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Mexican Judicial ReformTournament: Wichita East | Round: 1 | Opponent: all rounds | Judge: Contention One: Inherency Advantage One: Drug Cartels
Cartel violence is significant and rising in Mexico – murders have risen in the first five months of this yearJaymi Mccann PUBLISHED: 07:05 EST, July 4 2013 | UPDATED: 08:00 EST, 5 July 2013 Scenario 1:Failed State Mexican state failure triggers escalating wars—draws in the USDebusmann 9 – senior World Affairs columnist Failed states are a comparatively Proximate Cause for WarYoo 5 (John, Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley School of Law, Failed States, Int’l Colloquium, Online) Scenario 2 Nuke Terror
Weakening cartels key – they’re forging strong ties with Hezbollah, leads to nuclear terror and miscalc with Iran and Saudi Arabia.Analysis Intelligence 11 ("Iron Triangle of Terror: Iran, Hezbollah, and Los Zetas?" on December 19, 2011. http://analysisintelligence.com/intelligence-analysis/iron-triangle-of-terror-iran-hezbollah-and-los-zetas/ - Analysis Intelligence makes projections about foreign policy using open source public records.) Nuke terror escalates – global nuclear war.Robert Ayson, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington, 2010 ("After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects," Studies in Conflict 26 Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7, July, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via InformaWorld)¶ Advantage Two: Relations
New bilateral policies between the US and Mexico are necessary to increase relations.Shannon K. O’Neil, Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies Mexico Makes It A Transformed Society, Economy, and Government March/April 2013 Foreign Affairs http://www.cfr.org/mexico/mexico-makes/p30098 US commitment to institutional reform and capacity building in Mexico is key to US-Mexico relationsEric L. Olson Associate Director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson Institute The Future of U.S.-Mexico Security Collaboration Jan 2013 New Ideas for a New Era: Policy Options for the Next Stage in U.S.-Mexico Relations http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/new_ideas_us_mexico_relations.pdf Scenario 1 Cyber war
A. US-Mexico relations are key to solve cyber-security threats – engagement is keyDownie, Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University, 11 . Cyber warfare ensures accidental nuclear war – multiple warrantsFritz 9 (Jason - former Captain of the U.S. Army, July, Hacking Nuclear Command and Control) C. An accidental launch from a submarine would lead to full-scale nuclear retaliationManzo ’8 (CDI, Research Assistant, "An Examination of the Pentagon’s Prompt Global Strike Program: Rationale, Implementation, and Risks," http://www.cdi.org/pdfs/PGSfactsheet.pdf ) D. Escalation would kill billionsForrow ’98 (Lachlan Forrow, MD, et al, "Accidental Nuclear War – A Post-Cold War Assessment", New England Journal of Medicine, 1998, iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/20625/acciden_nuke_war.pdf) Scenario 2 Warming
. US-Mexico relations key to address joint climate change threatsBarry, 5/2/2013.( Tom Barry, who directs the TransBorder Project at CIP, is the author of numerous books on U.S.-Latin America relations, including three books on Mexico. His most recent CIP publication is Drones Over the Homeland. "Changing Perspectives in US-Mexico Relations". North American Conference on Latin America. https://nacla.org/news/2013/5/2/changing-perspectives-us-mexico-relations ) First is disease: C. Disease spread causes extinctionYu 9 ~Victoria Yu, Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science, "Human Extinction: The Uncertainty of Our Fate," May 22, 2009, http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/spring-2009/human-extinction-the-uncertainty-of-our-fate~~ Second is Warming
Warming is real and caused by C02 emissionsOLCF 12, April 4, 2012 Runaway warming causes extinctionDeibel 7 (Terry L. Professor of IR @ National War College, 2007. "Foreign Affairs Strategy: Logic for American Statecraft", Conclusion: American Foreign Affairs Strategy Today) Contention Two: Solvency
Institutional reforms, including judicial and police training, will strengthen the rule of law and reduce drug violence in MexicoShannon K. O’Neil, Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies March 8 2013 What can the United States do to help weaken the grip of drug cartels in Mexico? http://www.cfr.org/mexico/can-united-states-do-help-weaken-grip-drug-cartels-mexico/p30173 Mexico will say yes – they are eager to collaborate on institutional development and crime reduction strategies.David A. Shirk the director of the Trans-Border Institute and associate professor of political science at the University of San Diego. He | 10/31/13 |
Patents affTournament: UT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Westwood | Judge: Idk Advantage 1 TranshumaismStrict patent Patent law on Genetic Engineering deeply presume a separation of culture from nature and materiality from information , only Open Source solvesJill Didur, ~embarrassed to say~ Professor of English at Concordia College, RE-EMBODYING TECHNOSCIENTIFIC FANTASIES POSTHUMANISM, GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS, AND THE COLONIZATION OF LIFE," Cultural Critique 53—Winter 2003, google. In terms of Sloterdijk’s view of "Man," "he" is always in The Status quo conceptualizes humans as separate from other entities – that denies the potential of transhumanism Contemporary philosophy of science as well as the social study of science offer possibilities and perspectives that go beyond those essentialist notions that even today greatly inform both bioconservative and technoprogressive thinkers in the debate over enhancements and human nature. Interestingly, the two terms cyborg and posthuman that are so crucial in the debate I have briefly introduced so far also have fundamentally different interpretations. Extinction Frame: This outweighs all their Junk. Transhuman Ethics are the key to all Extinction Scenarios.Nick Bostrom, Faculty of Philosophy Oxford University, The Transhumanist FAQ- A General Introduction, Version 2.1 (2003), google. Yes, and this implies an urgent need to analyze the risks before they materialize Immortality is possible… there’s no reason to accept Death.Max More, Chairman of Extropy Institute "On becoming posthuman," 1994 google. " Are Posthumans Possible? The transition from human to post-human can We Control Access: This Debate Helps reverse the Failures of humanism: speciesm, racism, and disposability. We control access to root causes. Advantage 2 is Indigenous KnowledgeMexico’s rich biodiversity makes it a key place for resistance to biopiracy.Rosemary J. Coombe, Senior Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Culture at York University. J.S.D/Ph.D. Stanford University, March, 2005, 17 Fla. J. Int’l L. 115, "PROTECTING TRADITIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE AND NEW SOCIAL MOVE-MENTS IN THE AMERICAS: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, HUMAN RIGHT, OR CLAIMS TO AN ALTERNATIVE FORM OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT?" Significantly, Harvey finds that the movement towards reaffirmation of cultural identities in Mexico has Compensation regimes still exploit indigenous groups by denying them sovereign agency.Sabrina Safrin 2004, Assistant Professor of Law, Rutgers University Law School, Newark, "HYPEROWNERSHIP IN A TIME OF BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROMISE: THE INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT TO CONTROL THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF LIFE," 98 A.J.I.L. 641. As for the second kind of threat posed by robust sovereign rights in this context ? Indigenous "Traditional Environmental Knowledge ("TEK") vital to replace global capitalist domination because they are living the alternative.Rosemary J. Coombe, Senior Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Culture at York University. J.S.D/Ph.D. Stanford University, March, 2005, 17 Fla. J. Int’l L. 115, "PROTECTING TRADITIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE AND NEW SOCIAL MOVE-MENTS IN THE AMERICAS: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, HUMAN RIGHT, OR CLAIMS TO AN ALTERNATIVE FORM OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT?" It is precisely because of their marginality to earlier forms of capitalist expansion, Nash ? This allows locally embodied resistance to coalesce- reversing Commodification, Mass Death, and Alienation.Sian Sullivan, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, Conceptualising glocal organisation: from rhizomes to holoflux in becoming post-human," Paper prepared for conference entitled Metaphors of globalisation: mirrors, magicians and mutinies, 20th March 2006, google. Deleuze and Guattari (1988 (1980)) extend the rhizome metaphor to suggest the Plan : The United States Federal Government should implement an open source Patent protection framework on Genetic engineering with Mexico.SolvencyContention Two: SolvencySubpoint ’A’: Evidence Challenge- We’ll bet Dinner and the Debate Round on the following evidence being warranted better than anything they have.Open Systems for Genetic Information EMPIRICALLY boost innovation because of the "’The More The Merrier’ Effect".Sabrina Safrin 2004, Assistant Professor of Law, Rutgers University Law School, Newark 6/ 1AC Solvency- On BalanceAn Open Source regime for PGM is the best possible solution.Ryann Beck 2011. J.D., Marquette University Law School, "FARMERS’ RIGHTS AND OPEN SOURCE LICENSING," Arizona Journal of Environmental Law 26 Policy, Spring. C. The Benefits of an Open Source Solution: Everybody Wins¶ In an 7/ 1AC- Solvency: Snowball- LeadershipSubpoint ’B:’ SnowballUnited States leadership giving regard to indigenous interests transforms the international patent regime.Sabrina Safrin 2004, Assistant Professor of Law, Rutgers University Law School, Newark, "HYPEROWNERSHIP IN A TIME OF BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROMISE: THE INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT TO CONTROL THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF LIFE," 98 A.J.I.L. 641. It concludes that collectively the developed countries’ patent-based systems and the developing countries’ * 1AC Contention Three: SolvencyDirectly engaging agricultural producers transforms US patent policyMEGHAN MARRINAN FELICIANO, Law Clerk for the Farmers’ Legal Action Group, University of St. Thomas Law Journal, Symposium, "WE ARE WHAT WE EAT: SECURING OUR FOOD SUPPLY BY AMENDING INTELLECTUAL PROP-ERTY RIGHTS FOR PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES," Spring 2011. Considering the invaluable crop developments made by generations of farmers around the world, Congress | 12/9/13 |
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