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Capitalism increases Human rights. 

Weede 2007 (Erich, professor of sociology at the University of Bonn, Germany.  Jan 31st, Cato Journal: Human Rights, Limited Government, and Capitalism, http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj28n1/cj28n1-3.pdf) 

The global expansion of capitalism to developing countries has rescued hundreds of millions of people
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beyond the Western world.
Capitalism incentives decreasing violence around the world and stopping dehumanization.

Pinker 2011 (Steven Professor of Psychology @ Harvard; two time Pulitzer finalist; The Better angels of our nature: why violence has declined; pp.682-4; kdf)

The idea that an exchange of benefits can turn zero-sum warfare into positive
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to them to credit mere merchants with something as noble as peace.'
Since the U.S. has been militarily engaged violence in all forms has fallen.

Pinker 2011 (Steven Professor of Psychology @ Harvard; two time Pulitzer finalist; The Better angels of our nature: why violence has declined; pp.xxiv-xxv; kdf)

The fourth major transition took place after the e nd of World War II
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late 1950s to the present day which I will call the Rights Revolutions.
Refusal to use the U.S. military is the acceptance of genocide – Rwanda proves

Power 2001 (Samantha Bystanders to Genocide Rwanda¶ www.theatlantic.com, http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/East_Africa/Bystanders_Genocide_Rwanda.html, Vance)

The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not
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understanding of what was "possible" for the United States to do.¶
The negative structures capitalism as a single grand destructive force that is to be more awed than deconstructed.

Gibson-Graham 1996 (J.K., pen name of Julie Graham Prof. of Geography UMass and Ph.D. Clark Univ., and Katherine Gibson, Prof. and head Dept. of Human Geography  Australian National University and Ph.D. Clark Univ., “The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It)” p. 252-253)

In the context of poststructuralist theory both the political subject and the social totality have
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, in the face of which all our transformative acts are ultimately inconsequential.

This structuring of capitalism ensures not only that they will not be able to solve, but the replication of all of the harms of capitalism.

Gibson-Graham 1996 (J.K., pen name of Julie Graham Prof. of Geography UMass and Ph.D. Clark Univ., and Katherine Gibson, Prof. and head Dept. of Human Geography  Australian National University and Ph.D. Clark Univ., “The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It)” p. 252-253)

What is important here, for my purposes, are not the different metaphors and
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had to be reproduced, often an arduous if not impossible process.13
Capitalism is key to space

Diamandis ’10, Chairman and CEO of the X Prize Foundation Peter, February 1, “NASA Embraces American Capitalism and Entrepreneurship”, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-diamandis/nasa-embraces-american-ca_b_444673.html

After 30 years of doing business the same way, NASA is finally entering the
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innovation and breakthrough technology into our space program because that is their ethos.
Space key to solve multiple scenarios of extinction 

Harrison 02 professor of psychology at UC-Davis,
Albert, Spacefaring:  The Human Dimension, 2002, p. 222)

Until the close of the nineteenth century, the Western frontier absorbed population growth and
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buffering from ideological conflicts would reduce some of the traditional bases for war.
Their criticism operates with a mentality of genocide—multiple reasons why

Pinker 2011 (Steven Professor of Psychology @ Harvard; two time Pulitzer finalist; The Better angels of our nature: why violence has declined; pp.328-9; kdf)

Utopian ideologies invite genocide for two reasons. One is that they set up a
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expulsion of Cambodian city-dwellers to rural killing fields are other examples.
Violence is at an all-time low due to capitalist thought. Our claims are grounded in empiricism, their k is lodged in lofty intellectual thought.

Pinker 2011(Steven Professor of Psychology @ Harvard; two time Pulitzer finalist; The Better angels of our nature: why violence has declined; pp.xxi-xxiii; kdf)

This book is about what may be the most important thing that has ever happened
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and that thereby can be said to have caused the declines in violence.

Reason gives access to the root cause of the K, as society naturally gets smarter otherization and violence decline.  

Pinker 2011 (Steven Prof of Psych @ Harvard; Decline of Violence: Taming the devil within us;  Nature 478, 309–311 (20 October 2011; kdf) 

Peacekeepers, such as NATO in Kosovo, are highly successful, an example of
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— it has, quantifiably, made the world a less violent place.

Not working through the State legitimizes its current authority 

Zizek 2007 Slavoj, Resistance is Surrender, London Review of Books, 11/15 http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n22/zize01_.html

So what should, say, the US Democrats do? Stop competing for state
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protesting against their government policy – will be possible also in Iraq!’

The negativity of the alternative cedes the world new worse forms of capitalism.

Zizek Nov. 13, 2011 (Slajov “Slavoj Zizek: Capitalism with Asian values”, http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/2011/10/2011102813360731764.html, Vance)

I think today the world is asking for a real … the marriage between capitalism and democracy is over.

Invisioning a world outside of capitalism fails because our desires are too strong to be inline with class interests

Shaviro, 04 professor of Film, Culture, and English at the University of Washington
Steven, http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0410/msg00040.html, 10/24/04

There are various points, I admit, at which I am not entirely convinced
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(however powerful a  case these theorists make for what those interests are). 

Alt can’t solve - Withdraw from the state is an acceptance of the ideology of capitalism 

Zizek 2007 Slavoj, Resistance is Surrender, London Review of Books, 11/15 http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n22/zize01_.html

The response of some critics on the postmodern Left to this predicament is to call
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of resistance is nothing but the moralising supplement to a Third Way Left.

Rejection of capitalism causes massive transition wars and fails

Harris 03, fellow at the Hoover Institution
(Lee, “The Intellectual Origins of America-Bashing”, http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3458371.html)

This is the immiserization thesis of Marx. And it is central to revolutionary Marxism
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the social order and all socialist schemes would be reduced to pipe dreams.

Government management of the environment is key. Individual action does nothing to solve the harms outlined in the 1ac

Luke in 97 (Timothy, EcoCritique, University of Minnesota Press, p. 126-7, kdf)

It may be true that "the actions of those now living will determine the
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ex¬change that Hollander would end by having everyone recycle all their soda cans.

Ecopragmatism proves the perm solves while avoiding a tyrannical future 

Farber 99 (Daniel the Sho Sato Professor of Law and chair of the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley; EcoPragmatism; p 12-3; kdf)

In approaching specific environmental issues, we must keep¶ in mind our existing commitment
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perhaps¶ lacking in elegance, but durable enough for hard wear. ¶ 

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Within the margin of 10% Romney wins—only a risk the link turn bolsters Obama
Campbell 10/28 (Denis; Why is Mitt Romney so Confident? Is the GOP Stealing the Elections?; www.globalresearch.ca/why-is-mitt-romney-so-confident-is-the-gop-stealing-the-elections/5310109; kdf)

The idea of examining large precinct results came via a link to a report written
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person inserting a programme inside the system’s central computer… that flipped votes.

The secretary of State of Ohio predicts Romney will steal the election
Bello and Fitrakis 11/2 (Gerry and Bob; Internal memos confirm OH SoS applied untested/uncertified software patches that could steal it for Mitt Romney; markcrispinmiller.com/2012/11/internal-memos-confirm-oh-sos-applied-untesteduncertified-software-patches-that-could-steal-it-for-mitt-romney/; kdf)
The Free Press has obtained internal memos from the senior staff of the Ohio Secretary
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that can be read by the Secretary of State’s election night reporting system.”

Romney wins Ohio
Gaylord 10/31 (Brandon J. the editor-in-chief of HorseRacePolitics.com, is a graduate of George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management; Romney is well positioned to win Ohio; dailycaller.com/2012/10/31/romney-is-well-positioned-to-win-ohio/; kdf)
The small but consistent leads that pollsters are giving President Obama in Ohio are based
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be a miserable day for Republicans up and down the ballot in Ohio.

Plan is popular – recent surveys prove

O'Grady Oct. 2, 2012 (Patrick Reporter- Phoenix Business Journal, “Solar popular with 9 out of 10 in U.S.”, http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/blog/business/2012/10/solar-popular-with-9-out-of-10-in-us.html, Vance)

It seems solar power, despite its recent troubles, is about as popular
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a lot of different ways, either to homes and businesses or manufacturers.

DoD solar crosses party lines in popularity.

Warner and Singer 2009 (Jerry Warner is a former combat officer and now a  small businessman engaged in the development of alternative energy systems, Peter Warren Singer is Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution, “Fueling the “Balance””, (http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2009/8/defense%20strategy%20singer/08_defense_strategy_singer)CD)

While politics would ideally not be the determinant for   action in the national security realm
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in the 2008 election was to   cut America’s dependency on foreign oil.  21        

No link – not enough time for Romney to spin the plan

No link – public won’t perceive the plan. 

Margonelli Oct. 31, 2012 (Lisa, contributing editor, writes about energy, the environment, science, and policy for such publications as Forbes, Slate, Politico, The Atlantic, The Nation, and The New York Times, and many others. She is a research fellow at the New America Foundation, “Why Can’t Obama Articulate His Energy Strategy?”, http://www.psmag.com/politics/why-cant-obama-articulate-his-energy-strategy-48934/, Vance)

While the administration was flat-footed on climate, its energy actions were a
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it from being cut by critics; but now it has few champions.

DoD solar is insulated some scrutiny of Solydra.

Lacey August 2012 (Stephen Reporter Climate Progress, “The Solyndra Standard: On Loan Guarantees, Military Spending, And Clean Energy Politics”, http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/08/the-solyndra-standard-on-loan-guarantees-military-spending-and-clean-energy-politics, Vance)

Earlier this week the Air Force announced that its X-51 Scramjet Engine Demonstrator
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so important for national defense and for eventually developing technologies for civilian use.

Relations down- multiple reasons
Herszenhorn 10/10 (David M.; Russia Won't Renew Pact on Weapons with U.S.; www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/world/europe/russia-wont-renew-pact-with-us-on-weapons.html?_r=0; kdf)
The plan to end the Nunn-Lugar program appears to be the latest step
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— blocking demands, for example, for more aggressive intervention in Syria.

No Impact Russia will not extend weapons dismantling treaty
Herszenhorn 10/10 (David M.; Russia Won't Renew Pact on Weapons with U.S.; www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/world/europe/russia-wont-renew-pact-with-us-on-weapons.html?_r=0; kdf)
The Russian government said Wednesday that it would not renew a hugely successful 20-
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and on what basis further cooperation should be built,” the statement said.

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7 massive wind and solar projects coming now.

ENS 2012 (Environmental News Service, “Obama Fast-Tracks Renewables on Military Bases, Public Lands”, http://ens-newswire.com/2012/08/09/obama-fast-tracks-renewables-on-military-bases-public-lands/, Vance)

When President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, there were no solar projects
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first large-scale solar projects on tribal lands in the United States.
Rare Earth refineries are up and running around the world and will be soon including the US– their evidence assumes the world a decade ago. 

Lifton September 2012 (Jack  is an independent consultant and commentator focusing on market fundamentals and future end-use trends of the rare metals, specializes in sourcing nonferrous strategic metals and due diligence studies, more than 50 years of experience in the global OEM automotive, heavy equipment, electrical and electronic, mining, smelting and refining industries, “Astounding Rise of Western Rare Earth: Jack Lifton”, http://www.resourceinvestor.com/2012/09/21/astounding-rise-of-western-rare-earth-jack-lifton, Vance)

TCMR: Where is this new technology coming from?¶ JL: America. The
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I think you can figure it out just from what I've said today.

Recent report proves DoD transition to renewables is accelerating.

U.S. Green Tech Oct. 4, 2012 (Energy Jobs: Dept. of Defense Drives Clean Energy Market - See more at: http://usgreentechnology.com/energy-jobs/energy-jobs-dept-of-defense-drives-clean-energy-market/?utm_source=rssandutm_medium=rssandutm_campaign=energy-jobs-dept-of-defense-drives-clean-energy-market#sthash.I5x3Jjrc.dpuf, Vance)

Quick—who’s the largest consumer of energy in the world? China? Europe
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The green energy jobs sector is expected to expand with the military’s plans.

The DoD will gain its rare earths from Ucore – a Canadian based rare earth producer.

Alaska Dispatch Oct. 1 2012 (“Department of Defense eyes Bokan Mountain mining prospects”, http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/department-defense-eyes-bokan-mountain-mining-prospects, Vance)

Mining prospects at Alaska’s Bokan Mountain, the largest known rare earth elements deposit in
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. Parnell to launch a study of rare earth elements in the state.

Alt cause – Japanese tension

Westlake September 2012 (Adam, ABC News, “China reduces rare earth mining permits by 40% amid territorial island dispute”, http://japandailypress.com/china-reduces-rare-earth-mining-permits-by-40-amid-territorial-island-dispute-2012711, Vance)

China has taken a step to further tighten its grip on the world’s supply of
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mining technology and equipment, therefore helping to lower the reliance on China.
Rising demand for REEs solves Korean conflict
1- brings them into the liberal order
2- ends need for war by improving economic conditions

Petrov 2012 Leonid, lecturer in Korean studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, “Rare earth metals ― NK’s new trump card,” 9 Aug 2012, http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2012/10/160_117032.html

This growing rise in REM prices and strong demand gives the young leader Kim Jong
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Korea will start equalizing, opening more opportunities for greater exchange and cooperation. 

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The link is non-unique- tons of demonstrations happening in the squo proves no opposition
Cardwell 2012 (Diane. 2012, writer for NYT, “Military Spending on Biofuels Draws Fire”, (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/business/military-spending-on-biofuels-draws-fire.html?pagewanted=alland_r=0)CD)
She said biofuel spending was just 7 percent of the $1.6 billion
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opposition to the overall military push toward renewable power generation or energy efficiency. 

Obama won’t get the blame, Panetta will. 

Murray, Deputy Political Director at NBC News, 09. (Mark, MSNBC, “Poll: Public concerned about size of deficit NBC/WSJ survey also shows concern over intervention in private sector”, 6-18-09, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31407851/ns/politics-white_house/)

Despite their concerns, the American public isn’t blaming Obama for some of the current
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, and it’s the highest percentage on that particular question since January 2004.

Winners win

Mitchell 2009 Lincoln, Assistant Professor, International Law, Columbia University, “Time for Obama to Start Spending Political Capital,” HUFFINGTON POST, www.huffingtonpost.com/lincoln-mitchell/time-for-obama-to-start-s_b_217235.html

Political capital is not, however, like money, it cannot be saved up
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Health care will be the first and very likely most important, test.

Plan is bipartisan- republicans only originally stalled because of the election
Snider 12 (Annie, Feb, EandE reporter, “Military's alt energy programs draw Republicans' ire”, (http://www.eenews.net/public/Greenwire/2012/02/23/2)CD)
The Pentagon's green push -- including outfitting Marines and soldiers with solar gear, testing
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the military's attempts to move to alternative energy are coming under new scrutiny.

The strategy of using DoD alternative energy against Obama has empirically backfired because it has the generals support.

Baron Sep. 2012 (Kevin reports on the people and policies driving the Pentagon and the national security establishment in The E-Ring. “GOP vs. the generals ... again?”, http://e-ring.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/09/04/gop_vs_the_generals_again, Vance)

One can almost see the GOP strategist's chalk board. Problem: Democrats are increasing
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to the generals" line backfire on Republicans before GOP leaders drop it?

Endorsement of the military is key- generates massive support for the president
Wong 8 (Dr. Leonard, Strategic Studies Institute, “CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS IN A POST-9/11 WORLD”, (http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub873.pdf)CD)
The conference ended with some integrating  observations. One noted that the civil-military
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a counterbalance  to executive power, thus rendering the  War Powers Act useless.  

Plan is popular – recent surveys prove

O'Grady Oct. 2, 2012 (Patrick Reporter- Phoenix Business Journal, “Solar popular with 9 out of 10 in U.S.”, http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/blog/business/2012/10/solar-popular-with-9-out-of-10-in-us.html, Vance)

It seems solar power, despite its recent troubles, is about as popular
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a lot of different ways, either to homes and businesses or manufacturers.

Politicians are held accountable to the public – public opinion influences politicians’ behavior

Sparrow 2012 (Bartholomew H., University of Texas at Austin government professor “Who Speaks for the People? The President, the Press, and Public Opinion in the United States”, 10-13-8, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 4, Pages 578-592, Wiley InterScience)

Public opinion polls, too, speak for the American public. If public opinion
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if public opinion is especially one sided, it may actually be controlling.

Popularity key to political capital

Charlie Cook 2009, renowned political pollster and analyst, “Obama Putting His Approval Numbers to Work,” NATIONAL JOURNAL, 6—23—09, www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/ot_20090623_2212.php

A recurring theme in last week's political news, particularly on cable, was that
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the lighter the load becomes and the more buoyant a president's numbers get.

Republicans are all talk, they wouldn’t cross the DoD on renewables.

Belogolova 2012 (Olga, Correspondent National Journal, “Insiders: GOP Won’t Stop Pentagon’s Green-Energy Push”, http://mobile.nationaljournal.com/energy/insiders-gop-won-t-stop-pentagon-s-green-energy-push-20120725?page=1, Vance)

Republicans in both the House and Senate this year have proposed cutting funds for alternative
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this country. Think Internet, smartphones, etc.," another Insider added.

No impact to the cliff – law makers would reverse trend in early 2013

Gleckman 2012 (Howard, Guest correspondent for CSM, “Can the fiscal cliff push Congress to agree on budget deal?”, http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Tax-VOX/2012/1003/Can-the-fiscal-cliff-push-Congress-to-agree-on-budget-deal, Vance)
At today’s panel, Bob Greenstein, president of theCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities
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the economic consequences of any short-term spending cuts or tax hikes.¶ 

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You have it backwards you authorize a naturalization of the process of subjugation creates social exclusion on a global scale – the ultimate ethico-political responsibility is to challenge the foundations of this system’s organization principles. This makes reaching the Universal impossible.

Zizek and Daly 2004 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek, 14-6)

For Zizek it is imperative that we cut through this Gord¬ian knot of
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the abject Other to that of a 'glitch' in an otherwise sound matrix.

Value to life is inevitable 

Oral Cancer Foundation 2010 (“The Last Taboo”, http://www.oralcancerfoundation.org/emotional/last_taboo.htm, Vance)

The concepts of Viktor Frankl, as suggested earlier, are helpful in dealing with
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meaning to his last breath. Life never ceases to have a meaning".

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The military grid is vulnerable now- its key to all military operations
Robyn 10 (Dr. Dorothy, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment, “ Statement of Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment”, (http://www.acq.osd.mil/ie/download/robyn_testimony022410.pdf)CD)

Two, installation energy management is key to mission assurance. According to the Defense  
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at home could threaten our operations abroad or harm our  homeland defense capability.

North Korea views a nuclear war with Seoul as a “Sacred War”. 

Bardsley 2010 (Daniel , FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT the National, “North Korea warns of 'sacred' nuclear war”, http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-warns-of-sacred-nuclear-war, Vance)

North Korea yesterday warned it was prepared to wage a nuclear "sacred war"
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Mr Kim was quoted by the official North Korean news agency as saying.

Nothing outweighs genocide. Ideologically it is the justification of mass annihilation and politically it is destruction of the state and will result in extinction.
Harff and Gur 1981(Barabarra, Ph.D. Northwestern University, is Professor of Teeth Science Emerita at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. And Ted Robert is Professor Emeritus, Comparative Politics Distinguished University Professo University of Maryland, HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION AS A REMEDY FOR GENOCIDE, 1981, p. 40)
One of the most enduring and abhorrent problems of the world is genocide, which
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every social group is a potential victim, genocide is a universal concern.

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Our Shannon ev provide empirical proof of solvency, the military Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command center in San Diego already runs on solar power, and another program is being implemented through a PPA.
Here is more evidence of empirical domestic use of solar for the DoD. 

DeMaio 2009 (Douglas, USAG Bamberg Public Affairs, “Bamberg's solar panel implementation supports DoD, Army goals”, http://www.army.mil/article/22201/bambergs-solar-panel-implementation-supports-dod-army-goals/, Vance)

BAMBERG, Germany -- The installment of solar panels at the energy plant on U
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credit for producing power with renewable energy sources and Stadtwerke gets an incentive.

The Solar industry would create thousands of jobs post plan.

Wesoff 2011 (Eric Independent Renewable Energy Advisor: senior energy analyst at Greentech Media, “‘Buy American’ Solar Amendment for DoD Passes, Closes Loophole, Opens Can of Worms”, http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Buy-American-Solar-Amendment-for-DoD-Passes-Closes-Loophole-Opens-Can-o/, Vance)

The U.S. solar industry employs more than 100,000 Americans,
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it's low-cost solar panels that have spurred adoption of solar roofs.

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Monteiro’s analysis is flawed because it uses selective logic and doesn’t discuss alternatives to the current system
Wohlforth 12 (William C, Spring 2012 , Daniel Webster Professor at Dartmouth, where he teaches in the Department of Government, “Unrest Assured: Why Unipolarity is not Peaceful.” – Reviewed by William C. Wohlforth, (http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/ISSF/PDF/ISSF-AR17.pdf)CD)
It is hard for me to imagine how Monteiro could have done more within the
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peaceful. ¶ But that reaction concerns the framing rather than the substance¶ 

Your cognitive fallacy is backwards Despite negative media the US is the greatest force for global good- studies prove

Barnett 11   (Thomas, Naval War College Warfare Analysis and Research Department professor, “The New Rules: Leadership Fatigue Puts U.S., and Globalization, at Crossroads”, 3-7, (http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/8099/the-new-rules-leadership-fatigue-puts-u-s-and-globalization-at-crossroads, DOA: 10-9-11, )CD)

It is worth first examining the larger picture: We live in a time of
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absolute drop and a 99 percent relative drop in deaths due to war.