| 09/22/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: PLAN: The United States Department of Energy should approve pending applications to export natural gas. Advantage 1: Trade Exports restricted now DYO ’12 (“Govt in talks with U.S. to import natural gas”, Feb. 23, 2012, The Daily Yomiuri Online http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/business/T120222006574.htm The United States … to such a country. Restrictions are protectionist- now is key Kemp ’12 (“U.S. should resist protectionism in gas: Kemp”, John Kemp, Reuters market analyst, Jan 20, 2012, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/20/column-us-gas-exports-idUSL6E8CK1KK20120120 Critics will seize on … might not otherwise do so". Globalization is inevitable- US is key Panitchpakdi 4—Supachai Panitchpakdi is the UN Conference on Trade and Development General, “American Leadership and the World Trade Organization: What is the Alternative?”, 26 February 2004, http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/spsp_e/spsp22_ e.htm Accessed date: 8-27-12 y2k I can sum up my message today … important to fail. The world depends on it. So does America. Now is key- abandoning globalization triggers their turns Goldin 12—Ian Goldin is Director of Oxford Martin School and Professor of Globalisation and Development. “Globalization: The good, the bad and the uncertain”, 01 Feb 2012, http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/blog/view/136, Accessed date: 9-17-12 y2k When over 2000 world leaders of …. at the core of globalization, and jump from one crisis management to the next, at our peril. Protectionism causes global conflict Panzer ‘8 (Michael J. Panzner, Faculty – New York Institute of Finance. Specializes in Global Capital Markets. MA Columbia, Financial Armageddon: Protect Your Future from Economic Collapse, Revised and Updated Edition [Paperback], p. 137-138 Continuing calls for curbs on … world war. Global trade solves conflict and fosters multilateral cooperation Seita '97 (B.S. @ Cal. Intitute of Tech., MBA @ Stanford, JD @ Stanford, prof, of Law @ Union Univ., Alex Y., "Globalization and the Convergence of Values," 30 Cornell Int'l L.J. 429) Law has been important in …he risk of nuclear war. Exports are key to Chinese mineral exports Levi ’12 (“New Study on U.S. Natural Gas Exports”, Michael Levi, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the Council on Foreign Relations and Director of the CFR program on energy security and climate change. Member of the Strategic Advisory Board for NewWorld Capital LLC, a private equity firm focused on environmental opportunities, and a member of the External Advisory Board to the Princeton University Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI). He holds a Bachelors of Science in mathematical physics from Queen’s University, an MA in physics from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in war studies from the University of London. June 13, 2012, http://blogs.cfr.org/levi/2012/06/13/new-study-on-u-s-natural-gas-exports/ I ultimately conclude that … with NAFTA. Mineral exports are key to guidance systems, and first-strike capabilities Kennedy ‘10 (J. Kennedy, President of Wings Enterprises, March 2010, “Critical and Strategic Failure of Rare Earth Resources,” http://www.smenet.org/rareEarthsProject/TMS-NMAB-paperV-3.pdf The national defense issues are equally … favor of “the principles of free trade.” Solves nuclear war Lieber and Press ‘9 (Keir A. Lieber, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, and Daryl G. Press, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, November-December 2009, “The Nukes We Need: Preserving the American Deterrent,” Foreign Affairs, p. 50-51 This second criticism has merit. … largely on a bluff. Mineral exports solves extinction Adams ’10 (“Global supply of rare earth elements could be wiped out by 2012”, Mike Adams, January 26, 2010, consumer health advocate and award-winning journalist, created NaturalNews.TV, CEO of a highly successful email newsletter software company, executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, http://www.naturalnews.com/028028_rare_earth_elements_mining.html t's the bubble you've … industries grind to a halt Exports give leverage in Japan TPP negotiations Levi ’12 (“A Strategy for U.S. Natural Gas Exports”, Policy Brief, Michael Levi, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the Council on Foreign Relations and Director of the CFR program on energy security and climate change. Member of the Strategic Advisory Board for NewWorld Capital LLC, a private equity firm focused on environmental opportunities, and a member of the External Advisory Board to the Princeton University Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI). He holds a Bachelors of Science in mathematical physics from Queen’s University, an MA in physics from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in war studies from the University of London. June 13, 2012 Levi also proposes that … continuing the FTA with Korea. Japan is key Bernhardt and Dewan ’12 (“Japan’s Inclusion Makes the Trans-Pacific Partnership a Big Opportunity”, By Jordan Bernhardt, Sabina Dewan | May 8, 2012, Jordan Bernhardt is a Special Assistant for Economic Policy and Sabina Dewan is Director of Globalization and International Employment at the Center for American Progress. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/05/japan_tpp.html Representatives from the United … initiative to the region.” TPP solves Asian instability Clinton ’11 (Hillary Clinton 11 is U.S. secretary of state. “America's Pacific Century: The future of politics will be decided in Asia, not Afghanistan or Iraq, and the United States will be right at the center of the action.” http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/10/11-/americas_pacific_centurypage=full accessed date: 7-12-12 y2k As the war in Iraq winds … trade area of the Asia-Pacific. Collapse of Asian trade causes global war Auslin ‘9 (Michael Auslin, resident scholar at AEI, “Averting Disaster”, The Daily Standard, 2/6, http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.29339/pub_detail.asp As they deal with a collapsing world … systems in the past. Goes nuclear Landay ’00 (Jonathan S. Landay (staff) March 10, 2000 “Top administration officials warn stakes for U.S. are high in Asian conflicts:, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau, l/n WASHINGTON _ The 3,700-…. Commerce Department. Adv 2: LNG Exports are key to the chemical industry, and Canada and Mexico relations Boman ’12 (“US LNG Export Benefits Outweigh Modest Impacts on Industrial Output”, Karen Boman, Rigzone Staff, more than 10 years of experience covering the upstream oil and gas sector, June 06, 2012, http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=118418 Liquefied natural gas (… will step forward to do so. Chemical industry solves extinction ICCA ‘2 (International Council of Chemical Associations, June 20, “SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY,” http://www.cefic.be/position/icca/pp_ic010.htm) The key finding of "Our …..l competitiveness as a pre-requisite of sustainable job creation. Energy relationship is key CCGA ’11 (“U.S.-Canada Energy Trade: A Critical Strategic Relationship”, September 27, 2011, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, http://www.thechicagocouncil.org/UserFiles/File/Conferences/US-Canada_Energy_Trade_Conference_report.pdf The U.S.-Canada energy ….on this critical issue. U.S.- Canada relations foster military cooperation that prevents asymmetric attacks Inge and Findley ‘6 (“North American Defense and Security after 9/11”, By JOSEPH R. INGE and ERIC A. FINDLEY, Lieutenant General Joseph R. Inge, USA, is Deputy Commander of U.S. Northern Command and Deputy Head of the Bi-National Planning Group. Lieutenant General Eric A. Findley, Canadian Forces, is the Deputy Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and Head of the Bi-National Planning Group. issue 40, 1st quarter 2006, http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/jfq_pubs/4004.pdf Enhanced Cooperation Alliances, … and security issues. Attack causes extinction Pratt ‘4 (Robert J. Pratt is the commander of the 66th Infantry Brigade. He previously commanded an infantry company, a combat support company, two infantry battalions, and a general studies battalion in the regional training institute. He is an honors graduate of the University of Illinois in agronomy. He also is a graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College and the US ArmyWar College, where he received the Master of Strategic Studies degree. In addition to his military service, he manages a 550-acre farm in central Illinois. Spring 2004, “Invasive Threats to the American Homeland” Accessed date: 7-11-12 y2k Terrorist adversaries …. and our children’s future might depend on it. Exports are key to ending European gas dependence on Russia Hulbert ‘12 (“Why American Natural Gas Will Change The World”, 5/26/2012, Matthew Hulbert, Lead Analyst at European Energy Review and consultant to a number of governments, most recently as Senior Research Fellow, Netherlands Institute for International Relations, previously Senior Research Fellow at ETH Zurich working on energy and political risk. Started work in London, advising on energy markets and political risk, as Senior Energy Analyst at Datamonitor for leading global utilities, and headed up the Global Issues Desk at Control Risks Group, specializing in political risk, geopolitics and security analysis for multinational companies, governments and institutional investors. Seconded to work in Washington, D.C., to enhance CRG's political risk offerings in North America. http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewhulbert/2012/05/26/why-american-natural-gas-will-change-the-world/ Europe will watch the …. its own backyard. Russian gas monopoly causes expansionism, Eurasian instability and collapses alliances Asmus ‘8 (Executive Director of the Transatlantic Center at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, in Brussels, From 1997 to 2000, he served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, Ronald, “ Europe's Eastern Promise; Rethinking NATO and EU Enlargement,” Foreign Affairs. Jan/Feb 2008. http://www.jstor.org.proxy.lib.umich.edu/stable/pdfplus/20020270.pdf?acceptTC=true IN THE early 1990S, after …., nationalist Russia is on the rise. Instability goes nuclear Mcdermott ‘11 (specializes in Russian and Central Asian defense and security issues and is a Senior Fellow in Eurasian Military Studies, The Jamestown Foundation, Senior International Research Fellow for the Foreign Military Studies Office. Affiliated Senior Analyst, Danish Institute for International Studies. On the editorial board of Central Asia and the Caucasus and the scientific board of the Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies. (Roger, “General Makarov Highlights the “Risk” of Nuclear Conflict”, 12/6/11,http://www.jamestown.org/details/?tx_bzdstaffdirectory_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=140andtx_bzdstaffdirectory_pi1%5BbackPid%5D=60andno_cache=1) In the current election … would wish to chew on. Alliances prevent nuclear war Ross ’99 (Douglas Ross – professor of political science at Simon Fraser University, Winter 1998/1999, Canada’s functional isolationism and the future of weapons of mass destruction, International Journal, p. lexis Thus, an easily …. or other WMD. Solvency Should export- gives geopolitical leverage Levi ’12 (“A Strategy for U.S. Natural Gas Exports”, Michael Levi, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the Council on Foreign Relations and Director of the CFR program on energy security and climate change. Member of the Strategic Advisory Board for NewWorld Capital LLC, a private equity firm focused on environmental opportunities, and a member of the External Advisory Board to the Princeton University Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI). He holds a Bachelors of Science in mathematical physics from Queen’s University, an MA in physics from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in war studies from the University of London. June 13, 2012 A surge in low-cost U.S. …. policy agendas. Plan facilitates exports Levi 12—Michael Levi is David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment @ CFR and Director of the CFR program on energy security and climate change, “A Strategy for U.S. Natural Gas Exports”, June 13, 2012, http://www.brookings.-edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2012/6/13%20exports%20levi/06_exports_levi, Accessed date: 9-10-12 y2k I thus propose that, to facilitate … restrictions on LNG exports. Non-FTA countries key Levi ’12 (“A Strategy for U.S. Natural Gas Exports”, Michael Levi, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the Council on Foreign Relations and Director of the CFR program on energy security and climate change. Member of the Strategic Advisory Board for NewWorld Capital LLC, a private equity firm focused on environmental opportunities, and a member of the External Advisory Board to the Princeton University Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI). He holds a Bachelors of Science in mathematical physics from Queen’s University, an MA in physics from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in war studies from the University of London. June 13, 2012 However, no major LNG …. would start no earlier than 2015. Fracking is inevitable Dana 12—David A. Dana is a law professor Northwestern University School of Law. A former environmental litigator, he specializes in environmental and land-use law. “There goes paradise”, June 21, 2012, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-06-21/news/ct-perspec-0621-fracking-20120621_1_fracking-gasland-drinking-water, Accessed date: 9-12-12 y2k In the late 1990s, in Texas, the energy ….t or not, is here to stay. Exports solve bad imapcts Konrad 12—Tom Konrad is a financial analyst and portfolio manager specializing in renewable energy and energy efficiency. “LNG Exports Would Help the Environment” March, 2012, http://www.altenergystocks.com/archives/2012/03/lng_exports_wou-ld_help_the_environment_1.html, Accessed date: 9-12-12 Higher domestic …. way to a nuclear-free future. |
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Obama lose—prefer our polls—they are heavily skewed.
QStarNews Quick Poll 9/18—http:unskewedpolls.com/qstarnewsquickpoll.cfm QStarNews Quick Poll Romney/Ryan 55% Obama/Biden 44% The QStarNews
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Presidential vote, Presiential Approval and Congress with income and gender coming soon. Too early to predict the outcome of the election
Roberts and Roberts 6/17—“Slips and blips don't decide elections”, Stardem, http://www.stardem.com/opinion/article_f1b20ba0-00eb-5ce6-af4a-84f2f77e3426.html. Mrs. Roberts is a famous American journalist, writer, and reporter. Mr. Roberts has written for many prestigious organizations such as The New York Times, CNN, and National Public Radio
The political world is overheated and overtweeted. Every little blip and slip is treated
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is possible to identify some of the critical factors that could make a difference LNG Export is key to private investment and job creation.
McCown 12—Brigham McCown is a managing director at United Transportation Advisors. He was the first acting administrator of the Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. “McCOWN: Natural gas export ban would be costly” February 28, 2012, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/28/natural-gas-export-ban-would-be-costly/ Accessed date: 8-27-12 y2k As America’s shale boom increases the domestic supply of natural gas, U.S
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, we can once again move down the road of growth and prosperity. Jobs key to election.
Sweet 12—Lynn Sweet, “Obama's job: Creating jobs before November election” 8-2-12 http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2012/06/obamas_job_creating_jobs_befor.html WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama wakes up Saturday morning in his Kenwood home with what
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since the Great Depression," Obama said Friday at a Honeywell plant in Minnesota Natural gas production is key to Pennsylvania and Ohio—key to election chances.
Synder 12— Jim Snyder is Bloomberg Staff, “Ohio’s Gas-Fracking Boom Seen Aiding Obama in Swing State”
Sep 4, 2012, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-04/ohio-s-gas-fracking-boom-seen-aiding-obama-in-swing-state.html, Accessed date: 9-12-12 y2k The boom in oil and natural gas is setting up an election- year irony
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-- in Ohio and Pennsylvania, swing states with 38 electoral votes combined. Plan isn’t perceived
Rascoe and Stephenson 12—Ayesha Rascoe and Emily Stephenson are Reuters Staff. “As Congress looks away, U.S. tiptoes toward exporting a gas bounty”, Jun 27, 2012, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/27/us-usa-lng-exports-idUSBRE85Q05820120627 In a bitterly divided U.S. political environment, there's at least one
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kept it under wraps, including the identity of the consultants preparing it. Relations won’t collapse—history overwhelmingly proves Romney will moderate.
Strokan 12—Sergey Strokan is a political commentator @ RT. “Mitt Romney: To Russia with hate?” 9-3-12 http://rt.com/politics/columns/sergey-strokan-column/romney-republican-russia-convention/, Accessed date: 9-16-12 y2k All politics are domestic? It used to be so, but hardly any more
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good news is that while conventions come and go, conventional wisdom prevails. Even Putin says that he will work with Romney.
AP 12—Associated Press, “Putin: Russia can work with Romney if elected, despite his calling Russia the USA’s top foe,”
9-6-12, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/putin-says-russia-can-work-with-romney-if-elected-despite-calling-russia-the-usas-top-foe/2012/09/06/1467406a-f7fe-11e1-a93b-7185e3f88849_print.html, Accessed date: 9-16-12 y2k President Vladimir Putin says Russia can work with Mitt Romney if he’s elected U.
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system in Europe. Russia contends the system could undermine its own defenses. Relation is resilient.
VOA News 12—“Will Putin Victory Affect US-Russia Relations?” 2-27-12, http://www.voanews.com/content/will-putin-victory-affect-us-russia-relations-141070223/180691.html, Accessed date: 9-16-12 y2k Given this anti-American rhetoric, questions are being raised as to what impact
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a return to the tension-filled Cold War days is virtually impossible. -- No risk of Russia war Ball 5 (Desmond, Professor – Strategic Defence Studies Centre at Australian National University, “The Probabilities of ‘On the Beach’ Assessing Armageddon Scenarios in the 21st Century, May, http://www.manningclark.org.au/papers/se05_ball.html) The prospects of a nuclear war between the US and Russia must now be deemed
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buried targets (such as underground command and control centres and leadership bunkers). -- No accidental launch – A) Early warning systems solve Bailey 98 (Kathleen, Snr Fellow @ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, August, NIPP, http://www.nipp.org/5.php) The United States and Russia have satellite- and ground-based systems to detect
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the leadership stepped up readiness in event that it was actually an attack. B) Numerous checks and balances Bailey 98 (Kathleen, Snr Fellow @ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, August, NIPP, http://www.nipp.org/5.php) Neither U.S. nor Russian nuclear weapons can be fired accidentally, nor
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50 State Fiat Lopez is voting issue.
- Utopian- they fiat all actors working together, no advocate
- Kills topic education
- Artificially competitive.
- Allows multiple actor fiat- not reciprocal
- C/I: They get states where exports occur. Perm do both. Doesn’t solve the case—the federal government is key trade negotiation, foreign relations, and alliance system. AND- Devolution undermines trade and US foreign policy.
deLisle 2k—Jacques deLisle is Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Senior Fellow at FPRI.
“Foreign Affairs, Federalism, and Well-Meaning Mischief: A Constitutional Close Shave on Massachusetts’s Burma Law,” July 15, 2000 The Chinese Puzzle of Taiwan’s Status,” appeared in the Winter 2000 issue of Orbis, FPRI’s quarterly journal of world affairs. http://www.fpri.org/enotes/20000715.law.delisle.massburmalaw.html, Accessed date: 9-20-12 y2k The risk, in short, is one of increased incoherence in the conduct of
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voice and act with clear purpose and maximum efficacy in a dangerous world. AND- That solves foreign aggressions and war.
Ikenberry 3—G. John Ikenberry is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. “Strategic Reactions to American Preeminence: Great Power Politics in the Age of Unipolarity”
28 July 2003, http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cia/nic2020/strategic_reactions.pdf, Accessed date: 9-20-12 y2k In this view, three elements matter most in making American power more stable,
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into active, ongoing partnerships that serve its long-term strategic interests. CP isn’t perceived.
The Economic Times ’12 (“US should ease rules for LNG exports, says GAIL”, 30 JUL, 2012, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/foreign-trade/us-should-ease-rules-for-lng-exports-says-gail/articleshow/15280998.cms NEW DELHI: Close on the heels of sewing nation's first gas import deal from
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Hub gas price as against the practice of tying it up with oil. Race to bottom—each state have its own exports policy—always a risk that CP undermines uniform trade policy. Perm—do the cp—justified by altering the normal means implementation. CP causes delay—kills exports.
Klimasinka 12—Katarzyna Klimasinska is Bloomberg Staff. “U.S. Natural Gas Export Permits Delayed Until Late Summer”, May 31, 2012, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-31/u-s-natural-gas-export-permits-delayed-until-late-summer.html, Accessed date” 9-1-12 y2k Consideration of licenses to export natural gas from the U.S. will have
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12 percent more than a year earlier, according to the importers group. Extend 1AC Kuykendall—that causes capital-flight of domestic gas producers—means can’t solve production advantage. No solvency advocate is voting issue—it is unpredictable and there’s no literature. |
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The role of the ballot is to decide between a topical plan and a competing policy option or the status quo –
Their framework is self-serving, moots the 1AC, and destroys policy education. That’s a voter for competitive equity and education. Perm do both— Perm do both—Effective political engagement is key to environment—radial politics fail.
De-Shalit 2K—Professor of Political Theory at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Associate Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Environment, Ethics, and Society, Mansfield College, Oxford University. “The Environment: Between Theory and Practice,” p. 4-6 However, it would be wrong, if not dangerous, to blame the 'other'
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approach to philosophizing about the environment; it should not replace political philosophy. Perm—do the plan and the non-mutually exclusive part of the alt. No incompatibility between sustainability and the plan. Extinction triggers massive environmental damage—human intervention is good.
Zizek 7—Slavoj Zizek is a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy @ University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a professor @ European Graduate School. “Zizek: Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses,” 11-26-7, http://kasamaproject.org/2008/12/28/zizek-ecology-as-a-new-opium-for-the-masse/ The lesson to be fully endorsed is thus that of another environmental scientist who came
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the nearby city Pripyat which was abandoned, left the way it was. No link to environmental racism—fracking sites are built based on the locations of resources.
Tures 12—John A. Tures is an associate professor of political science at LaGrange College in LaGrange, Ga, “Is Fracking Racist?”
7-4-12, http://voices.yahoo.com/is-fracking-racist-11532150.html?cat=9, Accessed date: 9-18-12 y2k After passing a moratorium on fracking in 2010, the state of New York may
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white populations that will be the guinea pigs this time in New York. Their “no value to life” claims ignore subjectivity.
Lee ’90 (Steven Lee is the H.L.A. Hart Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Philosophy of Law and University College for Michaelmas, as well as Visiting Research Fellow at the Changing Character of War Programme. He is a Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Reviewed work(s): Nuclear Deterrence, Morality and Realism. by John Finnis ; Joseph M. Boyle, Jr. ; Germain Grisez ; Jefferson McMahan Source: Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Winter, 1990), pp. 93-106 Published by: Blackwell Publishing Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2265364 The claim that nuclear devastation and Soviet domination cannot be compared in consequentialist terms rests
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Red is better than dead, and the consequentialist comparison can be made. There’s always value to life—alt causes genocide by assigning a zero value to life—reject totalizing claim.
Schwartz ‘2 Lisa Schwartz, 2002, "A Value to Life: Who Decides and How?" Chapter 6, Medical Ethics: A Case-Based Approach, www.fleshandbones.com/readingroom/pdf/399.pdf Those who choose to reason on this basis hope that if the quality of a
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determined. An advance directive can be highly useful in the latter case. Trade solves environment.
Frankel ‘9 (Frankel, Jeffery, January 2009, “Environmental Effects of International Trade” Harvard Kennedy School of Government Faculty Working Group Paper Series Empirical studies of cross-country data generally find no detrimental effects of trade on some measures of environmental degradation such as local SO2 (sulphur dioxide) air pollution, controlling for income. Thus globalization and the environment need not necessarily be in conflict. Trade and growth give countries the means to clean the air, provided they have effective institutions of governance in place at the national level. (Democratic governance is another determinant of environmental quality.) Extinction is ethically bankrupt—turns their K impacts.
Fox 87—Michael Phil Prof @ Queens U, Canada “nuclear weapons and the ultimate environmental crisis,” Environmental Ethics, p. 175-178 Finally, deep ecologists, like Bill Devall and George Sessions, Arne Naess,
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be regarded as morally worse in terms of its consequences for the nonhuman environment Radical alternatives prevent pragmatic reform and worsen environmental degradation.
Lewis 94—Martin, Lecturer in history and director of the International Relations program at Stanford. Green Delusions, p. 7, Google Books. More frightening, and more immediate, is the specter of a few radicals actually
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firms are able to devise, or afford, adequate pollution abatement equipment. Trade solves environment—Systemic and empirical analysis prove.
Copeland and Taylor 5—Brian R. Copeland is Professor of Economics @ University of British Columbia. M. Scott Taylor is the Canada Research Chair in International, Energy and Environmental Economics at the University of Calgary. “Trade and the Environment: Theory and Evidence” http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7605.html, Accessed date: 9-21-12 y2k Nowhere has the divide between advocates and critics of globalization been more striking than in
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this contentious issue, and the methodological tools with which to do so. Extinction outweighs
Seeley 86 (Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, The Handbook of Non-Violence, p. 269-70) In moral reasoning prediction of consequences is nearly always impossible. One balances the risks
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real enough to make nuclear war utterly impermissible under any sane moral code. Trade liberalization alleviates global poverty and inequality.
Griswold 2K—Daniel Griswold is the Director for the Center for Trade and Policy Studies, “The Blessings and Challenges of Globalization” CATO Institute. http://www.freetrade.org/node/208. Globalization offers hope to the world's poorest. Just as more open trade tends to
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of that time self-consciously followed policies of economic centralization and isolation. |
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Prices are at 91 a barrel and are down 8% in the last week alone.
Kumar and Kollmeyer 9/20/12 V. Phani Kumar and Barbara Kollmeyer, “Oil prices straddle $91 after China data,” MarketWatch http://www.marketwatch.com/story/oil-futures-slide-further-test-91-a-barrel-2012-09-20?link=MW_latest_news, Accessed 9/20/12, mcmc Crude-oil futures were straddling the $91-a-barrel mark in
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month crude-oil futures have slumped nearly 8% just this week. AND-That dooms Russian economy.
Reguly 9/14/12 Eric Reguly, The Globe and Mail, For Russia, high energy prices a necessity, not a luxury, 9/14/12 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/for-russia-high-energy-prices-a-necessity-not-a-luxury/article4546314/ Accessed 9/20/12 Various analysts estimated last year that the Kremlin’s “break-even” oil price – where the budget balances – at about $100 a barrel. It has no doubt climbed since then. The Economist Intelligence Unit recently put the budget-clearing figure at $120. Citibank has calculated that every $10 decline in the price of oil reduces the Russian government’s revenues by $20-billion. Plan solves diversification—cooperative EU-Russia framework.
Van der Hoeven 12—Maria van der Hoeven is the Executive Director @ International Energy Agency. “Factors shaping energy markets and implications for EU-Russia Relations” February 12, 2012, http://www.iea.org/newsroomandevents/speec
hes/zurich_eu_russia.pdf Accessed date: 8-29-12 y2k While the nature of the energy relationship between the EU and Russia may be changing
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energy resources, can be instrumental to achieving European energy and climate goals. No impact to Russian economy
Blackwill ‘9 (former associate dean of the Kennedy School of Government and Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Planning, Robert, RAND, “The Geopolitical Consequences of the World Economic Recession—A Caution”, http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/2009/RAND_OP275.pdf Now on to Russia. Again, five years from today. Did the global
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are likely to be changed in any serious way by the economic crisis. |
| 09/23/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Renewable investment low now—fossil fuel dominates.
Green Solar Café 7/3 (“US Government Policy: Fossil Fuels vs. Renewable Energy”, Green Solar Café, July 3, 2012, http://www.greensolarcafe.com/big-oil-vs-renewables/us-government-policy-fossil-fuels-vs-renewable-energy/) SA While renewable energy has made impressive strides in the US over the last couple of
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price by having to deal with the grave environmental consequences of our decisions. Trading block guarantees great-power conflict and economic collapse—multilateral trade is key.
Patrick 9—Stewart Patrick is a senior fellow and director of the Program on International Institutions and Global Governance at the Council on Foreign Relations, “Protecting Free Trade”, March 13 2009, http://nationalinterest.org/print/article/protecting-free-trade-3060, Accessed date: 8-28-12 y2k President Obama has committed to working with U.S. trade partners to avoid
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-sighted leadership in the manner of a modern-day Cordell Hull. Plan key to private investment and economy—government regulation hinders development.
McCown 12—Brigham McCown is a managing director at United Transportation Advisors. He was the first acting administrator of the Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. “McCOWN: Natural gas export ban would be costly” February 28, 2012, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/28/natural-gas-export-ban-would-be-costly/ Accessed date: 8-27-12 y2k As America’s shale boom increases the domestic supply of natural gas, U.S
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, we can once again move down the road of growth and prosperity. LNG exports are key to competitiveness- now is key
Dlouhy ’12 (“Lawmakers: Speed up natural gas exports”, July 2, 2012, by Jennifer A. Dlouhy, http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/07/02/lawmakers-speed-up-natural-gas-exports/ Nearly two dozen lawmakers are pressing the Obama administration to open the door for more
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a renewed sense of urgency to the approval process,” the lawmakers added. TPP boosts manufacturing.
Meltzer ’12 (“The Significance of the Trans-Pacific Partnership for the United States”, May 16, 2012, Joshua Meltzer, testimony to the House Small Business Committee, fellow in Global Economy and Development at Brookings, http://www.brookings.edu/research/testimony/2012/05/16-us-trade-strategy-meltzer The Impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership on Small Businesses and the Manufacturing Sector
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overcome these barriers by establishing subsidiaries in other countries is much more limited. Rare earth minerals are key to the alternative energy industry
Richardson ’10 (Michael Richardson, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of South East Asian Studies, former Asia editor of the International Herald Tribune (12/8/10, YaleGlobal, “China’s Chokehold on Rare-Earth Minerals Raises Questions,” http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/chinas-rare-earth-minerals) Following a boating mishap in the East China Sea, China swiftly banned exports to
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materials in modern manufacturing, even though they’re used in relatively small amounts. That solves agricultural productivity.
Vargo ‘3 (Franklin, National Association of Manufacturers, Federal News Service, 10-1, Lexis) I would like to begin my statement with a review of why manufacturing is vital
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, is why the United States cannot become a "nation of shopkeepers." No link uniqueness—Investment in natural gas high now in the status quo.
NYT 7/21 ("There's Still Hope for the Planet", Sunday Review, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/sunday-review/a-ray-of-hope-on-climate-change.html - date accessed 9/4/2012) kc Even natural gas, a hotly debated topic among climate experts, helps make the
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in the United States, which would have been unthinkable not long ago. Global fracking inev- China, Brazil, India
Austin 12 (Hilary Hylton / Austin “Why the U.S. Fracking Industry Worries About the Weather in India” | July 17, 2012 http://world.time.com/2012/07/17/why-the-u-s-fracking-industry-worries-about-the-weather-in-india/ DATE ACCESSED: 9/9/12) TM Despite the debate over fracking in the U.S. and Europe and the
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” to see India’s poor subsistence farmers find gold in those gummy beans. Free Trade is the ONLY internal link to food security.
Haskins 8—Christopher Haskins is former chairman of Northern Foods. “Only free trade can guarantee food security,”August 5, 2008, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ced2dc4c-631b-11dd-9fd0-0000779fd2ac.html#axzz26eBUhLH7, Accessed date: 9-16-12 y2k However, while food security is not a British or European issue, it is
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world) to purchase their needs from elsewhere, expeditiously and without penalty. No famine – the poorest are insulated from global markets—prices is not key.
Paarlberg 8 (Robert, Professor of Political Science – Wellesley College, “It's Not the Price that Causes Hunger”, The International Herald Tribune, 4-23, Lexis) International prices of rice, wheat and corn have risen sharply, setting off violent
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of Asia, and her average income is only $1 a day. Billions won’t die.
Khosla 7 (Vinod, Founder – Sun Microsystems and Khosla Ventures, “Food versus Fuel” or the “Salve for Africa”?, http://www.khoslaventures.com/presentations/FOODvFUEL.pdf) Stopping bad policy is a worthwhile goal, but we should not abandon all biofuels
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!)”. Irrational, fear-mongering extrapolation of data leads to irrational results. Invasive species collapses food supplies.
Nadol ‘99 (Viki, JD Candidate – Valparaiso, Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College, Summer) The threat of invasion by nonnative species has always existed. It is arguably a
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species, they say, we will doom our own species to extinction. No zero-sum—wind and natural gas are complementary.
Weber 12—Michael E. Weber is the Associate Director of the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy Co-Director of the Clean Energy Incubator at the Austin Technology Incubator, and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, May, 2012, “THE LOOMING NATURAL GAS TRANSITION IN THE UNITED STATES” http://www.c2es.org/docUploads/natural-gas-transition-us.pdf, Accessed date: 9-7-12 y2k In addition to the complex pricing landscape described earlier, there is also a complicated
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of livestock waste is over 1 quadrillion BTU annually in the United States. |
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Perm do both Perm do the cp—CP iss not competitive - The counterplan only questions how the plan should be implemented, not if it should A. Resolution says “should,”—means it’s not unconditional
Atlas Collaboration 99—“Use of shall, should, may can,” http://rd13doc.cern.ch/Atlas/DaqSoft/sde/inspect/shall.html 'shall' describes something that is mandatory. If a requirement uses 'shall', then that
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to be stated anywhere (to say nothing of defining what 'thoroughly' means). B. We don’t need to defend certainty, just desirability
American Heritage 9—“should,” http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/should Like the rules governing the use of shall and will on which they are based
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spoken contraction should've. See Usage Notes at if, rather, shall. Also-Export facilities may be subject to Environmental Impact Assesment.
Levi 12—Michael Levi is David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment @ CFR and Director of the CFR program on energy security and climate change, “A Strategy for U.S. Natural Gas Exports”, June 13, 2012, http://www.brookings.-edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2012/6/13%20exports%20levi/06_exports_levi, Accessed date: 9-10-12 y2k Companies looking to construct or expand facilities for the export of LNG from the United
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the terms of the Clean Air Act, or the Endangered Species Act.. HIA causes a six month delay
Wernham 11 (Aaron, M.D., director of the Health Impact Project, “Health Impact Assessments Are Needed In Decision Making About Environmental And Land-Use Policy”, Health Affairs, 30, no.5 (2011):947-956, http://www.healthcare.gov/prevention/nphpphc/advisorygrp/wernhan-health-affairs-paper-10032011.pdf, Acc: 7/23/12, cs) Sources Of Funding Many health depart ments find it difficult or impossible to take
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, but these sources can not support widespread implementation of the tool. Integrating the HIA makes it useless
Cole et al 4 (Brian L., DrPH, Project Manager, Health Impact Assessment Group, UCLA School of Public Health, “Prospects for Health Impact Assessment in the United States”, http://www.precaution.org/lib/06/prospects_for_hia_in_the_u.s.040601.pdf, Acc: 7/23/12, og) A freestanding approach to HIA, whether mandatory or not, would assess health impacts
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1984]). Human health effects by themselves are insufficient to trigger an EIA. CP causes delay—that kills exports.
Klimasinka 12—Katarzyna Klimasinska is Bloomberg Staff. “U.S. Natural Gas Export Permits Delayed Until Late Summer”, May 31, 2012, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-31/u-s-natural-gas-export-permits-delayed-until-late-summer.html, Accessed date” 9-1-12 y2k Consideration of licenses to export natural gas from the U.S. will have
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12 percent more than a year earlier, according to the importers group. AND- that causes capital-flight of domestic gas producers—means can’t solve production advantage—that’s 1AC Kunkyndal. That also kills application process.
Daugherty 12—Deon Daugherty is Houston Business Journal Reporter. “Potential LNG exporters play waiting game with White House”, July 6, 2012, http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/print-edition/2012/07/06/potential-lng-exporters-play-waiting.html?page=all, Accessed date” 9-1-12 y2k Although politics may have a role in the apparent stall on energy companies’ permit requests
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Herring said. “It’s hard to read the tea leaves on this.” Key to US competitiveness.
Reuters 12—“US lawmakers press DOE to speed LNG export review”, 6-29-12, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/29/usa-lng-lawmakers-idUSL2E8HTB1A20120629, Accessed date: 9-1-12 y2k Drilling innovations have allowed companies to tap vast shale gas reserves in places not traditionally
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to carefully monitor market conditions to protect manufacturers' access to affordable natural gas. Great-power war and Conflict Escalation
Baru 9—Sanjava Baru is Visiting Professor @ Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policyin Singapore Geopolitical Implications of the Current Global Financial Crisis, Strategic Analysis, Volume 33, Issue 2 March 2009, pages 163 – 168 The management of the economy, and of the treasury, has been a vital
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victory has always gone to the side with the greatest material resources.’7 Perm—consult, but do the plan anyway. Perm—consult on other coal production. EIA process doesn’t increase participation – only increases controversy around the plan
Cole et al 4 (Brian L., DrPH, Project Manager, Health Impact Assessment Group, UCLA School of Public Health, “Prospects for Health Impact Assessment in the United States”, http://www.precaution.org/lib/06/prospects_for_hia_in_the_u.s.040601.pdf, Acc: 7/23/12, og) Virtually all of the interviewees regarded public involvement in the EIA process as adversarial.
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concerns can be more easily integrated into plans while they are being formulated.
Heg resilient – demand, weak alternatives, aging
Lieber 9 (Department of Government, Georgetown University, Robert, Persistent primacy and the future of the American era, International Politics (2009) 46, 119–139 In general, effective alternatives to the role played by the United States tend to
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and the fortunes of a global liberal democratic order – depend on it. Heg is sustainable- US has dominance in all areas and its not going anywhere
Brooks and Wohlforth 8 (Associate Professor of Government in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College and Professor of Government in the Dartmouth College Department of Government, Stephen and William, World Out of Balance, pg 27- 31) “Nothing has ever existed like this disparity of power; nothing,” historian Paul
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one thing; being the world’s single superpower on the cheap is astonishing.” Hegemony doesn’t solve war
Maher 10 (Richard Maher, Ph.D. in Political Science at Brown University, November 12, 2010,“The Paradox of American Unipolarity: Why the United States May Be Better Off in a Post-Unipolar World”, http://dl2af5jf3e.scholar.serialssolutions.com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/?sid=googleandauinit=Randaulast=Maherandatitle=The+paradox+of+American+unipolarity:+Why+the+United+States+may+be+better+off+in+a+post-unipolar+worldandid=doi:10.1016/j.orbis.2010.10.003andtitle=Orbis+(Philadelphia)andvolume=55andissue=1anddate=2011andspage=53andissn=0030-4387 The other way to think about power is the ability to realize one's own preferences
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The role of the ballot is to decide between a topical plan and a competing policy option or the status quo –
Their framework is self-serving, moots the 1AC, and destroys policy education. That’s a voter for competitive equity and education. Perm- do both—Viewing capitalism as a monolith dooms alt solvency- perm solves
Gibson-Graham ’96 (J.K. Gibson-Graham, Katherine Gibson, Senior Fellow of Human Geography at Australian National University, and Julie Graham, professor of Geography at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1996, The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It) One of our goals as Marxists has been to produce a knowledge of capitalism.
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its unity a fantasy, visible as a denial of diversity and change. Failure to engage with market mechanisms only reproduces the worst parts of the status quo – we have to work within markets to make them better.
Bryant 12—professor of philosophy at Collin College (Levi, We’ll Never Do Better Than a Politician: Climate Change and Purity, 5/11/12, http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/well-never-do-better-than-a-politician-climate-change-and-purity/)
However, pointing this out and deriding market based solutions doesn’t get us very far
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there’s no way around this, and we do need to act now.Alt fails and can’t solve the aff—rejection of economic and analysis collapses free trade—fights over trading-blocks mean their cap bad impacts are inevitable. War turns any root cause
Goldstein, professor of IR – American University, ‘1
(Joshua S, War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa, pg. 412) First, peace activists face a dilemma in thinking about causes of war and working
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injustice as the main cause of war seems to be empirically inadequate.10 Plan solves environmental harms—key to move away from bad fracking practices through inducing profit. Free trade creates structural disincentives for war- reverse causal
Griswold ‘11 (Daniel Griswold is director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute and author of Mad about Trade: Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization. “Free Trade and the Global Middle Class,” Hayek Society Journal Vol. 9, http://www.cato.org/pubs/articles/Hayek-Society-Journal-Griswold.pdf Our more globalized world has also yielded a “peace dividend.” It may not
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and less likely those gains will be destroyed by civil conflict and war. Aff impacts turns- free trade solve global nuclear conflict- That’s Seita Neoliberalism is inevitable – markets control our thought
Hudson ‘99 [Mark, Progressive Librarian, Fall, “Understanding Information Media in the Age of Neoliberalism: The Contributions of Herbert Schiller”] Neoliberal ideas are as old as capitalism itself, but in recent decades they have
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the adverse consequences of that hegemony for our politics, economy and culture.
goods. Perm- do the plan and all non-mutually exclusive parts of the alt- either the alt is so strong that it can overcome residual links or doesn’t solve the SQ. Plan key to reducing abusive and unfair trading system—shift to multilateral trading and cooperation solves their impacts. Neoliberalism is key to democracy and stopping war.
Griswold, ‘05
Daniel Griswold, CATO Institute. December 28, 2005. “Peace on Earth? Try Free Trade among Men” accessed 12/28/10 at http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5344 First, trade and globalization have reinforced the trend toward democracy, and democracies don't
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acquire them peacefully by trading away what they can produce best at home.
Cap prevents extinction
Rockwell 2—Llewellyn H. Rockwell is the President of the Mises Institute, The Free Market, “Why They Attack Capitalism”, Volume 20, Number 10, October, http://www.mises.org/freemarket_detail.asp?control=418andsortorder-articledate If you think about it, this hysteria is astonishing, even terrifying. The
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planning of the type now being urged on American enterprise is perfectly abysmal. Simply thinking about the problem won’t generate change – only action will solve
Kliman ‘4 (Andrew, PhD, Professor of Economics at Pace University Andrew Kliman’s Writings, “Alternatives to Capitalism: What Happens After the Revolution?” http://akliman.squarespace.com/writings/) Thus the reason of the masses is posing a new challenge to the movement from
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meantime, the challenges from below require us to proceed on its basis. Rejection causes global transition wars
Harris ‘3 (Lee, Analyst – Hoover Institution and Author of The Suicide of Reason, “The Intellectual Origins of America-Bashing”, Policy Review, January, 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. Neoliberalism is cyclical and self-correcting
Li ‘8 (Ming Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, April, An Age of Transition: The United States, China, Peak Oil, and the Demise of Neoliberalism, Monthly Review, Vol. 59, Iss. 11 On February 1, Immanuel Wallerstein, the leading world system theorist, in his
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the dominance of Keynesian or state capitalist policies and institutions throughout the world.
Nationalism sustains the neoliberal order – alt doesn’t solve
Harvey ‘7 (David, PhD of Anthropology at Cambridge, “A Brief History of Neoliberalism” p. 195-196) But the neoconservatives also assert a higher moral purpose, at the core of which
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to deal with the revolutions in Central America in the 1980s for example). |
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1AC PLAN: The United States Department of Energy should approve pending applications for production facilities to export natural gas. ADV 1: Trade LNG exports are restricted now.
Olson 9/26—Ryan Olson is a Research Assistant at The Heritage Foundation. “How to Boost U.S. Exports: Legalize Them,”
9-26-12, http://blog.heritage.org/2012/09/26/how-to-boost-u-s-exports-legalize-them/ Accessed date: 9-29-12 y2k The Obama Administration appears to be picking winners and losers again. The President has
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uncertainty, hurt investment and job growth, and threaten American’s economic competitiveness. Restrictions are protectionist- now is key
Kemp 12—John Kemp is Reuters market analyst. “U.S. should resist protectionism in gas: Kemp,”, Jan 20, 2012, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/20/column-us-gas-exports-idUSL6E8CK1KK20120120 Critics will seize on a government report, showing U.S. natural gas
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encourage domestic production when low domestic gas prices might not otherwise do so". Exports outweigh alt cause to trade.
Khander 12—Sharin Khander is Analyst at Axelrod Energy Projects. “Fracking Out About LNG” 8-22-12 http://www.rooseveltcampusnetwork.org/blog/fracking-out-about-lng, Accessed date: 9-12-12 y2k Domestic natural gas can be harnessed as a potent geopolitical weapon to reframe global energy
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upper bounds on the amount of LNG that will be economic to export. Globalization is inevitable, but US is key—solves every impact.
Panitchpakdi 4—Supachai Panitchpakdi is the UN Conference on Trade and Development General, “American Leadership and the World Trade Organization: What is the Alternative?”, 26 February 2004, http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/spsp_e/spsp22_
e.htm Accessed date: 8-27-12 y2k I can sum up my message today in three sentences: The United States,
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important to fail. The world depends on it. So does America. Protectionism causes global conflict
Panzer 8—Michael J. Panzner is the Faculty @ New York Institute of Finance, Specializes in Global Capital Markets. MA Columbia, Financial Armageddon: Protect Your Future from Economic Collapse, Revised and Updated Edition Paperback, p. 137-138 Continuing calls for curbs on the flow of finance and trade will inspire the United
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between Muslims and Western societies as the beginnings of a new world war. Exports are key to Chinese mineral exports
Levi 12— Michael Levi, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment @ Council on Foreign Relations and Director of the CFR program on energy security and climate change. Member of the Strategic Advisory Board for NewWorld Capital LLC, a private equity firm focused on environmental opportunities, and a member of the External Advisory Board to the Princeton University Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI). He holds a Bachelors of Science in mathematical physics from Queen’s University, an MA in physics from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in war studies from the University of London. “New Study on U.S. Natural Gas Exports,” June 13, 2012, http://blogs.cfr.org/levi/2012/06/13/new-study-on-u-s-natural-gas-exports/ I ultimately conclude that the United States should allow LNG exports. I also argue
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. Making export restrictions bind would also probably create significant problems with NAFTA. Mineral exports are key to guidance systems, and first-strike capabilities.
Kennedy 10—J. Kennedy is the President of Wings Enterprises, March 2010, “Critical and Strategic Failure of Rare Earth Resources,” http://www.smenet.org/rareEarthsProject/TMS-NMAB-paperV-3.pdf The national defense issues are equally important. Rare earths are critical components for military
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components for weapons systems in favor of “the principles of free trade.” Solves nuclear war.
Lieber and Press 9—Keir A. Lieber, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, and Daryl G. Press, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, November-December 2009, “The Nukes We Need: Preserving the American Deterrent,” Foreign Affairs, p. 50-51 This second criticism has merit. Nevertheless, the benefits of maintaining effective counterforce capabilities
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—that the United States’ strategic position abroad rests largely on a bluff. Mineral exports solves extinction
Adams ’10 (“Global supply of rare earth elements could be wiped out by 2012”, Mike Adams, January 26, 2010, consumer health advocate and award-winning journalist, created NaturalNews.TV, CEO of a highly successful email newsletter software company, executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, http://www.naturalnews.com/028028_rare_earth_elements_mining.html t's the bubble you've probably never heard of: The rare earth bubble. And
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either. Without these rare earth elements, entire industries grind to a halt ADV 2: Production Production collapse is inevitable in the SQ—exports key.
Kuykendall 12 (“Lawmakers: Boost natural gas prices with exports”, Jul 02, 2012, Taylor Kuykendall, http://www.statejournal.com/story/18933748/lawmakers-boost-natural-gas-prices-with-exports) "However, despite these exciting developments, the number of rigs drilling for natural
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competing in export markets, other countries will step forward to do so. Now is key.
Hawkins 12—Derek Hawkins is Senior energy reporter at Law360. “LNG Study Delay Adds To Uncertainty For Export Hopefuls,” 9-18-12, http://www.sutherland.com/files/upload/LNGStudyDelayAddsToUncertaintyForExportHopefuls.pdf, Accessed date: 9-29-12 y2k Law360, New York (September 18, 2012, 8:59 PM ET
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online and competing. That is going to factor into every company's calculus." Exports key to US-Japan alliance—bolsters security cooperation.
Armitage and Nye 12—Richard L. Armitage is president of Armitage International and a trustee of CSIS, a former US Deputy Secretary of State. Joseph S. Nye is dean emeritus of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and
a trustee of CSIS. “The U.S.-Japan Alliance anchoring stability in Asia” August, 2012 http://csis.org/files/publicati-
on/120810_Armitage_USJapanAlliance_Web.pdf Recent positive developments in natural gas could rekindle bilateral energy trade in ways few ?
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Japan equal footing with other FTA customers for U.S. natural gas Alliance is on the brink—strengthening the alliance solves Asian stability, maritime trade, and multilateral institutions.
Armitage and Nye 12—Richard L. Armitage is president of Armitage International and a trustee of CSIS, a former US Deputy Secretary of State. Joseph S. Nye is dean emeritus of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and
a trustee of CSIS. “The U.S.-Japan Alliance anchoring stability in Asia” August, 2012 http://csis.org/files/publicati-
on/120810_Armitage_USJapanAlliance_Web.pdf This report on the U.S.-Japan alliance comes at a time of
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in Asia in the past and can continue to be in the future. Asian conflict goes nuclear
Landay 00 (Jonathan S. Landay (staff) March 10, 2000 “Top administration officials warn stakes for U.S. are high in Asian conflicts:, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau, l/n WASHINGTON _ The 3,700-mile arc that begins at the heavily fortified
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that totaled $600 billion last year, according to the Commerce Department. Exports are key to the chemical industry, and Canada and Mexico relations
Boman 12 (“US LNG Export Benefits Outweigh Modest Impacts on Industrial Output”, Karen Boman, Rigzone Staff, more than 10 years of experience covering the upstream oil and gas sector, June 06, 2012, http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=118418 Liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from the United States will create substantial gains
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agreements is not as straightforward as for countries that do, said Levi. Chemical industry solves extinction
ICCA 2 (International Council of Chemical Associations, June 20, “SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY,” http://www.cefic.be/position/icca/pp_ic010.htm) The key finding of "Our Common Future", (the 1987 report of the
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keeping up international competitiveness as a pre-requisite of sustainable job creation. Energy relationship is key to Canada relations
CCGA 11 (“U.S.-Canada Energy Trade: A Critical Strategic Relationship”, September 27, 2011, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, http://www.thechicagocouncil.org/UserFiles/File/Conferences/US-Canada_Energy_Trade_Conference_report.pdf The U.S.-Canada energy relationship is critically important. Canada is the
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on Global Affairs is well positioned to facilitate discussion on this critical issue. Relations key to military cooperation that solves asymmetric attacks.
Inge and Findley 6—“North American Defense and Security after 9/11”, By JOSEPH R. INGE and ERIC A. FINDLEY, Lieutenant General Joseph R. Inge, USA, is Deputy Commander of U.S. Northern Command and Deputy Head of the Bi-National Planning Group. Lieutenant General Eric A. Findley, Canadian Forces, is the Deputy Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and Head of the Bi-National Planning Group. issue 40, 1st quarter 2006, http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/jfq_pubs/4004.pdf Enhanced Cooperation Alliances, like partnerships, require time and attention. Canada and the
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recommends a seamless sharing of information and intelligence on defense and security issues. Attack causes extinction
Pratt 4—Robert J. Pratt is the commander of the 66th Infantry Brigade
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to the American Homeland” Accessed date: 7-11-12 y2k Terrorist adversaries will not overlook the overwhelming impact that invasive species could have on the
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such attacks. Our future and our children’s future might depend on it. Exports are key to ending European gas dependence on Russia—only the US LNG Solves.
Hulbert 12 (“Why American Natural Gas Will Change The World”, 5/26/2012, Matthew Hulbert, Lead Analyst at European Energy Review and consultant to a number of governments, most recently as Senior Research Fellow, Netherlands Institute for International Relations, previously Senior Research Fellow at ETH Zurich working on energy and political risk. Started work in London, advising on energy markets and political risk, as Senior Energy Analyst at Datamonitor for leading global utilities, and headed up the Global Issues Desk at Control Risks Group, specializing in political risk, geopolitics and security analysis for multinational companies, governments and institutional investors. Seconded to work in Washington, D.C., to enhance CRG's political risk offerings in North America. http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewhulbert/2012/05/26/why-american-natural-gas-will-change-the-world/ Europe will watch the debate with considerable interest – not just because the likes of
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US LNG by 2020 than it manages to frack in its own backyard. Russian gas monopoly causes expansionism, Eurasian instability and collapses alliances
Asmus 8—Executive Director of the Transatlantic Center at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, in Brussels, From 1997 to 2000, he served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, Ronald, “ Europe's Eastern Promise; Rethinking NATO and EU Enlargement,” Foreign Affairs. Jan/Feb 2008. http://www.jstor.org.proxy.lib.umich.edu/stable/pdfplus/20020270.pdf?acceptTC=true IN THE early 1990S, after the Iron Curtain lifted, Western leaders seized a
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from one in which an autocratic, nationalist Russia is on the rise. Instability goes nuclear
Mcdermott 11—Roger Mcdermott is Senior International Research Fellow for the Foreign Military Studies Office. He is a Senior Fellow in Eurasian Military Studies in The Jamestown Foundation, specializes in Russian and Central Asian defense and security issues. He is the Affiliated Senior Analyst @ Danish Institute for International Studies. He was on the editorial board of Central Asia and the Caucasus and the scientific board of the Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies. “General Makarov Highlights the “Risk” of Nuclear Conflict”, 12/6/11, bhttp://www.jamestown.org/details/?tx_bzdstaffdirectory_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=140andtx_bzdstaff-directory_pi1%5BbackPid%5D=60andno_cache=1 In the current election season the Russian media has speculated that the Defense Minister Anatoliy
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than the old dogs of the Cold War would wish to chew on. Alliances prevent nuclear war
Ross 99—Douglas Ross – professor of political science at Simon Fraser University, Winter 1998/1999, Canada’s functional isolationism and the future of weapons of mass destruction, International Journal, p. lexis Thus, an easily accessible tax base has long been available for spending much more
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community have any plausible hope of avoiding warfare involving nuclear or other WMD. Solvency Plan facilitates exports
Levi 12—Michael Levi is David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment @ CFR and Director of the CFR program on energy security and climate change, “A Strategy for U.S. Natural Gas Exports”, June 13, 2012, http://www.brookings.-edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2012/6/13%20exports%20levi/06_exports_levi, Accessed date: 9-10-12 y2k I thus propose that, to facilitate potential natural gas exports, the DOE should
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. Congress need only refrain from placing new statutory restrictions on LNG exports. Non-FTA countries key
Levi 12—Michael Levi is David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment @ CFR and Director of the CFR program on energy security and climate change, “A Strategy for U.S. Natural Gas Exports”, June 13, 2012, http://www.brookings.-edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2012/6/13%20exports%20levi/06_exports_levi, Accessed date: 9-10-12 y2k However, no major LNG importer other than South Korea has an applicable FTA with
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2010). Exports from the first facilities would start no earlier than 2015. Fracking is sustainable.
Dana 12—David A. Dana is a law professor Northwestern University School of Law. A former environmental litigator, he specializes in environmental and land-use law. “There goes paradise”, June 21, 2012, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-06-21/news/ct-perspec-0621-fracking-20120621_1_fracking-gasland-drinking-water, Accessed date: 9-12-12 y2k In the late 1990s, in Texas, the energy industry developed new techniques to
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Fracking, whether you like it or not, is here to stay. Plan solves environment turns.
Konrad 12—Tom Konrad is a financial analyst and portfolio manager specializing in renewable energy and energy efficiency. “LNG Exports Would Help the Environment” March, 2012, http://www.altenergystocks.com/archives/2012/03/lng_exports_wou-ld_help_the_environment_1.html, Accessed date: 9-12-12 Higher domestic natural gas prices would help shale gas producers, but they would also
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are bravely trying to find their way to a nuclear-free future. LNG export ensures profitability and solves price volatility—slow global production and price differential.
Bass and Pickerning 12—Richard Bass and Gordon Pickering are directors in Navigant’s energy practice. “The U.S. Has A Natural Gas Glut; Why Exporting It As LNG Is A Good Idea,” 6/13/2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/energysource/2012/06/13/the-u-s-has-a-natural-gas-glut-why-exporting-it-as-lng-is-a-good-idea/print/ Accessed date: 10-1-12 y2k The emergence of shale gas has caused natural gas prices in North America to drop
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and at the right time to capitalize on North American LNG export projects. |
| 10/06/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: “On” means affected by an action.
AHD, No Date
American Heritage Dictionary, No Date,
("-on", PAS) http://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=onandsubmit.x=0andsubmit.y=0 9-1-12 b. Used to .... meditated on his actions. Financial incentive means market expansion for the purpose of increasing energy production.
Mayes et al 1—Fred Mayes is the Senior Technical Advisor, Coal, Nuclear, and Renewables Division Energy Information Administration. Mark Gielecki works @ U.S. DOE/EIA, and the delegate's. DOE Office of Nuclear Energy sponsors. Lawrence Prete is an engineer with the Office of Coal, Nuclear, Electric and Alternate Fuels, Energy Information Administration “Incentives, Mandates, and Government Programs for Promoting Renewable Energy”, http://lobby.la.psu.edu/_107th/128_PURPA/
Agency_Activities/EIA/Incentive_Mandates_and_Government.htm, Accessed date: 9-5-12 y2k
Over the years, incentives and mandates for renewable energy have been used to advance
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but regulatory mandates generally require no expenditures or loss of revenue by the Government For requires intent.
Arterton 3—US District Judge, Janet, Applera Corporation and Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., plaintiffs, v. MJ Research Inc. and Michael and John Finney, 3:98cv1201 (JBA), UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT, 292 F. Supp. 2d 348; 2003 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20903, lexis The ordinary meaning of the preposition "for," see Webster's New World Dictionary of
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. 9, ll. 31-32, at least while performing PCR Plan meets.
Williamson 12—Brandon Williamson is Well-Service-Magazine Staff, “Exporting America’s Natural Gas”, May/June 2012, Accessed date” http://wellservicingmagazine.com/exporting-america%E2%80%99s-natural-gas, 9-4-12 y2k With the massively publicized war against hydraulic fracturing, the Keystone XL pipeline and offshore
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in the American natural gas market — importing is allowed but not exporting. Export is the CORE natural gas aff.
Hargreaves 12—Steve Hargreaves is CNNMoney Staff, “U.S. OKs Sabine Pass natural gas export plant”, April 19, 2012, http://money.cnn.com/2012/04/17/news/economy/natural-gas-export/index.htm, Accessed date: 9-2-12 y2k The United Sates is currently experiencing a boom in natural gas production, largely thanks
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boom going, along with the thousands of jobs the boom has created. Energy production is extraction, conversion, and distribution.
Koplow 4—Doug Koplow is the founder of Earth Track in Cambridge, MA. He has worked on natural resource subsidy issues for 20 years, primarily in the energy sector "Subsidies to Energy Industries" Encyclopedia of Energy Vol 5 2004 www.earthtrack.net/files/Energy%20Encyclopedia,%20wv.pdf
Energy production…, and accident risks. |
| 10/09/2012 | Tournament: Clay | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wayne State | Judge: John Lawson
2AC Romney Good DA Obama will win.
DailyNews 10/4 Obama still ahead in polls as Romney scores in debate, Oct 04, 2012, http://india.nydailynews.com/newsarticle/522334e9b896e22b4c4ae1e24424e2c6/obama-still-ahead-in-polls-as-romney-scores-in-debate President Barack Obama is still ahead in national polls even as critics across media and
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/Ryan ticket had 191 votes while 82 were too close to call. Plan kills support with environmentalists.
Dlouhy 12—Jennifer, Environmentalists challenge natural gas export plans, Fuel Fix, p. http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/04/16/environmentalists-challenge-natural-gas-export-plans/) Environmentalists are challenging Freeport LNG’s bid to export natural gas from a facility in Texas
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surge in natural gas drilling that would result from selling the fuel overseas. Environmental base swings election
Lehrer 12—Eli – President of R Street, How Mitt Romney Can Win the Environmental Vote, The Huffington Post, p. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eli-lehrer/post_3484_b_1583319.html Mitt Romney just had an awesome week but, unless he and attracts new groups
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to put Romney over the top. So how can he do it? Export raises domestic gas prices—that’s 1AC Kahnder. Gas prices are key to the election
Washington Post, 2/24/2012 (Gas prices could cause election-year headache for Obama, p. http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/gas-prices-could-cause-election-year-headache-for-obama/2012/02/24/gIQAgvw4XR_story.html) Gas prices have risen 29 cents per gallon since December, with regular-grade
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to drill for new U.S. supplies that might ease prices. DoE action shields the link
Schoenbrod 93—David Schoenbrod is Professor of Law @ New York Law School and Adjunct Scholar – Cato Institute and Former Staff Attorney and Co-Director – Project on Urban Transportation, “DELEGATION AND DEMOCRACY: A REPLY TO MY CRITICS,” http://www.constitution.org/ad_state/schoenbrod.htm, Accessed date: 10-1-12 y2k The President is not as accountable for agency laws as members of Congress are for
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to think of countries where only the chief executive is elected as undemocratic. Energy is not a key issue.
Washington Post 6/27—“Energy ads flood TV in swing states,” http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/energy-ads/2012/06/27/gJQAD5MR7V_story.html Energy issues don’t spark much excitement among voters, ranking below health care, education
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asked to rank their top issues, fewer than 1 percent mention energy. Election prediction is impossible AND no vote-switching—fundamentals outweigh.
Fahri 12—Paul Fahri is Washington Post Reporter. “Do campaigns really change voters’ minds?” 7/6/12, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/do-campaigns-really-change-voters-minds/2012/07/06/gJQAEljyRW_story.html How can anyone accurately estimate the outcome of an election more than three months ahead
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are trivial. The way campaigns play out is largely determined by fundamentals.” Coattails are dead – we will have a divided government
Lindorff, October 6, 2012
(Dave, Eurasia Review, Obama’s Tactical Retreat – OpEd, http://www.eurasiareview.com/06102012-obamas-tactical-retreat-oped/, 10/5/2012) It could be that the Obama campaign has done enough research that it feels it
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Republicans have managed to develop as the minority over the last four years. Heg resilient – demand, weak alternatives, aging
Lieber 9 (Department of Government, Georgetown University, Robert, Persistent primacy and the future of the American era, International Politics (2009) 46, 119–139 In general, effective alternatives to the role played by the United States tend to
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and the fortunes of a global liberal democratic order – depend on it. Hegemony doesn’t solve war
Maher 10 (Richard Maher, Ph.D. in Political Science at Brown University, November 12, 2010,“The Paradox of American Unipolarity: Why the United States May Be Better Off in a Post-Unipolar World”, http://dl2af5jf3e.scholar.serialssolutions.com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/?sid=googleandauinit=Randaulast=Maherandatitle=The+paradox+of+American+unipolarity:+Why+the+United+States+may+be+better+off+in+a+post-unipolar+worldandid=doi:10.1016/j.orbis.2010.10.003andtitle=Orbis+(Philadelphia)andvolume=55andissue=1anddate=2011andspage=53andissn=0030-4387 The other way to think about power is the ability to realize one's own preferences
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blandishments, or seek to decrease their reliance or dependence on American security guarantees |
| 10/09/2012 | Tournament: Clay | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wayne State | Judge: John Lawson
China’s aggressive drive to acquire LNG causes regional instability and a naval arms race
Shobert ‘12 (quotes Hulbert, Research Director for the Asian Energy Security Program at the National Bureau of Asia Research, Shobert is managing director of Rubicon Strategy Group, a consulting firm specialized in strategy analysis for companies looking to enter emerging economies, Benjamin A., “China's resources policy attracts attention of congress,” 2/2/12, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/NB02Cb01.html Washington is grudgingly coming to terms with a more sophisticated and confident Beijing, one
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it to damn waterways that nourish the many river deltas throughout Southeast Asia. South china sea conflict goes nuclear
Nikkei ‘95 (The Nikkei weekly, Developing Asian nations should be allowed a grace period to allow their economies to grow before being subjected to trade liberalization demands, says Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, July 3, 1995, lexis Developing Asian nations should be allowed a grace period to allow their economies to grow
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.S., leading to full-scale, even nuclear, war. Collapse causes extinction
Yee ‘2 (Associate Professor of Government @ Hong Kong Baptist University, and Storey, Asian-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Herbert and Ian, China Threat: Perception, Myths, and Reality, p. 5)
The fourth factor contributing to the perception of a china threat is the fear of
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disintegrating China would also pose a threat to its neighbours and the world. |
| 10/09/2012 | Tournament: Clay | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wayne State | Judge: John Lawson
Exports check petro-power, Iranian influence and nuclear program
Medlock et al ‘11 (Report from an energy study sponsored by the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and supported by the US Department of energy, Medlock is a fellow in energy and resource economics at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, PhD in economics Kenneth, “Shale Gas and U.S. National Security,” James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, July 2011, http://www.bakerinstitute.org/publications/EF-pub-DOEShaleGas-07192011.pdf Utilizing scenario analysis based on peer-reviewed, scientific assessments of the properties of
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a means to strengthen its regional power or to buttress its nuclear aspirations. Petro-power causes extinction
Lendman ‘7 (Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization, Stephen Lendman, “Resource Wars - Can We Survive Them?” Rense.com, 6-6-7 http://www.rense.com/general76/resrouce.htm With the world's energy supplies finite, the US heavily dependent on imports, and
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, or at least a big part of it, would have survived. |
| 10/09/2012 | Tournament: Clay | Round: 4 | Opponent: Mo State GN | Judge: Matt Struth
A. Resolution says “should,”—means it’s not unconditional
Atlas Collaboration 99—“Use of shall, should, may can,” http://rd13doc.cern.ch/Atlas/DaqSoft/sde/inspect/shall.html 'shall' describes something that is mandatory. If a requirement uses 'shall', then that
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to be stated anywhere (to say nothing of defining what 'thoroughly' means). B. We don’t need to defend certainty, just desirability
American Heritage 9—“should,” http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/should Like the rules governing the use of shall and will on which they are based
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spoken contraction should've. See Usage Notes at if, rather, shall. Reg Neg fails
Susskind, Bacow, and Wheeler, 83—Resolving Environmental Regulatory Disputes. Lawrence Susskind, Lawrence Bacow and Michael Wheeler, eds. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Schenkman Books, 1983, 261. http://www.beyondintractability.org/bksum/susskind-resolving, Accessed date: 10/6/12 y2k Timothy Sullivan…. benefit both sides."57 Cp results in delay because of extended negotiations—can’t solve.
Phillip J. Harter, expert in administrative law at Univ. of Vermont, April 1997, 46 Duke L.J. 1389
Like adolescents, every negotiated rulemaking committee is unique. These differences must be addressed
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resolved before the negotiations start if they are to be successful. 74 AND-Competitiveness solves global war.
Baru 9—Sanjava Baru is Visiting Professor @ Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policyin Singapore Geopolitical Implications of the Current Global Financial Crisis, Strategic Analysis, Volume 33, Issue 2 March 2009, pages 163 – 168 The management of the economy, and of the treasury, has been a vital
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victory has always gone to the side with the greatest material resources.’7 |
| 10/09/2012 | Tournament: Clay | Round: 4 | Opponent: Mo State GN | Judge: Matt Struth
2AC Electricity Heg resilient – demand, weak alternatives, aging
Lieber 9 (Department of Government, Georgetown University, Robert, Persistent primacy and the future of the American era, International Politics (2009) 46, 119–139 In general, effective alternatives to the role played by the United States tend to
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and the fortunes of a global liberal democratic order – depend on it. Hegemony doesn’t solve war
Maher 10 (Richard Maher, Ph.D. in Political Science at Brown University, November 12, 2010,“The Paradox of American Unipolarity: Why the United States May Be Better Off in a Post-Unipolar World”, http://dl2af5jf3e.scholar.serialssolutions.com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/?sid=googleandauinit=Randaulast=Maherandatitle=The+paradox+of+American+unipolarity:+Why+the+United+States+may+be+better+off+in+a+post-unipolar+worldandid=doi:10.1016/j.orbis.2010.10.003andtitle=Orbis+(Philadelphia)andvolume=55andissue=1anddate=2011andspage=53andissn=0030-4387 The other way to think about power is the ability to realize one's own preferences
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, or seek to decrease their reliance or dependence on American security guarantees. Institutions check
Maher 10 (Richard Maher, Ph.D. in Political Science at Brown University, November 12, 2010,“The Paradox of American Unipolarity: Why the United States May Be Better Off in a Post-Unipolar World”, http://dl2af5jf3e.scholar.serialssolutions.com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/?sid=googleandauinit=Randaulast=Maherandatitle=The+paradox+of+American+unipolarity:+Why+the+United+States+may+be+better+off+in+a+post-unipolar+worldandid=doi:10.1016/j.orbis.2010.10.003andtitle=Orbis+(Philadelphia)andvolume=55andissue=1anddate=2011andspage=53andissn=0030-4387) The United States should seek to ensure that the global rules, institutions, and
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less likely they will be to seek to challenge or even transform it. Dependence constrains foreign policy
Minsk ‘2 (Ronald E. Minsk, National Economic Council during the Clinton administration, PPI, Ending Oil Dependence As We Know It, January 2002, http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?contentid=250158andknlgAreaID=116andsubsecid=155) First, our nation’s dependence on oil has figured prominently in U.S.
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the Persian Gulf could weaken or threaten our allies, particularly in Asia.
Strategic flexibility is key to deter large-scale aggression and prevent conflict escalation
Spencer ‘3 (Jack, Senior Defense Policy Analyst @ Heritage, "Focusing Defense Resources to Meet National Security Requirements," 3/21, www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/bg1638.cfm) Be prepared to fight with little or no warning in unanticipated places. The emergence of global communications, advances in technology, and the globalization of terrorism provide many opportunities for surprise attacks against the United States and its interests. Maintaining the ability to fight and win wars in diverse situations and environments can discourage many of America's enemies from hostile acts.
Maintain adequate capability to deter aggression against America's allies. America faces enduring threats beyond
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and be ready to respond forcefully and immediately to aggression against America's allies. Dependence ensures oil spills
Campbell ‘93 (Thomas, General Counsel for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Spring, 45 Baylor L. Rev. 221, lexis) "Thousands of oil spills occur in the United States each year. Over the
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the Mid-Atlantic, and New England have suffered oil spills." 6
The nation's continued heavy dependence on oil will result in increasing transport of oil in tankers through U.S. waters and greater off-shore exploration and production in deeper waters and harsher environments. These conditions can only increase the potential for future catastrophic oil spills and the need to prevent such pollution and minimize its damage. 7 Oil spills disrupt oxygenic photosynthesis
Dempsey ‘84 (Paul Stephen, Professor of Transportation Law and Director of the Transportation Law Program – University of Denver College of Law, “Compliance and Enforcement in International Law -- Oil Pollution of the Marine Environment by Ocean Vessels”, Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business, Summer, 6 NW. J. INT'L L. and BUS. 459, Lexis) The ramifications of introducing such high concentrations of petroleum pollution into the oceans are severe
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level to increase up to 200 feet, submerging most coastal cities. 27 |
| 10/09/2012 | Tournament: Clay | Round: 5 | Opponent: CSUF | Judge: Charles Olney
Preempts The role of the ballot is to decide between a topical plan and a competing policy option or the status quo –
Their framework is self-serving, moots the 1AC, and destroys policy education. That’s a voter for competitive equity and education. Specific policy discussion is key to skills development necessary for real-world engagement—students already have ideological notions about how the world operates—our framework breaks away from passive pedagogical framework by positioning students as agents of change.
Esberg and Sagan 12—Jane Esberg is special assistant to the director at New York University's Center on International Cooperation. She was the winner of 2009 Firestone Medal, and Scott Sagan is a professor of political science and director of Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation “NEGOTIATING NONPROLIFERATION: Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Nuclear Weapons Policy,” 2/17 The Nonproliferation Review, 19:1, 95-108 These government or quasi-government think tank simulations often provide very similar lessons for
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quickly; simulations teach students how to contextualize and act on information.14 Imagining the outcome of the plan is the best way to compare competing advocacies and learn about the topic—those decision-making skills actually influence the energy agenda
Hager, professor of political science – Bryn Mawr College, ‘92
(Carol J., “Democratizing Technology: Citizen and State in West German Energy Politics, 1974-1990” Polity, Vol. 25, No. 1, p. 45-70) During this phase, the citizen initiative attempted to overcome its defensive posture and implement
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a space for a delibera-tive politics in modern technological society.61 Ethical policymaking must be grounded in consequences
Isaac ‘2 Jeffrey C. Isaac, James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science and director of the Center for the Study of Democracy and Public Life at Indiana University, Bloomington. He writes regularly for Dissent, and his most recent book is Democracy in Dark Times. “Ends, Means, and Politics”at http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=601 As a result, the most important political questions are simply not asked. It
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not true believers. It promotes arrogance. And it undermines political effectiveness. Authenticity tests shut down debate
SUBOTNIK ’98(Professor of Law, Touro College, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center.
7 Cornell J. L. and Pub. Pol'y 681 Having traced a major strand in the development of CRT, we turn now to
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to faculty offices and, more generally, the streets and the airwaves. Not engageing in politics 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. War turns any root cause
Goldstein, professor of IR – American University, ‘1
(Joshua S, War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa, pg. 412) First, peace activists face a dilemma in thinking about causes of war and working
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injustice as the main cause of war seems to be empirically inadequate.10 Identifying causal forces of past events helps predict the future and better enable policymakers to respond to future crises
Walt, ‘5– (Stephen M., Prof, Kennedy School of Government @ Harvard, Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci. 2005. 8:23–48, pg. 31, “The Relationship Between Theory and Policy in International Relations,” http://www.iheid.ch/webdav/site/political_science/shared/political_science/3452/walt.pdf) PREDICTION IR theories can also help policy makers anticipate events. By identifying the central
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and causal relationships in order to sketch a picture of an emerging world. Forcing students to assert policy solutions has tremendous research and education benefits and encourages them to become advocates for change rather than mere spectators
Joyner ‘99 – Professor of International Law in the Government Department at Georgetown University
(Christopher C., Spring, 199, 5 ILSA J Int'l and Comp L 377) Use of the debate can be an effective pedagogical tool for education in the social
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the real world of policy analysis, political critique, and legal defense. A focus on reforming policies is necessary to fix societal problems
McClean ‘1 – Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Molloy College, New York
(David E., “The Cultural Left and the Limits of Social Hope,” Presented at the 2001 Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, www.american-philosophy.org/archives/past_conference_programs/pc2001/Discussion%20papers/david_mcclean.htm) There is a lot of philosophical prose on the general subject of social justice.
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. That is to say, they are not easily explained at all. State power is flexible and open to reorientation
Krause and Williams ’97 (Keith, Professor of Political Science – York U., and Michael, Professor of Political Science – U Southern Main, Critical Security Studies: Concepts and Cases, p. xvi) Many of the chapters in this volume thus retain a concern with the centrality of
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of influencing what remains the most structurally capable actor in contemporary world politics. |
| 10/09/2012 | Tournament: Clay | Round: 7 | Opponent: CSUF | Judge: Charles Olney Perm—do the plan and recognize that America is both the cause and remedy to racial violenceFrank 5 (From Frank and McPhail’s collaborative 2k5 RandPA, David A. Frank is Professor of Rhetoric in the Robert D.Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, Eugene. Mark Lawrence McPhail is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Western College Program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Rhetoric and Public Affairs Vol. 8, No. 4, 2005, pp. 571-594 Accordingly,Kim Forde-Mazrui argues with great force that the traditional moral claim AND groups to make use of their shared American values in making their claims. Frank 5 (From Frank and McPhail’s collaborative 2k5 RandPA, David A. Frank is Professor of Rhetoric in the Robert D.Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, Eugene. Mark Lawrence McPhail is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Western College Program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Rhetoric and Public Affairs Vol. 8, No. 4, 2005, pp. 571-594 Without the possibility of hope, there can be no coherence. In turn, AND in Obama’s speech that God and the universal principle of equality are necessary. Thernstrom 98—Abigail Thernstrom is the vice chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and as an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Stephan Thernstrom is Winthrop Research Professor of History at Harvard University. “Black Progress: How far we've come, and how far we have to go” http:~/~/www.brookings.edu/research/articles/1998/03/edu/research/articles/1998/03/spring-affirmativeaction-thernstrom accessed date: 7-18-12 y2k Black progress over the past half-century has been impressive, conventional wisdom to AND with the optimism, insight, and energy that further progress surely demands. Miah 94 (Malik Miah, Cornel West's Race Matters, May-June, http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/3079) In the chapter, “Nihilism in Black America,” West observes “The liberal AND that without meaning there can be no struggle.” (14-15) Embracing politics of hope solves—policy simulation brings joy that makes radical, collective political struggle possible—their alternative causes disengagement which turns their impacts and destroys value to life.Jensen 1—Robert Jensen is Professor of Journalism @ University of Texas, Austin. “Critical Hope: Radical Citizenship in Reactionary Times,” 12-17-01, http:~/~/www.commondreams.org/views01/1217-05.htm, Accessed date: 10-1-12, y2k Just as we have to distinguish between critique and cynicism, we have to ….beauty of being human. Subtonik Landsburg 5—Steven E. Landsburg is adjunct economics professor at the University of Rochester. “Xenophobia and Politics” 03-28-05, http:~/~/www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0328/046.html, Accessed date: 9-11-12 y2k Why protectionism is a lot like racism. Not long ago in American history accidents AND right to earn a living, no matter where the victim was born. Shelby ‘7 (Tommie Shelby, Harvard Professor of African and African American Studies and Professor of Philosophy, We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity, 2007, p. 147-8. Others might challenge the distinction between ideological and structural causes of black disadvantage, on AND developments (such as immigration policy or reduced federal funding for higher education.) Ontology must be secondary to the prior question of political practice and problem-solving.Jarvis 2K—Darryl Jarvis is Senior Lecturer in International Relations @ University of Sydney, “International Relations and the Challenge of Postmodernism,” p. 128-9 More is the pity that such irrational and obviously abstruse debate should so occupy us AND work to address the real life plight of those who struggle at marginal places Bedau ‘4 (“Debating the Death Penalty: Should America Have Capital Punishment?”, Hugo Adam Bedau, JD, Emeritus Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, 2004, http://deathpenalty.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=001017 "Few death row prisoners try to commit suicide and fewer succeed. Few death AND do not, shows that they fear death more than life in prison..." Tures 12—John A. Tures is an associate professor of political science at LaGrange College in LaGrange, Ga, “Is Fracking Racist?” 7-4-12, http:~/~/voices.yahoo.com/is-fracking-racist-11532150.html?cat=9url:http://voices.yahoo.com/is-fracking-racist-11532150.html?cat=9, Accessed date: 9-18-12 y2k After passing a moratorium on fracking in 2010, the state of New York may AND white populations that will be the guinea pigs this time in New York. Bâ ’11(teaches film at Portsmouth University (UK). He researches ‘race’, the ‘postcolonial’, diaspora, the transnational and film ‘genre’, African and Caribbean cinemas and film festivals, Saër Maty, The US Decentred, Cultural Studies Review, volume 17 number 2 September 2011) In chapter nine, ‘“Savage” Negrophobia’, he writes: The philosophical anxiety AND ? The coffle approaches with its answers in tow.’ (340) Holcombe, ‘04 Randall G. Holcombe is DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University. The Independent Review, v. VIII, n. 3, Winter 2004, ISSN 1086-1653, 2004, pp. 325–342. “ Government: Unnecessary but Inevitable” accessed 5/27/11 at http:~/~/www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_08_3_pdf The contractarian literature of Rawls (1971), Buchanan (1975), and especially Tullock AND from the capacity of those in government to force their rule on others. Sexton’s theory of race ignores history and shuts-down discussion on other races. Spickard ‘9 (Paul Spickard, Graduated Harvard, Ph.D in History from UC Berkeley, professor of history at UC Santa Barbara, review of “Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism”, in American Studies, vol 5 num 1/2, MUSE) For Sexton (as for the Spencers and Gordon) race is about Blackness, AND to the subject of study, and that is not a fair assessment. Black-white binary is an insufficient analysis of racism. Perea ’97 (Professor of Law at the University of Florida, Juan F. Perea, "The Black/White Binary Paradigm of Race: The "Normal Science" of American Racial Thought," Oct. 5, 1997, JSTOR Paradigms of race shape our understanding of race and our definition of racial problems. AND that will not fit the box are often not seen at all."29 Their appeal to social location is biopolitics – turns case Scott 92 – professor of sociology at Princeton (Joan, “Multiculturalism and the Politics of Identity,” The Identity in Question (Summer, 1992), pp. 12-19, JSTOR) There is nothing wrong, on the face of it, with teaching individuals about AND and deeming as discernably objective facts the prerequisites for inclusion in any group. Modernity isn’t the root cause of violence—it’s always proximately caused. The alternative leaves us unable to deal with any global problems. Curtler ’97 (Hugh Mercer, Prof. Phil. – Southwest State U. “Rediscovering values: coming to terms with Postmodernism”, Netlibrary, p. 164-165) At the same time, we must beware the temptation to reject out of hand AND the face of hysteria. There are additional problems with postmodernism, however. Abandoning Enlightenment notions of progress makes liberation impossible—their criticism forecloses the possibility of productive challenges to power. Bronner ‘4 (Stephen Eric Bronner, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and a Member of the Graduate Faculty in Comparative Literature and German Studies at Rutgers University, 2004 (Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement, Published by Columbia University Press, ISBN 9780231126090, p. 39-40) Easy enough to criticize the pretensions of "progress," but without it the prospect AND . Quite the contrary: it renders the idea more important than ever. Their impact is a theoretical fabrication Jarvis ‘00 (Darryl, Senior Lecturer in International Relations – University of Sydney, International Relations and the Challenge of Postmodernism, p. 128) Perhaps more alarming though is the outright violence Ashley recommends in response to what at AND people and, arguably, to most issues of importance in international relations. Black Body Turn Referring to the “black body” as a site of contestation in physical objectified terms is part of a duality that elevates the white mind and justifies further oppression. Young ‘8 (July 2008, Gordon Alley Young, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications and Performing Arts at Kingsborough Community College-City University of New York, “Articulating Identity: Refining Postcolonial and Whiteness Perspectives on Race within Communication Studies,” The Review of Communication Vol. 8, No. 3, July 2008, pp. 307321, EBSCO) Descartes’(1968)mindbody dichotomy holds that the body is divisible into its constitutive AND strong cultural allegiances andviews native culture as physically oppressive and needing western intervention. The alternative is to reject the 1AC’s usage of the black body as a site of racial contestation. The alternative acknowledges the fluidity of identity, which produces a more thorough understanding of racial oppression. Young ‘8 (July 2008, Gordon Alley Young, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications and Performing Arts at Kingsborough Community College-City University of New York, “Articulating Identity: Refining Postcolonial and Whiteness Perspectives on Race within Communication Studies,” The Review of Communication Vol. 8, No. 3, July 2008, pp. 307321, EBSCO) Juxtaposing postcolonial and whiteness perspectives allows for an exploration of the myriad ways in which AND how white privilege and power operates in non-white cultures and contexts. Brown 9—Vincent Brown is Professor of History and of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, DECEMBER 2009, http:~/~/history.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/documents/pdf Slavery and Social Death was widely reviewed and lavishly praised for its erudition and conceptual AND is any indication, the pendulum seems to have swung decidedly toward despair. Assigning “social death” to individual identities creates violence and oppressions—their alternative gets manipulated to create a new wave of anti-black violence.Muhwati 5—Itai Muhwati is a Lecturer in the Department of African Languages and Literature at the University of Zimbabwe, “Mass Neurosis, Entrapment, Closure and the Race’s Race of Life in Masango Mavi (1998) and Mapenzi (1999)” http:~/~/ir.uz.ac.zw:8080/jspui/bitstream/10646/515/1/pdf(% class="MsoHyperlink" %). The African image in quite a number of literary creations in Zimbabwean literature is palpably AND other and many more. These are designations that bespeak helplessness and mass neurosis 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 AND those who influence us through their eloquence, prestige, wealth and power. Best and Kellner 1—Steven Best is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Humanities @ University of Texas and Douglas, Philosophy of Education Chair – UCLA, “Postmodern Politics and the Battle for the Future,” Illuminations, http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell28.htm The emphasis on local struggles and micropower, cultural politics which redefine the political, AND that focuses on the forces of domination as well as possibilities of emancipation. |
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1AC---Coast Plan: The United States Federal Government should reduce production restrictions on federal lands in the Outer Continental Shelf for conventional natural gas production. 1AC---Manufacturing Advantage 1: Manufacturing Natural gas price spike is inevitable---increased supply is key
Rod Adams 12 is Publisher at The Energy Collective, former nuclear submarine engineer. “Will natural gas prices in North America skyrocket by the end of 2014?” http://theenergycollective.com/rodadams/107901/look-out-natural-gas-prices-north-america-will-skyrocket-end-2014, Accessed date: 11-7-12 y2k My friends and family recognize that I am an odd bird. I often wake
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plant building anyplace outside of Germany, the home of brown coal fans. Plan solves manufacturing First, Offshore Transition---key to competitiveness.
Jim Motavalli 12 is Washington Post Staff. “Natural Gas Signals a ‘Manufacturing Renaissance’,”April 10, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/business/energy-environment/wider-availability-expands-uses-for-natural-gas.html?_r=1andpagewanted=all, Accessed date: 11-7-12 y2k
AS horizontal drilling and the controversial extraction technique known as fracking have made domestically produced
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, the company dismantled a similar Louisiana plant and shipped it to Trinidad. Second, facility expansion
CCES 12 – Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, May 2012, "Natural Gas in the Industrial Sector," www.c2es.org/docUploads/natural-gas-industrial-sector.pdf Increased availability and low prices of natural gas have significant implications for domestic manufacturing,
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and increased natural gas supplies also have the potential to stabilize prices.22 Third, Industry Demand---that’s key to building domestic workforce---key to steel and chemical industry.
PWC 11—PwC's Industrial Products (IP) practice provides financial, operational, and strategic services to global organizations. December 2011, "Shale Gas - A Renaissance in US Manufacturing?" www.pwc.com/en_US/us/industrial-products/assets/pwc-shale-gas-us-manufacturing-renaissance.pdf, Accessed date: 11-7-12 y2k The economic environment remains difficult for many US manufacturers, with soft demand and margin
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US manufacturing over the long term and create new jobs in the sector. Chemical industry solves extinction
Baum 99 – Baum, Founder of Chemical and Engineering News Washington, 12-6-99 (Rudy, “MILLENNIUM SPECIAL REPORT,” CandEN Washington, Volume 77, Number 49, http://pubs.acs.org/cen/hotarticles/cenear/991206/7749spintro2.html) Computers and the Internet are clearly one of the driving forces shaping all aspects of
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mysteries and provide for humanity's basic and not-so-basic needs. Steel bolsters heg---solves aircraft carriers.
AISI 8—American Iron and Steel Institute, “U.S. Steel Industry Critical To Keeping Us Free,” pg online @ http://legacy.steel.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=HomeandCONTENTID=24325andTEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm um-ef) Sharkey said domestically-produced steel is important to “improve our military platforms,
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steel requirements are satisfied by both integrated steel mills and EAF producer mills. Carriers prevent militant rise in Pakistan---triggers nuclear launch.
John Gordon 6 graduated from The Citadel in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in history
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1997. “LEVERAGING AMERICA'S AIRCRAFT CARRIER CAPABILITIES: Exploring New Combat and Noncombat
Roles and Missions for the U.S. Carrier Fleet,” http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2006/RAND_MG448.pdf, 2006, Accessed date: 12-3-12 y2k This vignette examined the possibility that a radical group within the Pakistani military attempts to
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man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) and other air defenses. That triggers massive nuclear war.
William Pitt 9 is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of two books: "War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know" and "The Greatest Sedition Is Silence”, 5/8, “Unstable Pakistan Threatens the World,” http://www.arabamericannews.com/news/index.php?mod=articleandcat=commentaryandarticle=2183, Accessed date: 12-3-12 y2k But a suicide bomber in Pakistan rammed a car packed with explosives into a jeep
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however, needs to be placed immediately on the front burner. The Obama
administration appears to be gravely serious about addressing the situation. So should we all. Manufacturing key to heg First, readiness---solves conflict escalation
Barry D. Watts 8 is Senior Fellow @ The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. “The US Defense Industrial Base, Past, Present and Future,” http://www.csbaonline.org/4Publications/PubLibrary/R.20081015._The_US_Defense_In/R.200-81015._The_US_Defense_In.pdf, Accessed date: 12/3/12 y2k Since the 1950s, the US defense industrial base has been a source of long
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term advantage in the decades ahead as it has been since the 1950s. Second, tech innovation and leadership
Stephen Ezell 11 is a Senior Analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Dr. Robert Atkinson is the President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. “The Case for a National Manufacturing Strategy,” http://www2.itif.org/2011-national-manufacturing-strategy.pdf, Accessed date: 11-20-12 y2k A strong manufacturing base is vital to the economic well-being of a nation
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difficulty restoring its ability to build nuclear submarines is a frequently cited example.) Tech innovation key to heg---solves great power conflicts.
Mark Taylor 4 is Professor of Political Science – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “The Politics of Technological Change: International Relations versus Domestic Institutions”, 4-1, http://www.scribd.com/doc/46554792/Taylor, Accessed date: 12-3-12 y2k. Technological innovation is of central importance to the study of international relations (IR),
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production, and war, international systems would not exist in the first place Hegemony solves extinction.
Thomas P.M. Barnett 11 is chief analyst at Wikistrat and a contributing editor for Esquire magazine. His latest book is "Great Powers: America and the World After Bush" (2009). “The New Rules: Leadership Fatigue Puts U.S., and Globalization, at Crossroads,” 07 Mar 2011, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/8099/the-new-rules-leadership-fatigue-puts-u-s-and-globalization-at-crossroads, Accessed date: 12-29-12 y2k It is worth first examining the larger picture: We live in a time of
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. And if you know your history, that should make you nervous. Transitions will be unstable.
Zbigniew Brzezinski 12 is a CSIS counselor and trustee and cochairs the CSIS Advisory Board. He is also a senior research professor of international relations at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, D.C. He is cochair of the American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Atlantic Council He was a member of the Policy Planning Council of the Department of State from 1966 to 1968; chairman of the Humphrey Foreign Policy Task Force in the 1968 presidential campaign; director of the Trilateral Commission from 1973 to 1976; and principal foreign policy adviser to Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential campaign. From 1977 to 1981, Dr. Brzezinski was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter. “After America: How does the world look in an age of U.S. decline? Dangerously unstable.” 1-3-12, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/03/after_america?page=full, Accessed date: 12-30-12 y2k Not so long ago, a high-ranking Chinese official, who obviously had
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policy -- or start bracing itself for a dangerous slide into global turmoil. 1AC---Exports Advantage 2: Exports Plan solves First, Feasibility---perception of sustainable base makes exports feasible.
Charles Ebinger 12 is Senior Fellow and Director of the Energy Security Initiative @ Brookings. Kevin Massy is Assistant Director of the Energy Security Initiative @ Brookings. Govinda Avasarala, Senior Research Assistant in the Energy Security Initiative @ Brookings, “Liquid Markets: Assessing the Case for U.S. Exports of Liquefied Natural Gas,” Brookings Institution, Policy Brief 12-01, http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/reports/2012/5/02%20lng%20exports%20ebinger/0502_lng_exports_ebinger.pdf, Accessed date: 10-30-12 y2k Resource Availability and Production sustainability For an increase in U.S. exports of
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percent of the total technically recoverable natural gas resource in the United States. Second, Investor Confidence---long-term supply is key to bring investments.
Pipeline and Gas Journal 12—“FORMER EXXON CEO SAYS SHALE UNKNOWNS COULD HINDER LNG EXPORTS,” April 2012, Vol. 239 No. 4, http://www.pipelineandgasjournal.com/former-exxon-ceo-says-shale-unknowns-could-hinder-lng-exports, Accessed date: 10-30-12 y2k Political constraints and concerns that production gains at shale fields aren't sustainable will hinder development
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way a good engineering group at a major oil company would approach things." Third, Offshore terminal---they’re key.
Kilisek 12—Roman, “The Bright Future of Floating LNG Liquefaction, Regasification and Storage Units”, 7/19, http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2012/07/19/the-bright-future-of-floating-lng-liquefaction-regasification-and-storage-units/) This is a newsworthy event in the LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) industry because
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the West Coast for export to South America (Chile) and Asia.
Exports are economical
Bass and Pickerning 12—Richard Bass and Gordon Pickering are directors in Navigant’s energy practice. “The U.S. Has A Natural Gas Glut; Why Exporting It As LNG Is A Good Idea,” 6/13/2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/energysource/2012/06/13/the-u-s-has-a-natural-gas-glut-why-exporting-it-as-lng-is-a-good-idea/print/ Accessed date: 10-1-12 y2k The emergence of shale gas has caused natural gas prices in North America to drop
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and at the right time to capitalize on North American LNG export projects. Exports are key to US-Japan alliance.
Patrick Cronin 12 is Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program – Center for a New American Security. Paul S. Giarra IS President of Global Strategies and Transformation. Zachary M. Hosford is Research Associate – Center for a New American Security. Daniel Katz is Researcher – Center for a New American Security, “The China Challenge: Military, Economic and Energy Choices Facing the US-Japan Alliance,” April, CNAS, http://www.cnas.org/files/documents/publications/CNAS_TheChinaChallenge_Cronin_0.pdf, Accessed date: 12-21-12 y2k Although energy security has long been an issue for the alliance, a new combination
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they could drift apart, thereby missing an opportunity to strengthen the alliance. Alliance is on the brink—key to Asian stability.
Armitage and Nye 12—Richard L. Armitage is president of Armitage International and a trustee of CSIS, a former US Deputy Secretary of State. Joseph S. Nye is dean emeritus of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and
a trustee of CSIS. “The U.S.-Japan Alliance anchoring stability in Asia” August, 2012 http://csis.org/files/publicati-
on/120810_Armitage_USJapanAlliance_Web.pdf This report on the U.S.-Japan alliance comes at a time of
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in Asia in the past and can continue to be in the future. Asian conflict goes nuclear
Landay 00 (Jonathan S. Landay (staff) March 10, 2000 “Top administration officials warn stakes for U.S. are high in Asian conflicts:, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau, l/n WASHINGTON _ The 3,700-mile arc that begins at the heavily fortified
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that totaled $600 billion last year, according to the Commerce Department.
1AC---Solvency Contention 3: Solvency Plan provides certainty and investor confidence for OCS drilling and production.
Lisa Griles 3 is Deputy Secretary @ Department of the Interior, “Energy Production on Federal Lands,” Hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate,” 4-30-03, Accessed date: 10-30-12 y2k Mr. GRILES. America’s public lands have an abundant opportunity for exploration and development
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from and buy, so they can have certainty about where to go. Shale gas production collapse is inevitable, only conventional natural gas solves.
Gregory Dorsey 12 is Managing Editor of Leeb’s Income Performance Letter, “Fractured Logic: The Myth of Abundant Natural Gas,” Leeb’s Market Forecast, 5-9, http://leebsmarketforecast.com/content/fractured-logic-myth-abundant-natural-gas, Accessed date: 11-4-12 y2k A popular meme these days is the idea that natural gas is America’s salvation on
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that also have a healthy exposure to crude oil earn the highest honors. Current lease fails—not enough.
Robin Millican 12 is the Institute for Energy Research's (IER) Director of Federal Affairs. “Rep. Markey’s Many Myths: Report Much Ado About Nothing,” October 26, 2012, http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2012/10/26/rep-markeys-many-myths-democrats-report-much-ado-about-nothing/, Accessed date: 11-7-12 y2k MARKEY’s MYTH: We don’t need to open more areas for exploration, because companies
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shale, almost 70 percent of which is under federal lands.5 |
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1AC---Navy
Plan: The United States Federal Government should reduce production restrictions on federal lands in the Outer Continental Shelf for conventional natural gas production. Adv 1: Manufacturing
Gas price spike is inevitable---drilling solves
Richard Finger 12 is Contributor to Forbes Magazine, a full-time equity options trader in Houston Texas, has a BS in economics from UC Berkeley and an MBA in finance from the U of Pennsylvania Wharton School. “Exposing the folly in boardrooms and capital markets,” http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardfinger/2012/07/27/more-data-natural-gas-is-heading-higher/print/ Accessed date: 1-6-13 y2k The weekly EIA gas storage numbers arrived on Thursday and the trend continues. Yesterday’s
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upon us. $8.00 gas is coming, so prepare. Fracking unsustainable- conventional gas solves
Dorsey 12 Fractured Logic: The Myth of Abundant Natural Gas, Leeb's Market Forecast, Gregory Dorsey, May 9, 2012 http://leebsmarketforecast.com/content/fractured-logic-myth-abundant-natural-gas A popular meme these days is the idea that natural gas is America’s salvation on
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that also have a healthy exposure to crude oil earn the highest honors. Restrictions prevent fracking
Plumer 12 Brad, “How states are regulating fracking (in maps)”, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/07/16/how-states-are-regulating-fracking-in-maps/ Armed with new drilling techniques, companies are spreading out across the United States,
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, the IEA notes, could prove even more costly to the gas industry Low gas prices key to manufacturing- independently key to chemical industry
PWC 11—PwC's Industrial Products (IP) practice provides financial, operational, and strategic services to global organizations. December 2011, "Shale Gas - A Renaissance in US Manufacturing?" www.pwc.com/en_US/us/industrial-products/assets/pwc-shale-gas-us-manufacturing-renaissance.pdf, Accessed date: 11-7-12 y2k The economic environment remains difficult for many US manufacturers, with soft demand and margin
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US manufacturing over the long term and create new jobs in the sector. Chemical industry solves extinction
Baum 99 Baum, Founder of Chemical and Engineering News Washington, 12-6-99 Rudy, “MILLENNIUM SPECIAL REPORT,” CandEN Washington, Volume 77, Number 49, http://pubs.acs.org/cen/hotarticles/cenear/991206/7749spintro2.html Computers and the Internet are clearly one of the driving forces shaping all aspects of
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mysteries and provide for humanity's basic and not-so-basic needs. Manufacturing is key to readiness---solves conflict de-escalation
Barry D. Watts 8 is Senior Fellow @ The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. “The US Defense Industrial Base, Past, Present and Future,” http://www.csbaonline.org/4Publications/PubLibrary/R.20081015._The_US_Defense_In/R.200-81015._The_US_Defense_In.pdf, Accessed date: 12/3/12 y2k Since the 1950s, the US defense industrial base has been a source of long
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term advantage in the decades ahead as it has been since the 1950s. AND- it’s also key to tech leadership and innovation.
Stephen Ezell 11 is a Senior Analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Dr. Robert Atkinson is the President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. “The Case for a National Manufacturing Strategy,” http://www2.itif.org/2011-national-manufacturing-strategy.pdf, Accessed date: 11-20-12 y2k A strong manufacturing base is vital to the economic well-being of a nation
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difficulty restoring its ability to build nuclear submarines is a frequently cited example.) Tech innovation independently solves great power war
Mark Taylor 4 is Professor of Political Science – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “The Politics of Technological Change: International Relations versus Domestic Institutions”, 4-1, http://www.scribd.com/doc/46554792/Taylor, Accessed date: 12-3-12 y2k. Technological innovation is of central importance to the study of international relations (IR),
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production, and war, international systems would not exist in the first place US-led natural gas revolution solidifies international leadership
Mead 12 Walter Russell, James Clark Chase Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities – Bard College and Editor-at-Large – American Interest, “Energy Revolution 2: A Post Post-American Post,” American Interest, 7-15, http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/07/15/energy-revolution-2-a-post-post-american-post/ Forget peak oil; forget the Middle East. The energy revolution of the 21st
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role in shoring up the foundations of the American-led world order. The energy revolution cements the liberal international order- alternative is resource wars
Mead 12 Walter Russell, James Clark Chase Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities – Bard College and Editor-at-Large – American Interest, “Energy Revolution 3: The New American Century,” American Interest, 7-18, http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/07/18/energy-revolution-3-the-new-american-century/ Get ready for an American century: that appears to be the main consequence of
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one in which the whole oil question is a lot more laid back. Globalization solves conflict
Panitchpakdi 4—Supachai Panitchpakdi is the UN Conference on Trade and Development General, “American Leadership and the World Trade Organization: What is the Alternative?”, 26 February 2004, http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/spsp_e/spsp22_
e.htm Accessed date: 8-27-12 y2k I can sum up my message today in three sentences: The United States,
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important to fail. The world depends on it. So does America. Heg solves extinction.
Thomas P.M. Barnett 11 is chief analyst at Wikistrat and a contributing editor for Esquire magazine. His latest book is "Great Powers: America and the World After Bush" (2009). “The New Rules: Leadership Fatigue Puts U.S., and Globalization, at Crossroads,” 07 Mar 2011, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/8099/the-new-rules-leadership-fatigue-puts-u-s-and-globalization-at-crossroads, Accessed date: 12-29-12 y2k It is worth first examining the larger picture: We live in a time of
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. And if you know your history, that should make you nervous. Decline causes transition war and lashout
Zbigniew Brzezinski 12 is a CSIS counselor and trustee and cochairs the CSIS Advisory Board. He is also a senior research professor of international relations at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, D.C. He is cochair of the American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Atlantic Council He was a member of the Policy Planning Council of the Department of State from 1966 to 1968; chairman of the Humphrey Foreign Policy Task Force in the 1968 presidential campaign; director of the Trilateral Commission from 1973 to 1976; and principal foreign policy adviser to Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential campaign. From 1977 to 1981, Dr. Brzezinski was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter. “After America: How does the world look in an age of U.S. decline? Dangerously unstable.” 1-3-12, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/03/after_america?page=full, Accessed date: 12-30-12 y2k Not so long ago, a high-ranking Chinese official, who obviously had
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policy -- or start bracing itself for a dangerous slide into global turmoil. Removing restriction is key to shipbuilding and chemical industry
Mason 11 Joseph – Senior Fellow, The Wharton School, Louisiana State University Endowed Chair of Banking and nationally-renowned economist, “House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Hearing; Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs Legislative Hearing on H.R. 306, H.R. 588, S. 266 and H.R. 285”, 4/6, lexis
Apart from national energy concerns, however, economic considerations also favor increased development of
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billion per year) in new U.S. federal tax income. US is leading naval power, but shipbuilding is key to sustaining primacy.
NLUS 12—Navy League of the US, “America’s Maritime Industry The foundation of American Seapower,” 2012, http://www.navyleague.org/files/americas-maritime-industry.pdf, Date Verification – http://gsship.org/industry-links/, Accessed date: 12-1-12 y2k Defense Industrial Base: Shipbuilding The American Maritime Industry also contributes to our national defense
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world. They are unmatched in capability, but must maintain that lead. Naval power solves nuclear war
James Conway et al 7 is General, US Marine Corps, Commandant of the Marine Corps AND Gary Roughead – Admiral, U.S. navy, Chief of Naval Operations AND Thad Allen – Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Commandant of the Coast Guard, A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower, p. http://www.navy.mil/maritime/MaritimeStrategy.pdf, Accessed date: 12-1-12 y2k The world economy is tightly interconnected. Over the past four decades, total sea
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expanding set of international partners, and prevent or mitigate disruptions and crises. Adv 2- Arctic
Global Arctic drilling is inevitable---Offshore drilling is key to Arctic leadership
Margaret Kriz Hobson 12 is the energy and environmental correspondent for the National Journal and moderates an Expert Blog on those issues at energy.nationaljournal.com. Kriz Hobson was a Nieman Foundation Journalism Fellow at Harvard. She writes a federal column for the Environmental Law Institute's Environmental Forum magazine, and she's served on the boards of directors of the Society of Environmental Journalists and Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources. “OFFSHORE DRILLING: Calls for Arctic policy intensify as Shell nears final OK for exploration,” June 27, 2012, http://www.eenews.net/public/energywire/2012/06/27/1, Accessed date: 1-17-13 y2k The prospect of oil exploration this summer in Alaska's northernmost waters is triggering calls for
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it real to other people in the country in this tough budget climate." The Arctic will be the next area of great power conflict- gas production spurs military investments that prevent escalation
Talmadge 12 Eric – AP, Huffington Post, “Arctic Climate Change Opening Region To New Military Activity’, 4/16, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/16/arctic-climate-change-military-activity_n_1427565.html To the world's military leaders, the debate over climate change is long over.
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The U.S. is currently mulling whether to add more icebreakers. Arctic conflicts go nuclear- draws in major powers
Wallace and Staples 10 Michael Wallace and Steven Staples. *Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia and President of the Rideau Institute in Ottawa “Ridding the Arctic of Nuclear Weapons: A Task Long Overdue,”http:www.arcticsecurity.org/docs/arctic-nuclear-report-web.pdf The fact is, the Arctic is becoming a zone of increased military competition.
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-political/economic significance of the Arctic because of climate change.” 62 Arctic gas production leads solidifies environmental leadership- prevents destruction
Sullivan 12 Dan – a former state attorney general, commissioner of Alaska's Department of Natural Resources, “It's time to develop our Arctic resources, 7/20, http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/20/opinion/sullivan-arctic-drilling/index.html (CNN) -- The United States is on the verge of an energy renaissance
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the world that it can be a strong leader in responsible energy development. Extinction
Ford 3 Violet, Vice President – Inuit Circumpolar Conference, “Global Environmental Change: An Inuit Reality”, 10-15, http://www.mcgill.ca/files/cine/Ford.pdf The Arctic ecosystem is a fundamental contributor to global processes and the balance of life
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and their organizations to be distinct and separate from environmental and other NGO’s. Solvency
OCS drilling yields massive production increase- certainty key
Lisa Griles 3 is Deputy Secretary @ Department of the Interior, “Energy Production on Federal Lands,” Hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate,” 4-30-03, Accessed date: 10-30-12 y2k Mr. GRILES. America’s public lands have an abundant opportunity for exploration and development
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from and buy, so they can have certainty about where to go. Current lease fails—not enough.
Robin Millican 12 is the Institute for Energy Research's (IER) Director of Federal Affairs. “Rep. Markey’s Many Myths: Report Much Ado About Nothing,” October 26, 2012, http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2012/10/26/rep-markeys-many-myths-democrats-report-much-ado-about-nothing/, Accessed date: 11-7-12 y2k MARKEY’s MYTH: We don’t need to open more areas for exploration, because companies
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shale, almost 70 percent of which is under federal lands.5 |
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Plan: The United States Federal Government should reduce production restrictions on federal lands in the Outer Continental Shelf for conventional natural gas production. Contention 1: Manufacturing Natural gas price spike is inevitable---increased supply is key
Rod Adams 12 is Publisher at The Energy Collective, former nuclear submarine engineer. “Will natural gas prices in North America skyrocket by the end of 2014?” http://theenergycollective.com/rodadams/107901/look-out-natural-gas-prices-north-america-will-skyrocket-end-2014, Accessed date: 11-7-12 y2k My friends and family recognize that I am an odd bird. I often wake
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plant building anyplace outside of Germany, the home of brown coal fans. Plan provides certainty and investor confidence for OCS drilling and production.
Lisa Griles 3 is Deputy Secretary @ Department of the Interior, “Energy Production on Federal Lands,” Hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate,” 4-30-03, Accessed date: 10-30-12 y2k Mr. GRILES. America’s public lands have an abundant opportunity for exploration and development
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from and buy, so they can have certainty about where to go. That’s key to manufacturing industry---outweighs alt causes.
PWC 11—PwC's Industrial Products (IP) practice provides financial, operational, and strategic services to global organizations. December 2011, "Shale Gas - A Renaissance in US Manufacturing?" www.pwc.com/en_US/us/industrial-products/assets/pwc-shale-gas-us-manufacturing-renaissance.pdf, Accessed date: 11-7-12 y2k The economic environment remains difficult for many US manufacturers, with soft demand and margin
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US manufacturing over the long term and create new jobs in the sector. Manufacturing is key to tech innovation and leadership.
Stephen Ezell 11 is a Senior Analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Dr. Robert Atkinson is the President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. “The Case for a National Manufacturing Strategy,” http://www2.itif.org/2011-national-manufacturing-strategy.pdf, Accessed date: 11-20-12 y2k A strong manufacturing base is vital to the economic well-being of a nation
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difficulty restoring its ability to build nuclear submarines is a frequently cited example.) Tech innovation key to heg---solves great power conflicts.
Mark Taylor 4 is Professor of Political Science – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “The Politics of Technological Change: International Relations versus Domestic Institutions”, 4-1, http://www.scribd.com/doc/46554792/Taylor, Accessed date: 12-3-12 y2k. Technological innovation is of central importance to the study of international relations (IR),
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production, and war, international systems would not exist in the first place Hegemony solves extinction.
Thomas P.M. Barnett 11 is chief analyst at Wikistrat and a contributing editor for Esquire magazine. His latest book is "Great Powers: America and the World After Bush" (2009). “The New Rules: Leadership Fatigue Puts U.S., and Globalization, at Crossroads,” 07 Mar 2011, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/8099/the-new-rules-leadership-fatigue-puts-u-s-and-globalization-at-crossroads, Accessed date: 12-29-12 y2k It is worth first examining the larger picture: We live in a time of
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. And if you know your history, that should make you nervous. Transition will be unstable.
Zbigniew Brzezinski 12 is a CSIS counselor and trustee and cochairs the CSIS Advisory Board. He is also a senior research professor of international relations at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, D.C. He is cochair of the American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Atlantic Council He was a member of the Policy Planning Council of the Department of State from 1966 to 1968; chairman of the Humphrey Foreign Policy Task Force in the 1968 presidential campaign; director of the Trilateral Commission from 1973 to 1976; and principal foreign policy adviser to Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential campaign. From 1977 to 1981, Dr. Brzezinski was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter. “After America: How does the world look in an age of U.S. decline? Dangerously unstable.” 1-3-12, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/03/after_america?page=full, Accessed date: 12-30-12 y2k Not so long ago, a high-ranking Chinese official, who obviously had
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policy -- or start bracing itself for a dangerous slide into global turmoil. Violence is down because of everything consistent with the aff---it’s only a question of sustaining current dynamics
Pinker 11 Steven Pinker is Professor of psychology at Harvard University "Violence Vanquished" Sept 24 online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904106704576583203589408180.html On the day this article appears, you will read about a shocking act of
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that the Long Peace and rights revolutions coincided with the electronic global village. Focus on strategic deterrence and democracy is key to adverting crisis escalation—reject the infinite number of root causes that debilitate action
Moore 4 John Moore 4 chaired law prof, UVA. Frm first Chairman of the Board of the US Institute of Peace and as the Counselor on Int Law to the Dept. of State, Beyond the Democratic Peace, 44 Va. J. Int'l L. 341, Lexis If major interstate war is predominantly a product of a synergy between a potential nondemocratic
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in general, happens when levels of deterrence are dramatically increased or decreased? Criticizing US power distracts from deterring global imperial powers that actually trigger the impact
Shaw 2 Martin Shaw, professor of international relations at University of Sussex, April 7, Uses and Abuses of Anti-Imperialism in the Global Era, http://www.martinshaw.org/empire.htm It is fashionable in some circles, among which we must clearly include the organizers
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I shall return to these political issues at the end of this paper. Absolute rejection of security based politics leads to global injustices – only US forces can prevent global violence
Elshtain 3 Jean Bethke, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and is a contributing editor for The New Republic, Just War Against Terror Peace is a good, and so is justice, but neither is an absolute
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, in the long run, the one most conducive to civic peace? Dissident IR locks in global exploitation – political action is necessary to change material conditions of oppression
Agathangelou and Ling 97 Anna M., Director of the Global Change Institute in Nicosia and Former Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Politics at Oberlin; L.H.M., Institute of Social Studies at the Hague, STUDIES IN POLITICAL ECONOMY, v54, Fall, p. 7-8 Yet, ironically if not tragically, dissident IR also paralyzes itself into non-
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reconstruction, particulars from universals, and critical theory from problem-solving. |
| 02/23/2013 | Tournament: Districts | Round: 1 | Opponent: Mary Wash LP | Judge: Nikolic
1AC---Districts
Plan: The Department of Interior should reduce restrictions on federal lands in the Arctic and the Gulf Outer Continental Shelf for conventional natural gas production and provide necessary leases for conventional natural gas production. 1AC---Arctic
Global Arctic drilling is inevitable---Offshore drilling is key to leadership
Margaret Kriz Hobson 12 is the energy and environmental correspondent for the National Journal and moderates an Expert Blog on those issues at energy.nationaljournal.com. Kriz Hobson was a Nieman Foundation Journalism Fellow at Harvard. She writes a federal column for the Environmental Law Institute's Environmental Forum magazine, and she's served on the boards of directors of the Society of Environmental Journalists and Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources. “OFFSHORE DRILLING: Calls for Arctic policy intensify as Shell nears final OK for exploration,” June 27, 2012, http://www.eenews.net/public/energywire/2012/06/27/1, Accessed date: 1-17-13 y2k The prospect of oil exploration this summer in Alaska's northernmost waters is triggering calls for
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it real to other people in the country in this tough budget climate." Offshore drilling solves security investment.
Bert 12 Captain Melissa – USCG, 2011-2012 Military Fellow, U.S.Coast Guard, “A Strategy to Advance the Arctic Economy”, February, http://www.cfr.org/arctic/strategy-advance-arctic-economy/p27258 The United States needs to develop a comprehensive strategy for the Arctic. Melting sea
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tremendous economic benefits and could harm U.S. national security interests. Arctic militarization now---causes instability---diplomacy fails.
Terry Maccalister 12 is Guardian Staff, “Arctic military rivalry could herald a 21st-century cold war,” 6-5-12, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/05/arctic-military-rivalry-cold-war, Accessed Date: 2-18-13 y2k A buildup of military forces around the Arctic amid growing excitement about its oil wealth
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prohibition on the discussion of security issues, is the place to start. Goes nuclear
Wallace and Staples 10 Michael Wallace and Steven Staples. *Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia and President of the Rideau Institute in Ottawa “Ridding the Arctic of Nuclear Weapons: A Task Long Overdue,”http:www.arcticsecurity.org/docs/arctic-nuclear-report-web.pdf The fact is, the Arctic is becoming a zone of increased military competition.
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-political/economic significance of the Arctic because of climate change.” 62 Solves environmental leadership---prevents ecosystem destruction
Sullivan 12 Dan – a former state attorney general, commissioner of Alaska's Department of Natural Resources, “It's time to develop our Arctic resources, 7/20, http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/20/opinion/sullivan-arctic-drilling/index.html (CNN) -- The United States is on the verge of an energy renaissance
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the world that it can be a strong leader in responsible energy development. Extinction
Ford 3 Violet, Vice President – Inuit Circumpolar Conference, “Global Environmental Change: An Inuit Reality”, 10-15, http://www.mcgill.ca/files/cine/Ford.pdf The Arctic ecosystem is a fundamental contributor to global processes and the balance of life
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and their organizations to be distinct and separate from environmental and other NGO’s. 1AC---Gulf
Offshore drilling is critical to Gulf’s economy---key to tech innovation and leadership.
Jim Diifley et al 10 is Managing Director of U.S. Regional Economics Group @ IHS GLOBAL INSIGHT (USA), INC. Mohsen Bonakdarpour is Director of Economics Analysis Group, Shane Norton is Senior Economist, Economic Impact Analysis Group, Tanya Rosbash is Economist, Economic Impact Analysis Group, Richard Fullenbaum is Senior Managing Director, Federal Government Consulting, Brendan O’Neil is Director, State and Local Government Consulting. “The Economic Impact of the Gulf of Mexico Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Industry and the Role of the Independents,” 21 July 2010, http://www.fulbright.com/e_templates/crd/sites/offshore/EconomicImpact.pdf, Accessed date: 1-29-13 y2k This study presents the economic significance of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) offshore
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original lease agreement that enable prospects to be drilled and oil and gas produced Lifting offshore restrictions bolsters manufacturing.
Joel Kotkin 12 is the Distinguished Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and a contributing editor at City Journal, “Joel Kotkin: The Gulf Coast is America’s new economic powerhouse,” 12-7-12, http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/sunday-commentary/20121207-joel-kotkin-the-gulf-coast-is-americas-new-economic-powerhouse.ece, Accessed date: 1-29-13 y2k In the wilds of Louisiana’s St. James Parish, amid the alligators and sugar
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Coast could become one of the major forces in 21st-century America. Manufacturing is key to readiness---solves conflict escalation
Barry D. Watts 8 is Senior Fellow @ The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. “The US Defense Industrial Base, Past, Present and Future,” http://www.csbaonline.org/4Publications/PubLibrary/R.20081015._The_US_Defense_In/R.200-81015._The_US_Defense_In.pdf, Accessed date: 12/3/12 y2k Since the 1950s, the US defense industrial base has been a source of long
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term advantage in the decades ahead as it has been since the 1950s. AND- key to tech leadership and innovation.
Stephen Ezell 11 is a Senior Analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Dr. Robert Atkinson is the President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. “The Case for a National Manufacturing Strategy,” http://www2.itif.org/2011-national-manufacturing-strategy.pdf, Accessed date: 11-20-12 y2k A strong manufacturing base is vital to the economic well-being of a nation
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difficulty restoring its ability to build nuclear submarines is a frequently cited example.) Tech innovation solves great power war
Mark Taylor 4 is Professor of Political Science – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “The Politics of Technological Change: International Relations versus Domestic Institutions”, 4-1, http://www.scribd.com/doc/46554792/Taylor, Accessed date: 12-3-12 y2k. Technological innovation is of central importance to the study of international relations (IR),
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production, and war, international systems would not exist in the first place Heg solves extinction.
Thomas P.M. Barnett 11 is chief analyst at Wikistrat and a contributing editor for Esquire magazine. His latest book is "Great Powers: America and the World After Bush" (2009). “The New Rules: Leadership Fatigue Puts U.S., and Globalization, at Crossroads,” 07 Mar 2011, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/8099/the-new-rules-leadership-fatigue-puts-u-s-and-globalization-at-crossroads, Accessed date: 12-29-12 y2k It is worth first examining the larger picture: We live in a time of
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. And if you know your history, that should make you nervous. Decline causes transition war and lashout
Zbigniew Brzezinski 12 is a CSIS counselor and trustee and cochairs the CSIS Advisory Board. He is also a senior research professor of international relations at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, D.C. He is cochair of the American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Atlantic Council He was a member of the Policy Planning Council of the Department of State from 1966 to 1968; chairman of the Humphrey Foreign Policy Task Force in the 1968 presidential campaign; director of the Trilateral Commission from 1973 to 1976; and principal foreign policy adviser to Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential campaign. From 1977 to 1981, Dr. Brzezinski was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter. “After America: How does the world look in an age of U.S. decline? Dangerously unstable.” 1-3-12, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/03/after_america?page=full, Accessed date: 12-30-12 y2k Not so long ago, a high-ranking Chinese official, who obviously had
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policy -- or start bracing itself for a dangerous slide into global turmoil. Globalization solves conflict
Panitchpakdi 4—Supachai Panitchpakdi is the UN Conference on Trade and Development General, “American Leadership and the World Trade Organization: What is the Alternative?”, 26 February 2004, http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/spsp_e/spsp22_
e.htm Accessed date: 8-27-12 y2k I can sum up my message today in three sentences: The United States,
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important to fail. The world depends on it. So does America. 1AC---Postal Service
USPS shift to alternative fuels now, supply key
John Kemp 12 is Reuters Market Analyst, “U.S. post office struggles with alternative fuel delivery: Kemp,” 5-28-13, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-05-28/news/sns-rt-us-postal-servicebre84r0gm-20120528_1_alternative-fuel-petroleum-derived-fuels-federal-fleets/2, Accessed Date: 2-14-13 y2k If any organization has the incentive and the scale to roll out a fleet of
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. Unfortunately the postal service is stuck with a strategy based around E85. Solves bioterror
Joy Leong Consulting 11 has both depth and breadth in the postal industry, having represented individual mailers in the financial services and catalog industries, trade associations, vendors, suppliers, and posts (including the USPS). Ms. Leong specializes in negotiating contracts with the Postal Service and obtaining regulatory approvals for these agreements and in representing mailers in rate cases. She has participated in the entire range of regulatory proceedings at the Postal Regulatory Commission, including rulemaking, ratemaking, regulatory approval, and complaint proceedings. She was involved in the passage and implementation of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006. She helped start the American Catalog Mailers Association, negotiated the first competitive contract under the PAEA, and filed the first major complaint case under the PAEA on behalf of her clients. Together with PRC Commissioner Ruth Goldway, Ms. Leong founded Women in Logistics and Delivery Services (WILDS), which has grown into a national network of over 100 professional women in the postal and delivery industry. “THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE POSTAL SERVICE IN NATIONAL EMERGENCIES: A Case Study of its Role in Katrina and its Emergency Preparedness Efforts,” 2-14-11, http://www.prc.gov/(S(lyz520elz3r3zl552ud0fa45))/prc-docs/library/archived/Emergency_Prep_Report.pdf Final Report, Accessed Date: 2-14-13 y2k The Postal Service is one of the few entities—government or private—that
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at residential delivery" which can be called on in times of crisis. Threat is high
Dr. Leonard A. Cole 12 teaches at Rutgers University and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He has written extensively on bioterrorism issues and on terror medicine. “Bioterrorism: Still a Threat to the United States,” Jan 18, 2012, http://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/bioterrorism-still-a-threat-to-the-united-states, Accessed Date: 2-14-13 y2k The tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks prompted reflections on the current status
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ill-chosen projects, a condition that should be acknowledged and remediated. Extinction
Jason G. Matheny 7 is a research associate with the Future of Humanity Institute @ Oxford University, “Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction,” Risk Analysis. (Subscription required) Volume 27, Number 5, 2007, http://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/resources/publications/2007/2007-10-15-reducingrisk.html, Accessed Date: 2-14-13 y2k We already invest in some extinction countermeasures. NASA spends $4 million per year
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to respond to pandemics (Lam, Franco, and Shuler, 2006). Causes US retaliation and disease outbreak
Barry Kellman 10 is Professor of Law @ DePaul Law University, “BWC 7th RevCon Proposal: Biopreparedness Legal Task Force,” August 26, 2010, http://www.biopolicy.org/current-postings, Accessed Date: 2-14-13 y2k Prof. Kellman, addressing the same issue, said “Bio-attacks that
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global systems for detecting outbreaks of infectious disease, regardless of the cause.” Retaliation goes nuclear
Lt. Col. Harry Conley 3 is chief of the Systems Analysis Branch, Directorate of Requirements, Headquarters Air Combat Command (ACC), Langley AFB, Virginia. Air and Space Power Journal, http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj03/spr03/conley.html, Accessed Date: 2-14-13 y2k The number of American casualties suffered due to a WMD attack may well be the
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be more than just a possibility, whatever promises had been made.”48
Disease causes extinction
Keating 9 Foreign Policy web editor, Joshua, “The End of the World”, 11-13-09, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/13/the_end_of_the_world?page=full, How it could happen: Throughout history, plagues have brought civilizations to their knees
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HIV. Biological weapons experimentation has added a new and just as troubling complication 1AC---Solvency
OCS drilling yields massive production increase- certainty key
Lisa Griles 3 is Deputy Secretary @ Department of the Interior, “Energy Production on Federal Lands,” Hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate,” 4-30-03, Accessed date: 10-30-12 y2k Mr. GRILES. America’s public lands have an abundant opportunity for exploration and development
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from and buy, so they can have certainty about where to go. Current lease fails—not enough.
Robin Millican 12 is the Institute for Energy Research's (IER) Director of Federal Affairs. “Rep. Markey’s Many Myths: Report Much Ado About Nothing,” October 26, 2012, http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2012/10/26/rep-markeys-many-myths-democrats-report-much-ado-about-nothing/, Accessed date: 11-7-12 y2k MARKEY’s MYTH: We don’t need to open more areas for exploration, because companies
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shale, almost 70 percent of which is under federal lands.5 Demand high offshore gas
PR Newswire 12 “Offshore Drilling Industry to 2016 - Rapidly Rising Demand for Hydrocarbons Expected to Boost Offshore Drilling in Ultra-Deepwater and Harsh-weather Environments”, 2012, http://www.bizjournals.com/prnewswire/press_releases/2012/02/23/SP58486 The production from offshore regions accounts for an increasing share of the total world oil
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financial slowdown meaning that drilling expenditure is expected to steadily rise until 2016. Offshore development keeps prices low
Pirog, 12 Robert Pirog Specialist in Energy Economics CRS, http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R40645_20120210.pdf Natural gas markets differ from the oil market in that they are not global,
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less competitive in a market environment dominated¶ by onshore shale gas development. Gas price spike is inevitable---shale insufficient
Richard Finger 12 is Contributor to Forbes Magazine, a full-time equity options trader in Houston Texas, has a BS in economics from UC Berkeley and an MBA in finance from the U of Pennsylvania Wharton School. “Exposing the folly in boardrooms and capital markets,” http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardfinger/2012/07/27/more-data-natural-gas-is-heading-higher/print/ Accessed Date: 1-6-13 y2k The weekly EIA gas storage numbers arrived on Thursday and the trend continues. Yesterday’s
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upon us. $8.00 gas is coming, so prepare. Industry supports for offshore gas extraction now.
Lauren O'Neil 10 is staff writer @ Natural Gas Week, “The Big Spill: Inherent Differences Between Oil, Gas EandP Highlighted,” Natural Gas Week, May 10, 2010, l/n, Accessed date: 1-31-13 y2k
The blow out and spill …outcome." Specifically, offshore drilling is attractive regardless of price-differential.
Travis Hoium 13 is Fool contributor Travis Hoium manages an account that owns shares of Seadrill, “Offshore vs. Onshore Drilling: Which Is a Better Investment?” http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/01/29/offshore-vs-onshore-drilling-which-is-a-better-inv.aspx January 29, 2013, Accessed date: 2-3-13, y2k
Over the past few years, …, are the best bet. |
| 03/03/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Same as districts aff, but new plan text---
Plan: The Department of Interior should reduce restrictions on federal lands in the Arctic and the Gulf Outer Continental Shelf for conventional crude oil and natural gas production and provide necessary leases for crude oil and conventional natural gas production. |
| 03/09/2013 | Tournament: ADA | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
1AC---Plan
Plan: The Department of Interior should reduce restrictions on federal lands in the Gulf Outer Continental Shelf for conventional natural gas and crude oil production and provide necessary leases for conventional natural gas and oil production. 1AC---Gulf
Offshore drilling is critical to Gulf’s economy---key to tech innovation and leadership.
Jim Diifley et al 10 is Managing Director of U.S. Regional Economics Group @ IHS GLOBAL INSIGHT (USA), INC. Mohsen Bonakdarpour is Director of Economics Analysis Group, Shane Norton is Senior Economist, Economic Impact Analysis Group, Tanya Rosbash is Economist, Economic Impact Analysis Group, Richard Fullenbaum is Senior Managing Director, Federal Government Consulting, Brendan O’Neil is Director, State and Local Government Consulting. “The Economic Impact of the Gulf of Mexico Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Industry and the Role of the Independents,” 21 July 2010, http://www.fulbright.com/e_templates/crd/sites/offshore/EconomicImpact.pdf, Accessed date: 1-29-13 y2k This study presents the economic significance of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) offshore
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original lease agreement that enable prospects to be drilled and oil and gas produced Lifting offshore restrictions bolsters manufacturing.
Joel Kotkin 12 is the Distinguished Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and a contributing editor at City Journal, “Joel Kotkin: The Gulf Coast is America’s new economic powerhouse,” 12-7-12, http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/sunday-commentary/20121207-joel-kotkin-the-gulf-coast-is-americas-new-economic-powerhouse.ece, Accessed date: 1-29-13 y2k In the wilds of Louisiana’s St. James Parish, amid the alligators and sugar
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Coast could become one of the major forces in 21st-century America. Chemical industry solves extinction
Baum 99 Baum, Founder of Chemical and Engineering News Washington, 12-6-99 Rudy, “MILLENNIUM SPECIAL REPORT,” CandEN Washington, Volume 77, Number 49, http://pubs.acs.org/cen/hotarticles/cenear/991206/7749spintro2.html Computers and the Internet are clearly one of the driving forces shaping all aspects of
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mysteries and provide for humanity's basic and not-so-basic needs. Lack of permits will collapse Gulf industries
NRC 12 Natural Resources Committee, “Gulf Locals and Energy Experts Express Concern Over Decreased Gulf of Mexico Offshore Drilling Activity on Jobs, Economy,” 3-8-12, http://naturalresources.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=283835, Accessed Date: 2-15-13 y2k WASHINGTON, D.C., March 8, 2012 - Today, the Subcommittee
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continues to be a permitting constraint on Deepwater Gulf of Mexico drilling activity.” Manufacturing is key to readiness---solves conflict escalation
Barry D. Watts 8 is Senior Fellow @ The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. “The US Defense Industrial Base, Past, Present and Future,” http://www.csbaonline.org/4Publications/PubLibrary/R.20081015._The_US_Defense_In/R.200-81015._The_US_Defense_In.pdf, Accessed date: 12/3/12 y2k Since the 1950s, the US defense industrial base has been a source of long
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term advantage in the decades ahead as it has been since the 1950s. AND- key to tech leadership and innovation.
Stephen Ezell 11 is a Senior Analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Dr. Robert Atkinson is the President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. “The Case for a National Manufacturing Strategy,” http://www2.itif.org/2011-national-manufacturing-strategy.pdf, Accessed date: 11-20-12 y2k A strong manufacturing base is vital to the economic well-being of a nation
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difficulty restoring its ability to build nuclear submarines is a frequently cited example.) Tech innovation solves great power war
Mark Taylor 4 is Professor of Political Science – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “The Politics of Technological Change: International Relations versus Domestic Institutions”, 4-1, http://www.scribd.com/doc/46554792/Taylor, Accessed date: 12-3-12 y2k. Technological innovation is of central importance to the study of international relations (IR),
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production, and war, international systems would not exist in the first place Heg solves extinction.
Thomas P.M. Barnett 11 is chief analyst at Wikistrat and a contributing editor for Esquire magazine. His latest book is "Great Powers: America and the World After Bush" (2009). “The New Rules: Leadership Fatigue Puts U.S., and Globalization, at Crossroads,” 07 Mar 2011, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/8099/the-new-rules-leadership-fatigue-puts-u-s-and-globalization-at-crossroads, Accessed date: 12-29-12 y2k It is worth first examining the larger picture: We live in a time of
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. And if you know your history, that should make you nervous. Decline causes transition war and lashout
Zbigniew Brzezinski 12 is a CSIS counselor and trustee and cochairs the CSIS Advisory Board. He is also a senior research professor of international relations at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, D.C. He is cochair of the American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Atlantic Council He was a member of the Policy Planning Council of the Department of State from 1966 to 1968; chairman of the Humphrey Foreign Policy Task Force in the 1968 presidential campaign; director of the Trilateral Commission from 1973 to 1976; and principal foreign policy adviser to Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential campaign. From 1977 to 1981, Dr. Brzezinski was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter. “After America: How does the world look in an age of U.S. decline? Dangerously unstable.” 1-3-12, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/03/after_america?page=full, Accessed date: 12-30-12 y2k Not so long ago, a high-ranking Chinese official, who obviously had
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policy -- or start bracing itself for a dangerous slide into global turmoil. US-led natural gas revolution solidifies leadership
Mead 12 Walter Russell, James Clark Chase Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities – Bard College and Editor-at-Large – American Interest, “Energy Revolution 2: A Post Post-American Post,” American Interest, 7-15, http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/07/15/energy-revolution-2-a-post-post-american-post/ Forget peak oil; forget the Middle East. The energy revolution of the 21st
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role in shoring up the foundations of the American-led world order. Gas revolution cements liberal international order- alternative is resource wars
Mead 12 Walter Russell, James Clark Chase Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities – Bard College and Editor-at-Large – American Interest, “Energy Revolution 3: The New American Century,” American Interest, 7-18, http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/07/18/energy-revolution-3-the-new-american-century/ Get ready for an American century: that appears to be the main consequence of
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one in which the whole oil question is a lot more laid back. Globalization solves conflict
Panitchpakdi 4—Supachai Panitchpakdi is the UN Conference on Trade and Development General, “American Leadership and the World Trade Organization: What is the Alternative?”, 26 February 2004, http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/spsp_e/spsp22_
e.htm Accessed date: 8-27-12 y2k I can sum up my message today in three sentences: The United States,
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important to fail. The world depends on it. So does America. 1AC---Postal Service
USPS shift to alternative fuels now, supply key
John Kemp 12 is Reuters Market Analyst, “U.S. post office struggles with alternative fuel delivery: Kemp,” 5-28-13, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-05-28/news/sns-rt-us-postal-servicebre84r0gm-20120528_1_alternative-fuel-petroleum-derived-fuels-federal-fleets/2, Accessed Date: 2-14-13 y2k If any organization has the incentive and the scale to roll out a fleet of
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. Unfortunately the postal service is stuck with a strategy based around E85. Solves bioterror
Joy Leong Consulting 11 has both depth and breadth in the postal industry, having represented individual mailers in the financial services and catalog industries, trade associations, vendors, suppliers, and posts (including the USPS). Ms. Leong specializes in negotiating contracts with the Postal Service and obtaining regulatory approvals for these agreements and in representing mailers in rate cases. She has participated in the entire range of regulatory proceedings at the Postal Regulatory Commission, including rulemaking, ratemaking, regulatory approval, and complaint proceedings. She was involved in the passage and implementation of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006. She helped start the American Catalog Mailers Association, negotiated the first competitive contract under the PAEA, and filed the first major complaint case under the PAEA on behalf of her clients. Together with PRC Commissioner Ruth Goldway, Ms. Leong founded Women in Logistics and Delivery Services (WILDS), which has grown into a national network of over 100 professional women in the postal and delivery industry. “THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE POSTAL SERVICE IN NATIONAL EMERGENCIES: A Case Study of its Role in Katrina and its Emergency Preparedness Efforts,” 2-14-11, http://www.prc.gov/(S(lyz520elz3r3zl552ud0fa45))/prc-docs/library/archived/Emergency_Prep_Report.pdf Final Report, Accessed Date: 2-14-13 y2k The Postal Service is one of the few entities—government or private—that
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at residential delivery" which can be called on in times of crisis. Private couriers fail
Loris M. Davies et al 8 is Senior Policy Researcher at the RAND Corporation, The Role of the United States Postal Service in Public Safety and Security Implications of Relaxing the Mailbox Monopoly,” Michael Pollard, Jeremiah Goulka, Katherine Mack, Russell Lundberg, Paul Steinberg, http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG800.pdf, Accessed Date: 2-14-13 y2k Both the USPS and private couriers play a role in public safety; however,
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such issues as improving the security of U.S. critical infrastructure. Threat is high
Dr. Leonard A. Cole 12 teaches at Rutgers University and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He has written extensively on bioterrorism issues and on terror medicine. “Bioterrorism: Still a Threat to the United States,” Jan 18, 2012, http://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/bioterrorism-still-a-threat-to-the-united-states, Accessed Date: 2-14-13 y2k The tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks prompted reflections on the current status
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ill-chosen projects, a condition that should be acknowledged and remediated. Extinction
Jason G. Matheny 7 is a research associate with the Future of Humanity Institute @ Oxford University, “Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction,” Risk Analysis. (Subscription required) Volume 27, Number 5, 2007, http://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/resources/publications/2007/2007-10-15-reducingrisk.html, Accessed Date: 2-14-13 y2k We already invest in some extinction countermeasures. NASA spends $4 million per year
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to respond to pandemics (Lam, Franco, and Shuler, 2006). Causes US retaliation and disease outbreak
Barry Kellman 10 is Professor of Law @ DePaul Law University, “BWC 7th RevCon Proposal: Biopreparedness Legal Task Force,” August 26, 2010, http://www.biopolicy.org/current-postings, Accessed Date: 2-14-13 y2k Prof. Kellman, addressing the same issue, said “Bio-attacks that
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global systems for detecting outbreaks of infectious disease, regardless of the cause.” Retaliation goes nuclear
Lt. Col. Harry Conley 3 is chief of the Systems Analysis Branch, Directorate of Requirements, Headquarters Air Combat Command (ACC), Langley AFB, Virginia. Air and Space Power Journal, http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj03/spr03/conley.html, Accessed Date: 2-14-13 y2k The number of American casualties suffered due to a WMD attack may well be the
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be more than just a possibility, whatever promises had been made.”48
Disease causes extinction
Keating 9 Foreign Policy web editor, Joshua, “The End of the World”, 11-13-09, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/13/the_end_of_the_world?page=full, How it could happen: Throughout history, plagues have brought civilizations to their knees
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HIV. Biological weapons experimentation has added a new and just as troubling complication 1AC---Solvency
Gulf is key to substantial production.
Rebecca Rosen 11 is Senior Director @ Corporate Advisory Board of PFC Energy, PFC Energy White Paper “Importance of the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico,” https://www.pfcenergy.com/PFC-Energy-Newsroom/PFC-Energy-Press-Releases/2011/~/media/Files/White%20Papers/2011/PFC%20Energy%20White%20Paper%20Importance%20of%20the%20Gulf%20of%20Mexico.pdf, Accessed Date: 2-15-13 y2k Like many river delta regions, the Gulf of Mexico contains significant oil and gas
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and development activity, and new investment, are required to sustain production. Certainty key
Lisa Griles 3 is Deputy Secretary @ Department of the Interior, “Energy Production on Federal Lands,” Hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate,” 4-30-03, Accessed date: 10-30-12 y2k Mr. GRILES. America’s public lands have an abundant opportunity for exploration and development
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from and buy, so they can have certainty about where to go. Current lease fails
Robin Millican 12 is the Institute for Energy Research's (IER) Director of Federal Affairs. “Rep. Markey’s Many Myths: Report Much Ado About Nothing,” October 26, 2012, http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2012/10/26/rep-markeys-many-myths-democrats-report-much-ado-about-nothing/, Accessed date: 11-7-12 y2k MARKEY’s MYTH: We don’t need to open more areas for exploration, because companies
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shale, almost 70 percent of which is under federal lands.5 Demand high offshore gas
PR Newswire 12 “Offshore Drilling Industry to 2016 - Rapidly Rising Demand for Hydrocarbons Expected to Boost Offshore Drilling in Ultra-Deepwater and Harsh-weather Environments”, 2012, http://www.bizjournals.com/prnewswire/press_releases/2012/02/23/SP58486 The production from offshore regions accounts for an increasing share of the total world oil
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financial slowdown meaning that drilling expenditure is expected to steadily rise until 2016. Offshore development keeps prices low
Pirog 12 Robert Pirog Specialist in Energy Economics CRS, http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R40645_20120210.pdf Natural gas markets differ from the oil market in that they are not global,
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less competitive in a market environment dominated¶ by onshore shale gas development. Gas price spike is inevitable---shale insufficient
Richard Finger 12 is Contributor to Forbes Magazine, a full-time equity options trader in Houston Texas, has a BS in economics from UC Berkeley and an MBA in finance from the U of Pennsylvania Wharton School. “Exposing the folly in boardrooms and capital markets,” http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardfinger/2012/07/27/more-data-natural-gas-is-heading-higher/print/ Accessed Date: 1-6-13 y2k The weekly EIA gas storage numbers arrived on Thursday and the trend continues. Yesterday’s
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upon us. $8.00 gas is coming, so prepare. Restrictions prevent fracking
Plumer 12 Brad, “How states are regulating fracking (in maps)”, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/07/16/how-states-are-regulating-fracking-in-maps/ Armed with new drilling techniques, companies are spreading out across the United States,
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, the IEA notes, could prove even more costly to the gas industry |
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Plan: The Department of Interior should reduce production restrictions on federal lands in the Outer Continental Shelf for conventional natural gas and crude oil production and provide necessary leases to conventional natural gas and crude oil production.
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Gas price spike is inevitable---shale insufficient
Richard Finger 12 is Contributor to Forbes Magazine, a full-time equity options trader in Houston Texas, has a BS in economics from UC Berkeley and an MBA in finance from the U of Pennsylvania Wharton School. “Exposing the folly in boardrooms and capital markets,” http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardfinger/2012/07/27/more-data-natural-gas-is-heading-higher/print/ Accessed Date: 1-6-13 y2k The weekly EIA gas storage numbers arrived on Thursday and the trend continues. Yesterday’s
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upon us. $8.00 gas is coming, so prepare. Fracking unsustainable- conventional gas solves
Dorsey 12 Fractured Logic: The Myth of Abundant Natural Gas, Leeb's Market Forecast, Gregory Dorsey, May 9, 2012 http://leebsmarketforecast.com/content/fractured-logic-myth-abundant-natural-gas A popular meme these days is the idea that natural gas is America’s salvation on
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that also have a healthy exposure to crude oil earn the highest honors. Restrictions prevent fracking
Plumer 12 Brad, “How states are regulating fracking (in maps)”, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/07/16/how-states-are-regulating-fracking-in-maps/ Armed with new drilling techniques, companies are spreading out across the United States,
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, the IEA notes, could prove even more costly to the gas industry Low gas prices key to manufacturing.
PWC 11—PwC's Industrial Products (IP) practice provides financial, operational, and strategic services to global organizations. December 2011, "Shale Gas - A Renaissance in US Manufacturing?" www.pwc.com/en_US/us/industrial-products/assets/pwc-shale-gas-us-manufacturing-renaissance.pdf, Accessed date: 11-7-12 y2k The economic environment remains difficult for many US manufacturers, with soft demand and margin
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US manufacturing over the long term and create new jobs in the sector. Manufacturing is key to readiness---solves conflict escalation
Barry D. Watts 8 is Senior Fellow @ The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. “The US Defense Industrial Base, Past, Present and Future,” http://www.csbaonline.org/4Publications/PubLibrary/R.20081015._The_US_Defense_In/R.200-81015._The_US_Defense_In.pdf, Accessed date: 12/3/12 y2k Since the 1950s, the US defense industrial base has been a source of long
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term advantage in the decades ahead as it has been since the 1950s. AND- key to tech leadership and innovation.
Stephen Ezell 11 is a Senior Analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Dr. Robert Atkinson is the President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. “The Case for a National Manufacturing Strategy,” http://www2.itif.org/2011-national-manufacturing-strategy.pdf, Accessed date: 11-20-12 y2k A strong manufacturing base is vital to the economic well-being of a nation
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difficulty restoring its ability to build nuclear submarines is a frequently cited example.) Heg solves extinction.
Thomas P.M. Barnett 11 is chief analyst at Wikistrat and a contributing editor for Esquire magazine. His latest book is "Great Powers: America and the World After Bush" (2009). “The New Rules: Leadership Fatigue Puts U.S., and Globalization, at Crossroads,” 07 Mar 2011, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/8099/the-new-rules-leadership-fatigue-puts-u-s-and-globalization-at-crossroads, Accessed date: 12-29-12 y2k It is worth first examining the larger picture: We live in a time of
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. And if you know your history, that should make you nervous. Decline causes transition war and lashout
Zbigniew Brzezinski 12 is a CSIS counselor and trustee and cochairs the CSIS Advisory Board. He is also a senior research professor of international relations at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, D.C. He is cochair of the American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Atlantic Council He was a member of the Policy Planning Council of the Department of State from 1966 to 1968; chairman of the Humphrey Foreign Policy Task Force in the 1968 presidential campaign; director of the Trilateral Commission from 1973 to 1976; and principal foreign policy adviser to Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential campaign. From 1977 to 1981, Dr. Brzezinski was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter. “After America: How does the world look in an age of U.S. decline? Dangerously unstable.” 1-3-12, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/03/after_america?page=full, Accessed date: 12-30-12 y2k Not so long ago, a high-ranking Chinese official, who obviously had
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policy -- or start bracing itself for a dangerous slide into global turmoil. Natural gas revolution solidifies leadership
Mead 12 Walter Russell, James Clark Chase Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities – Bard College and Editor-at-Large – American Interest, “Energy Revolution 2: A Post Post-American Post,” American Interest, 7-15, http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/07/15/energy-revolution-2-a-post-post-american-post/ Forget peak oil; forget the Middle East. The energy revolution of the 21st
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role in shoring up the foundations of the American-led world order. The alternative is resource wars
Mead 12 Walter Russell, James Clark Chase Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities – Bard College and Editor-at-Large – American Interest, “Energy Revolution 3: The New American Century,” American Interest, 7-18, http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/07/18/energy-revolution-3-the-new-american-century/ Get ready for an American century: that appears to be the main consequence of
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one in which the whole oil question is a lot more laid back. Globalization solves conflict
Panitchpakdi 4—Supachai Panitchpakdi is the UN Conference on Trade and Development General, “American Leadership and the World Trade Organization: What is the Alternative?”, 26 February 2004, http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/spsp_e/spsp22_
e.htm Accessed date: 8-27-12 y2k I can sum up my message today in three sentences: The United States,
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important to fail. The world depends on it. So does America. Violence is down because of everything consistent with the aff
Pinker 11 Steven Pinker is Professor of psychology at Harvard University "Violence Vanquished" Sept 24 online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904106704576583203589408180.html On the day this article appears, you will read about a shocking act of
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that the Long Peace and rights revolutions coincided with the electronic global village. Reject the infinite number of root causes that debilitate action
Moore 4 John Moore 4 chaired law prof, UVA. Frm first Chairman of the Board of the US Institute of Peace and as the Counselor on Int Law to the Dept. of State, Beyond the Democratic Peace, 44 Va. J. Int'l L. 341, Lexis If major interstate war is predominantly a product of a synergy between a potential nondemocratic
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in general, happens when levels of deterrence are dramatically increased or decreased? 1AC---Trade-off
Gas extraction is inevitable – US lead ensures the best practices
Schneider 12 (Michael, Advocacy Director – Clean Air Task Force, “Curb Methane Emissions,” National Journal, 7-25, http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/07/is-arctic-oil-drilling-ready-f.php?comments=expandall#comments) For several weeks now the public and the media have cast increasing attention on Arctic
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associated with oil and natural gas, in some cases by almost 100%. Fracking causes severe environmental problems
Starkey 12 9-18 (James, Professor Emeritus of Economics – University of Rhode Island, “The Fracking of America,” Vermont Commons, http://www.vtcommons.org/blog/fracking-america) Fracking is a process that injects a toxic brew of silica and chemicals into shale
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honoring the African-American man who had that dream suggesting, hopefully, Natural gas acts as a bridge fuel
Ju 12—Anne Ju is a senior science writer for the Cornell Chronicle. “Study Proves Natural Gas Can Bridge the Gap to a Clean Energy Economy,” July 17, 2012, http://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Study-Proves-Natural-Gas-Can-Bridge-the-Gap-to-a-Clean-Energy-Economy.html Natural gas is a good transition step on the road to greener energy sources like
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. “A faster transition to low-carbon energy sources would decrease greenhouse Coal produces negative environmental externalities- particularly for minority communities
Clark, 8 Catherine, MA in public Policy @ Oregon State, “Environmental Justice and Energy Production: Coal-Fired Power Plants in Illinois” http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1957/9770/clark-mpp.pdf?sequence=1 Two grievances are particularly relevant today to encourage viewing energy¶ production through the justice
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in the state of Illinois by employing geographic¶ and regression analysis techniques. 1AC---Solvency
OCS drilling yields massive production increase- certainty key
Lisa Griles 3 is Deputy Secretary @ Department of the Interior, “Energy Production on Federal Lands,” Hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate,” 4-30-03, Accessed date: 10-30-12 y2k Mr. GRILES. America’s public lands have an abundant opportunity for exploration and development
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from and buy, so they can have certainty about where to go. Current lease fails—not enough.
Robin Millican 12 is the Institute for Energy Research's (IER) Director of Federal Affairs. “Rep. Markey’s Many Myths: Report Much Ado About Nothing,” October 26, 2012, http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2012/10/26/rep-markeys-many-myths-democrats-report-much-ado-about-nothing/, Accessed date: 11-7-12 y2k MARKEY’s MYTH: We don’t need to open more areas for exploration, because companies
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shale, almost 70 percent of which is under federal lands.5 Demand high offshore gas
PR Newswire 12 “Offshore Drilling Industry to 2016 - Rapidly Rising Demand for Hydrocarbons Expected to Boost Offshore Drilling in Ultra-Deepwater and Harsh-weather Environments”, 2012, http://www.bizjournals.com/prnewswire/press_releases/2012/02/23/SP58486 The production from offshore regions accounts for an increasing share of the total world oil
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financial slowdown meaning that drilling expenditure is expected to steadily rise until 2016. Engagement with the state energy apparatus actualizes radical politics
Hager 92 professor of political science – Bryn Mawr College, Carol J., “Democratizing Technology: Citizen and State in West German Energy Politics, 1974-1990” Polity, Vol. 25, No. 1, p. 45-70 During this phase, the citizen initiative attempted to overcome its defensive posture and implement
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a space for a delibera-tive politics in modern technological society.61 Paradigm focus forecloses pragmatic engagement- having “good enough knowledge” is a sufficient condition for action
Kratochwil 8 professor of international relations, European University Institute, Friedrich, “The Puzzles of Politics,” pg. 200-213 The lesson seems clear. Even at the danger of “fuzzy boundaries”, when
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Besides, “timing” seems to be quite recalcitrant to analytical treatment. Ethical policymaking must be grounded in consequences
Isaac 2 Jeffrey C. Isaac, James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science and director of the Center for the Study of Democracy and Public Life at Indiana University, Bloomington. He writes regularly for Dissent, and his most recent book is Democracy in Dark Times. “Ends, Means, and Politics” at http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=601 As a result, the most important political questions are simply not asked. It
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not true believers. It promotes arrogance. And it undermines political effectiveness. |
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Their indicts don’t deny the indisputable fact that violence is on the decline
Boyd 12 Neil, Professor and Associate Director, School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University The Empirical Evidence for Declining Violence, http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/neil-boyd/steven-pinker-violence-_b_1184510.html
The response to Steven Pinker's new book, The Better Angels of our Nature has
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is profoundly instructive, for it testifies to our enduring need for faith." Their authors are so steeped in anti-Americanism that they can’t make reliable evaluations
Ravenal 9 ¶ Earl C. Ravenal, distinguished senior fellow in foreign policy studies @ Cato, is professor emeritus of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He is an expert on NATO, defense strategy, and the defense budget. He is the author of Designing Defense for a New World Order. What's Empire Got to Do with It? The Derivation of America's Foreign Policy.” Critical Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Politics and Society 21.1 (2009) 21-75 Finally, there is America’s own “intelligentsia.” I refer primarily to the legions
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) that is attempting to inflict harm and disgrace upon the United States. Realism is inevitable- elites
Guzzini 98 Senior Research Fellow at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute and Associate Professor of Political Science, International Relations, and European Studies at the Central European University in Budapest, 1998, Stefano, Realism in International Relations, p. 212 Therefore, in a third step, this chapter also claims that it is impossible
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in the name although not always necessarily in the spirit, of realism. Empiricism is good—our truth claims are correct and provide useful guides even if they are wrong.
Walt 5—Stephen M. Walt is Professor of Kennedy School of Government @ Harvard, “The Relationship Between Theory and Policy in International Relations,” Annual Review Political Science, 2005. 8:23–48, pg. 25-26, http://www.iheid.ch/webdav/site/p-olitical_science/shared/political_science/3452/walt.pdf, Accessed date: 9-7-12 y2k Policy decisions can be influenced by several types of knowledge. First, policy makers
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theory, large-N statistical analysis, and hermeneutical or interpretivist approaches. Helium
Natural gas production solves helium production
EIA 6—Energy Information Administration, “Natural Gas Processing: The Crucial Link Between Natural Gas Production and Its Transportation to Market” http://www.eia.gov/pub/oil_gas/natural_gas/feature_articles/2006/ngprocess/ngprocess.pdf, Accessed date: 11-6-12 y2k
The world’s supply of helium comes exclusively from natural gas production. The single largest
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helium in the United Statesfor the most part, come from the FHR. Helium is key to scientific leadership.
Phuan Ong 12 the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics Director, Princeton Center for Complex Materials Department of Physics Princeton University, 7/20/12, Helium: Supply Shortages Impacting our Economy, National Defense and Manufacturing, Congressional Documents and Publications, p. lexis, Accessed date: 11-6-12 y2k
The 2 main reasons why liquid helium is vital for research are: 1)
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supply would be very harmful to the U.S. national interest. Extinction
Dr. Nina Federoff 8 is Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State and the Administrator of USAID. “Testimony before the House Science Subcommittee on Research and Science Education,” http://gop.science.house.gov/Media/Hearings/research08/April2/fedoroff.pdf
Chairman Baird, Ranking Member Ehlers, and distinguished members of the Subcommittee, thank
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. Addressing these common challenges demands common solutions and necessitates scientific cooperation, comm on standards, and common goals. We must increasingly harness the power of American
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a means to enhance security, increase global partnerships, and create sustainability. Coal Offshore developments are safe---new tech and procedural safeguards---you have near-zero risk of the DA.
Thornley 9 (Drew – Independent policy analyst focused primarily on energy, teaches business law at Concordia University in Austin, Texas. graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in economics from The University of Alabama in 2002 and received a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2005, “ENERGY and ENVIRONMENTAL MYTHS”, April 2009, http://www.manhattan-institute.org/energymyths/myth8.htm) Since 1975, offshore drilling in the Exclusive Economic Zone (within 200 miles of
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waters will continue to be conducted in a safe and environmentally conscious manner. Coal production devastates Native lands.
Harper 4 Allison Harper, University of Michigan Environmental Case Studies, Environmental Justice Case Study: Navajo-Hopi Struggle to Protect the Big Mountain Reservation, 2004 http://www.umich.edu/~snre492/cases.html, In 1974, the federal government partitioned the Big Mountain reservation, where the Hopi
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, the Tribal Councils, the federal government, and the state of Arizona K
F/W Paradigm/Epistemology
Paradigm focus forecloses pragmatic engagement- having “good enough knowledge” is a sufficient condition for action
Kratochwil 8 professor of international relations, European University Institute, Friedrich, “The Puzzles of Politics,” pg. 200-213 The lesson seems clear. Even at the danger of “fuzzy boundaries”, when
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Besides, “timing” seems to be quite recalcitrant to analytical treatment. Causes endless paradigm wars that debilitate politics
Wendt ’98 (professor of international security – Ohio State University, 1998 (Alexander, “On Constitution and Causation in International Relations,” British International Studies Association) As a community, we in the academic study of international politics spend too much
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Debate’s sparring over epistemology is often one-sided, intolerant caricatures of science A2: Neolib
Says fracking is bad---THAT’S our argument---OCS drilling doesn’t use water to drill--- No uniqueness---other countries are drilling AND global trade is also inevitable Neolib solves extinction
Goldin 12—Ian Goldin is Director of Oxford Martin School and Professor of Globalisation and Development. “Globalization: The good, the bad and the uncertain”, 01 Feb 2012, http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/blog/view/136, Accessed date: 9-17-12 y2k
When over 2000 world leaders of government, business and academia descended on Davos last
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and jump from one crisis management to the next, at our peril. Neoliberalism is inevitable – markets control our thought
Hudson ‘99 Mark, Progressive Librarian, Fall, “Understanding Information Media in the Age of Neoliberalism: The Contributions of Herbert Schiller”
Neoliberal ideas are as old as capitalism itself, but in recent decades they have
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overwhelming that it is becoming difficult to even rationally discuss what neoliberalism is; indeed, as Robert McChesney notes, the term "neoliberalism" is hardly known
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consequences of that hegemony for our politics, economy and culture. goods. Capitalism is inevitable and sustainable---resiliency takes out the alt.
Kaletsky 10 Anatole, Masters in Economics from Harvard, Honour-Degree Graduate at
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and Washington correspondent of the Financial Times and a business writer on The Economist The world did not end. Despite all the forebodings of disaster in the 2007
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Napoleonic Wars of 1803– 15. Hence the title of this book. A2: Colonialism
Perm do both---reformism is the better alternative---Concept of hegemony is still beneficial---they provide no alternative and collapse the western cultural institutions which results in mass violence---benevolent heg solves---turns the K.
Michael J. Thompson 3 is the founder and editor of Logos and teaches political theory at Hunter College, CUNY. His new book, Islam and the West: Critical Perspectives on Modernity has just been released from Rowman and Littlefield Press. “Iraq, Hegemony and the Question of American Empire,” http://www.logosjournal.com/thompson_iraq.htm, Accessed date: 1-14-13 y2k
It is rare that political debates typically confined to the left will burst into the
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even more incorrect to see the occupation of Iraq as a symptom of w estern ideas and Enlightenment rationalism. Nothing could be further from the case and the
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can have about his predicament and which cannot be thought of without enthusiasm." Threats are real---default to aff because heg collapse DOES cause extinction---alt can’t solve
Thanassis Cambanis 12 is a fellow at The Century Foundation, is the author of “A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah’s Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel.” “You can stop being scared now: Controversial good news from two foreign-policy experts: the world is safer than we think,” 4-22-12, http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2012/04/21/world-dangerous-been-told-nothing-fear/BEcRQyIdwvFSP0WjEnmW7K/story.html, Accessed date: 1-10-13 y2k
President Obama and his presumptive challenger Mitt Romney agree on at least one important matter
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says. “But if he gets it wrong, we’re in trouble.” Universalism is good---it’s the only way we can effectively challenge colonial violence---relativism collapses itself and results in paralysis.
Ray Kiely 95 is Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University. “Third Worldist Relativism: A New Form Of Imperialism”, Journal of Contemporary Asia v25 no2 p159-78. Accessed date: 1-14-13, y2k
First, as many critics have pointed out (see Habermas 1987; Dews 1987
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the view that "West is best." This is the case of west ern reactions to the Rushdie affair. In this case some writers (among them
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political position which is potentially a crude justification for the way things are. A2: Modernity
Modernity isn’t the root cause of violence—it’s always proximately caused. The alternative leaves us unable to deal with any global problems.
Curtler 97 Hugh Mercer, Prof. Phil. – Southwest State U. “Rediscovering values: coming to terms with Postmodernism”, Netlibrary, p. 164-165 At the same time, we must beware the temptation to reject out of hand
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the face of hysteria. There are additional problems with postmodernism, however. Abandoning Enlightenment notions of progress makes liberation impossible
Bronner 4 Stephen Eric Bronner, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and a Member of the Graduate Faculty in Comparative Literature and German Studies at Rutgers University, 2004 (Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement, Published by Columbia University Press, ISBN 9780231126090, p. 39-40) Easy enough to criticize the pretensions of "progress," but without it the prospect
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. Quite the contrary: it renders the idea more important than ever. |
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John Vidal 12 is the Guardian’s environment editor. He joined the paper in 1995 after working for Agence France Presse, North Wales Newspapers and the Cumberland News. He is the author of McLibel: Burger Culture on Trial (1998) and has contributed chapters to books on topics such as the Gulf war, new Europe and development, "UN warns of looming worldwide food crisis in 2013," The Observer, Saturday 13 October 2012, http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/oct/14/un-global-food-crisis-warning-http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/oct/14/un-global-food-crisis-warning, Accessed Date: 3-6-13 y2k
World grain reserves are so dangerously low that severe weather in the United States or
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population growth, spreading water shortages and rising food prices," Brown says. Causes food nationalism
Lester R. Brown 11 is the President of the Earth Policy Institute, "The New Geopolitics of Food," May 2011, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/25/the_new_geopolitics_of_food?page=full-http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/25/the_new_geopolitics_of_food?page=full, Accessed Date: 3-15-13 y2k The potential for conflict — and not just over water — is high. Many
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host land grabs or import grain will likely see their food situation deteriorate. Extinction
Julian Cribb 10 is a science communicator and author of The Coming Famine: the global food crisis and what we can do to avoid it. He is a member of On Line Opinion’s Editorial Advisory Board. "The Coming Famine," August 24, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/books/excerpt-the-coming-famine.html?pagewanted=all-http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/books/excerpt-the-coming-famine.html?pagewanted=all, Accessed Date: 3-6-13 y2k Despite the global food crisis of 2007–8, the coming famine hasn’t happened
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the greatest test of our global humanity and our wisdom we have yet faced Causes Pakistani instability
Michael Kugelman 10 is program associate with the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, "HUNGER PAINS: Pakistan’s Food Insecurity," 9-16-10, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/ASIA_100-412_PakistFood_rptL0713FINALVERSION.pdf-http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/ASIA_100-412_PakistFood_rptL0713FINALVERSION.pdf, Accessed Date: 3-15-13 y2k Pakistan is a declared nuclear power. The Pakistan military is the world’s seventh-
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gender, class, or national identity and lead to conflict and violence. Goes nuclear
William Pitt 9 is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of two books: "War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn’t Want You to Know" and "The Greatest Sedition Is Silence", 5/8, "Unstable Pakistan Threatens the World," http://www.arabamericannews.com/news/index.php?mod=article%26cat=commentary%26article=2183-http://www.arabamericannews.com/news/index.php?mod=article%26cat=commentary%26article=2183, Accessed date: 12-3-12 y2k
But a suicide bomber in Pakistan rammed a car packed with explosives into a jeep
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to be gravely serious about addressing the situation. So should we all. US is key
Bill Witherell 12 is Cumberland’s Chief Global Economist, "What the Threat of a Global Food Crisis Means for World Markets," 8-12-12, http://www.businessinsider.com/what-the-threat-of-a-global-food-crisis-means-for-world-markets-2012-8-http://www.businessinsider.com/what-the-threat-of-a-global-food-crisis-means-for-world-markets-2012-8, Accessed Date: 3-6-13 y2k
The global food crisis of 2007-2008 is threatening to repeat in the coming
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export restrictions by some important agricultural producers, including Russia and the Ukraine. Conventional ag fails
Mae-Wan Ho 10 is the Director of The Institute of Science in Society, UK, "Sustainable agriculture and the green energy economy – paper," March, 2010, http://unctad.org/sections/wcmu/docs/Mae%20Ho%20paper.pdf-http://unctad.org/sections/wcmu/docs/Mae Ho paper.pdf, Accessed Date: 3-15-13 y2k
Current food system collapsing Our agriculture and food system has been showing signs of collapse
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warming scenario, or 63 to 82 percent under the fastest warming scenario. Cost-effective solar is key to sustainable agriculture.
Xiarchosis and Vick 11 Irene M. Xiarchosis is a Natural Resource Economist and Policy Analyst @ Office of Energy Policy and
New Uses, Office ofthe Chief Economist of the USDA—and—Brian Vick is the Lead Scientist of the Renewable Energy group @ Conservation and Production, Research Lab of the Agricultural Research Service of the USDA, "Solar Energy Uses in U.S. Agriculture: Overview and Policy Issues," April, 2011, http://www.usda.gov/oce/reports/energy/Web_SolarEnergy_combined.pdf-http://www.usda.gov/oce/reports/energy/Web_SolarEnergy_combined.pdf, Accessed Date: 3-6-13 y2k
Agriculture is an important part of the U.S. economy and culture,
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sector dominates this market, but the potential in agricultural settings is large. Key to productivity
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 11 Ph. D. in Biochemistry, former Senior Research Fellow in Queen Elizabeth College, Lecturer in Genetics from 1976 and Reader in Biology from 1985 in the Open University, Visiting Reader in Biology at the Open University, and Visiting Professor of Biophysics in Catania University, Sicily, "Sustainable Agriculture and Off-Grid Renewable Energy," ISIS Report 18/07/11 ISIS contribution to UNCTAD Trade and Environment Review 2011, http://www.twnside.org.sg/title2/susagri/2011/susagri174/15369459574e27b6a06c0de.pdf-http://www.twnside.org.sg/title2/susagri/2011/susagri174/15369459574e27b6a06c0de.pdf, Accessed Date: 3-6-13 y2k
An emerging scientific consensus that a shift to small scale sustainable agriculture and localized food
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consumption of the entire nation while revitalising and stimulating local economies and employment opportunities |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Missouri State BR | Judge: Tech innovation solves great-power war
Mark Taylor 4 is Professor of Political Science – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Politics of Technological Change: International Relations versus Domestic Institutions", 4-1, http://www.scribd.com/doc/46554792/Taylor-http://www.scribd.com/doc/46554792/Taylor, Accessed date: 12-3-12 y2k.
Technological innovation is of central importance to the study of international relations (IR),
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production, and war, international systems would not exist in the first place Heg solves extinction.
Thomas P.M. Barnett 11 is chief analyst at Wikistrat and a contributing editor for Esquire magazine. His latest book is "Great Powers: America and the World After Bush" (2009). "The New Rules: Leadership Fatigue Puts U.S., and Globalization, at Crossroads," 07 Mar 2011, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/8099/the-new-rules-leadership-fatigue-puts-u-s-and-globalization-at-crossroads-http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/8099/the-new-rules-leadership-fatigue-puts-u-s-and-globalization-at-crossroads, Accessed date: 12-29-12 y2k
t is worth first examining the larger picture: We live in a time of
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. And if you know your history, that should make you nervous. Decline causes transition war and lashout
Zbigniew Brzezinski 12 is a CSIS counselor and trustee and cochairs the CSIS Advisory Board. He is also a senior research professor of international relations at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, D.C. He is cochair of the American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Atlantic Council He was a member of the Policy Planning Council of the Department of State from 1966 to 1968; chairman of the Humphrey Foreign Policy Task Force in the 1968 presidential campaign; director of the Trilateral Commission from 1973 to 1976; and principal foreign policy adviser to Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential campaign. From 1977 to 1981, Dr. Brzezinski was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter. "After America: How does the world look in an age of U.S. decline? Dangerously unstable." 1-3-12, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/03/after_america?page=full-http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/03/after_america?page=full, Accessed date: 12-30-12 y2k
Not so long ago, a high-ranking Chinese official, who obviously had
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policy — or start bracing itself for a dangerous slide into global turmoil. Globalization solves conflict
Panitchpakdi 4—Supachai Panitchpakdi is the UN Conference on Trade and Development General, "American Leadership and the World Trade Organization: What is the Alternative?", 26 February 2004, http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/spsp_e/spsp22_-http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/spsp_e/spsp22_
e.htm Accessed date: 8-27-12 y2k
I can sum up my message today in three sentences: The United States,
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important to fail. The world depends on it. So does America. Clean tech solves leadership
Louis Klarevas 9 is Professor for Center for Global Affairs at New York University, "Securing American Primacy While Tackling Climate Change: Toward a National Strategy of Greengemony," http://www.huffingtonpost.com/louis-klarevas/securing-american-primacy_b_393223.html-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/louis-klarevas/securing-american-primacy_b_393223.html, Accessed Date: 3-17-13 y2k
As national leaders from around the world are gathering in Copenhagen, Denmark, to
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best approach for achieving this is to promote a national strategy of greengemony. Plan bolsters US innovative leadership and competitiveness
David Kappos 11 is Under Secretary of Commerce %26 Director of the USPTO, "Modernizing a 21st Century Patent Office," April 14, 2011 http://www.uspto.gov/news/speeches/2011/Modernizing_a_21st_Century_Patent_Office.jsp-http://www.uspto.gov/news/speeches/2011/Modernizing_a_21st_Century_Patent_Office.jsp, Accessed Date: 3-6-13 y2k
Green Tech This smart innovation, and the infrastructure that makes it happen, writes
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-building, out-innovating and out-hustling our economic competitors. Absent plan leadership collapses
Tran 12 President and Fellows of Harvard College, Harvard Environmental Law Review, 2012, 36 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 12, EXPEDITING INNOVATION, Sarah Tran, Assistant Professor of Law, Southern Methodist University School of Law, Lexis
Over one hundred years ago, technological innovation helped the United States rise to dominate
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concerns about unfairness effectively dematerialize when the focus is on socially valuable technologies. Plan serves as a model
Sarah Tran 12 is Assistant Professor of Law @ Southern Methodist University School of Law, "EXPEDITING INNOVATION", 2012, 36 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 123, Accessed Date: 3-16-13 y2k
Although the PTO currently fails to meaningfully prioritize socially valuable patents, the constitutional purposes
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of the patent system and the existence of mechanisms that ameliorate these concerns. |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Missouri State BR | Judge: GTPP facilitates commercialization
Nuebring 11 Our Generation’s Sputnik Moment: Comparing the United States’ Green Technology Pilot Program to Green Patent Programs Abroad, Summer 2011, Kate Nuehring, Northwestern University, School of Law, Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, 9 Nw. J. Tech. %26 Intell. Prop. 609, Lexis
The Green Technology Pilot Program offers a number of advantages both for society as a
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Green Technology Pilot Program could have a net positive impact on the economy. Permanency and removing the cap solves
Wong 12 Environmental Initiatives and the Role of the USPTO’S Green Technology Pilot Program, Sarah M. Wong, J.D. Candidate, 2012, Marquette University Law School. Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review, Winter, 2012, 16 Marq. Intell. Prop. L. Rev. 233, Lexis
In its goals, the Green Technology Pilot Program seeks to encourage green innovations and
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innova-tions, the USPTO must continue to improve its acceleration speed. Patent use inevitable- key to tech advancement
Taylor 11 Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, Summer, 2011, 23 Geo. Int’l Envtl. L. Rev. 577, SCOTT TAYLOR, J.D. Candidate, Georgetown University Law Center, 2012; M.S. Tufts University, 2004, Lexis
There is substantial debate as to whether patents are a preferred, or even desired
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will lead to in-creased innovation and disclosure of green technologies. n65 Carbon-based solar power is the best tech
Mark Whittington 12 is Yahoo Contributor Network, "All Carbon Solar Cells Could Spark Long Delayed Solar Power Revolution,"
http://voices.yahoo.com/all-carbon-solar-cells-could-spark-long-delayed-solar-11856559.html?cat=15-http://voices.yahoo.com/all-carbon-solar-cells-could-spark-long-delayed-solar-11856559.html?cat=15, Accessed Date: 3-17-13 y2k According to a story in Futurity researchers at Stanford University have developed the first all
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marketplace decides. But there is now reason to at least be hopeful. |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Missouri State BR | Judge: Perception of American strength prevents prolif and first strikesJim Talent 10 is distinguished fellow in government relations at the Heritage Foundation, Sowing the Wind, p. http://www.freedomsolutions.org/2010/03/sowing-the-wind-the-decay-of-american-power-and-its-consequences/ There is a reason that regimes like Iran and North Korea go to the time
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the umbrella of American power without having to develop their own deterrent capability. A2: Macdonald and ParentMacDanold article is bad scholarship—doesn’t account for a variety of factorsGrunstein 11 Judah Grunstein, World Politics Review’s editor-in-chief, Appeared on World Politics Review, the American Prospect online, French Politics, the Small Wars Journal and Foreign Policy online, "Hegemony vs. Restraint in the Debate Over U.S. Defense Cuts", http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trend-lines/10626/hegemony-vs-restraint-in-the-debate-over-u-s-defense-cuts-http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trend-lines/10626/hegemony-vs-restraint-in-the-debate-over-u-s-defense-cuts, 11/10/2011 If there’s a weakness to both articles, it’s that their arguments depend largely on
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most safely salvage the global stability we have for perhaps too long underwritten. Tech leadership solves terror—-contains terrorist threats and dissolves motivations for attack—-only a risk that tech leadership prevents future attacks.Robert L. Paarlberg 4 is Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College, and Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Much of his research concentrates on international agricultural policy. "Knowledge as Power
Science, Military Dominance, and U.S. Security," International Security 29.1 (2004) 122-151, Project MUSE, Accessed date: 11-8-12 y2k The September 2001 terrorist attacks and their aftermath highlight several new risks in this regard
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in the face of asymmetric threats, more science usually means more security. Mueller 9 (John, Professor of Political Science – Ohio State University and Contributor – Foreign Affairs, "How Dangerous Are the Taliban?", Foreign Affairs, April / May, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/64932/john-mueller/how-dangerous-are-the-taliban) In addition, al Qaeda has yet to establish a significant presence in the United
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Carle notes, and "its capabilities are far inferior to its desires." It’s try or die – hegemony is the only way to solve global problems like disease and war – it is effective EVEN IF countries backlashGray, Professor of International Politics and Strategic Studies at the University of Reading, 2009
(Colin, "AFTER IRAQ: THE SEARCH FOR A SUSTAINABLE NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY", 8-11, http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB902.pdf-http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB902.pdf. - "Hegemony-light" is a policy, not a strategy.
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coerce. But it cannot guard global order by a policy of domination.
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| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Missouri State BR | Judge: 12 Manage 6 is management portal which contains over 400 methods and theories along with more than 1500 management terms, "Incentives," 3-9, http://www.12manage.com/description_incentives.html-http://www.12manage.com/description_incentives.html, Accessed Date: 3-22-13 y2k
Definition Incentives. Description. An Incentive is any extrinsic reward factor that motivates an
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but may lead to quality issues). Pay for Performance or Gain Sharing. Kaplan 2010
~Michelle Kaplan, J.D. Candidate, Fordham University School of Law, 2010; M.P.H., Health Policy and Management, Columbia University, 2007; B.A., Barnard College, 2006. Spring, 2010, Fordham Intellectual Property, Media %26 Entertainment Law Journal, 20 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media %26 Ent. L.J. 991~jap
The purpose of patents is to provide the requisite incentive for inventors whose creations will
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recoup financial investments in research and development and profit from their inventions." n58 Sarah M. Wong 12 is J.D. Candidate, 2012, Marquette University Law School, "Environmental Initiatives and the Role of the USPTO’S Green Technology Pilot Program," Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review, Winter, 2012, 16 Marq. Intell. Prop. L. Rev. 233, Lexis
Despite these setbacks and participation well short of 3000 patents, on November 10,
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lifting restrictions to the Program, and continuing to improve the acceleration speed. James Love 0 is the Director of Knowledge Ecology International, "Paying for health care R%26D: Carrots and Sticks," http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/rnd/carrotsnsticks.html-http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/rnd/carrotsnsticks.html, October 18, 2000, Accessed Date: 3-23-13 y2k
The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations (IFPMA) and its member organizations are
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) rather than providing a flat 5 to 10 year period of exclusivity. Dr Helena Barton 5 is Business Development Manager (USA) for CoreRatings, a unit within DNV Certification, "Leveraging intangible assets: how a rating can help measure and communicate performance," September, 2005, http://www.corporatecontext.com/leveraging_intangibleassets.pdf-http://www.corporatecontext.com/leveraging_intangibleassets.pdf, Accessed Date: 3-23-13 y2k
With a sturdy stride the elephant in the room is taking center stage. Intangible
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operations – and managing related risks – are mediated through intangible resources and processes |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Missouri State BR | Judge: Robert T. Garrett and Terrence Stutz 5 are Dallas Morning News Staff. August 19th ’05
"Legislature adjourns special session Justices to decide if overhaul needed after bills fail in Legislature" accessed 8/27/10 at http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/legislature/stories/082005dntexsession.8bd31b4a.html
A court finding against the state would put the ball back in the hands of
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must be done, which allows politicians to say their hands are tied." Perine 8 (Katherine, Staff – CQ Politics, "Congress Unlikely to Try to Counter Supreme Court Detainee Ruling", 6-12, http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000002896528%26cpage=2)
Thursday’s decision, from a Supreme Court dominated by Republican appointees, gives Democrats further cover against GOP sniping. "This is something that the court has decided, and very often the court gives political cover to Congress," said Ross K. Baker, a Rutgers Universitiy political science professor. "You can simply point to a Supreme Court decision and say, ’The devil made me do it.’ " Powers and Rothman 2—Stephen Powers is Research Associate for the Center for Social and Political Change at Smith College and Stanley Rothman is Professor of Government and Director of the Center for Social and Political Change at Smith College, "Least Dangerous? Consequences of Judicial Activism," p179
A recurrent problem with the judiciary’s extension of fundamental rights to the institutions we have
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reversal of court rulings adversely impacting social and political institutions generally takes years. Or enforcement kills court’s legitimacy—-triggers court-stripping and turns enforcement.Bentley, 2007 (Curt, Constrained by the liberal tradition, Brigham Young University Law Review, p. lexis)
This institutional limitation theory focuses primarily on the constraints imposed on the Court because of
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decrees and where it nonetheless doggedly pursues the counter-majoritarian course. |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Missouri State BR | Judge: EIA 3/12 "SHORT-TERM ENERGY OUTLOOK," http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/steo/report/electricity.cfm-http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/steo/report/electricity.cfm, Accessed Date: 3-24-13 y2k
Rising costs of infrastructure upgrades continue to drive increases in residential electricity rates, although lower fuel prices in recent years have kept growth in retail rates relatively modest. After an increase of 1.4 percent during 2012, EIA expects U.S. retail residential electricity prices will grow by 1.9 percent in 2013 and by 1.8 percent in 2014. RP Siegel 2-22, PE, is an inventor, consultant and author, "Shale Energy Bubble Threatens Second Economic Collapse," http://www.triplepundit.com/2013/02/shale-gas-bubble-threatens-second-economic-collapse/-http://www.triplepundit.com/2013/02/shale-gas-bubble-threatens-second-economic-collapse/ Accessed Date: 2-22-13 y2k
There has been more than a little celebration as the result of the huge shale
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for this game to get some rules, so this doesn’t keep happening. John Frarrell 12 directs the Energy Self-Reliant States and Communities program at ILSR and he focuses on energy policy developments that best expand the benefits of local ownership and dispersed generation of renewable energy. Farrell also authored the landmark report Energy Self-Reliant States, which serves as the definitive energy atlas for the United States, detailing the state-by-state renewable electricity generation potential. Farrell regularly provides discussion and analysis of distributed renewable energy policy on his blog, Energy Self-Reliant States (energyselfreliantstates.org), and articles are regularly syndicated on Grist and Renewable Energy World. "How Distributed Solar Power Can Lower Electricity Prices," CleanTechnica, February 13, 2012, http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/13/how-distributed-solar-can-reduce-electricity-prices/, Last Accessed 3/23/13) ELJ
What if installing more solar could reduce electricity prices? It’s already happening in Germany
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by the dirtiest and most costly fossil fuel "peaking" power plants. Dave Fehling 12 is the Houston-based broadcast reporter for StateImpact. Before joining StateImpact Texas, Dave reported and anchored at KHOU-TV in Houston. He also worked as a staff correspondent for CBS News from 1994-1998. He now lectures on journalism at the University of Houston. " Not Enough: Even Higher Price for Electricity Urged for Texas," StateImpact, July 17, 2012, http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/2012/07/17/not-enough-even-higher-price-for-electricity-urged-for-texas/, Last Accessed 3/24/13) ELJ
According to some industry insiders, when the state-regulated peak price for wholesale
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money" that would make it possible to invest in new power plants.
Power Down on the Bayou The last time NRG said it could justify a new
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be that impacted by what sounds like very high prices," Ragan said. |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Missouri State BR | Judge: Won’t pass
Palmer, Politico Staff Writer, 3-27, 2013,
(Anna, "The Gang of Eight’s spring break road trip", Politico, PAS) www.politico.com/story/2013/03/immigration-talks-hit-the-border-not-ground-zero-89407.html-http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/immigration-talks-hit-the-border-not-ground-zero-89407.html 3-28-13
NOGALES, Ariz. — Overlooking a hillside dotted with big box stores, mobile
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on immigration reform, which has failed at least twice before over contentious details Darrell Delamaide 3/27 is Marketwatch Staff , "Obama gains no traction on fiscal, economic fronts," March 27, 2013, https://mail.google.com/mail/~~%23inbox-https://mail.google.com/mail/, Accessed Date: 3-28-13 y2k
President Barack Obama’s second term is only two months old, but it may not
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victory, it’s hard to imagine anything like real change from this administration. Infrastructure spending triggers the link AND proves Obama can multitaskThe Guardian, 3-29, 2013,
(Dominic Rushe, "Obama unveils plans to pump billions into US infrastructure in Miami speech", PAS) www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/mar/29/obama-us-infrastructure-spending-miami-speech-http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/mar/29/obama-us-infrastructure-spending-miami-speech 3-29-13
Barack Obama unveiled new plans to pump billions into US infrastructure on Friday as he
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be able to do a lot of things at once," he said. AFP 3/15 "Obama defends green energy push after budget cuts," March 15, 2013, http://www.solardaily.com/reports/Obama_defends_green_energy_push_after_budget_cuts_999.html-http://www.solardaily.com/reports/Obama_defends_green_energy_push_after_budget_cuts_999.html, Accessed Date: 3-23-13 y2k
US President Barack Obama defended green energy research spending Friday, two weeks after budget
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Obama’s first term, arguing that the outcomes did not justify the cost. Nuebring 11 Our Generation’s Sputnik Moment: Comparing the United States’ Green Technology Pilot Program to Green Patent Programs Abroad, Summer 2011, Kate Nuehring, Northwestern University, School of Law, Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, 9 Nw. J. Tech. %26 Intell. Prop. 609, Lexis
At the time the program was announced, the Green Technology Pilot Program was expected
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program would cut pendency from forty months to twenty-four months. n19 Scott A. McKeown 10 is a member of the Oblon %26 Spivak’s Management Committee, and co-chair the Post Grant Patent practice group, "Patent Reform Still on the Table," Nov 5, 2010, http://www.oblon.com/patent-reform-still-table-http://www.oblon.com/patent-reform-still-table, Accessed Date: 3-23-13 y2k
Bipartisan support and economic spin keep hope alive. With all of the change brought
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….but then again, we have been saying that for many years. Lisa Ann Pinkerton 13 is founder of Women In Cleantech %26 Sustainability, a group dedicated to the advancement of women in various environmental and technology sectors. She is also Founder and President of Technica Communications, where she handles marketing and public relations strategies for cleantech and biotech companies. Lisa Ann is a former award-winning broadcast journalist who reported for National Public Radio, PBS Television, WPXI-NBC, American Public Media, and Free Speech TV. "Solar Says "Good-bye Solyndra"," February 20, 2013, http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/blog/post/2013/02/solar-says-good-bye-solyndra-http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/blog/post/2013/02/solar-says-good-bye-solyndra, Accessed Date: 3-28-13 y2k
No company has done greater damage to the image of the American solar industry than
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as an industry to educate and shape public perception in the industry’s favor. Steven Stanek 9 is Journalist @ The National UAE, "Obama stands to gain massive political capital," Jun 3, 2009, http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/americas/obama-stands-to-gain-massive-political-capital~~%23ixzz2Lad93psI-http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/americas/obama-stands-to-gain-massive-political-capital, Accessed Date: 2-21-13 y2k
WASHINGTON Last winter, the threat of a massive economic collapse in the United
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approve of Mr Obama’s handling of the economy. sstanek@thenational.ae Mancuso 8 (Mario, Undersecretary of Commerce, "The Future of the U.S.-India High Technology Relationship", 6-2, http://www.bis.doc.gov/news/2008/mancuso06052008.htm)
The strength of today’s U.S. and India relationship is real, and
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as the U.S.-India High Technology Cooperation Group (HTCG). Economic Times, 3-28, 2013,
("State to State ties adding new dimension to India-US relations", PAS) articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-03-28/news/38099413_1_indian-ambassador-maryland-house-new-dimension 3-30-13
WASHINGTON: India’s top diplomat in America has said that the development of ties between
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and companies that Maryland is the gateway to doing business in the US." |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Missouri State BR | Judge: William Wolfworth 9 is Professor of government @ Dartmouth College "Unipolarity, Status Competition, and Great Power War," World Politics, Volume 61, Number 1, January 2009 Second, I question the dominant view that status quo evaluations are relatively independent of
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ways that directly contradict their material interest in security and/or prosperity. Schmitt, Resident scholar and director of the Program on Advanced Strategic Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, 2006 ~Gary, "Is there any alternative to U.S. primacy?" The Weekly Standard, Books %26 Arts, Vol. 11 No. 22, February 20, Lexis~ In the case of Europe, after examining both the sources of tension and cooperation
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ham-handed way in which Washington works with its friends and allies. Gladwell 99 (Malcolm, The New Republic, July 17 and 24, 1995, excerpted in Epidemics: Opposing Viewpoints, p. 31-32)
Every infectious agent that has ever plagued humanity has had to adapt a specific strategy
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, but they neglect to point out the limitations of microscopic life forms. |
