Tournament: Ohio Valley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Seaholm GH | Judge: Vida Chiri
The aff’s attempt to impose order in the world attempts to end the existential anxiety of our time causing the destruction of the very thing they try to save – their technocrazation of human nature and the 1ac’s obsession body counts is a necrophilic politics that ends in the mechanization and self-annihilation of humanity
Fromm 64, Erich PhD in sociology from Heidelberg in 1922, psychology prof at MSU in the 60’s, "Creators and Destroyers", The Saturday Review, New York (04. January 1964), pp. 22-25
People are aware of the possibility of nuclear war; they are aware of the
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those of us who love life will not cease the struggle against necrophilia.

The alternative is to do nothing and embrace the absurd –
Lane, 1996. (Bob, Honorary Research Associate in Philosophy at the University of Vancouver Island, "The Absurd Hero" http://records.viu.ca/www/ipp/absurd.htm
*We don’t support the gendered language
Sisyphus is the absurd hero. This man, sentenced to ceaselessly rolling a rock
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as they testify to man’s allegiance to man and not to abstractions or ’absolutes’

Tournament: UGA | Round: 5 | Opponent: Calhoun MS | Judge: Jon Sharp
Their image of suffering are a drug for the first world to feed off the suffering of others. Their efforts only re-inscribe the problems and creates and endless economy of suffering
Baudrillard in 94 ~Jean, "The Illusion of the End" p. 66-71~
We have long denounced the capitalistic, economic exploitation of the poverty of the ’
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by fate, it will prefer to stage its own death as a species

Embrace a strategy of fatality that accepts the fact that our world is mediated by ads, self-help books, and High School Musical 1, 2, and 3 – this accelerates the system to collapse
Jean Baudrillard, still very dead, and Francois L’yvonnet, still very French, use an analogy in the 2004 book Fragments to try to explain this phenomena (pg. 71-80)
There can be no question, then, of resisting virality - at any rate
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meaning. This is more or less what I have called poetic transference.

Tournament: UGA | Round: 1 | Opponent: Chattahoochee SM | Judge: Whit Whitmore
Counterplan:
The Federative Republic of Brazil should enact a moratorium on sugar production in the Amazon, modeling the policy on the current soy moratorium

The Soy Moratorium sets an example for all other agricultural products in the Amazon – solves Brazil deforestation
ABIOVE 11 (“Soy Moratorium is renewed till January 2013”, http://www.abiove.com.br/site/?page=statements-and-renewalsandarea=MTItOTk4LTE= and http://www.abiove.com.br/site/_FILES/English/17072012-145636-ms02_renova_2011_us.pdf)
ABIOVE and ANEC, together with their member companies, signed a commitment in ¶ 2006 to implement a governance program with the objective of not trading or financing ¶ soybeans from crops grown in deforested areas of the Amazon Biome. This ¶ commitment met international consumer demands for soy that was not responsible for ¶ deforestation. Civil society organizations have participated in this initiative from its ¶ inception. The original commitment was for two years but, due to the good results ¶ obtained and the sector’s diligence in contributing to the fall in deforestation, the federal ¶ government, in the form of the Ministry of the Environment, joined the Moratorium in ¶ 2008, continuing through to today. ¶ ¶ The commitments made under the Soy Moratorium were complied with and recognized ¶ by civil society and the European customers of Brazilian soybeans: Ahold, ASDA, ¶ Carrefour, Co-operative, Kraft, Marks and Spencer, McDonald’s, Nutreco, Ritter-Sport, ¶ Sainsbury’s, Waitrose and Wal-Mart. These companies supported the positive evolution ¶ of the work developed under the Moratorium. After INPE’s work identifying deforested ¶ areas through satellite images, overflights were made to identify land use and ¶ occupation. On farms where soybean plantations were found, meetings were held with ¶ the rural producers. This methodology, improved over the five years of the Moratorium, ¶ generated relevant information for evaluating the processes that lead to deforestation. ¶ ¶ In addition to the monitoring program, a set of tools are available to the companies to ¶ guarantee governance of the productive processes. “Looking back, records from before ¶ the Moratorium show a situation of conflict between the market and the Brazilian soy ¶ producer in the Amazon Biome. In just a short time, this situation of conflict has become ¶ one of comfort. We have been able to work in a constructive manner because the ¶ questioning related to deforestation has ceased. The process’s great merit is its efficacy ¶ and simplicity. Over the last five years, we have refined criteria and assumed more ¶ specific controls, and today we have an impeccable vigilance of the process”, said Carlo ¶ Lovatelli, ABIOVE president. ¶ ¶ According to Paulo Adario of Greenpeace, coordinator of the GTS civil society group, the ¶ Soy Moratorium has thus far set a very positive example of corporate responsibility. ¶ “Over the five years of the Moratorium, deforestation of the Amazon has fallen and ¶ soybean exports have increased. It is now necessary to strengthen the commitment and ¶ create permanent governance bases to provide the market with a guarantee that its ¶ demand for zero deforestation in the chain is met.” ¶ ¶ According to Minister Izabella Teixeira, of the Ministry of the Environment, “The soybean productive chain represents a Brazilian agricultural sector that is promoting adequate dialogue with society, and setting an example of how to progress economically while protecting our biomes. It is also adapting to the new requirements of the international markets that are demanding more certified products. The results are promising, but the challenges to be faced in advancing an environmental agenda are still great”.

Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 1 | Opponent: Niles West WP | Judge: Brad Meloche
China’s influence in Latin America is expanding at the expense of the US – it’s zero sum
Martinez, 13 – Columnist for the Sun Sentinel (Guillermo I., "America Losing Influence Throughout Latin America", SunSentinel, 5/23, http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2013-05-23/news/fl-gmcol-oped0523-20130523_1_drug-cartels-latin-america-pri)//VP
Once upon a time, as many fairy tales start, the United States was
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lose status as a premier world power. This is no fairy tale.

Increased US-Mexico relations crowd out China
Fischer, 12 – Analyst for Capitol Media (Howard, "Fox Says US-Mexico Ties Deter China’s Influence", September 14, http://azstarnet.com/news/local/border/fox-says-us-mexico-ties-deter-china-s-influence/article_b8fd3834-acdc-5b33-b1fb-d983fdf8d2de.html)//VP
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox said the United States has to bolster ties with Mexico
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every year, meaning "millions of jobs" to this country’s economy. 

That controls every existential scenario
Zhang ’12 (Prof of Diplomacy and IR at the Geneva School of Diplomacy. "The Rise of China’s Political Softpower" 9/4/12 http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2012-09/04/content_26421330.htm)
As China plays an increasingly significant role in the world, its soft power must
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As the China model improves, it will continue to surprise the world.

Tournament: Chattahoochee | Round: 3 | Opponent: Pace BR | Judge: Adam Grellinger
The United States Congress should establish an independent commission empowered to submit to Congress recommendations regarding Latin America economic engagement. Congress will allow 60 days to pass legislation overriding recommendations by a two-thirds majority.  If Congress doesn’t vote within the specified period, those recommendations will become law. The Commission should recommend to Congress that the INSERT PLAN TEXT

The counter-plan solves and avoids politics
Mayer ’07
(Kenneth, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison  “THE BASE REALIGNMENT AND CLOSURE PROCESS: IS IT POSSIBLE TO MAKE RATIONAL POLICY?”) 

The conventional wisdom was that legislators, facing increasing deficits and budget rules that were
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taking opportunities. None of the disapproval resolutions came anywhere close to passing.

Tournament: Ohio Valley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Seaholm GH | Judge: Vida Chiri
Counterplan: The United States federal government should Remove Cuba from the state sponsors of terrorism list.

Solves relations - Removing Cuba from state sponsors of terrorism list solves U.S-Cuba relations- key to solving mistrust 
Haven 13 (Paul, Associated Press bureau chief in Havana, 5/1/13, "US keeps Cuba on state sponsors of terrorism list", http://news.yahoo.com/us-keeps-cuba-state-sponsors-terrorism-list-203504903.html NZ)

There had been speculation among analysts and others that the U.S. might
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, in any place, under any circumstance, and with whatever motivation."

Tournament: UGA | Round: 1 | Opponent: Chattahoochee SM | Judge: Whit Whitmore
First, the affirmative is caught up in the cult of reputation—the assumption that the U.S.’s credibility is its own possession and that it spills over across issues and to other countries is demonstrably false.
Shiping Tang, Associate Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Center for Regional Security Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, Co-director of the Sino-American Security Dialogue, 2005 ~"Reputation, Cult of Reputation, and International Conflict," Security Studies, Volume 14, Number 1, January-March, p. 41-45~

Two implicitly related notions underpin this belief system. The first notion is that one’s
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should clearly apply; their own actions negate the logic of their belief.

Second, the U.S. can’t control the perceptions of others—the underlying assumptions of the cult of reputation are logically and empirically bankrupt.
Christopher J. Fettweis, Assistant Professor of National Security Affairs in the National Security Decision Making Department at the U.S. Naval War College, holds a Ph.D. in International Relations and Comparative Politics from the University of Maryland-College Park, 2007-2008 ~"Credibility and the War on Terror," Political Science Quarterly, Volume 122, Number 4, Winter, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via IngentaConnect, p. 633~

Both logic and a preponderance of the evidence suggest that the current U.S
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the present, therefore, must outweigh the intangible interests of the future.
The behavior of the United States is not driven by only tangible, material measures
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for both the extent of its acceptance and the depth of its flaws. 

Third, this turns the case—the belief in credibility empirically causes war.
Shiping Tang, Associate Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Center for Regional Security Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, Co-director of the Sino-American Security Dialogue, 2005 ~"Reputation, Cult of Reputation, and International Conflict," Security Studies, Volume 14, Number 1, January-March, p. 46~

Decisionmakers’ persistent concern for losing reputation has brought unnecessary bloodiness to international politics: too
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which friend would trust us then?" (Type I-a).43 

The alternative is to stop believing in credibility. Basing decisions on perceptions of credibility makes serial policy failure inevitable—decades of scholarship are on our side.
Christopher J. Fettweis, Assistant Professor of National Security Affairs in the National Security Decision Making Department at the U.S. Naval War College, holds a Ph.D. in International Relations and Comparative Politics from the University of Maryland-College Park, 2009 ("Madmen in Authority: Threats, Pathology and Grand Strategy," Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, June, Available Online at http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p314364_index.html , p. 4-6)

Many academic fields deal with pathology in one form or another. Individual and group
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that drive destructive state behavior. The United States suffers from a number.
The "credibility imperative" is a clear example, one that continues to have
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at the negotiating table, and is worth protecting at almost any cost.
This belief rests on a shaky foundation, to put it mildly. Decades of
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solid credibility was a national imperative, it would be far better off.
This paper proceeds from this point forward with a value-based assumption: Strategic
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their own good and for that of the international system as a whole.

Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 1 | Opponent: Niles West WP | Judge: Brad Meloche
Ratifying the TBHA unravels the Dodd-Frank disclosure provision.
Geman, 4/25/2013 (Ben, House GOP moves to shield oil companies from disclosure rule, The Hill, p. http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/296235-house-gop-moves-to-shield-oil-companies-from-disclosure-rules) ~Kreus~

A House GOP bill to implement a U.S.-Mexico offshore energy accord
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mandate "goes to the core" of the SEC’s investor protection mission.
Dodd-Frank solves corruption in Afghanistan —- the impact is stability.
Clough, 8/3/2010 (Christine – coordinator of the Task Force on Financial Integrity 26 Economic Development, Using Transparency to Avoid the Resource Curse in Afghanistan, Financial Transparency Coalition, p. http://www.financialtransparency.org/2010/08/03/using-transparency-to-avoid-the-resource-curse-in-afghanistan/) ~Kreus~

Additionally, the disclosure of corporate profits on a country-by-country-
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-country basis, that we’ll achieve full transparency in this crucial sector.
Afghanistan collapse escalates to global nuclear war
Morgan 2007 (Stephen J., Political Writer and Former Member of the British Labour Party Executive Committee, "Better another Taliban Afghanistan, than a Taliban NUCLEAR Pakistan21?", 9-23, http://www.freearticlesarchive .com/article/_Better_another_Taliban_Afghanistanthan_a_Taliban_NUCLEAR_Pakistan_/99961/0/) ~Kreus~

However events may prove him sorely wrong. Indeed, his policy could completely backfire
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in a new Cold War with China and Russia pitted against the US.

Tournament: Chattahoochee | Round: 6 | Opponent: Alpharetta NN | Judge: Judy Butler
Obama commitment to climate is boosting EPA authority
Strassel 13 ~KIMBERLY A. STRASSEL, "The Real Obama Climate Deal," Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2013, 8:20 p.m. ET, pg. http://tinyurl.com/ag7rmn2
President Obama set off a guessing game this week as to what he intended with
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approach should instead prepare for an agency with a new and turbocharged mission.

EPA staffers are sensitive to presidential messaging
Andreen 07– Professor of Law @ University of Alabama (Roll Tide) ~William L. Andreen, "Motivating Enforcement: Institutional Culture and the Clean Water Act," 24 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 67 (2007) pg: http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/pelr/vol24/iss1/4

In a recent article, Professor Joel Mintz perceptively observed that one generally unrecognized characteristic
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brass to intentionally or even unintentionally slow down EPA enforcement. Pg. 86

Gas drilling contradicts the current message
Begos 12 ~Kevin Begos, "President Barack Obama faces historic natural gas drilling choice," Associated Press, Posted:11/17/2012 10:52:34 PM MST

PITTSBURGH — Energy companies, environmental groups, and even Hollywood stars are watching to
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be seen too cozy with the oil and gas folks," Ebinger said. 

EPA climate adaptation strategies protect water supplies
Goad 13 ~Ben Goad, "EPA moves forward with climate change protection plan, asks for comments," The Hill, 02/08/13 10:55 AM ET, pg. http://tinyurl.com/aaz8ual

It is essential that EPA adapt to anticipate and plan for future changes in climate
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plans include the climate change adaptation plans, which can be viewed here. 

The impact is water wars
Hodges 12 ~Dave Hodges, "The Coming Water Wars," The Common Sense Show.com, December 11, 2012, pg. http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2012/12/11/the-coming-water-wars/
Very soon, America will be forced into water wars in order to secure the
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Obtaining water for many Americans will soon be a life and death struggle.

Nuclear war
NASCA 4
~National Association for Scientific and Cultural Appreciation, "Water Shortages – Only a Matter of Time", http://www.nasca.org.uk/Strange_relics_/water/water.html~~

Water is one of the prime essentials for life as we know it. The
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ourselves with a nightmare situation for which there will be no obvious answer.

Tournament: Chattahoochee | Round: Octas | Opponent: Pace HP | Judge: Ben Schultz, Matt Azimi and Ken Bailey
Counterplan text: The European Union should substantially improve the sugar ethanol processing infrastructure in Cuba. 

EU solves best – historically maintained diplomatic dialogue and cultural connections with Cuba– prefer comparative evidence
Barbara Kosny, thesis for Master in Political Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009, "The Distinctiveness of the European Union’s Influence on Latin America: European Values, Governance, and Integration," https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/indexablecontent?id=uuid:84b38be2-9899-47ae-8d93-6f86f52f432626ds=DATA_FILE BW
The U.S. and the EU differ greatly with respect to their policies
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has increased ability to influence the country towards democratic norms and values.97

No advantage solvency – sugar ethanol production is inhibited because of faulty infrastructure
Council on Foreign Relations, 1/31/13, nonpartisan think tank that writes about international policy, ~CFR: "U.S.-Cuba Relations", http://www.cfr.org/cuba/us-cuba-relations/p11113~~23p2~~ ~MN~
What is the status of Cuba’s economy? After introducing a few market reforms—
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The 2008 hurricanes damaged sugar crops in the eastern part of the country.

Tournament: Ohio Valley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Seaholm GH | Judge: Vida Chiri
Counterplan: The United States federal government should establish a top marginal rate for the personal income tax of 39.6, convert tax deductions that tend to favor those in top tax brackets into uniform credits, establish a top marginal tax rate of 28 percent on capital gains, close tax loopholes, and simplify tax filings. 

solves the economy
Center for American Progress, 12 (A Synopsis of CAP’s Comprehensive Tax Reform and Deficit Reduction Plan, December 4^th, 2012, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/tax-reform/news/2012/12/04/46837/a-tax-reform-and-deficit-reduction-plan/)

The plan addresses some of the most serious flaws in the federal tax code while
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of near 90 percent in 2022, to below 72 percent and falling.

Tournament: Calhoun | Round: 2 | Opponent: Montgomery Bell ZZ | Judge: Maggie Berthiaume
Text: The United States Federal Government should affirm its commitment to a comprehensive, balanced and hemisphere-wide Free Trade Areas of the Americas agreement, emphasizing its support for opening all areas to negotiation, including those which had previously been taken off of the negotiating table.
The counterplan is necessary to jumpstart the FTAA and create a solid foundation for long-term US-Latin American relations and economic development
Luxner 9 (Larry Luxner is news editor of The Washington Diplomat, "What the World Wants From Barack Obama,"
The Washington Diplomat  February 2009, http://washdiplomat.com/index.php?option=com_content26view=article26id=6304:what-the-world-wants-from-barack-obama26catid=974:february-200926Itemid=259) 

Jaime Daremblum, director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the Washington-
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going to work. That’s why we need to look toward an FTAA."
Bi-lateral initiatives like the plan undermine the possibility of regional integration
Bayer 2 (The Center for Latin American Issues and Bayer Consulting, LLC, "Prospects for a Free Trade Area of the Americas," 11-21-02, http://www.gwu.edu/~~clai/recent_events/Events2002/Ftaa/Ftaa_synopsis.htm) 

Much of the current discussion surrounding the FTAA focuses on whether an agreement will be
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with other nations. Marquez believes that other nations will follow Mexico’s lead.

Tournament: UGA | Round: 5 | Opponent: Calhoun MS | Judge: Jon Sharp
Gitmo’s key to Caribbean stability and counter-narcotics
Frida Berrigan 8, research associate at the World Policy Institute, specializing in arms trade, "Guantanamo: The Bigger Picture", March 17, http://www.fpif.org/articles/guantanamo_the_bigger_picture-http://www.fpif.org/articles/guantanamo_the_bigger_picture

Navy Commander Jeffery D. Gordon explains that the U.S. presence at Guantanamo serves "a vital role in Caribbean regional security, protection from narco-trafficking and terrorism and safeguards against mass migration attempts in unseaworthy craft." The Navy’s Atlantic fleet is based there and the base is described as being "on the front lines of the battle for regional security."

That’s key to solve regional instability and nuclear smuggling
Ambassador (Ret.) Curtis A. Ward 11, Adjunct Professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University, "Regional Threats: Security Capacity Imperatives in the Caribbean" ndupress, issue 58, 3d quarter 2010, http://www.ndu.edu/press/regional-threats.html

More than 6 years after this declaration, the problems of security in the Caribbean
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gaining access to U.S. commercial shipping and cruise ship assets. 

Instability causes global war
Ivelaw L. Griffith 2k, professor of political science and dean of the honors college at Florida International University, "U.S. Strategic Interests in Caribbean Security", JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Autumn 2000, Issue 26

The strategic importance of the Caribbean is found in its resources, sea lanes,
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area that represents a global crossroads and an essential element for regional stability.

We should attempt to weigh all interests impartially – it’s the most objective ethical system
Singer, ’81 ~Peter, PHILOSOPHY PROFESSOR, FELLOW OF THE WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS. The Expanding Circle, 2011 edition, pp 108.~
We were discussing ethical egoism. In challenging the notion of moral principles which are
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of others-as a uniquely rational basis for ethical decision-making.

Tournament: Alpharetta | Round: 1 | Opponent: Pace BP | Judge: Matt Azimi
Revealing the world as threats to national security naturalizes the instrumentalization of beings and warfare
Burke, 07 (Anthony Burke- Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at UNSW, Sydney. Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason, Theory 26 Event - Volume 10, Issue 2, 2007)
The epistemology of violence I describe here (strategic science and foreign policy doctrine)
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more sustainable, peaceful and non-violent global rule of the political.

Loss of Being outweighs nuclear war – the enslavement of humans to technological thought destroys human dignity and freedom
Rojcewicz Prof, 06 (Richard- ~Prof of philosophy at Pont Park University, translator of 3 Heidegger books~, The Gods and Technology; A Reading of Heidegger p.141-142)
Heidegger now launches an extended discussion of the danger inherent in modern technology. It
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the earth," and yet their self-blindness would make them slaves.

Alternative text: Suspend calculative thought – this allows us to reengage ontological questions. Leaving assumptions and goals unquestioned guarantees error replication.
Korous, 97 (Copeland winner, all around bad ass, Yale JD, Emory BA Philosophy, Become What you Are  1997 22-25)
The thought that inhabits critique is not bent on achieving quick and efficient solutions.
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that rivers are not primarily stockpiles of potential energy waiting to be unleashed.

Particular understandings of war and conflict fails – it should be understood ontologically
Barkawi and Brighton 2011 (Tarak, university lecturer in international security at the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge, Shane, doctoral candidate and teaching assistant in the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London, "Powers of War: Fighting, Knowledge, and Critique," International Political Sociology, http://cambridge.academia.edu/TarakBarkawi/Papers/604640/Powers_of_War_Fighting_Knowledge_and_Critique)
So, what can be said of the ontology of war, that fundamental character
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definitive element resists disinterested analysis, while tending to instrumentalize knowledge about war.

Tournament: Ohio Valley | Round: 3 | Opponent: Mount Vernon | Judge: James Brock

CP

Counterplan: The United States federal government should legalize marijuana

Decriminalization now but that doesn’t stop the violence- only legalization solves
Sarachan 12(Sydney Sarachan, PBS, November 19 2012, Legalizing marijuana, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/ask-the-experts/ask-the-experts-legalizing-marijuana/15474/,PS)
NF: Decriminalization is a step in the right direction because it prevents people from
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subject to quality standards, and are not testing or labeling their products.

Drug war undermines US-Mexico relations- only the CP can solve that
Rosenblum 11(Marc R. Rosenblum, Senior Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI),¶ where he works on the Labor Markets Initiative, April 2011, pg 17, US immigration policy, and Mexico-US¶ migration issues, http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/usmexico-cooperation.pdf,PS)
On the other hand, the obstacles to cooperation that emerged after the 9/
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building mutual trust through which a comprehensive immigration reform framework began to emerge.

Solves cartel violence
DPA ’13 ~The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) is the nation’s leading organization promoting drug policies that are grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights. "Marijuana Legalization and Regulation," http://www.drugpolicy.org/marijuana-legalization-and-regulation~~
Marijuana should be removed from the criminal justice system and regulated in a manner similar
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and national allies to draft these initiatives, build coalitions and raise funds.

Tournament: Ohio Valley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Seaholm GH | Judge: Vida Chiri
Counterplan: The United States federal government should clarify and make more transparent its policy on the usage of military drones. 

Solves multilateralism

Henning 12 Job C. Henning is a nonresident senior fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress and former director of legal affairs at the Congressionally mandated Project on National Security Reform. ("Embracing the Drone", New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/opinion/embracing-the-drone.html) 

Without a new doctrine for the use of drones that is understandable to friends and foes, the United States risks
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On all these issues, the United States needs a more established and settled approach, if for no other reason than to avoid a backlash, as there was against perceived excesses of intelligence activities in the mid-1970s. The polls may be in favor of drones now, but they won’t be forever.

Tournament: Calhoun | Round: 5 | Opponent: Woodward PJ | Judge: Josh Clark
Text: The United States federal government should adopt the mandates of NADBank Enhancement Act of 2011 towards Mexico

NADBank Enhancement Act solves
Balido 11 - President of the Border Trade Alliance  ~Nelson Balido, "Bill to expand NADBank projects holds potential to make big impact for border," BTA, Published August 29, 2011, pg. http://www.thebta.org/btanews/bill-to-expand-nadbank-projects-holds-potential-to-make-big-impact-for-border.html

Over the past sixteen years of operation, the NADBank has been vitally important to
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quality of life and provide a needed boost to the region’s economy.’

Avoids Politics
Vanderpool, 06 (Tim, "NADBank Blues Will border cleanup efforts be abandoned?," Tucson Weekly, 4/16/06, http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/nadbank-blues/Content?oid=1083801)Red

Regardless, the bank’s latest reprieve is due primarily to pressure from border-area
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institutions screaming that it shouldn’t be done away with, that indicates something."

Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 1 | Opponent: Niles West WP | Judge: Brad Meloche
Economic engagement is a tool utilized to facilitate economic integration in Latin America – it is a policy based on a paternalistic conception of development that culminates in the mass privatization of public goods and social inequality.

Jacobs 04, assistant professor of political science at West Virginia U, 2004
(Jamie, "Neoliberalism and Neopanamericanism: The View from Latin America,"  Latin American Politics 26 Society 46:4, Project MUSE)

The advance of neoliberalism suffers no shortage of critics, both from its supporters who
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hegemonic intervention, and the further weakening of state sovereignty in the South. 

Neoliberalism leads to extinction – poverty, massive wars, economic instability and total environmental destruction
PARR ’13 (Adrian, Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy and Environmental Studies @ U. of Cincinnati, THE WRATH OF CAPITAL: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics, pp. 145-147)
A quick snapshot of the twenty-first century so far: an economic meltdown
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must start from the point that afrtr 2050 it may all be over.

Our alternative – Decolonize engagement.  We should question the politics of space and knowledge that make engagement an economic tool of manipulation.  
Walsh 12 Catherine WALSH Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos de la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar  ’12 "The Politics of Naming" Cultural Studies 26:1 p. 117-122

Cultural Studies, in our project, is constructed and understood as more than a
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only one of our options, and part of the politics of naming.

Tournament: Alpharetta | Round: 1 | Opponent: Pace BP | Judge: Matt Azimi
Counterplan: The United States federal government should lift all restrictions on trade towards Cuba and establish smart sanctions targeting travel restrictions.
Smart sanctions protect citizens while allowing the US to penalize who we want—Iran proves
Jose W. Fernandez, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, July 25, 2012, http://www.state.gov/e/eb/rls/rm/2012/196875.htm  RF
When we discuss smart sanctions, the first question is: "What is our
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the more powerful the message that certain behavior is unacceptable in today’s world.

Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 3 | Opponent: St Vincent De Paul CD | Judge: Shree Asware

Counterplan: The United States federal government should maintain its embargo on Cuba and disallow US tourism and remittances to Cuba.

This is key to promote democratization – the death of Chavez puts the Cuban government against the ropes – economic pressure will be more effective than ever.

International Policy Digest, 2013
("Time to Strengthen the Cuban Embargo," May 9, International Policy Digest, Online: http://www.internationalpolicydigest.org/2013/05/09/time-to-strengthen-the-cuban-embargo/?utm_source=feedburner26utm_medium=feed26utm_campaign=Feed3A+internationalpolicydigest+(International+Policy+Digest)

Still there is the idea that further increasing American tourism to this nearby Caribbean island
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to squander the progress of the past 50 years when opportunity is looming.

Tournament: UGA | Round: 5 | Opponent: Calhoun MS | Judge: Jon Sharp
A. Your decision should answer the resolutional question: Is the enactment of topical action better than the status quo or a competitive option?
 

1. "Resolved" before a colon reflects a legislative forum
   Army Officer School ’04
    (5-12, "~23 12, Punctuation – The Colon and Semicolon", http://usawocc.army.mil/IMI/wg12.htm)
   The colon introduces the following: a. A list, but only after "
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   resolved:"¶ Resolved: (colon) That this council petition the mayor.

2. "USFG should" means the debate is solely about a policy established by governmental means
Ericson ’03
(Jon M., Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts – California Polytechnic U., et al., The Debater’s Guide, Third Edition, p. 4)
The Proposition of Policy: Urging Future Action In policy propositions, each topic contains
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compelling reasons for an audience to perform the future action that you propose. 

B. They claim to win the debate for reasons other than the desirability of topical action

C. You should vote negative:

1. Decisionmaking: Linking the ballot to a should question in combination with USFG simulation teaches the skills to organize pragmatic consequences and philosophical values into a course of action
   Hanghoj 8
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 Joas’ re-interpretation of Dewey’s pragmatism as a "theory of situated creativity
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the contingent outcomes and domain-specific processes of problem-based scenarios.  

2. Dialogue. Debate’s critical axis is a form of dialogic communication within a confined game space.

Unbridled affirmation outside the game space makes research impossible and destroys dialogue in debate
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http://static.sdu.dk/mediafiles/Files/Information_til/Studerende_ved_SDU/Din_uddannelse/phd_hum/afhandlinger/2009/ThorkilHanghoej.pdf
 Thorkild Hanghøj, Copenhagen, 2008
 Since this PhD project began in 2004, the present author has been affiliated with DREAM (Danish
Research Centre on Education and Advanced Media Materials), which is located at the Institute of
Literature, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. Research visits have
taken place at the Centre for Learning, Knowledge, and Interactive Technologies (L-KIT), the
Institute of Education at the University of Bristol and the institute formerly known as Learning Lab
Denmark at the School of Education, University of Aarhus, where I currently work as an assistant
professor.  

Debate games are often based on pre-designed scenarios that include descriptions of issues
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dialogue as an end in itself" (Wegerif, 2006: 61).

Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 1 | Opponent: Niles West WP | Judge: Brad Meloche
The United States federal government should establish a Transboundary Energy Security and Environmental Cooperation Area over the Western Gap.
The counterplan solves the case —- it promotes hydrocarbon cooperation and environmental protection
McLaughlin 2008 (Richard – Texas A26M University, Establishing Transboundary Marine Energy Security and Environmental Cooperation Areas as a Method of Resolving Longstanding Political Disagreements and Improving Transboundary Resource Management in the Gulf of Mexico, Frontier Issues in Ocean Law: Marine Resources, Maritime Boundaries, and the Law of the Sea, p. Degruyter) ~Kreus~

This article examines the longstanding political and legal obstacles to bilateral cooperation between the United
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neighbors may learn from the GOM experience and create similar areas and arrangements.

US environmentally-conscious international action solves global environmental destruction that risks extinction
Harris 1 (Paul G., Lecturer – Lignan University, Associate Fellow – Oxford Center for Environment, Ethics, and Society at Mansfield College, Oxford University, The Environment, International Relations, and U.S. Foreign Policy, p. 241-242)

In addition to promoting U.S. global interests, a more robust acceptance
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be treating them as independent moral agents, to make a Kantian argument65).

Tournament: Calhoun | Round: 3 | Opponent: Westminster FH | Judge: Priyanka Ghosh
The United States federal government should substantially reduce restrictions on travel to Cuba and expand academic and cultural exchanges

Reforming travel restrictions solves and avoids politics – it speeds up and increases the approval process and avoids Congress
Tampa Tribune, 13 – Newspaper for Tampa, Florida "Ease travel restrictions to Cuba to boost freedom", Jun. 18, 2013, http://www.coshoctontribune.com/article/20130618/OPINION04/306180003/Ease-travel-restrictions-Cuba-boost-freedom)//eek

There is a quick way for our nation to help overwhelm Cuba’s censorship and propaganda
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so expanding its use would eliminate red tape and diminish barriers to travel.

It solves every affirmative internal link and spills over into more gradual liberalization
Pascual et. Al. 9 – Vice president and Director of Foreign policy  at Brookings (Carlos, Vicki Huddleston, Gustavo Arnavat, Ann Bardach, Ramon Colas, Jorge Dominguez, Daniel Erikson, Mark Falcoff, Damian Fernandez, Andy Gomez, Jesus Gracia, Paul Hare, Francisco Hernandez, William LeoGrande, Marifeli Perez-Stable, Jorge Pinon, Archibald Ritter, Andres Rozental, Carlos Saladrigas, "CUBA: A New policy of Critical and Constructive Engagement", Brookings, April 2009, http://www.brookings.edu/~~/media/research/files/reports/2009/4/cuba/0413_cuba.pdf)//eek

The more open travel and remittance measures put in place by the Clinton administration in
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mutual concern, including the environment, health, and counter-narcotics.

Tournament: Ohio Valley | Round: 5 | Opponent: Niles West IT | Judge: Matt Azimi
United States federal government should expand its Secure Electronic Network for Travelers Rapid Inspection to all ports between the United States and Mexico.  United States federal government should advertise and provide application fee waivers to SENTRI applicants until 50 of northbound traffic from Mexico to the US is participating in the trusted traveler program.
Expanding Trusted Traveler decrease wait times and increase border security
Wilson 13 - Associate with the Mexico Institute @ the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars ~Christopher E. Wilson (Former Mexico Analyst for the U.S. Military and Researcher @ American University’s Center for North American Studies), "Trusted Traveler Programs Are a No Brainer – The Expert Take," Wilson Center, May 01, 2013, pg. http://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/trusted-traveler-programs-are-no-brainer-E28093-the-expert-take
Unfortunately, long lineups to cross the border currently cost the economies of the United
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, and then reach, a much higher goal for SENTRI and FAST.