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Carribean Ports DA Tournament: All \| Round: 1 \| Opponent: many \| Judge: many Competition between Caribbean ports is heavy – embargo repeal means Mariel gets the bulk of that business Gonzalez, 13 (Pedro Monreal, “Postpanamax era: an opportunity for Cuba?,” On Cuba, 5/26/13, http://www.oncubamagazine.com/economy-business/postpanamax/ Red) Although apparently many candidates may exist in the Caribbean to become mega-ports, AND it graphically, to a, global and central contemporary capital accumulation dynamics. Only lifting the embargo allows the Mariel project to succeed The Cuba Standard, 10 (“Brazil: Mariel investment aiming at post-embargo trade,” 12/8/10, http://www.cubastandard.com/2010/12/08/brazil-mariel-investment-aiming-at-post-embargo-trade/ Red) Brazilian government officials told National Security Advisor Gen. James L. Jones that Brazil’s AND ,” the economic counselor at the Interests Section quoted the Brazilians as saying. Mariel will compete with Kingston port Alfonso, 13 (Haroldo Dilla, “Cuba’s Mariel Port: New Opportunities for the Island,” Havana Times, 6/18/13, http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=94835 Red) The article, which I suggest everyone read, discusses how Cuba, for the AND the eastern coast of the United States, are competing for this opportunity. Absent that, Kingston is set to become the major hub – that will boost the Jamaican economy Osman, 13 – Mohammed, advisor on container leasing and shipping container investment opportunities (“Caribbean Ports Race to Meet the Demands of the Panama Canal,” Container Leasing, 1/27/13, http://container-leasing.info/caribbean-ports-race-to-meet-the-demands-of-the-panama-canal/ Red) Regions all around the world compete to meet the demands of the Panama Canal in AND to economic growth, as well as; the ever expanding shipping industry. Jamaican growth is key to combat gangs – the impact is organized crime and state collapse Manwaring, 11 – Max G., Professor of Military Strategy in the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College (“Three Lessons from Contemporary Challenges to Security,” Prism, vol. 2, no. 3, June 2011, http://www.ndu.edu/press/contemporary-challenges.html Red) Similar to other countries in the Circum-Caribbean and elsewhere, Jamaican posses ( AND international security institutions, they dominate community life, territory, and politics. Caribbean drug trafficking facilitates terrorism – multiple impacts (military space program, bauxite and alumina supply) McDavid, 11 – Hilton A., Adjunct Professor of National Security Affairs at the National Defense University (“The Caribbean: The third U.S. border,” FOCALPoint, Feb. 2011, http://www.focal.ca/en/publications/focalpoint/394-february-2011-hilton-a-mcdavid Red) Caribbean and North American security challenges are intertwined. The basin has become a major AND in North American security planning —perhaps more aware than their American counterparts. That convergence uniquely risks WMD terrorism – it outweighs Stavridis, 13 – dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University and former supreme allied commander at NATO (“The dark side of globalization,” Washington Post, 5/31/13, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-terrorists-can-exploit-globalization/2013/05/31/a91b8f64-c93a-11e2-9245-773c0123c027_story.html Red) I am often asked what keeps me awake at night after nearly 40 years as AND That is the convergence we must do all in our power to prevent.	2/10/14
Consult Brazil CP Tournament: All \| Round: 1 \| Opponent: many \| Judge: many The United States federal government should propose through binding consultation to Brazil PLAN. The United States federal government should support this proposal during consultation and abide by the results of the consultation. The Counterplan is necessary to both build U.S.-Brazil relations and build the foundation for effective cooperation Einaudi, Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2011 March 2011, Luigi R., Member of the Advisory Council of the Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Center for Strategic Research, Institute for National Strategic Studies, at the National Defense University, “Brazil and the United States: The Need for Strategic Engagement,” http://www.ndu.edu/inss/docuploaded/SF2026620Einaudi.pdf Idriss Whether Brazil’s future policies will, … reveals the complexity of the task. U.S. – Brazil relations are high but consultation is necessary to maintain them – solves a laundry list of impacts Meyer, Latin American Affairs Analyst @ CRS, 2010 3/5/10, Peter J., Analyst in Latin American Affairs at the Congressional Research Service, “Brazil-U.S. Relations,” http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA521243 Idriss Relations with the United States … directed to activities in Brazil. Amazon destruction causes disease spread and global economic collapse Chase 96 (Robert S., PhD Candidate – Economics Yale U., Et Al., Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb, Lexis) The array of plants and … Americans would feel the consequences. Disease spread causes extinction Scotsman, 95 (9-11, “The Mega Death”, p. 13, Lexis) Bullets and bombs may be … capability to engage in biological warfare.	2/10/14
Critique of Gendered Pronouns Tournament: All \| Round: 1 \| Opponent: many \| Judge: many NOTE: we read this every time someone refers to use as "guys", on the aff and neg. It is also on the aff wiki. “you guys” Because male-based generics are a reinforcer of a system in which "man" in the abstract and men in the flesh are privileged over women and erases feminine specificicty. Bilger 02 Audrey "The Common Guy" Bitch Magazine http://bitchmagazine.org/article/the-common-guy In “The Ascent of Guy,” a 1999 article in American Speech, Steven AND label for girls and women is a particularly insidious example of that process.	2/10/14
Marxism Tournament: All \| Round: 1 \| Opponent: many \| Judge: many Capitalism is on its way out – a litany of factors ensure a collapse of overarching systems FREEMANSPERSPECTIVE 13 –(7/9/13 “Collapse Of Capitalism: THE 9 PLAGUES” http://www.freemansperspective.com/collapse-of-capitalism/) We do not endorse the abelist language in this evidence Let me be blunt: The collapse of capitalism is approaching.¶ Or, perhaps AND brought back aristocracies; a class that is both hidden and immensely powerful. The determinism of capital is responsible for the instrumentalization of all life—it is this logic that mobilizes and allows for the 1AC’s scenario in the first place Dyer-Witherford (professor of Library and Info. Sciences at the U of Western Ontario) 1999 Nick. Cyber Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism. For capitalism, the use of machines as organs of “will over nature” AND degree to which this project of mastery has backfired is all too obvious. Anthropocentrism is not the root cause of other oppressions- the causal direction is the other way around: human-over-human domination causes the domination of the non-human world, which their lack of a concrete alternative makes impossible to address. Hay 2 (Peter, Main currents in Western Environmental Thought, 67-68) Dcvall notes that 'deep ecology has increasingly become associated with radical environmental activism, AND is harnessed to serve the project of human-over-human domination. THE TRANSITION IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE HOPE—THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE IS EXTINCTION OF ALL LIFE ON EARTH. SOONER IS BETTER LEWIS (Instructor, Sewall Academic Program @ CU Boulder) 2002 Chris H., On the Edge of Scarcity, “Global Industrial Civilization: The Necessary Collapse”, ed. M. Dobkowski and I. Wallimann, Syracuse U. Press, p.mac-tjc In conclusion, the only solution to the growing political and eco nomic chaos caused AND all its peoples and the living, biological fabric of life on Earth. § Marked 13:28 § The paradox of global economic development is that although AND and the future of the complex, interconnected web of life on Earth. The alternative is to refuse action in the face of the crisis presented by the affirmative and do nothing THAT WAS THE TEXT. NOW, SO THERE’S NO CONFUSION, HERE’S THE EVIDENCE THAT SAYS THAT SOLVES: ZIZEK 2004 Slavoj, Serbian Nationalist and Historical Revisionist, Revolution at the Gates, p. 169-171 wyo-tjc Indeed, since the “normal” functioning of capitalism involves some kind of disavowal AND capitalist system, in the way the political space and state apparatuses work. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN ETHICAL ACTION THAT STANDS OUTSIDE OF POLITICS—YOUR ETHICAL DEMAND TO COME PRIOR TO THE STRUCTURAL NEGATION OF CAPITAL IS THE LARGEST VIOLATION OF ETHICS MESZAROS (Prof. Emeritus @ Univ. Sussex) 1995 Istavan, Beyond Capital: Towards a Theory of Transition, wyo p. 409-10 Politics and morality are so closely intertwined in the real world that it is hardly AND strategy, taking fully on board the painful lessons of the recent past.	2/10/14
Neolib Tournament: All \| Round: 1 \| Opponent: many \| Judge: many American engagement in Latin America threatens progressive political action and re-entrenches neoliberalism Renique Associate Professor in the Department of History at the City College of the City University of New York 10-- ( Gerardo, “Latin America today: The revolt against neoliberalism”, Socialism and Democracy, 19:3, 9/20/10, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08854300500284561#.UcnZQvnVCSo)//AS In opposition to this agenda, the new subaltern movements offer a politics of hope AND to defeat other leftwing and popular movements and to largely isolate the Cuban regime Neolibralism causes extinction through environmental destruction, space weaponization and nuclearwar – focus on short-term wealth and attempts to maintain superiority Marko 2003—(“ Anarchism and Human Survival: Russell's Problem”, Indymedia UK, http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/05/68173.html SW) Bertrand Russell throughout his long career as a public intellectual and political activist had reason AND The concerns expressed in this essay ought to occupy more of its time. ALT: We need to take back politics – systems of politics are sustained only by our engagement with them – working w/in doesn’t solve Meszaros 8 (Istvan, Chair of Philosophy at the University of Sussex, The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time, p323-328) The unreality of postulation the sustainable solution of the grave problems of our social order AND synonymous with the withering away of the state as an ongoing historical enterprise.	2/10/14
Oil DA Tournament: All \| Round: 1 \| Opponent: many \| Judge: many Prices rising now --- will remain above $100 --- best and most predictive evidence AllAfrica News 7-30 (“High Oil Prices - Boom to Some, Doom to Others”, 2013, http://m.allafrica.com/stories/201307301218.html/, Deech) Oil prices have remained consistently high and volatile over the past few years. According AND euro area seems to be easing, global demand for oil may increase. Saudi oil flood would crush renewable energy development and destroy other oil producers without affecting Saudi Arabia Al-Saleh, 8 (Yasser Al-Saleh, Paul Upham and Khaleel Malik, Manchester Institute for Innovation Research, “Renewable Energy Scenarios for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia”, 10, 2008, http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wp125.pdf, JKahn) These scenarios represent what might be thought of as a continuation of current trends in AND oil prices), solar thermal seems to be an attractive choice worth considering. Any sustained drop below $100 per barrel causes Russian collapse --- that’s the key benchmark Whitmore 13 (Brian, Senior Russia Correspondent – Radio Free Europe, “After The Storm: Trends To Watch In Russia In 2013”, Radio Free Europe, 1-2, The Power Vertical) It began with a roar and it ended with a whimper. As 2012 wound AND the figure needed for a balanced budget was $50 to $55. The impact is nuclear war Filger 9 (Sheldon, Author – Huffington Post, “Russian Economy Faces Disastrous Free Fall Contraction”, http://www.globaleconomiccrisis.com/blog/archives/356) In Russia, historically, economic health and political stability are intertwined to a degree AND the financial impact of the Global Economic Crisis is its least dangerous consequence.	2/10/14
T economic engagement Tournament: All \| Round: 1 \| Opponent: many \| Judge: many “Economic engagement” is limited to expanding economic ties Çelik 11 – Arda Can Çelik, Master’s Degree in Politics and International Studies from Uppsala University, Economic Sanctions and Engagement Policies, p. 11 Introduction Economic engagement policies are strategic … others in the same direction. “Economic” engagement is limited to trade and financial transactions -~-- including more explodes the topic to broad diplomatic, military, and cultural arenas -~-- our interpretation is the best middle ground because it still lets the Aff choose a number of positive sanctions and objectives, but locks in economic means as a site of Negative ground Resnick 1 – Dr. Evan Resnick, Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yeshiva University, “Defining Engagement”, Journal of International Affairs, Spring, 54(2), Ebsco Scholars have limited the concept … multiple types of positive sanctions	2/10/14
T gov to gov Tournament: All \| Round: 1 \| Opponent: many \| Judge: many A. Interpretation: Economic engagement is the expansion of state-to-state ties Kahler and Kastner 6 (Kahler, Miles, Professor of Pacific International Relations at University of California, San Diego, and Kastner, Scott, associate professor of International Relations at the University of Maryland, 2006, “STRATEGIC USES OF ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE: ENGAGEMENT POLICIES IN SOUTH KOREA, SINGAPORE, AND TAIWAN”, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies University of California, San Diego) FS Economic engagement—a policy of … more widespread than previously recognized. “Economic engagement” is limited to expanding economic ties Çelik 11 – Arda Can Çelik, Master’s Degree in Politics and International Studies from Uppsala University, Economic Sanctions and Engagement Policies, p. 11 Introduction Economic engagement policies are …. others in the same direction. Substantially means to a large degree Words and Phrases, 2 (Words and Phrases Permanent Edition, “Substantially,” Volume 40B, p. 324-330 October 2002, Thomson West) N.D.Ill. 2002. Under ADA, “substantially” … or to a large degree.	2/10/14

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Carribean Ports DA

Tournament: All | Round: 1 | Opponent: many | Judge: many
Competition between Caribbean ports is heavy – embargo repeal means Mariel gets the bulk of that business
Gonzalez, 13 (Pedro Monreal, “Postpanamax era: an opportunity for Cuba?,” On Cuba, 5/26/13, http://www.oncubamagazine.com/economy-business/postpanamax/ Red)

Although apparently many candidates may exist in the Caribbean to become mega-ports,
AND
it graphically, to a, global and central contemporary capital accumulation dynamics.
Only lifting the embargo allows the Mariel project to succeed
The Cuba Standard, 10 (“Brazil: Mariel investment aiming at post-embargo trade,” 12/8/10, http://www.cubastandard.com/2010/12/08/brazil-mariel-investment-aiming-at-post-embargo-trade/ Red)

Brazilian government officials told National Security Advisor Gen. James L. Jones that Brazil’s
AND
,” the economic counselor at the Interests Section quoted the Brazilians as saying.
Mariel will compete with Kingston port
Alfonso, 13 (Haroldo Dilla, “Cuba’s Mariel Port: New Opportunities for the Island,” Havana Times, 6/18/13, http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=94835 Red)

The article, which I suggest everyone read, discusses how Cuba, for the
AND
the eastern coast of the United States, are competing for this opportunity.
Absent that, Kingston is set to become the major hub – that will boost the Jamaican economy
Osman, 13 – Mohammed, advisor on container leasing and shipping container investment opportunities (“Caribbean Ports Race to Meet the Demands of the Panama Canal,” Container Leasing, 1/27/13, http://container-leasing.info/caribbean-ports-race-to-meet-the-demands-of-the-panama-canal/ Red)

Regions all around the world compete to meet the demands of the Panama Canal in
AND
to economic growth, as well as; the ever expanding shipping industry.
Jamaican growth is key to combat gangs – the impact is organized crime and state collapse
Manwaring, 11 – Max G., Professor of Military Strategy in the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College (“Three Lessons from Contemporary Challenges to Security,” Prism, vol. 2, no. 3, June 2011, http://www.ndu.edu/press/contemporary-challenges.html Red)

Similar to other countries in the Circum-Caribbean and elsewhere, Jamaican posses (
AND
international security institutions, they dominate community life, territory, and politics.
Caribbean drug trafficking facilitates terrorism – multiple impacts (military space program, bauxite and alumina supply)
McDavid, 11 – Hilton A., Adjunct Professor of National Security Affairs at the National Defense University (“The Caribbean: The third U.S. border,” FOCALPoint, Feb. 2011, http://www.focal.ca/en/publications/focalpoint/394-february-2011-hilton-a-mcdavid Red)

Caribbean and North American security challenges are intertwined. The basin has become a major
AND
in North American security planning —perhaps more aware than their American counterparts.
That convergence uniquely risks WMD terrorism – it outweighs
Stavridis, 13 – dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University and former supreme allied commander at NATO (“The dark side of globalization,” Washington Post, 5/31/13, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-terrorists-can-exploit-globalization/2013/05/31/a91b8f64-c93a-11e2-9245-773c0123c027_story.html Red)

I am often asked what keeps me awake at night after nearly 40 years as
AND
That is the convergence we must do all in our power to prevent.

2/10/14

Consult Brazil CP

2/10/14

Critique of Gendered Pronouns

2/10/14

Marxism

Tournament: All | Round: 1 | Opponent: many | Judge: many
Capitalism is on its way out – a litany of factors ensure a collapse of overarching systems
FREEMANSPERSPECTIVE 13 –(7/9/13 “Collapse Of Capitalism: THE 9 PLAGUES” http://www.freemansperspective.com/collapse-of-capitalism/)
*We do not endorse the abelist language in this evidence
Let me be blunt: The collapse of capitalism is approaching.¶ Or, perhaps
AND
brought back aristocracies; a class that is both hidden and immensely powerful.
The determinism of capital is responsible for the instrumentalization of all life—it is this logic that mobilizes and allows for the 1AC’s scenario in the first place

Dyer-Witherford (professor of Library and Info. Sciences at the U of Western Ontario) 1999
Nick. Cyber Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism.

For capitalism, the use of machines as organs of “will over nature”
AND
degree to which this project of mastery has backfired is all too obvious.

Anthropocentrism is not the root cause of other oppressions- the causal direction is the other way around: human-over-human domination causes the domination of the non-human world, which their lack of a concrete alternative makes impossible to address.
Hay 2 (Peter, Main currents in Western Environmental Thought, 67-68)
Dcvall notes that 'deep ecology* has increasingly become associated with radical environmental activism,
AND
is harnessed to serve the project of human-over-human domination.
THE TRANSITION IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE HOPE—THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE IS EXTINCTION OF ALL LIFE ON EARTH. SOONER IS BETTER

LEWIS (Instructor, Sewall Academic Program @ CU Boulder) 2002
Chris H., On the Edge of Scarcity, “Global Industrial Civilization: The Necessary Collapse”, ed. M. Dobkowski and I. Wallimann, Syracuse U. Press, p.mac-tjc

In conclusion, the only solution to the growing political and eco nomic chaos caused
AND
all its peoples and the living, biological fabric of life on Earth.
§ Marked 13:28 § The paradox of global economic development is that although
AND
and the future of the complex, interconnected web of life on Earth.
The alternative is to refuse action in the face of the crisis presented by the affirmative and do nothing

THAT WAS THE TEXT. NOW, SO THERE’S NO CONFUSION, HERE’S THE EVIDENCE THAT SAYS THAT SOLVES:

ZIZEK 2004
Slavoj, Serbian Nationalist and Historical Revisionist, Revolution at the Gates, p. 169-171 wyo-tjc

Indeed, since the “normal” functioning of capitalism involves some kind of disavowal
AND
capitalist system, in the way the political space and state apparatuses work.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN ETHICAL ACTION THAT STANDS OUTSIDE OF POLITICS—YOUR ETHICAL DEMAND TO COME PRIOR TO THE STRUCTURAL NEGATION OF CAPITAL IS THE LARGEST VIOLATION OF ETHICS

MESZAROS (Prof. Emeritus @ Univ. Sussex) 1995
Istavan, Beyond Capital: Towards a Theory of Transition, wyo

p. 409-10
Politics and morality are so closely intertwined in the real world that it is hardly
AND
strategy, taking fully on board the painful lessons of the recent past.

2/10/14

Neolib

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Oil DA

2/10/14

T economic engagement

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T gov to gov

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