Tournament: Binghamton | Round: 1 | Opponent: Rutgers VH | Judge: 

SBSP

T in

Interp:

In means ’in the bounds of’

American Heritage Dictionary ’6

prep. Within the limits, bounds, or area of: was hit in the face; born in the spring; a chair in the garden.

Priv

TEXT: The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy should endow Innovation Inducement Prizes for Solar Power Satelites by following the NAS’s guideline and recommendation and prizes specification. Prizes should be funded by allocating one-third of the U.S. Climate Change Technology.

Solves case—Prizes create incentive for technological advancement and innovation.
Adler, 11—Jonathan H. Adler  is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation @ Case Western Reserve University School of Law. "Eyes on a Climate Prize: Rewarding Energy Innovation to Achieve Climate Stabilization" http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr/vol35_1/HLE101.pdf-http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr/vol35_1/HLE101.pdf  accessed date: 7-28-12 y2k

Richard Branson and other private individuals may continue to offer technological inducement prizes for climate
AND
would also further underscore that climate-friendly technological innovation is a national priority

Prizes are key to energy—create a unique incentive for innovative solution.
Wagner, 10—Erika Wagner is Executive Director of Mars Gravity Biosatellite and X PRIZE Lab @ MIT. "Prizes for Energy Innovation Incentives for Today’s Challenges" March, 2010. http://web.mit.edu/ipc/research/energy/pdf/EIP_10-001.pdf-http://web.mit.edu/ipc/research/energy/pdf/EIP_10-001.pdf  accessed date: 7-28-12 y2k

In order to meet the pressing needs of growing demand, shrinking supply and environmental
AND
capital and excitement. The energy sector is ripe for such a tool. 

CP spurs innovation and competition—avoids free-market turns.
Wagner, 10—Erika Wagner is Executive Director of Mars Gravity Biosatellite and X PRIZE Lab @ MIT. "Prizes for Energy Innovation Incentives for Today’s Challenges" March, 2010. http://web.mit.edu/ipc/research/energy/pdf/EIP_10-001.pdf-http://web.mit.edu/ipc/research/energy/pdf/EIP_10-001.pdf  accessed date: 7-28-12 y2k

Today’s  energy  market,  with the urgency and nature of its challenges, is a
AND
crises of energy and the environment offer a fertile ground for such incentives.

Ozone

A.  Building SBSP would take hundreds of thousands of space launches – destroying the environment turns warming
Al Globus 8, space expert, Spring 2008, "On The Moon," Ad Astra, http://www.nss.org/adastra/AdAstra-SBSP-2008.pdf-http://www.nss.org/adastra/AdAstra-SBSP-2008.pdf

While it has been suggested that in the long term, space solar power (
AND
problems won’t be severe, but the studies conducted so far are inadequate.

B.  Space launches hurt the ozone – they create chlorine
Steven Aftergood 91, Senior Research Analyst at Federation of American Scientists, 9-7-1991, "Poisoned Plumes," New Scientists, http://space.newscientist.com/channel/space-tech/space-shuttle/mg13117854.400

More recently, concern about depletion of the ozone layer has stimulated renewed interest in
AND
include aerosols, which adsorb chlorine and eventually diffuse out of the stratosphere.

C.  Ozone depletion causes complete extinction
Greenpeace, 1995, Full of Holes: Montreal Protocol and the Continuing Destruction of the Ozone Layer, http://archive.greenpeace.org/ozone/holes/holebg.html

When chemists Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina first postulated a link between chlorofluorocarbons and ozone
AND
so quickly - the stakes are literally the continuation of life on earth. 

Sats

1. SPS interferes with existing satellites
   EPRI Journal 00, (March 22, 2000 SECTION: No. 1, Vol. 25; Pg. 6 ; ISSN: 0362-3416 HEADLINE: Renewed Interest in Space Solar Power; Brief Article BYLINE: MOORE, TAYLOR, l/n)

 Since 1986, Osepchuk has argued that although public fear of microwaves may represent
AND
RFI threat to nearby communications systems that operate in the same frequency band.

2. Satellite systems are key to hegemony turns heg
AIAA 10 Aerospace Industries Association of America, "Aerospace and Defense: The Strength to Lift America", April, http://www.nationalaerospaceweek.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/whitepaper.pdf

Space systems drive our nation’s competitiveness, economic growth and innovation. U.S
AND
one that crosses civil agencies, the Defense Department and the intelligence community.

Tournament: Binghamton | Round: 4 | Opponent: CUNY | Judge: Kozak

Case Turn

Smart grids don’t solve — more vulnerable
Eccleston 11, Chief Consultant for the Environmental Planning and NEPA Services Corporation and Stuyvenberg, Environmental Project Manager, US Nuclear Regulatory Comission, 2011
(Charles and Andrew, Environmental Quality Management, "The Perfect Electrical Storm? " Volume 20, Issue 3, Article first published online: 14 MAR 2011, DOI 10.1002/tqem / Spring 2011 / 43 Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tqem.20288/pdf-http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tqem.20288/pdf , accessed 7-2-11, ASR)

The Smarter Grid? Some assume that an upgraded electrical grid—especially the so
AND
run the smart grid) would be among the first devices to succumb.

The criticism frames the debate in such a way that the status quo is locked in – we can’t imagine new alternatives this way.
Rainer Maria Kiesow, research scholar at the Max-Planck Institute for European legal history, Andrew Norris, assistant professor of political science at the university of Pennsylvania, editor, Politics, Metaphysics, and Death: Essays On Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer, ’05, pg. 264

What is perhaps both most intriguing and most problematic about Agamben’s work is that,
AND
might produce will serve as a real alternative to that which it contests.

Contemporary politics can’t be analyzed via sovereign power.
Paul Rabinow, professor of anthropology at UC Berkeley, and Nikolas Rose, professor of sociology at the London school of economics, "Thoughts On The Concept of Biopower Today," December 10^th  ’03, http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/sociology/pdf/RabinowandRose-BiopowerToday03.pdf pg. 11-12

The interpretation of contemporary biopolitics as the politics of a state modeled on the figure
AND
of EP Thompson should be sufficient to dispel such recent mis- readings.

Bare life is not possible.
Peter Fitzpatrick, Professor of Law, ’01
"Bare Sovereignty: Homo Sacer and the Insistence of Law", Theory and Event 5:2, Project MUSE

The overall modality, in short, is one of ambivalence — one of exclusion
AND
We cannot live in a bare determination. We can live only mediately.

The State of Exception would override the alternative.
Puspa Dumai, teaches at the central department of English at Tribhuvan University in Nepal, ’05
The Killing Machine of Exception: Sovereignty, Law, and Play in Agambenis State of Exception. The New Centennial Review Volume 5, Number 3, Winter 2005, pp. 255-276. Project Muse

What follows attempts to elaborate some of the concerns raised so far in this essay
AND
exception and to grasp fully the stakes of playfully abandoning sovereignty tout court.

DSCOVR CP

DSCOVR CP

Plan text: The USFG should launch the Deep Space Climate Observatory 

Funding has increased for DSCOVR it can be launched now
Donahue 11 (Bill, Long time writer with publications in The Atlantic and The New Yorker to DoubleTake,Mother Jones, and Outside, Two of his stories have been nominated for a National Magazine Award, and he teaches journalism at The Attic Writers’ Workshop in Portland. http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-03/lost-satellite-http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-03/lost-satellite)

Yet DSCOVR isn’t dead. For all the talk of the satellite’s cancellation, the
AND
technology, provide the approximately %24125 million to pay for the launch.

DSCOVR is the cheapest, fastest, and most suitable way to replace the current technology monitoring space storms, which could cause trillions in disaster
Clark, 11
~[2/21/11Stephen C., Space Flight Now, "NOAA Taps Dscovr satellite for space weather mission," http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1102/21dscovr/-http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1102/21dscovr/ ,PHS~]

The White House is requesting %2447 million in fiscal year 2012 to convert a
AND
small COSMIC satellites with Taiwan to obtain global temperature and moisture profile measurements. 

Plan is key to solve only the plan can meet the 2013 impact deadline
Stephen Clark 11, Spaceflight now Febuary 21, 2011

The recent work on the DSCOVR spacecraft was ordered as NOAA considered several replacement options
AND
ready for launch by late 2013 if NOAA gets full funding this year.

DSCOVR’s gives early solar storm warning solves grid
Scripps 11 2011Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Global Discoveries for Tomorrow’s World, 2011http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/About/Research_Overview/The_Oceans_and_Global_Change/-http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/About/Research_Overview/The_Oceans_and_Global_Change/

Monitoring the Climate from Deep Space Scripps is participating in the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite mission, which will collect key information about Earth’s climate system using the first deep-space climate satellite. With new scientific instruments taking a broad set of measurements, the spacecraft will have a continuous view of the sunlit side of Earth from a vantage point 1.5 million kilometers away. DSCOVR’s measurements of infrared radiation emitted by Earth will be used to monitor global warming and climate variability. Measurements of the solar wind, magnetic fields, and plasma will advance research and provide early warning of solar events that may pose threats to Earth satellites. DSCOVR’s views of the details of Earth’s atmosphere and surface will be distributed to schools and the general public via the Internet.

T

Pre-existing T

A. Interpretation - increase means increasing pre-existing
Buckley et al ’6 (Jeremiah Buckley et al, Attorney, Amicus Curiae Brief, Safeco Ins. Co. of America et al v. Charles Burr et al,06 http://supreme.lp.findlaw.com/supreme_court/briefs/06-84/06-84.mer.ami.mica.pdf)

First, the court said that the ordinary meaning of the word "increase"
AND
a phrase gathers meaning from the words around it") (citation omitted). 

T-immediate

Resolved implies immediacy
Random House ’6 (Unabridged Dictionary, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resolve)

re•solve   html   /rɪˈzɒlv/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation~[ri-zolv~] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation verb, -solved, -solv•ing, noun
–verb (used with object) 

1. to come to a definite or earnest decision about; determine (to do something): I have resolved that I shall live to the full.

’Should’ requires immediate action
Summer ’94 (Justice, Oklahoma Supreme Court, "Kelsey v. Dollarsaver Food Warehouse of Durant", http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=20287~~%23marker3fn14)

4 The legal question to be resolved by the court is whether the word "
AND
. 336, 337, 27 L.Ed. 201 (1882).

’Substantial’ must be at the present time
Words and Phrases ’64 (40W%26P 759)

The words" outward, open, actual, visible, substantial, and exclusive
AND
or pertaining to any others; undivided; sole; opposed to inclusive.

Cede Political

The crisis of politics can only be solved by using politics
Katawala ’9 (Sunder, Fabian Society, A Future For Politics, p. 31)

The answer to the political legitimacy crisis is politics. There can be no magic bullet solution to what is primarily a question of political cultural and political education. But the overriding priority should be to pursue political reform in a way that is engaging and educative of the nature of politics itself and that brings about practical results.

Rejecting politics and refusing to engage ensures that the ’powers that be" win by ensuring no common framework for challenging the status quo
Chandler ’4(David, Snr Lecturer in International Relations at the Center for Democracy, University of Westminster, Millennium, Vol. 33, No. 4, p. 339)

The struggle for individual ethical and political autonomy, the claim for the recognition of
AND
of rejectionism—the powers that be can sleep peacefully in their beds.

Moving away from anti-politics is vital to check extinction
Small ’6(Jonathan, former Americorps VISTA for the Human Services Coalition,"Moving Forward," The Journal for Civic Commitment,  Spring, http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/other/engagement/Journal/Issue7/Small.jsp)

What will be the challenges of the new millennium? And how should we equip
AND
at the beginning stages of a project that seeks to do just that.

Tournament: Binghamton | Round: 6 | Opponent: Binghamton | Judge: 

T- Increase – Pre-Existing

A. Interpretation - increase means increasing pre-existing

Buckley et al ’6 (Jeremiah Buckley et al, Attorney, Amicus Curiae Brief, Safeco Ins. Co. of America et al v. Charles Burr et al,06 http://supreme.lp.findlaw.com/supreme_court/briefs/06-84/06-84.mer.ami.mica.pdf)

First, the court said that the ordinary meaning of the word "increase"
AND
a phrase gathers meaning from the words around it") (citation omitted). 

Elections

BOOST POST CONVENTION INCREASE OBAMA’S WIN CHANCES

HICKEY, 9/11 - Co-Director of the Campaign for America’s Future. He was a leader of the campaign to stop the privatization of Social Security, and he is a founder and member of the steering committee of Health Care for America Now. In the late 1980s he and Jeff Faux created the Economic Policy Institute - Obama, Yes... and Win the House, Too
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/roger-hickey/obama-win-the-house_b_1869171.html-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/roger-hickey/obama-win-the-house_b_1869171.html

President Obama is enjoying a post-convention bump in job approval (Gallup says
AND
prospects for Obama winning a second term are starting to look pretty good.

com/story/2012/06/05/1097574/-Nuclear-Power-and-Public-Opinion-What-the-polls-say – WANTS CLEAN ENERGY, NOT NATURAL GAS, NUCLEAR OR COAL
Mariotte, June 5, 2012  JUN 05, 2012 AT 12:17 PM PDT
com/story/2012/06/05/1097574/-Nuclear-Power-and-Public-Opinion-What-the-polls-say
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/05/1097574/-Nuclear-Power-and-Public-Opinion-What-the-polls-say-http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/05/1097574/-Nuclear-Power-and-Public-Opinion-What-the-polls-say
Conclusion 2: Americans do not think nuclear power is "clean" energy,
AND
was defined as including nuclear power or natural gas, that support plummeted.

html
Ten Swing States Could Decide the 2012 Election; Obama Leads in Nine of Them
By html 8/9
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Ten-Swing-States-Could-Dec-by-James-Wall-120809-678.html-http://www.opednews.com/articles/Ten-Swing-States-Could-Dec-by-James-Wall-120809-678.html
With less than three months left before voters decide between President Barack Obama and his
AND
numbers this late in the campaign does not portend well for the challenger.

Romney takeover causes Iran strikes.

SARKISIAN, 2/12 (Warning: Mitt Romney’s Advisers Are George Bush Neocons Calling for War With Iran com/profiles/352/joseph-sarkisian Graduate student of international relations at the University of Massachusetts Boston and was a recent intern at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, DC.3 weeks ago) http://www.policymic.com/articles/3662/warning-mitt-romney-s-advisors-are-george-bush-neocons-calling-for-war-with-iran-http://www.policymic.com/articles/3662/warning-mitt-romney-s-advisors-are-george-bush-neocons-calling-for-war-with-iran

Today, Israel is ready to collect the debt owed to it by the neocons, but where have they gone? And are they the same group that sunk the U.S. into debilitating war resulting in the deaths and injuries of countless American and Iraqi lives for the last nine years?
Although the now defunct PNAC and other sympathizers no longer have one roof over their
AND
the Iranian "threat," since the neocons owe Israel — big time.
Think-tanks are nurseries of U.S. foreign policy. PNAC has
AND
counter-proliferation advisor on Romney’s staff and also a fellow at FPI.
But it isn’t just FPI that the neo-neocons are calling home. They
AND
) allows his foreign policy team to steer the ship with reckless abandon.

IRAN STRIKE CAUSES NUCLEAR ESCALATION – ENDS THE WORLD

Jorge Hirsch, Professor of physics at the University of California San Diego, 2-20-2006, http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hirsch.php?articleid=8577-http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hirsch.php?articleid=8577
The U.S. has just declared that it will defend Israel militarily against
AND
can be averted by choices made by each and every one of us.

Prizes

TEXT: The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy should endow Innovation Inducement Prizes for  by following the NAS’s guideline and recommendation and prizes specification. Prizes should be funded by allocating one-third of the U.S. Climate Change Technology.

Solves case—Prizes create incentive for technological advancement and innovation.
Adler, 11—Jonathan H. Adler  is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation @ Case Western Reserve University School of Law. "Eyes on a Climate Prize: Rewarding Energy Innovation to Achieve Climate Stabilization" http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr/vol35_1/HLE101.pdf-http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr/vol35_1/HLE101.pdf  accessed date: 7-28-12 y2k

Richard Branson and other private individuals may continue to offer technological inducement prizes for climate
AND
would also further underscore that climate-friendly technological innovation is a national priority

Prizes are key to energy—create a unique incentive for innovative solution.
Wagner, 10—Erika Wagner is Executive Director of Mars Gravity Biosatellite and X PRIZE Lab @ MIT. "Prizes for Energy Innovation Incentives for Today’s Challenges" March, 2010. http://web.mit.edu/ipc/research/energy/pdf/EIP_10-001.pdf-http://web.mit.edu/ipc/research/energy/pdf/EIP_10-001.pdf  accessed date: 7-28-12 y2k

In order to meet the pressing needs of growing demand, shrinking supply and environmental
AND
capital and excitement. The energy sector is ripe for such a tool. 

CP spurs innovation and competition—avoids free-market turns.
Wagner, 10—Erika Wagner is Executive Director of Mars Gravity Biosatellite and X PRIZE Lab @ MIT. "Prizes for Energy Innovation Incentives for Today’s Challenges" March, 2010. http://web.mit.edu/ipc/research/energy/pdf/EIP_10-001.pdf-http://web.mit.edu/ipc/research/energy/pdf/EIP_10-001.pdf  accessed date: 7-28-12 y2k

Today’s  energy  market,  with the urgency and nature of its challenges, is a
AND
crises of energy and the environment offer a fertile ground for such incentives.

CAP

Investment in nuclear power is a move by capitalist strategists to continue long term control over energy policy. Rejecting capitalist energy policy now is key to forging new socialist democratic practices.

The Socialist 6 – Socialist Socialist issue 437 (27 April 2006, http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/campaign/NHS/5168 ), 

S.O.S NHS%21 Stop the cuts and jobs slaughter, mcmc

Faced with massive increases in prices of oil, capitalist leaders like Tony Blair are
AND
oppose nuclear power and to explain the advantages of a democratic planned economy. 

Resisting capitalism’s reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility – the current social order guarantees social exclusion on a global scale

Zizek and Daly 2k4 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16)
For Zizek it is imperative that we cut through this Gordian knot of postmodern protocol
AND
abject Other to that of a ’glitch’ in an otherwise sound matrix. 

The alternative is to reject the affirmative as an intellectual refusal of capitalist ideology
Johnston 2004, Johnston, interdisciplinary research fellow in psychoanalysis at Emory University, 2004 Adrian, Psychoanalysis, Culture %26 Society, December v9 i3 p259 page infotrac

Perhaps the absence of a detailed political roadmap in Zizek’s recent writings isn’t a
AND
comforting fiction ("Capitalist commodity fetishism or the truth? I choose fetishism"). 

Capitalism makes clean and safe nuclear power impossible – only a rejection of capitalism and an affirmation of socialism is capable of solving the aff in the long term while avoiding accidents

The Socialist 6 – Socialist Socialist issue 437 (27 April 2006, http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/campaign/NHS/5168 ), 

S.O.S NHS%21 Stop the cuts and jobs slaughter, mcmc

Market system UNDER THE chaos of the market system, nuclear  power can never be
AND
, democratic decision made about whether to use nuclear power following these advances.