Aff Venezuela Oil (Relations and Venezuela SOI) 1NC T-Trade Immigration DA Oil DA Neoliberalism KCase 2NC Neoliberalism K (conceeded) Immigration DA Case 1NR Oil DA T-Trade 2NR Oil DA Immigration DA
Meadows
2
Opponent: Damien OJ | Judge: Cottrell, Cade
1NC- T Gov to Gov Immigration DA Neoliberalism K Case (Manufacturing Border Security) 2NC- Neoliberalism K (kicked) Immigration DA Case (Border Security) 1NR- T Gov to Gov Case (Manufacturing) 2NR- Immigration DA (kicked) T Gov to Gov
Meadows
3
Opponent: Gulliver Prep HG | Judge: Forslund, Eric
1NC- T Conditional Immigration DA Imperialism K Case (Structural Violence Freedom Framing) 2NC- Imperialism K (Kicked) Immigration Da Case ( Structural Violence Framing) 1NR- T Conditional 2NR- Immigration DA
Meadows
6
Opponent: Heritage Hall CC | Judge: Ogata, Christian
1NC- T Gov to Gov Immigration DA Neoliberalism K Case ( Impacts- With a Biodiversity turn Solvency Framing) 2NC- Neoliberalism K (kicked) Immigration DA Case (Impacts- Biodiversity turn Framing) 1NR- T Gov to Gov Case (Solvency) 2NR- Immigration DA (kicked) T Gov to Gov
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Cites
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Biodiversity Turn
Tournament: Meadows | Round: 6 | Opponent: Heritage Hall CC | Judge: Ogata, Christian simple ecosystems are more stable. Heath 1999 Jim Heath, Orchards Australia, “WHY SAVE ORCHIDS UNDER THREAT?,” Dec 99 We’ve all read about the imperatives of biodiversity much better odds than spending the money on saving species.
Exponential population growth causes collapse Boulter, 02 (Michael Boulter - professor for paleobiology at the Natural History Museum and the University of East London, former editor to the Palaeontological Association, former secretary to the International Organization of Palaeobotany, and UK representative at the International Union of Biological Sciences, “Extinction: Evolution and the End of Man,” pg. 183-184, CM) The system of life on Earth behaves in a similar way for all its measurable variables . It would need to start again from scratch.
It results in long food chains – those are bad Mertz et al 03 (Leslie Mertz – biologist and veteran freelance science writer, editor, and consultant, Science in Dispute Vol. 2, “ Does greater species diversity lead to greater stability in ecosystems,” http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_gx5204/is_2003/ai_n19124307/?tag=content;col1, CM) Not long after the Hairston paper was published
10/29/13
Immigration DA
Tournament: Meadows | Round: 2 | Opponent: Damien OJ | Judge: Cottrell, Cade Immigration will pass now – momentum Parnes 10/18 Amie, The Hill, Obama’s hollow debt victory, 10/18/13, http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/329219-obamas-hollow-debt-victory Another former White House official saw things differently and argued
The plan puts border security before the rest of immigration reform – kills the deal Grant, 13 (4-27, David, Politics for the Christian Science Monitor, “How border security 'trigger' could stop immigration reform.” The CSM, 4/27/13 lnGBS-JV) Congressional negotiators say immigration reform will
Reform key to competitiveness and growth Trujillo and Melgoza 13 Mr. Trujillo is chairman of the Trujillo Group, LLC and co-chairman of the Latino Donor Collaborative. Mr. Melgoza is the CEO of Geoscape International Inc. The Economic—and Demographic—Case for Immigration Reform, 2/21/13, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323951904578290471589119346.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Since the November election, there has been much talk in Washington
Nuclear war Friedberg and Schoenfeld 8 Aaron, Prof. Politics. And IR @ Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School and Visiting Scholar @ Witherspoon Institute, and Gabriel, Senior Editor of Commentary and Wall Street Journal, “The Dangers of a Diminished America” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122455074012352571.html Then there are the dolorous consequences of a potential
10/28/13
Imperialism K
Tournament: Meadows | Round: 3 | Opponent: Gulliver Prep HG | Judge: Forslund, Eric This rhetoric is an attempt to Regulate the Interior --- they engage in neoliberal policies of deregulation to Americanize a country that is perceived as threatening the Western order, unruly, lawless and easily subjugated by American imperialism. Slater 97 (David, Ph.D from London School of Economics and Professor Emeritus of Geography at Loughborough University, “Geopolitical imaginations across the North-South divide: issues of difference, development and power,” Political Geography Vol. 16 Issue 8, November 1997, pp. 631-653, Muse, slim_) By the beginning of the twentieth century This understanding of Cuba as key to U.S. well-being perpetuates a self-fulfilling prophecy of manifest destiny Pérez 8 (Louis A., Ph.D. University of New Mexico, Professor of History at University of North Carolina, "Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos," slim_) But it is also true that, for all the ways that The impact is cultural extinction. Escobar 95 - Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill (Arturo, “Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World,” pg. 52-54)BB The crucial threshold and transformation that took place in the early post
The alternative is to vote negative --- rejecting imperialism in this round serves as a starting point to theorize anti-imperialism and break down hegemonic systems of knowledge. Morrissey 11 – (John, Department of Geography, National University of Ireland, 2011, “Architects of Empire: The Military–Strategic Studies Complex and the Scripting of US National Security,” Antipode Vol. 43, (2):435-470, http://aran.library.nuigalway.ie/xmlui/handle/10379/2893)//a-berg As an academic working in political geography
10/28/13
Neoliberalism K
Tournament: Meadows | Round: 2 | Opponent: Damien OJ | Judge: Cottrell, Cade US economic involvement in Mexico is profit-driven and hurts the Mexican people and economy Cooney, environmental and economic research at the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, Queens College, City University of New York, 01 (Paul, “The Mexican Crisis and the Maquiladora Boom A Paradox of Development or the Logic of Neoliberalism?”, Latin American Perspectives 28:55, 2001, Sage Publications)AS Supporters of the maquiladora industry argue that transnational corpora
Try or die—capitalism causes resource wars, economic collapses, population crises, ecological degradation, kills value to life, and magnifies all secondary antagonisms Parr ’13 (Adrian Parr, The Wrath of Capital, 2013, p. 145-147)VP A quick snapshot of the twenty-first century so far
The alternative is to reject the 1ac to interrogate neoliberal economic engagement with latin America from the starting point of knowledge production- that is a prerequisite to breaking down neoliberalism Walsh, 12 – Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos de la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Catherine, “The Politics of Naming”, Cultural Studies, 26.1, Project Muse)VP Cultural Studies, in our project, is constructed and understood as more than a field of ‘study’
10/28/13
Oil DA
Tournament: Damien Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Damien DW | Judge: Wong, Nate Prices will remain high – long term trends prove Lynch 10/16 – Forbes contributor, analyzes petroleum economics and energy policy (Michael, Forbes, “Are Greater Fools Driving Oil Prices?,” 10/16/2013, http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellynch/2013/10/16/are-greater-fools-driving-oil-prices/)RGP Asset bubbles make theorists crazy AND including attacks on oil tankers, did not move prices.
Increased Venezuelan oil production causes Saudi flood --- empirics Pollak 03- New York Times correspondent (Michael, LBO-Talk, “The economics of Opec,” 5/30/2003, http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2003/2003-March/009150.html)RGP Then, in the 1990s AND Norway to support Opec's revenue-maximizing goals.
Drop below 100 dollars causes Russian economic collapse --- it’s on the brink now Whitmore 13 - senior Correspondent in RFE/RL's Central Newsroom, covering European security, energy and military issues and domestic developments in Russia (Brian, The Power Vertical, “After The Storm: Trends To Watch In Russia In 2013,” 1/2/2013, http://www.rferl.org/content/after-the-storm-trends-to-watch-in-russia-in-2013/24813957.html)RGP It began with a roar and it ended with a whimper AND for a balanced budget was $50 to $55.
Nuclear war Filger 9 – Huffington Post author (Sheldon, Huffington Post, “Russian Economy Faces Disastrous Free Fall Contraction,” 5/10/2009, http://www.globaleconomiccrisis.com/blog/archives/356)RGP In Russia, historically, Global Economic Crisis is its least dangerous consequence.
11/19/13
T Conditional
Tournament: Meadows | Round: 3 | Opponent: Gulliver Prep HG | Judge: Forslund, Eric Economic engagement has to be conditional Shinn 96 James Shinn, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow for Asia at the CFR in New York City and director of the council’s multi-year Asia Project, worked on economic affairs in the East Asia Bureau of the US Dept of State, “Weaving the Net: Conditional Engagement with China,” pp. 9 and 11, google books In sum, conditional engagement consists of
10/28/13
T Gov to Gov
Tournament: Meadows | Round: 2 | Opponent: Damien OJ | Judge: Cottrell, Cade Interpretation – Economic engagement has to be government to government Daga, 13 - director of research at Politicas Publicas para la Libertad, in Bolivia, and a visiting senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation (Sergio, “Economics of the 2013-2014 Debate Topic: U.S. Economic Engagement Toward Cuba, Mexico or Venezuela”, National Center for Policy Analysis, 5/15, http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/Message_to_Debaters_6-7-13.pdf) Economic engagement between or among countries
10/28/13
T-Trade
Tournament: Damien Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Damien DW | Judge: Wong, Nate Interpretation - Economic engagement is exclusively trade and investment Regjeringen NO DATE (“REPORT OF THE INDIA-EFTA JOINT STUDY GROUP”. http://www.regjeringen.no/upload/NHD/Handelsavtaler/India20forstudien20final.pdf)//JuneC// The JSG has undertaken a comprehensive study AND Deepening their engagement would bring forth a wide range of mutual benefits.