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Financial incentives are funding for investors to develop a project- excludes procurement
Czinkota et al 9 - Associate Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University (Michael, Fundamentals of International Business, p. 69 – google books

Incentives offered by policymakers to facilitate foreign investments are mainly of three types: fiscal
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import quotas, and local content requirements, and investments in infrastructure facilities.

Procurements are purchases that don’t motivate action- they just buy a technology that already exists
Nelson 93 (Edward W., Chairman – Payment Subcommittee in OPTN/UNOS Ethics Committee, “Financial Incentives for Organ Donation,” Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, 6-30, http://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/resources/bioethics.asp?index=4)

Definition of Financial Incentives  A definition of terms is necessary prior to a discussion of
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"purchases" and "donors" are therefore not transformed into 'vendors."

Third, In means within the United States
Dictionary.com 6 “in”, 2006, http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=inandr=66

1. (used to indicate inclusion within space, a place, or limits
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   used to indicate object or purpose): speaking in honor of the event. 

Military production isn’t
US Department of State
Foreign Affairs Manual, 7 FAM 1116.1–4jap

Not Included in the Meaning of In the U.S.: "c. Despite widespread popular belief, U.S. military installations abroad and U.S. diplomatic or consular facilities are not part of the United States within the meaning of the 14th Amendment. A child born on the premises of such a facility is not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and does not acquire U.S. citizenship by reason of birth."

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Immigration will pass
Jordan Fabian 3-1 is ABC News Staff, “How the GOP Could Break an Unwritten Rule and Pass Immigration Reform,” http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Politics/gop-break-unwritten-rule-pass-immigration-reform/story?id=18622924andsinglePage=true, Accessed Date: 3-1-13 y2k
House Republican leaders eschewed a long-held principle when they held a vote on
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a sensible outcome if a majority of House Republicans do not support it."

Pushing military energy initiatives unpopular
Sorenson 12 Jeff Sorenson 12 9-28, a retired lieutenant general (U.S. Army), is a vice president and partner in A.T. Kearney's defense practice and a former U.S. Army chief information officer, 9/28/12, “Saving energy, saving soldiers' lives,” http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-a-budget/259163-saving-energy-saving-soldiers-lives

From biofuels that could propel the Navy’s Great Green Fleet to spending billions of dollars
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make one question the fiscal sense of investing billions on renewable energy projects.

Comprehensive reform solves Mexican relations- that’s key to border security and stopping terrorism
Castaneda et al., NYU Politics and Latin American Studies professor, 2005
(Jorge, “NORTH AMERICAN COOPERATION ON THE BORDER”, HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION, 7-12, http://ftp.resource.org/gpo.gov/hearings/109s/28131.txt,  )

I think that attitudes in Mexico have changed in relation to drugs and I think
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President Fox has made an effort to educate Mexican society about these issues.

Extinction
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed, Al-Ahram Weekly political analyst, ‘04
Al-Ahram Weekly, "Extinction!" 8/26, no. 705,  http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/705/op5.htm

What would be the consequences of a nuclear attack by terrorists? Even if it
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When nuclear pollution infects the whole planet, we will all be losers

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Oil prices up due to growth and international tension
Reuters 1-2-12 (Robert Gibbons and Matthew Robinson, “Oil rises on US fiscal deal, hits highest since Oct”, http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/02/markets-oil-idUSL4N0A70Q420130102, Jan 2nd 2013, MSN)

Further support for oil came from positive economic data from the United States and
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Israel and its neighbors should remain potential flashpoints in the energy-rich region
Declines In U.S. consumption tanks prices
Yetiv and Feld ‘7 (Steve and Lowell, Professor of political science at Old Dominion University and senior international oil markets analyst at the U.S. Energy Information Administration until March 2006, “America's Oil Market Power: The Unused Weapon Against Iran,” World Policy Journal, p. proquest

As is typical of world oil markets, this situation soon changed. Low oil
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of error in the event of perceived threats to supply or actual disruptions. 

Producing states are on the brink- low prices cause state collapse and extinction
Hulbert 12 Matthew Hulbert, B.A. in history and politics from Durham University and an Mphil in international relations from Cambridge University, Senior Researcher at the Clingendael International Energy Programme (CIEP) in The Hague, The Netherlands. He studies political risk in upstream oil and gas markets, previously a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, leading its work on energy security and political risk. Before that, he worked in the City of London as Senior Energy Analyst at Datamonitor, and headed up the Global Issues Desk at Control Risks Group in London and Washington, D.C. “The political perils of low oil prices,” July 9 2012, http://www.europeanenergyreview.eu/site/pagina.php?id=3796#artikel_3796, Accessed 9/15/12, mcmc

Oil prices have rapidly dropped in recent months, and some analysts predict a further
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those squeamish about collateral damage. Corpses would litter the entire energy stage.

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CP
Text: The United States federal government should phase out all energy subsidies. The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy should endow Innovation Inducement Prizes for nuclear powered carriers for the United States Navy 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 Program.

Prizes incentivize 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  accessed date: 7-28-12 y2k

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

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The aff’s linear internal link chains pave over complex interactions. The alternative is to reject the aff in favor of complex theoretical analysis
Rosenau 97 Chapter 4: Many Damn Things Simultaneously: Complexity Theory and World Affairs, James N. Rosenau, Professor of International Relations, ranked among the 25 most influential academics in foreign affairs, 1997, http://www.dodccrp.org/files/Alberts_Complexity_Global.pdf

In short, there are strict limits within which theorizing based on the premises of
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a guide both to comprehending a fragmegrated world and theorizing within its limits.

Failure to adopt complexity causes extinction
Gell-Mann 97 Complexity, Global Politics, and National Security, 1997, Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel Laureate in Physics and professor at the Santa Fe Institute and co-chairman of the Science Board, http://www.dodccrp.org/files/Alberts_Complexity_Global.pdf?3e3ea140

At this conference, issues of global politics and security will be addressed, including
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politics as parts of a very general set of questions about the future

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Courts can invalidate restrictions on energy production
Simon 7 Christopher A. Simon - Director, Master of Public Administration, Political Science Department, University of Utah, Professor, Political Science, “Alternative Energy: Political, Economic, and Social Feasibility”

The institutional power of the federal courts regarding energy policy is not ex- plicit
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goals not inconsistent with national constitutional in- terpretation and national policy priorities.

Key to dynamic federalism---solves environment
Engel and Adelman 7 Arizona Legal Studies, Discussion Paper No. 07-23, Adaptive Federalism: The Case Against Reallocating Environmental Regulatory Authority, David E. Adelman and Kirsten H. Engel The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, September 2007

The simplicity of the matching principle, in this light, is bought at a
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and we will argue are essential to sustaining innovative and responsive environmental policymaking. 

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Overemphasizing fears of Russian expansionism is a rhetorical construction that perpetuates cold war fears to maintain American power-AND Russia has no expansionist designs—aff’s analysis is Russophobia.
Foglesong and Hahn '10 (Professor of History, Rutgers; Adjunct Professor and Researcher of Monterey Terrorism Research and Education Program, Moterrey Insititute I-Nat studies)
David and Gordon http://www.caei.com.ar/es/programas/cei/A02.pdf

Despite the drastic decline of Russian power since 1991, Russophobes like the New York
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implemented economic liberalization far beyond the virtually unreformed Soviet-style Belarusian economy.

Attempts to construct a fear of Russian expansionism is an essentializing and racist form of Russophia that ensures bad policies and dishonest debate – it must be rejected.
Lieven '01 (senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
Anatol http://www.worldpolicy.newschool.edu/journal/lieven.html
Ever since the Cold War ended, Western officials and commentators have been telling the
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that is seen to need enemies will sooner or later find them everywhere.

The role of a negative ballot is to intervene in the cartographic discursive performance of the affirmative - failure to do so results in a forclosure of ethical debate through cartographical registers of policy analysis that reduce life to bare life and only serve to replicate the genocidal and warmongering violence of American orientalism.
Derek Gregory, 2005 The Role of Geography in Public Debate, Progress in Human Geography 29, 2 (2005) pp. 165-193, http://phg.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/29/2/165
Public debate is a condition of any critical politics, but it is no guarantee
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, haunting, demanding hospitality that provides the very horizon of the political (

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US behind China in cleantech- the plan reverse this
Brendenberg 2/11 (Al Bredenberg "Why is the U.S. Losing the Cleantech Race with China?" February 11, 2013 news.thomasnet.com/green_clean/2013/02/11/why-is-the-u-s-losing-the-cleantech-race-with-china/ date accessed: 2/15/13) TM

The U.S. is losing the sustainable energy technology race to China.
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runs out and which systems need to be in place by that time?”

Chinese clean tech leadership is key to solves extinction  
Denlinger 10 (Paul Denlinger 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/ date accessed: 2/14/13) TM

On the policy level, the Chinese government has to perform a delicate balancing act
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. ¶ For all practical purposes, we’re all in the same boat.

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The ballot’s sole purpose is to answer the resolutional question: Is the outcome of the enactment of a topical plan better than the status quo or a competitive policy option? 

Prefer our interpretation:
Grammar- the only way to create a predictable interpretation of the resolution
Federal Government refers to the national government.
Hartley 96 John, “American Civics”, p. 39, Google Print

The term federal government refers to the national government, which is centered in Washington, D.C.

Resolved means to enact by law
Words and Phrases 64 Permanent Edition

Definition ofthe word “resolve,” given by Webster is “to express an opinion or determination by resolution or vote; as ‘it was resolved by the legislature;” It is of similar force to the word “enact,” which is defined by Bouvier as meaning “to establish by law”.

Predictable limits and Ground- they allow any individual ideology, theory or cause to become an aff, which negates our ability to effectively research the aff. The impact is rigorous testing, which is key to value to life.
Zappen 4 James, Prof. Language and Literature – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “The Rebirth of Dialogue: Bakhtin, Socrates, and the Rhetorical Tradition”, p. 35-36

Finally, Bakhtin describes the Socratic dialogue as a carnivalesque debate between opposing points of
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in Soocrates' successive refutations and humiliations of Gorgias, Polus, and Callicles. 

Decision Making- Limited topic of discussion is key to decision-making and advocacy skills- this still provides room for creativity
Steinberg and Freeley 8 Austin J. Freeley is a Boston based attorney who focuses on criminal, personal injury and civil rights law, AND David L. Steinberg , Lecturer of Communication Studies @ U Miami, Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making pp45-

Debate is a means of settling differences, so there must be a difference of
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particular point of difference, which will be outlined in the following discussion.

Decision-making is key to social improvements in all facets of life
Steinberg and Freeley 8 Austin J. Freeley is a Boston based attorney who focuses on criminal, personal injury and civil rights law, AND David L. Steinberg, Lecturer of Communication Studies @ U Miami, Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making pp9-10

If we assume it to be possible without recourse to violence to reach agreement on
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in our intelligent self-interest to reach these decisions through reasoned debate.

Deliberative Democracy- forums utilizing switch-side debate and agonistic contestation prevent moral dogmatism
Muir 93 Star, Prof. Comm. – George Mason U., Philosophy and Rhetoric, “A Defense of the Ethics of Contemporary Debate”, 26(4), pp. 288-290

Values clarification, Stewart is correct in pointing out, does not mean that no
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thinking, and in turn for the development of a reasoned moral identity. 

Effective deliberation is the lynchpin of solving all existential global problems
Lundberg 10 Christian O. Lundberg 10 Professor of Communications @ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Tradition of Debate in North Carolina” in Navigating Opportunity: Policy Debate in the 21st Century By Allan D. Louden, p311

The second major problem with the critique that identifies a naivety in articulating debate and
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with the existential challenges to democracy in an increasingly complex world. 

Even if they’re right that our framework is too restrictive, at a minimum they should have to read and defend an advocacy statement in addition to their discourse --- voting issue:
Ground- a plan serves as a central advocacy statement that we can negate. Any alternative allows the Aff to shift their position to avoid our best arguments.
Education- its easy to come up with problems finding solvency is the trick, only defending a plan trains debaters to become effective activists in the real world.
Solves their offense- it’s the best middle ground, they can discuss critical argumentation, but have to also have a plan.

Progressivism is growing
Teixeira 9¶ Ruy, Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he co-directed a joint Brookings-American Enterprise Institute project on political demography and geography, “New Progressive America,” March 11, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/03/progressive_america.html

What happened? How did conservatives do so well in one election but progressives so
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who have remained conservative in their orientation, has plummeted by 15 points.

They create a political vacuum that cements the status quo
Cook 92 Anthony, Associate Professor – Georgetown Law, New England Law Review, Spring, 26 New Eng.L. Rev. 751, Lexis

The effect of deconstructing the power of the author to impose a fixed meaning on
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those who influence us through their eloquence, prestige, wealth and power.

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TEXT: We advocate the entirety of the aff except for their rhetoric of waste

The aff’s discussion of waste and trash in the context of energy masks that calculations of waste are steeped in ableism. They are in a double bind – either the aff is a discussion of waste in an analogous context to energy i.e. they link or they aren’t and none of their framework defense will be true.
Gregor Wolbring, Verlyn Leopatra, and Jacqueline Noga. 2012. Dept of Community Health Science at the U of Calgary, Canada; Bachelor of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine at the U of Calgary; Faculty of Medicine at the U of Calgary. The Sentiment of Waste and the Measure of Footprints Evaluated Through an Ableism Lens. Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics. 22. http://ucalgary.academia.edu/GregorWolbring/Papers/1556464/The_sentiment_of_waste_and_the_measure_of_footprints_evaluated_through_an_ableism_lens
The concept of waste is everywhere. There is radioactive waste 1;2
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involved and to predict when something will be seen as waste or not.

Ableism has empirically been used to justify sexism, disablism, racism, and classism
Gregor Wolbring. 2008. Dept. of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The Politics of Ableism. Development. 51 (252-258).
Ableism against disabled people (Wolbring, 2007a, b, c) reflects a
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qualities are ‘abilities’ that make them fit for specific duties and occupations.

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Their analysis of blackness as a structural position collapse into competition between proliferating identity groups—the struggle against the institutional basis of oppression, such as class, is discarded in favor of political fragmentation—turns the aff.
Smith 10—Jeremy is a member of the Democratic Socialist Perspective in the Australian Socialist Alliance and a lecturer in social sciences at the University of Ballarat. “The rise and malaise of postmodernism” http://links.org.au/node/32 accessed date: 6-14-12 y2k

What kind of politics can this philosophical framework generate for its adherents The withdrawal of
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when the possible foundations of judgment debated by philosophers are themselves held in contempt

Resisting capitalism is the ultimate ethical responsibility
Zizek and Daly 4 Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16

For Zizek it is imperative that we cut through this Gordian knot of postmodern protocol
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abject Other to that of a ‘glitch’ in an otherwise sound matrix. 

The alternative is to reject the aff in favor of historical materialism – this links social praxis to a decisive judgment on capitalism
Lukacs 67 George, Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic. He is a founder of the tradition of Western Marxism. He contributed the ideas of reification and class consciousness to Marxist philosophy and theory, and his literary criticism was influential in thinking about realism and about the novel as a literary genre. He served briefly as Hungary's Minister of Culture as part of the government of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic, History and Class Consciousness) 224-225

Historical materialism has, therefore, a much greater value for the proletariat than that
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and so that, armed with this knowledge, it could act accordingly.