Tournament: UMich | Round: 3 | Opponent: Groves PC | Judge: Joe Krakoff
Conor and I advocate that we embrace Wonderland and look through the lens of the looking glass as a starting point for revolutionary politics.

1. Embracing Wonderland is the only way to shake off fascism in the macro and micro political spheres- it is the only way to liberate the voices in the 1AC

CHIANG 2004 (Yu-Chi Chiang, Doctoral student, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, “The Deleuzian Politics of Desiring Nonsense,” National Taiwan Normal University, 2004, http://www.ntnu.edu.tw/acad/rep/r98/h980006-1.pdf
This paper aims to undertake a Deleuzian reading....and scatters her passions in every direction.

2. Our revolutionary politics simply starts with the locus point of Wonderland --- our counter advocacy allows us to change the rose-colored lens of status quo ontological and epistemological certainty and instead break with reality with our encounter through the lens of Looking Glass --- akin to Alice’s interventions in the realms of fantasy, we can reveal the simulacrum of the debate space that they criticize

LOPEZ 2003 (Alan Lopez, PhD, English and American Literature, professor of philosophy, “That Hysterical Discourse in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: Locating a Critical Subject within Carroll,” Deleuze and Feminism, Journal of the Department of Comparative Literature, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2003, http://wings.buffalo.edu/theory/archive/t@b8.pdf
Over and against readings...always maintains a heterogeneous relation to it.

Net Benefit

The aff commodifies the suffering of  in exchange for your ballot in the debate economy---playing a game where we move scenarios of suffering around like chess pieces for our own personal enjoyment is the most unethical form of intellectual imperialism

Baudrillard 94 Jean, “The Illusion of the End” p. 66-71
We have long denounced the capitalistic... epidemic which we deplore each day in pictures.

Tournament: Wake | Round: 3 | Opponent: Johns Creek SX | Judge: Val McIntosh
Text: The United States federal government should pass the Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement excluding Article 20.

The CP still solves the whole aff- article 20 is purely symbolic
Alic 7-4-13 (Jen, senior journalist at the energy news site Oilprice.com. Jen is a geopolitical analyst, co-founder of ISA Intel in Sarajevo and Tel Aviv, and the former editor-in-chief of ISN Security Watch in Zurich, “Transparency squabble stalls U.S.-Mexico oil and gas deal”, July 4th, 2013, http://www.stockhouse.com/opinion/independent-reports/2013/07/03/transparency-squabble-stalls-u-s-mexico-oil-gas-de#yDSDiLCzIb7mQtsP.99)

Tournament: Yale | Round: 4 | Opponent: Albequerque BG | Judge: Christian Torre
The United States federal government should implement a renewable, portable guest worker visa for agricultural workers from Mexico, capped at 337,000 over five years with future caps not to exceed 200,000 visas and determined by economic indicators.

Only need 150,000 to solve the case
Fennelly 4-18-13
“Will the Senate bill’s “W” Visa help to reduce the flow of unauthorized workers and meet the demand for labor?”  Katherine Fennelly On April 18, 2013 http://thinkimmigration.org/2013/04/18/will-the-senate-bills-w-visa-help-to-reduce-the-flow-of-unauthorized-workers-and-meet-the-demand-for-labor/

CP solves shortages – portability and wages sufficient
Buchanan 7-17-13
John, Reporter for highlands today,  “Ag labor program traverses Congress” http://highlandstoday.com/list/highlands-agri-leader-news/ag-labor-program-traverses-congress-20130717/

Capped programs are historically more popular – union support means Democrats get on board
AP ‘07
“Senate slashes guest worker program”  5/23/2007 http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-05-23-senate-immigration_n.htm

Tournament: Scranton | Round: 4 | Opponent: Edgemont RH | Judge: Brandon Evans
A. China’s beating the US in wind development now---it’s key to their overall clean-tech leadership---the plan reverses this
Zoninsein 10 Manuela is a writer for Climatewire, New York Times. “Chinese Offshore Development Blows Past U.S.,” Sept 7, http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/09/07/07climatewire-chinese-offshore-development-blows-past-us-47150.html?pagewanted=all

B. Chinese clean tech leadership is key to their economy, internal stability, and solves extinction  
Paul Denlinger 10, consultant specializing in the China market who is based in Hong Kong, 7/20/10, “Why China Has To Dominate Green Tech,” http://www.forbes.com/sites/china/2010/07/20/why-china-has-to-dominate-green-tech/

Tournament: Wake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Capitol Debate EK | Judge: Jesse Suh
A. China is putting all their eggs into Latin America
Gary Regenstreif, columnist for World Economic Forum and Reuters, “The looming U.S.-China rivalry over Latin America.” June 12, 2013. http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/06/12/the-looming-u-s-china-rivalry-over-latin-america/

B. Lifting the embargo in any way brings Latin America back to US influence- Cuba is specifically key
Goodman, 9 (Joshua, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard, “Latin America to Push Obama on Cuba Embargo at Summit,” April 13, 2009 15:07, Online, http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchiveandsid=a0_zyWMi297Iandrefer=uk

C. CHINA’S SPHERE OF INFLUENCE KEY TO OBTAINING NATURAL RESOURCES IN LATIN AMERICA
Terence Rosenthal, author for the Center For Security: For twenty-five years, the Center for Security Policy has pioneered the organization, management and direction of public policy coalitions to promote U.S. national security. Even more importantly, the Center’s mission has been to secure the adoption of the products of such efforts by skillfully enlisting support from executive branch officials, key legislators, other public policy organizations, opinion-shapers in the media and the public at large. “China’s Pivot in Latin America.” September 5 2013. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2013/09/05/chinas-pivot-to-latin-america/?utm_source=rssandutm_medium=rssandutm_campaign=chinas-pivot-to-latin-america

D. LATIN AMERICAN RESOURCES ARE VITAL TO CHINESE ECONOMIC GROWTH

Erik Bethel, managing partner of SinoLatin Capital, SinoLatin Capital is the leading investment platform focused exclusively on China and Latin America. It generates long-term value for its clients and stakeholders through alternative investments management and financial advisory. With deep roots in Latin America and China, SinoLatin Capital has developed a unique understanding of the interrelationships between the two regions. SinoLatin Capital creates value through investment products that benefit from these regional complementarities. “SinoLatin Capital Explains Why China Needs Latin America” March 6 2013. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sinolatin-capital-explains-why-china-needs-latin-america-2013-03-06

E. Chinese Economic collapse causes war
Kaminski 7 (Antoni Z., Professor – Institute of Political Studies, “World Order: The Mechanics of Threats (Central European Perspective)”, Polish Quarterly of International Affairs, 1, p. 58)

Tournament: Bronx Science | Round: 1 | Opponent: St Vincent de Paul YM | Judge: Robert Baldwin
A. The affirmatives calls for reform are a façade
Christopher R. Williams, PhD, forensic psychology, professor and chairman of the Department of Criminal Justice Studies at Bradley University, and Bruce A. Arrigo, PhD, administration of justice, professor of criminology, law, and society, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of North Carolina, Faculty Associate in the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, “The (Im)Possibility of Democratic Justice and the ‘Gift’ of the Majority,” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Vol. 16, No. 3, August 2000, pgs. 321-343.

B. The affirmatives narcissistic reinforcement of power turns the case

Christopher R. Williams, PhD, forensic psychology, professor and chairman of the Department of Criminal Justice Studies at Bradley University, and Bruce A. Arrigo, PhD, administration of justice, professor of criminology, law, and society, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of North Carolina, Faculty Associate in the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, “The (Im)Possibility of Democratic Justice and the ‘Gift’ of the Majority,” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Vol. 16, No. 3, August 2000, pgs. 321-343.

C. The alternative is to vote negative to reject the White Knight Ethics of the 1AC and to embrace the masked hero, the dark knight.

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

Tournament: Wake | Round: 5 | Opponent: NoVa High KK | Judge: Tyler Salathe
Debate makes the aff too personal, a community forum to discoss the aff solves best

Zompetti (Joe, Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Illinois State University, 2004 “Contemporary Argumentation and Debate”)

READING THEIR AFF IN A DEBATE ROUND PERSONALIZES DEBATE- CAUSES BACKLASH AND RESISTANCE TO THE AFF

Zompetti (Joe, Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Illinois State University, 2004 “Contemporary Argumentation and Debate”)

STRUCTURAL SOLUTIONS- THE AFF NEVER ALLOWS FOR ANY TRUE COMMUNITY SOLUTION

Zompetti (Joe, Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Illinois State University, 2004 “Contemporary Argumentation and Debate”)

Tournament: Bronx Science | Round: 3 | Opponent: Eastside MW | Judge: Kyla Sommers
Our Role of ballot, limits, etc. cards come from Nicholas Rescher's 1977 book Dialectics: A Controversy-Oriented Approach to the Theory of Knowledge.

We also read

Star Muir Communications Professor, George Mason, Defense of the Ethics of Contemporary Debate PHILOSOPHY AND RHETORIC, 1993, p. 282-5

The debate over moral education...for switch-side debate.

Christopher Joyner, Professor and Director, International Law and Politics at Georgetown, “Teaching International Law: Views from an International Relations Political Scientist” 1999 Lexis

The debate exercises...political critique, and legal defense.

Tournament: Yale | Round: Octas | Opponent: Stuyvesant HC | Judge: Ben Crossan, Zofia Yellin, Monisha Reginald
Text:
The United States federal government should extend a “MEXUS Plan” for emergency responses with Cuba, as well as increase drilling within the United States and its territorial waters. The United States Department of the Treasury will award licenses to firms with the equipment and expertise to fight the effects of an oil spill to operate in Cuban waters.

The cplan solves:

First – Cuba says “yes” to a “Mexus” offer. It will solve.

Sadowski ‘11
Richard Sadowski is a Class of 2012 J.D. candidate, at Hofstra University¶ School of Law, NY. Mr. Sadowski is also the Managing Editor of Production of¶ the Journal of International Business and Law Vol. XI. “Cuban Offshore Drilling: Preparation and¶ Prevention within the Framework of the United¶ States’ Embargo” – ¶ Sustainable Development Law and Policy¶ Volume 12; Issue 1 Fall 2011: Natural Resource Conflicts Article 10 – http://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1497andcontext=sdlp

Second – Revised licensing solves spills – assumes their “quick response” distinction.

Stephens ‘11
et al, Sarah Stephens – Executive Director of the Center for Democracy in the Americas – “As Cuba plans to drill in the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. policy poses needless risks to our national interest,” http://democracyinamericas.org/pdfs/Cuba_Drilling_and_US_Policy.pdf

Third – Expanding US drilling solves just as well for dependency and doesn’t link to politics.

Genaw ‘10
Jillian L. Genaw – J.D. Candidate, Indiana Univ. School of Law-Indianapolis – Indiana International and Comparative Law Review; Indiana Internationsl and Comparative Law Review – 20 Ind. Int'l and Comp. L. Rev. 47 – lexis, lawrev section

Tournament: Wake | Round: 3 | Opponent: Johns Creek SX | Judge: Val McIntosh
A. Mexico demand driving US natural gas production and prices
Forest 07/04/13 (Dave Forest is a professional geologist and has worked in the oil/gas, mining and environmental sectors for a decade. He previously managed the energy research division at Casey Research LLC, "A surprising source of demand for US natural gas", http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Energy-Voices/2013/0704/A-surprising-source-of-demand-for-US-natural-gas/(page)/2)

B. The plan increases domestic Mexican production – kills demand
Kerry et al. 12 (JOHN F. KERRY, Massachusetts, Chairman ¶ BARBARA BOXER, California RICHARD G. LUGAR, Indiana¶ ROBERT MENENDEZ, New Jersey BOB CORKER, Tennessee¶ BENJAMIN L. CARDIN, Maryland JAMES E. RISCH, Idaho¶ ROBERT P. CASEY, Jr., Pennsylvania MARCO RUBIO, Florida¶ JIM WEBB, Virginia JAMES M. INHOFE, Oklahoma¶ JEANNE SHAHEEN, New Hampshire JIM DeMINT, South Carolina¶ CHRISTOPHER A. COONS, Delaware JOHNNY ISAKSON, Georgia¶ RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois JOHN BARRASSO, Wyoming¶ TOM UDALL, New Mexico MIKE LEE, Utah¶ William C. Danvers, Staff Director ¶ Kenneth A. Myers, Jr., Republican Staff Director, “OIL, MEXICO, AND THE AGREEMENT”, December 2012, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CPRT-112SPRT77567/html/CPRT-112SPRT77567.htm

C. Price rise key to natural gas production
Blackmon 06/04/13 (David Blackmon is a Managing director of Strategic Communications for FTI Consulting, based in Houston. Prior to joining FTI in 2012, I had a 33 year career in the oil and gas industry, working public policy issues for a number of companies including Shell, "Increased Demand For Shale Natural Gas Is Good For Us All", http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblackmon/2013/06/04/increased-demand-for-shale-natural-gas-is-good-for-us-all/ )

D. US gas supply is key to prevent Russian energy leverage over Europe
Koven 12 – Colonel Alexander L. Koven, United States Air Force, United States Army War College, January 3rd, 2012, "Under the Yoke: Europe's Natural Gas Dependency on Russia," www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2anddoc=GetTRDoc.pdfandAD=ADA561551

E. European gas independence from Russia solves Russian aggression and terrorism
Medlock et al. 11 – Dr. Kenneth B. Medlock, Ph.D. in economics, fellow in Energy and Resource Economics at the Baker Institute, and former advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy and the California Energy Commission, AND* Amy Myers Jaffe, graduate from Princeton University, fellow of Energy Studies and director of the Energy Forum at the Baker Institute, and associate director of the Rice Energy Program, AND* Dr. Peter R. Hartley, Ph.D in economics at Rice University, July 2011, "Shale Gas and U.S. National Security,” http://bakerinstitute.org/publications/EF-pub-DOEShaleGas-07192011.pdf

F. Russian aggression causes nuclear war
Blank 9 – Dr. Stephen Blank is a Research Professor of National Security Affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, March 2009, “Russia And Arms Control: Are There Opportunities For The Obama Administration?” http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub908.pdf

Tournament: CONTACT | Round: 1 | Opponent: ANY | Judge: x
conorhogan2015@lschs.org

Tournament: Scranton | Round: 6 | Opponent: Lexington | Judge: Jorman Antigua
A.Is our link: The affirmative’s rhetoric of nuclear weapons idolizes an environment of deterrence—creating a false sense of security in the post-plan world. The affirmative’s paradigm of mutually assured destruction allows the United States to threaten non-nuclearized nations like a bank robber to an unarmed teller. Our criticism is grounded in empirics.
Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive Director of the Western States Legal Foundation,” “Rhetoric vs. Reality: Nuclear Dangers in a Time of Growing Global Economic and Environmental Crisis,” Spring 2012, http://www.wslfweb.org/docs/nptinfobull2012.pdf
"In Prague, President Obama declared...nuclear weapons in Iraq."

B. Our Implication: The affirmatives assumptions of Western Nuclear Supremacy is a form a racism, but it is a devious form of racism that leads “the Other” to seek out admittance to the nuclear club through proliferation. The implication turns the case
Prerna Lal, M.A. in International Relations from San Francisco State University, expected J.D. from George Washington University, “North Korea Is Not a Threat—Unveiling Hegemonic Discourse,” April 2009, http://prernalal.com/2009/04/north-korea-is-not-a-threat-unveiling-hegemonic-discourses/
"Tied to the race war schema...states’ from going that route."

C. Is our alternative: Reject the 1AC and its “nuclearist” assumptions as a starting point to rethinking the way we image catastrophe
G. Clarke Chapman, professor of religion and philosophy at Moravian College, “Facing the Nuclear Heresy: A Call to Reformation,” 1990, http://www.colorado.edu/ReligiousStudies/chernus/4820-ColdWarCulture/Readings/FacingTheNuclearHeresy.pdf
"In the nuclear age..evaluation of war with an entirely new attitude."

Tournament: UMich | Round: 1 | Opponent: Homewood-Flossmoor SK | Judge: Shane Stafford
A. Immigration reform will pass

Klimas, 10/29/31 (Jacqueline Klimas, Reporter for the Washington Times, “Pelosi: Votes are there to pass immigration reform,” Washington Times 10/29/31) http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/29/pelosi-votes-are-there-pass-immigration-reform/?utm_source=RSS_Feedandutm_medium=RSS

C. Obama’s political capital is key

David Martosko, 10/16/13, US Political Editor at the Mail Online, “ARMAGEDDON AVERTED: Republicans cave in as Democrats' debt ceiling bill passes Senate with only House to go before midnight default deadline can cause global chaos.” Mail Online. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2463149/Senate-passes-debt-fix-Cruz-goes-swinging-McConnell-carves-2-billion-pet-project.html

D. Immigration reform expands skilled labor—spurs relations and economic growth in China and India.
LA Times 11/9/12 Other countries eagerly await U.S. immigration reform, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/11/us-immigration-reform-eagerly-awaited-by-source-countries.html

E. US-Indian relations avert South Asian nuclear war.
Schaffer 02 Spring 2002, Teresita—Director of the South Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Security, Washington Quarterly, Lexis

Tournament: Scranton | Round: 4 | Opponent: Edgemont RH | Judge: Brandon Evans
A. Plan causes a dysprosium shortage
The Economist 12 ("In a hole?" 5/17, http://www.economist.com/node/21550243)

B. Shortage kills the Japanese economy
Handwerger 11 (Jeb, "Ucore: David Among The Goliaths Of Rare Earths," http://ucore.com/JebHandwerger_Aug2011.pdf)

C. Japanese economic collapse causes nuclear war
The Guardian 2/11/02 (lexis)

Tournament: Lexington | Round: 5 | Opponent: Boston Debate AO | Judge: Leandra Lopez
A. Uniqueness: The US economy is growing now and the Federal Reserve is expecting growth levels to continue to increase.
Reuters 1/15 (Reuters is an international news organization. “US economy gets head of steam; Fed sees it as growing as expected,” Reuters, January 15, 2014 http://www.nbcnews.com/business/us-economy-gets-head-steam-seen-growing-expected-fed-says-2D11930888 ) 

B. Spending now would destroys a long term spending deal and harm the economy
Michael Boskin, a professor of economics at Stanford University and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, March 6th 2013 (“Larger Spending Cuts Would Help the Economy” http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/06/larger_spending_cuts_would_help_the_economy_117298.html)

C. And a Failure to get spending in line causes a decrease in investor confidence and soaring interest rates
DANIELLE  KURTZLEBEN Data Reporter at US News and World Report February 7, 2012  “Bernanke Warns Senators to Alter Fiscal Path” http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/02/07/bernanke-warns-senators-to-alter-fiscal-path)

D. The 2008 crisis empirically proves that a U.S. economic downturn causes unemployment, poverty and social unrest around the world

Roger Charles Altman is an American investment banker, private equity investor and former United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury who served under Bill Clinton 2009 “Globalization in Retreat: Further Geopolitical Consequences of the Financial Crisis” Foreign Affairs