| 10/01/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: The endorsement of energy development with nuclear technology situates economic power in the hands of status quo power interests; the aff sustains strategies of domination and exploitation.
ICConline 11 on August 16, 2011, “Nuclear energy, capitalism and communism”
http://en.internationalism.org/wr/347/nuclear
The revolution in the...humanity today. Impact - Capitalism causes extinction from hegemonic imperialism, ecological destruction, and inevitable north-south conflict
FOSTER 05
(JOHN, MONTHLY REVIEW, SEPTEMBER, VOL 57, ISS 4 “NAKED IMPERIALISM”)
From the longer view...history of imperialism. Resisting this reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility – the current social order guarantees social exclusion on a global scale
Zizek and Daly, 2004 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16)
For Zizek it ... otherwise sound matrix. Our alternative is to vote negative to refuse to participate in capitalism.
HEROD 2004
James Herod, Getting Free, http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/Strate/GetFre/06.htm
It is time ...even to extinction. |
| 10/01/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Text - In the course of their employment, Harry Reid, John Boehner, and their colleagues, with the necessary cooperation of Barack Obama and staff, should _. Both Textually and Functionally Competitive. Textual competes because we Pic out of the USFG in the plan. Functionally Competitive because the invocation of the USFG as a monolithic identity is slave speak which ties our agency to bureaucracy and causes violence! This card is an impact and solvency
MANN, 1997
Frederick, NSPIC DEBATE, http://www.mind-trek.com/reports/tl07e.htm
Statist fraud-concepts ...statist fraud-concepts! This DIVORCES THE SELF FROM POLITICS MAKING EXTERMINATION INEVITABLE, WE MUST ETHICALLY REJECT THIS ORIENTATION AND INDEPENDENT REASON THEY SHOULD LOSE
ZUPANCIC, 2K. (Alenka, Ethics of the Real, p.97)
We do not ....own actions. |
| 10/01/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: The affirmative harms expand the concept of security from traditional issues like war to include the environment, this framing of the environment spills over massively expanding government power and justifying militarism and the most authoritarian responses to environmental problems.
Waever, Senior Researcher at the Center for Peace and Conflict Research, 1995 (Ole, On Security, p. 63-64)
Central to the ..of the environment.50 Reject their expansion of security to the environment. Securitizing the environment without a serious reorientation of the state’s relationship to security justifies militarism which results in colonialist wars.
Barnett, Fellow in the School of Social and Environmental Enquiry at University of Melbourne, 2001 (Jon, and a New Zealand Sci and Tech Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Canterbury and serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, May 4, The Meaning of Environmental Security: Ecological Politics and Policy in the New Security Era, pg. 47 p3 – pg. 49 p1)
The most important ...needs of people. |
| 10/01/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: A. Uniqueness -- it’ll pass – top of the agenda – separate from Magnitsky.
Wasson and Needham 12. Erik, Vicki, Hill reporters, “Russia trade, farm bill not on House summer calendar” The Hill -- http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/1005-trade/229563-russia-trade-farm-bill-not-on-house-summer-calendar
Meanwhile, House Ways ...Camp said in April. B. Link – Solar power is unpopular - not seen as cost competitive
Lifsher, LA Times Staff Writer, 05
(Marc, June 27, “Governor's Solar Plan Is Generating Opposition,” http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jun/27/business/fi-solar27, d/a 7-20-12, ads)
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ...unpopular with buyers. Capital key.
Moscow Times 11. “U.S. Senators Side With Georgia on WTO Issue” October 21 -- http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/us-senators-side-with-georgia-on-wto-issue/445990.html
If Russia ... and future sovereignty.”
C. Impact -- Repeal key to solve relations – on the brink now.
RT 11. Dec 26 -- “Russia urges US to repeal Cold War era legislation” -- http://rt.com/politics/russia-jackson-vanik-lavrov-679/
With US-Russian .... of the law. Relations Key To Solve Terrorism And Prolif.
Perry and Scowcroft 9. (William and brent, Chairs CFR, april, “US Nuclear Weapons Policy”)
Despite nearly universal ... of mutual trust. Extinction
Sid-Ahmed 4. (Mohamed, Managing Editor for Al-Ahali, “Extinction!” August 26-September 1, Issue no. 705, http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/705/op5.htm)
A nuclear attack ...all be losers. |
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SMRs fail – even with subsidies, there’s no market
Forbes 12 (Small Modular Nuclear Reactors By 2022 But No Market For Them 12 Forbes McMahon 0523, Forbes Magazine, TECH | 5/23/2012 @ 3:03PM |5,221 views
Jeff McMahon, Contributor From Chicago, I cover green technology, energy, and the environment.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2012/05/23/small-modular-reactors-by-2022-but-no-market-for-them/)
The Department ...to the summary. Small reactors are expensive
Makhijani and Boyd 10 (September, ARJUN MAKHIJANI, electrical and nuclear engineer who is President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research AND MICHELE BOYD, former director of the Safe Energy Program at Physicians for Social Responsibility, Small Modular Reactors No Solution for the Cost, Safety, and Waste Problems of Nuclear Power, www.psr.org/nuclear-bailout/.../small-modular-reactors-no.pdf,)
SMR proponents ... of proposed designs. Storage of excess waste creates a high risk of toxic nuclear waste contamination of air and major aquifers
Trento 12 (Joseph, has spent more than 35 years as an investigative journalist, working with both print and broadcast outlets and writing extensively. Before joining the National Security News Service in 1991, Trento worked for CNN‘s Special Assignment Unit, the Wilmington News Journal, and prominent journalist Jack Anderson. Trento has received six Pulitzer nominations and is the author of five books, EPA Helpless to Stop Further Pollution at Major Superfund Site, July 13th, http://www.dcbureau.org/201207137454/national-security-news-service/epa-helpless-to-stop-further-pollution-at-major-superfund-site-nnsa-to-resume-plutonium-separation-at-the-savannah-river-sites-h-canyon-for-mox-fuel.html)
The ongoing problems ...into reactor fuel. High cost tradeoff to nuclear waste disposal
Nathwani 9 (Jatin S. Nathwani, Department of Management Sciences and The Institute for Risk Research, University of Waterloo, “THE UNINTENDED SOCIAL RISKS OF NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL” www.irr-neram.ca/pdf_files/waste_disposal.pdf)
The cost of ...and cultural goals. Small reactors take too long to come online – natural gas will have taken over
Freebairn 12 (Mollie, Mollie Freebairn is a solar consultant with Missouri Solar Applications in Jefferson City and a former scientist at the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, where she studied emissions from coal-burning power plants.July 25, Guest commentary: Small nuclear reactors are too little too late , http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/guest-commentary-small-nuclear-reactors-are-too-little-too-late/article_8f237dd0-9a8b-5912-a30d-b7a368282732.html)
Ameren Missouri ...rates in perpetuity. SMRs aren’t any safer than other reactors
Forbes 12 (Small Modular Nuclear Reactors By 2022 But No Market For Them 12 Forbes McMahon 0523, Forbes Magazine, TECH | 5/23/2012 @ 3:03PM |5,221 views
Jeff McMahon, Contributor From Chicago, I cover green technology, energy, and the environment.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2012/05/23/small-modular-reactors-by-2022-but-no-market-for-them/)
Senate staff ...should be revisited.
SMRs aren’t safer
Lyman 12 (Edwin Lyman, Senior Scientist, UCS. Presentation to the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board SMR Subcommittee. May 30, 2012, www.ne.doe.gov%2Fsmrsubcommittee%2Fdocuments%2FLyman%2520Presentation%25205-30-12.pptx)
In general, ...regulatory requirements
SMRs aren’t safer
Updegraff et all 12 (Small Modular Reactor Panel Discussion Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Summary Prepared by Derek Updegraff, Rebecca Lordan, Pierce Corden Dirksen-‐366 May 9, 2012, http://cstsp.aaas.org/files/SummaryFinalSMR.pdf)
The last panelist,... and proliferation. |
| 10/01/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
A. VIOLATION – Aff fails to specify Implementation of the plan. B1. This PREVENTS EDUCATION ABOUT DECISIONMAKING AND POLICYMAKING. Policies are written in great detail and vague language in policies should be rejected.
Gosling 04’ James J., Understanding, Informing, and Appraising Public Policy, 2004 P. 104
The political ...discretion to them. B2. We also lose case turns and solvency arguments because their action is not clearly defined. Implementation must be accounted for – 90 percent of policy effectiveness is at stake.
ELMORE 80
(Richard, Backward mapping: Implementation research and policy decisions)
Analysis of ...realm of implementation. B3. KILLS DISAD GROUND. B4. KILLS COUNTERPLAN GROUND. VOTING ISSUE for fairness and education warrants outlined above. |
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Expanding nuclear power hurts credibility – safety issues
Walsh 11 (Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011 05:17 PM MST The nuclear credibility gap As Japan and U.S. officials differ on risks, the Obama administration pushes ahead with nuclear power expansion By Joan Walsh, http://www.salon.com/2011/03/17/nuclear_credibility_gap/)
I’m inclined ...commitment to nuclear expansion. Technical changes don’t solve prolif – it’s motivated by a still existing political desire
Acton 9 (James M. Acton is an associate in the Nonproliferation Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and frequent contribu- tor to the prominent blog Arms Control Wonk. a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials, The myth of proliferation-resistant technology, December)
Forty years on, ... resistance is needed. Peaceful nuclear cooperation causes prolif
Fuhrmann 9 (Matthew, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina, Abstract of “Spreading Temptation: Proliferation and Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation Agreements Matthew Fuhrmann” International Security Summer 2009, Vol. 34, No. 1, http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/isec.2009.34.1.7)
Peaceful nuclear ...nuclear programs. Cooperation on nuclear leadership causes prolif
Fuhrmann 9 (Matthew, Spreading Temptation: Proliferation and Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation Agreements Matthew Fuhrmann”, Matthew Fuhrmann is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina, International Security Summer 2009, Vol. 34, No. 1, http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/isec.2009.34.1.7)
This article ...weapons acquisition. No aff prolif impacts: these low probability events come from illogical conclusions
Kidd 2010
(Steve Kidd is Head of Strategy and Research at the World Nuclear Association, where he has worked since 1995 (when it was the Uranium Institute)… 6/8/2010… http://www.lexisnexis.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/lnacui2api/api/version1/getDocCui?lni=7YN8-6M00-YBK2-G0MGandcsi=168861andhl=tandhv=tandhnsd=fandhns=tandhgn=tandoc=00240andperma=true )
A significant ... national prestige. Proliferation risk with SMRs – enables countries with high prolif risk to get nuclear energy
Moor 12 (Mr. Phillip O. Moor P.E., Consultant in nuclear technology, licensing, and business structuring and former Director of Project Management at GPU Nuclear, Chair of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) President’s Special Committee on SMR Licensing Issues, “Small Modular Reactor Panel Discussion Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee”, Summary Prepared by Derek Updegraff, Rebecca Lordan, Pierce Corden Dirksen-‐366 May 9, 2012, http://cstsp.aaas.org/files/SummaryFinalSMR.pdf)
Moor also ...country of concern. US nuclear technology enables Iranian prolif
Fuhrmann 12 (Matthew Fuhrmann, an assistant professor of political science at Texas AandM University, is the author of Atomic Assistance: How “Atoms for Peace” Programs Cause Nuclear Insecurity, July 26th, America's Role in Helping Iran Develop its Nuclear Programhttp://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/07/americas-role-in-helping-iran-develop-its-nuclear-program/260334/)
Iran's nuclear ...of nuclear weapons. |
