban shift towards the U.S. would sour relations and embolden Venezuela to become aggressive against U.S. interests – strengthens alliances with Iran. Stratfor 10, 9-21-2010, “A Change of Course in Cuba and Venezuela?,” http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20100920_change_course_cuba_and_venezuela Venezuela's open-door policy to Cuba was intended to bolster the regime's security, AND that are adversarial to the United States, Venezuela has them in abundance. Iran-Venezuela relations ensure Venezuelan and Iranian nuclearization Noriega, 10 (Roger, “Chávez's Secret Nuclear Program”, former U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States from 2001 to 2003 and U.S. assistant secretary of state for the Western Hemisphere from 2003 to 2005. He is a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute) http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/10/05/chavez_s_secret_nuclear_program?page=0,0 Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez admitted last week that his government is "carrying out the AND "Atomic Energy Committee" has been managing the nuclear program since 2007. Extinction Shepard-Durini 9 (Suzana, “The ABC's of Nuclear Disarmament in Latin America”, 2009, B.A. Political Science and Latin America Studies @ Wellesey College, M.A. Latin America Studies (security) @ Georgetown, Research Associate for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs) There are several resources that indicate that Latin American political scientists were worried about the AND a very hard time surviving if there existed no trust between the nations.
11/28/13
da -- appeasement
Tournament: | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: Plan cedes to Cuba Claver-Carone 4-2 (Mauricio Claver-Carone, former attorney-advisor with the U.S. Treasury Department and director of the U.S.-Cuba Democracy PAC, “Cuba Sees an Opening”, The American, 4-2-13, http://www.american.com/archive/2013/april/cuba-should-remain-designated-as-a-state-sponsor-of-terrorism)//RDa The State Department is reportedly considering dropping Cuba’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism AND absolute control over the island, nor is it likely to do so.
A collapse of credibility ignites a host of conflicts - extinction Cohen 3-19 Eliot, Director of Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins, “Eliot Cohen: American Withdrawal and Global Disorder” The Wall Street Journal, 3/19/13 ln In Mr. Obama's second term the limits of such withdrawal from conventional military commitments AND must, and those with an option hurry up and get nuclear weapons.
Neoliberalism and Economic Globalization¶ The goal of neoliberal economic globalization is the removal of AND They would then be in a better position to compete in international markets.¶
Our alternative is to interrogate neoliberal engagement from the starting point of knowledge production Walsh 12 (Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos de la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, 2012. Catherine, “The Politics of Naming”, Cultural Studies, 26.1, Project Muse)
Cultural Studies, in our project, is constructed and understood as more than a AND Studies is only one of our options, and part of the politics of naming.
11/28/13
k - obligation
Tournament: | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: The 1AC tethers its ethical potential on the contract of infinite obligation --- this framework results in mass violence and fails to produce ethical outcomes as we infinitely pursue impossible situations where our effort is useless ALTEZ 2007 (Fleurdeliz R. Altez, Faculty of Arts and Letters, University of Santo Tomas, “Banal and Implied Forms of Violence in Levinas’ Phenomenological Ethics,” Kritike, Vol. 1, No. 1, June 2007, http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_1/altez_june2007.pdf) The varieties of violence within the Levinasian framework indeed range from the banal to the AND like the banal, implied forms of violence are meant to be conquered.
This limitless exceptionality will spiral into extermination of all beings in the name of our obligation --- with no end in sight for our eternal conquest, the 1AC only recreates the fascist authoritarianism they criticize MCGOWAN 2009 (Todd McGowan, Associate Professor, film theory, University of Vermont, PhD, Ohio State University, studies the intersection of Hegel, psychoanalysis, and existentialism and cinema, “The Exceptional Darkness of The Dark Knight,” Jump Cut, No. 51, Spring 2009, http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc51.2009/darkKnightKant/text.html) Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben sees the great danger inherent in the exception. It leads AND the exception augments the very problem that it is created to fight against.
Our alternative is to reject the 1AC’s centering of its ethical politics around our “infinite obligation” of rejecting every instance --- instead, we resist it --- we acknowledge that while our obligation is significant, it cannot be infinite --- ethics are not a fixed point but fluid, constantly requiring revision as a dynamic progress --- only our alternative avoids replicating violence ALTEZ 2007 (Fleurdeliz R. Altez, Faculty of Arts and Letters, University of Santo Tomas, “Banal and Implied Forms of Violence in Levinas’ Phenomenological Ethics,” Kritike, Vol. 1, No. 1, June 2007, http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_1/altez_june2007.pdf) In this fragmented world where justice in human relationships (whose main interlocutors are the AND Self still takes the command on how to witness the Other within proximity.
11/28/13
k - suffering reps
Tournament: | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: The aff is a façade --- a pseudo-sign image of real progress --- this narcissistic reinforcement of power turns the case Williams 2k (Christopher R. Williams, PhD, forensic psychology, professor and AND , No. 3, August 2000, pgs. 321-343) The impediments to establishing democratic justice in contemporary American society have caused a national paralysis AND -sign image (a hypertext or simulation) of real sociopolitical progress.
This narcissistic reinforcement of power turns the case Williams 2k (Christopher R. Williams, PhD, forensic psychology, professor and AND , No. 3, August 2000, pgs. 321-343) Reciprocation on your part is impossible. Even if one day you are able to AND , relegitimating the privileged, and fueling the voracious conceit of the advantaged.
Their demand for the ballot is trapped in a web of scheming --- this poisons their call for change McGowan 09 (Todd McGowan, Associate Professor, film theory, University of Vermont, PhD, Ohio State University, studies the intersection of Hegel, psychoanalysis, and existentialism and cinema, “The Exceptional Darkness of The Dark Knight,” Jump Cut, No. 51, Spring 2009, http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc51.2009/darkKnightKant/text.html) According to Kant, when we emerge as subjects, we do so as beings AND basis in freedom. Scheming enslaves one to the object of one’s scheme.
The alternative is to vote negative because the 1AC’s ethics are right --- to be the Dark Knight --- this is the only option for true heroism and substantive change McGowan 09 (Todd McGowan, Associate Professor, film theory, University of Vermont, PhD, Ohio State University, studies the intersection of Hegel, psychoanalysis, and existentialism and cinema, “The Exceptional Darkness of The Dark Knight,” Jump Cut, No. 51, Spring 2009, http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc51.2009/darkKnightKant/text.html) Just as The Dark Knight illustrates the inextricable relation between heroism and evil, it AND public, true heroes must identify themselves with the evil that we fight.
11/28/13
t - qpq
Tournament: | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: A. Violation - Engagement towards a government must be conditional, the plan isn’t Haass and O’Sullivan, 2k - *Vice President andDirector of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution AND a Fellow with the Foreign Policy StudiesProgram at the Brookings Institution (Richard and Meghan, “Terms of Engagement:Alternatives to PunitivePolicies” Survival vol. 42, no. 2, Summer 2000, http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/articles/2000/6/summer20haass/2000survival.pdf Many different types of engagement strategies exist, depending on who is engaged, the AND private sector in the hopes of promoting forces that will eventually facilitate cooperation.
B. voting issue – for limits and ground – engagement is a huge mechanism; requiring the affirmative to use a predictable mechanism like a quid pro quo is essential for disad links and critiques of attaching strings
11/28/13
t - talks
Tournament: | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: The aff is not topical- Engagement requires direct talks- key to precision Crocker 09 – Chester Crocker, Professor of Strategic Studies at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, “Terms of Engagement”, New York Times, 9-13, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/opinion/14crocker.html?_r=0)
PRESIDENT OBAMA will have a hard time achieving his foreign policy goals until he masters AND realistic options and, hence, to modify its policies and its behavior.¶
Voting issue --- Limits --- requiring direct talks between governments places a functional limit on the topic because few Affs can defend the process. Specific import cases can’t beat the PIC out of talks, controlling the Neg’s research burden Ground --- talks are a stable mechanism for DA links and competition for counterplans