| 01/28/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
The cultural turn evoked by “post-strategies” attempts to break part any material analysis through the use of discursive analysis – despite their attempts to incorporate materialism it remains culturalist and stuck within the paradigm of capitalism.
Ebert and Zavarzadeh in 2008(Teresa L., English, State University of New York, Albany, Mas’ud, prolific writer and expert on class ideology, “Class in Culture”, p. 27-29)
On the theoretical...to look "outside." The affirmative is complicit with the structures of capital through the commodification with the material where affective expressions become sources of value.
Noah De Lissovoy in 08 Capitalism Nature Socialism Volume 19, Issue 1, 2008 Capitalism Nature Socialism Volume 19, Issue 1, 2008, Dialectic of Emergency/Emergency of the Dialectic
Capital cannot...demands of capital.23 Resisting capitalism’s reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility – the current social order guarantees social exclusion on a global scale
Zizek and Daly 2k4 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16)
For Zizek it is imperative...otherwise sound matrix. The alternative is to reject the aff in favor of historical materialism – historical materialism links social praxis to a decisive judgment on capitalist oppression.
Lukacs in 67 (George, Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic. He is a founder of the tradition of Western Marxism. He contributed the ideas of reification and class consciousness to Marxist philosophy and theory, and his literary criticism was influential in thinking about realism and about the novel as a literary genre. He served briefly as Hungary's Minister of Culture as part of the government of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic, History and Class Consciousness) 224-225
Historical materialism...could act accordingly. |
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Federal Government refers to the national government.
Hartley 96 John, “American Civics”, p. 39, Google Print The term...Washington, D.C. Resolved means to enact by law
Words and Phrases 64 Permanent Edition Definition of the...establish by law”. Predictable limits and Ground- they allow any individual ideology, theory or cause to become an aff, which negates our ability to effectively research the aff. The impact is rigorous testing, which is key to value to life.
Zappen 4 James, Prof. Language and Literature – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “The Rebirth of Dialogue: Bakhtin, Socrates, and the Rhetorical Tradition”, p. 35-36 Finally, Bakhtin describes...Polus, and Callicles. Decision Making- Limited topic of discussion is key to decision-making and advocacy skills- this still provides room for creativity
Steinberg and Freeley 8 Austin J. Freeley is a Boston based attorney who focuses on criminal, personal injury and civil rights law, AND David L. Steinberg , Lecturer of Communication Studies @ U Miami, Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making pp45- Debate is a...the following discussion. Discussion of policy questions is crucial for skills development- forces engagement with competing perspectives to improve social outcomes, it breaks out of traditional pedagogical frameworks by positing students as agents of decision-making
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...and act on information.14 |
| 02/01/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Postmodernism does not interrogate the human/animal binary which provides the underpinnings of all oppressive ideologies.
Best 2012 Steven Best is a professor at the University of Texas http://www.liberazioni.org/articoli/BestS-TheRise(and%20Fall)ofCriticalAnimalStudies.pdf Postmodern critiques have...animal holocaust. Anthropocentrism is the root-cause of patriarchy, slavery, racism, and any form of domination.
Best, Associate Professor of Department of Humanities and Philosophies at University of Texas, 2007
Steven, “Book Review: The Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust” Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume V, Issue 2, http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/JCAS-Special-Issue-Women-of-Color-November-3-FINAL-2010.pdf accessed date: 11-7-11 y2k It is little understood...animal exploitation. Bare life leads to unending violence and genocide against those deemed not politically worthy.
KOCHI and ORDAN 2K8 (Tarik Kochi is a professor at Queen’s University. Noam Ordan is a professor at Bar llan University) “an argument for the global suicide of humanity”, vol 7. no. 4., bourderlands e-journal http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol7no3_2008/kochiordan_argument.pdf Within the picture many...Treblinka” (Singer, 1968, p.750). Thus the Alternative: Vote negative to reject the ethical exceptionalism of the 1AC. Rejecting the affirmative opens up the understanding of the species-being, allowing us to move beyond the religion of humanism.
HUDSON 2K4 Laura, The Political Animal: Species-Being and Bare Life, mediations journal, http://www.mediationsjournal.org/files/Mediations23_2_04.pdf We are all equally...politics and society? |
| 02/01/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Sequester compromise now, Obama has PC for it
Tobin 1/18 Time-Out May Be the GOP’s Best Option, Jonathan S. Tobin, 01.18.2013, http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/01/18/time-out-may-be-the-gop-best-option-debt-ceiling/ The top news out...problems are nonexistent. Obama gets tied to the plan
Davies, Utah University Assistant Law Professor, 2011,
(Lincoln, "ARTICLE: Beyond Fukushima: Disasters, Nuclear Energy, and Energy Law", Brigham Young University Law Review, 2011 B.Y.U.L. Rev. 1937, PAS) Accessed on LexisNexis 9-4-12 U.S. leaders were quick...nuclear power." n117 Sequestration cuts NIH- undermines disease prevention, econ, heg, and science leadership
Gabbe 12 Sequestration cuts would be a disaster for U.S. medical research, Dr. Steven G. Gabbe, December 24, 2012, senior vice president for health sciences at Ohio State University and chief executive officer at OSU’s Wexner Medical Center, http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/editorials/2012/12/24/sequestration-cuts-would-be-a-disaster-for-u-s~-~-medical-research.html Physicians at the nation’s...sequestration cannot happen. 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: ...as troubling complication |
| 02/01/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Nuclear power is implicitly representative of a capitalist drive for profits despite the dangers it poses
Acheson 11 (Ray - Reaching Critical Will Director @ WILPF and worked with the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies, "Costs, risks, and myths of nuclear power", Introduction, http://www.nirs.org/international/reachingcriticalwillreport.pdf - accessed 9/23/12) kc For the nuclear...their energy mixes. Resisting capitalism’s reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility – the current social order guarantees social exclusion on a global scale
Zizek and Daly 2k4 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16)
For Zizek it is...sound matrix. The alternative is to reject the affirmative as an intellectual refusal of capitalist ideology
Johnston 2004, Johnston, interdisciplinary research fellow in psychoanalysis at Emory University, 2004 Adrian, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, December v9 i3 p259 page infotrac Perhaps the absence...the truth? I choose fetishism |
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Executive orders are the most effective way to implement policies
Mayer 1 (Kenneth, Professor of Political Science @ University of Wisconsin – Madison, With the Stroke of a Pen) These chronicles of...many cases disturbing.” Executive orders increase presidential power
Risen 4 (Clay, Managing editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, M.A. from the University of Chicago “The Power of the Pen: The Not-So-Secret Weapon of Congress-wary Presidents” The American Prospect, July 16, http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_power_of_the_pen) In the modern...relations to reproductive health. Pres powers key to strong U.S Leadership
Mallaby 00 (Sebastian, Member, Washington Post’s Editorial Board, Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb) Finally, some will object...as isolationism or multiculturalism. US engagement is inevitable---maintaining heg is key to solve nuclear conflict and every geopolitical hotspot---key to fostering international cooperation which solves every existential threat.
Brooks, Ikenberry, and Wohlforth 13 Stephen Brooks is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College AND John Ikenberry is Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul AND John Wohlforth is Daniel Webster Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. “Lean Forward,” Jan/Feb 2013, Foreign Affairs, EBSCO, Accessed date: 1-9-13 y2k In Defense of American Engagement...seek nuclear arsenals XO’s avoid Politics
Mayer and Price, 2002 (Kenneth and Kevin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Unilateral Presidential Powers: Significant Executive Orders, 1949-99” Presidential Studies Quarterly Vol. 32 No.2 Pp 367-386 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27552391 Pg.368-9) Accessed 8/28/2012 DMW Careful observers...2000 campaign). |
| 02/20/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Monmouth R1 vs. Bard- Free Energy
1NC-Framework, Cap, Anthro, Case
2NR- Cap, Case Monmouth R4 vs. Boston College- Natural Gas Exports
1NC- T, XO, Politics, Anthro, Oil DA, Case
2NR- Politics, Case Monmouth R5 vs. Rutgers- Remove NRC Regs on LFTRs
1NC- XO, Cap, Politics, ASPEC, Oil DA, Case
2NR- XO, Politics, Case Districts R2 vs. Towson -
1NC- T- FI = Direct, Framework, Natural Gas PIC, Cap K, Anthro K
2NR- FW, Case, CP |
| 02/23/2013 | Tournament: D7 Districts | Round: 2 | Opponent: Towson HW | Judge: The cultural turn evoked by “post-strategies” attempts to break part any material analysis through the use of discursive analysis – despite their attempts to incorporate materialism it remains culturalist and stuck within the paradigm of capitalism.
Ebert and Zavarzadeh in 2008(Teresa L., English, State University of New York, Albany, Mas’ud, prolific writer and expert on class ideology, “Class in Culture”, p. 27-29) On the theoretical level
to look "outside." Material inequalities between races demonstrate that the root cause of racism is capitalism.
Young 06 (Chair @ NYU; Robert, “Putting Materialism Back into the Race Theory: Toward a Transformative Theory of Race”, redcritique.org ) In a sense then, r
forms of oppression. Resisting capitalism’s reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility – the current social order guarantees social exclusion on a global scale
Zizek and Daly 2k4 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16) For Zizek it is imperative
otherwise sound matrix. The alternative is to reject the aff in favor of historical materialism – historical materialism links social praxis to a decisive judgment on capitalist oppression.
Lukacs in 67 (George, Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic. He is a founder of the tradition of Western Marxism. He contributed the ideas of reification and class consciousness to Marxist philosophy and theory, and his literary criticism was influential in thinking about realism and about the novel as a literary genre. He served briefly as Hungary's Minister of Culture as part of the government of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic, History and Class Consciousness) 224-225
Historical materialism has
act accordingly |
| 02/23/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
T
Financial incentives are direct, indirect are fiscal incentives
Kurtz 2 Emile Noel Fellow, Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice, New York University Law School; Lecturer, Law School, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Jurgen 23 U. Pa. J. Int'l Econ. L. 713 Incentives to attract
direct financial incentives. n64 “FOR” is a limiting term
Clegg 95 - J.D., 1981 Yale Law School; the author is vice president and general counsel of the National Legal
Center for the Public Interest. (Roger, “Reclaiming The Text of The Takings Clause,” 46 S.C. L. Rev. 531,
Summer, lexis) Even if it made no sense
of the Amendment. n20 Limits- Their interp is practically limitless
Dyson et al 3 - International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (Megan, Flow: The Essentials of Environmental Flows, p. 67-68) Understanding of the term
is practically limitless. Framework Grammar-
a. Federal Government refers to the national government.
Hartley ’96
The term federal...Washington, D.C. b. Resolved means to enact by law
Words and Phrases ‘64 (Permanent Edition) Definition of the...to establish by law They hijack Education – Predictability is the basis of neg strategy, which is key to clash. The impact is rigorous testing of policies, which is the only way to truly understand the world and is key to value to life.
Zappen ‘4 (James, Prof. Language and Literature – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “The Rebirth of Dialogue: Bakhtin, Socrates, and the Rhetorical Tradition”, p. 35-36) Finally, Bakhtin describes...Gorgias, Polus, and Callicles Switch-side debate creates tolerance for alternative viewpoints, which prevents moral dogmatism.
Muir ‘93 (Star, Prof. Comm. – George Mason U., Philosophy and Rhetoric, “A Defense of the Ethics of Contemporary Debate”, 26(4), pp. 288-290) Values clarification, Stewart is correct...reasoned moral identity That’s a voting issue - Limited topic of discussion that provides for equitable ground is key to productive inculcation of decision-making and advocacy skills in every and all facets of life---even if their position is contestable that’s distinct from it being valuably debatable---this still provides room for flexibility, creativity, and innovation, but targets the discussion to avoid mere statements of fact---T debates also solve any possible turn
Steinberg and Freeley 8 *Austin J. Freeley is a Boston based attorney who focuses on criminal, personal injury and civil rights law, AND David L. Steinberg , Lecturer of Communication Studies @ U Miami, Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making pp45-
Debate is a means...following discussion. Pedagogies that focus on speaking from social location preclude deliberation and debate and thus shield the master narrative from critique – this turns the case.
Patricia Ewick and Susan S. Silbey Law and Society Review, 00239216, 1995, Vol. 29, Issue 2, KK In the previous section, we discussed...of right and liability. |
| 02/23/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Explanation of history as a struggle of people against oppressive regime is anthropocentric.
Resch, associate professor of history at Texas AandM University, 1992
Robert Paul, “Althusser and the Renewal of Marxist Social Theory” Berkeley: University of California Press, http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3n39n8x3/ Accessed date: 11-1-01 y2k Pluralism, relativism...hydra-headed "power." Bare life leads to unending violence and genocide against those deemed not politically worthy.
KOCHI and ORDAN 2K8 (Tarik Kochi is a professor at Queen’s University. Noam Ordan is a professor at Bar llan University) “an argument for the global suicide of humanity”, vol 7. no. 4., bourderlands e-journal http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol7no3_2008/kochiordan_argument.pdf Within the picture...Treblinka” (Singer, 1968, p.750). Thus the Alternative: Vote negative to reject the ethical exceptionalism of the 1AC. Rejecting the affirmative opens up the understanding of the species-being, allowing us to move beyond the religion of humanism.
HUDSON 2K4 Laura, The Political Animal: Species-Being and Bare Life, mediations journal, http://www.mediationsjournal.org/files/Mediations23_2_04.pdf We are all equally...politics and society? |
| 02/23/2013 | Tournament: D7 Districts | Round: 2 | Opponent: Towson HW | Judge:
I'll insert the text to the CP later Counterplan competes- does the advocacy except for Natural Gas that's good Natural gas production reduces emissions
Porter ’12 (“Technical innovations have unlocked vast quantities of oil, natural gas across the US”, June 24, 2012, J. Winston Porter, energy and environmental consultant, was an assistant administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, http://blog.al.com/birmingham-news-commentary/2012/06/viewpoints_technical_innovatio.html The United States...cleaner energy future. It’s anthropogenic and risks extinction
Deibel 2007 Terry L. professor of IR at National War College, Foreign Affairs Strategy, “Conclusion: American Foreign Affairs Strategy Today Anthropogenic – caused by CO2” Accessed 11/6/2012 DMW Finally, there is...on this planet |
| 02/23/2013 | Tournament: D7 Districts | Round: 2 | Opponent: Towson HW | Judge:
Aff fails to engage in a hip-hop pedagogy because they only affirm one of the four elements of hip-hop:
Aff only uses poetry and lyrics to represent the rapping part of hip-hop culture and pedagogy – aff is completely silent on break-dancing, DJing, and grafitting. Only focusing on hip hop as words pushes dance and graffiti to the background and erases hip-hop culture, turns the case
March 11 Chase March, hip hop historian, Breakdancing in an art!, http://chasemarch.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html Hip-hop as a...and at competitions. Cultural studies to reaffirm popular culture practices like playing music is profoundly depoliticizing and channels resistance away from the state and cedes the political to the right. Cultural studies is the consolation prize in the game of politics—the real winners are the right wing elites
Gitlin 97 (Todd, professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia, “The anti-political populism of cultural studies,” Dissent, Spring, proquest,) From the late 1960s onward...is already that. No revolution—hip hop has tried and failed for more than 25 years
McWhorter 08-PhD in Linguistics @ Stanford University, Associate Professor of Linguistics @ UC-Berkeley, lecturer @ Columbia University, M.A. in American Studies @ NYU, Fellow @ the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Contributing Editor @ the Manhattan Institutes City Journal, author of several books on Hip Hop in American Culture John, All About the Beat, June 2008, Pg. 100-101 Something interesting...as an intention |
| 02/23/2013 | Tournament: D7 Districts | Round: 3 | Opponent: Liberty LS | Judge:
US behind China in cleantech- the plan reverse this
Brendenberg 2/11 (Al Bredenberg "Why is the U.S. Losing the Cleantech Race with China?" February 11, 2013 news.thomasnet.com/green_clean/2013/02/11/why-is-the-u-s-losing-the-cleantech-race-with-china/ date accessed: 2/15/13) TM The U.S. is losing...by that time?” Chinese clean tech leadership is key to solves extinction
Denlinger 10 (Paul Denlinger consultant specializing in the China market who is based in Hong Kong, 7/20/10, “Why China Has To Dominate Green Tech,” http://www.forbes.com/sites/china/2010/07/20/why-china-has-to-dominate-green-tech/ date accessed: 2/14/13) TM On the policy level...the same boat |
| 02/23/2013 | Tournament: D7 Districts | Round: 3 | Opponent: Liberty LS | Judge:
Obama pushing immigration now – phone calls to Republicans prove
Helderman, Washington Post Staff Writer, 2-19, 2013,
(Rosalind S., "Obama reaches out to Republican senators on immigration overhaul", Washington Post, PAS) www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-reaches-out-to-republican-senators-on-immigration-overhaul/2013/02/19/6eaab9cc-7aca-11e2-82e8-61a46c2cde3d_story.html 2-19-13 Facing criticism...many Republicans. PC’s key to finalize immigration deal
Foley 1/15 (Elise Foley is a writer @ Huff Post Politics. “Obama Gears Up For Immigration Reform Push In Second Term,” 1/15/2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/15/obama-immigration-reform_n_2463388.html date accessed: 2/1/13) TM Obama has repeatedly...the president heavily involved. energy policy causes massive partisan gridlock
McEntee 12 Science, Politics and Public Opinion, Christine McEntee, Executive Director and CEO, American Geophysical Union, AUGUST 15, 2012, http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/08/finding-the-sweet-spot-biparti.php As convenient...legislation on these issues. Immigration reform key to innovation
McCraw 12 (Thomas McCraw is a professor emeritus at Harvard Business School, “Innovative Immigrants,” 11/1/2012http:www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/opinion/immigrants-as-entrepreneurs.html?pagewanted=all date accessed: 2/2/13) TM SOME 70 million immigrants...must be repaired — soon. That’s key to solving warming
Norris and Jenkins 9 (Teryn Norris is Project Director at the Breakthrough Institute and Jessie Jenkins is Director of Energy and Climate Policy, The Breakthrough Institute, “ Want to Save the World? Make Clean Energy Cheap,” Huffington Post, March 10, 2009, http://www.thebreakthrough.org/blog/2009/03/want_to_save_the_world_make_cl.shtml date accessed: 2/3/13) TM Whatever the cause...throughout the world. risks extinction
Deibel 2007 Terry L. professor of IR at National War College, Foreign Affairs Strategy, “Conclusion: American Foreign Affairs Strategy Today Anthropogenic – caused by CO2” Accessed 11/6/2012 DMW Finally, there is...on this planet |
| 02/23/2013 | Tournament: D7 Districts | Round: 3 | Opponent: Liberty LS | Judge:
Overemphasizing fears of Russian expansionism is a rhetorical construction that perpetuates cold war fears to maintain American power-AND Russia has no expansionist designs—aff’s analysis is Russophobia.
Foglesong and Hahn '10 (Professor of History, Rutgers; Adjunct Professor and Researcher of Monterey Terrorism Research and Education Program, Moterrey Insititute I-Nat studies)
David and Gordon http://www.caei.com.ar/es/programas/cei/A02.pdf
Despite the drastic...Soviet-style Belarusian economy. Attempts to construct a fear of Russian expansionism is an essentializing and racist form of Russophia that ensures bad policies and dishonest debate – it must be rejected.
Lieven '01 (senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
Anatol http://www.worldpolicy.newschool.edu/journal/lieven.html
Ever since the Cold War ended...later find them everywhere. The role of a negative ballot is to intervene in the cartographic discursive performance of the affirmative - failure to do so results in a forclosure of ethical debate through cartographical registers of policy analysis that reduce life to bare life and only serve to replicate the genocidal and warmongering violence of American orientalism.
Derek Gregory, 2005 The Role of Geography in Public Debate, Progress in Human Geography 29, 2 (2005) pp. 165-193, http://phg.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/29/2/165
Public debate is a condition of...of the political |
| 02/23/2013 | Tournament: D7 Districts | Round: 3 | Opponent: Liberty LS | Judge:
The United States Supreme Court should rule to exclude offshore wind productions from National Environmental Protection Act review. Courts can invalidate restrictions on energy production
Simon 7 Christopher A. Simon - Director, Master of Public Administration, Political Science Department, University of Utah, Professor, Political Science, “Alternative Energy: Political, Economic, and Social Feasibility” The institutional power...national policy priorities. |
| 02/23/2013 | Tournament: D7 District | Round: 3 | Opponent: Liberty LS | Judge:
AT Oceans
Alt cause to ocean – 3 reasons
Danson and Sharpless 2/14
Ted Danson and Andrew Sharpless, Contributors for the Huffington Post, Obama for the Oceans: What the President Can Do in His Second Term for People Who Depend on the Oceans, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ted-danson/obama-for-the-oceans~-~--wh_b_2686408.htmljap
1) Ban seismic testing...and threats they face. Rigs to reefs now solves the impact
Buchanan, 8/21/2012, Push Is On To Declutter Gulf of Idle Iron, www.marinelink.com/news/declutter-push-gulf347104.aspx Caring For the Gulf...leave in the Gulf either Multiple alt causes
Pynn 7 (Larry, Journalist – Vancouver Sun, “Global Warming Not Biggest Threat: Expert”, Vancouver Sun, 1-27,
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=6e2988da-31ab-4697-810d-7a008306d571) The biggest...urban development Won’t go nuclear
Tanter 99 (Raymond, Professor of Political Science – University of Michigan and Research Associate – Middle East Center and John Psarouthakis, President and Trustee – Paideia Foundation and Adjunct Business Professor – University of Michigan, Balancing in the Balkans, p. 50) Despite the...the Balkans ASEAN inevitable and resilient
Rajaratnam 92 (S. Former Deputy Prime Minister – Singapore, “ASEAN: The Way Ahead”, 9-1, http://www.aseansec.org/13991.htm) As a student...common fear persists. Indonesia won’t collapse – media reports are wrong
Lloyd 00 (Grayson, Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Group – Parliament of Australia, “Indonesia's Future Prospects: Separatism, Decentralisation and the Survival of the Unitary State”, 6-27, http://www.aph.gov.au/library/Pubs/CIB/1999-2000/2000cib17.htm) Contrary to the...real and widespread problems. AT EU
Russia has abandoned aggression in favor of cooperation
Sawczak 11 Dr. Peter Sawczak, Adjunct Research Fellow at Monash University, “Obama’s Russia Policy: The Wages and Pitfalls of the Reset,” peer reviewed paper presented at the 10th Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Feb 3-4 2011, http://cais.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/Sawczak_Obama.pdf As a measure of...incited civil war. 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...and leadership bunkers). No attacks – terrorists are weak
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...inferior to its desires." Solvency
Massive amounts of hurricanes every year- crushes energy production
Rose et al 12 (Stephen Rose, Paulina Jaramillo, Mitchell J. Small, Iris Grossmann and Jay Apta, "Quantifying the hurricane risk to offshore wind turbines" 2012 February 13 US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3295275/ date accessed: 2/14/13) TM U.S. offshore resources...from hurricane damages. Jones Act applies to offshore wind development
Papavizas, 11(North American Windpower, June - Clarifying The Jones Act For Offshore Wind, Most everyone familiar with offshore wind recognizes the importance of the Jones Act. However, the maritime law is often misunderstood. Charlie Papavizas is a partner with Winston and Strawn LLP, Washington, DC.)
http://www.winston.com/sitefiles/blog/Jones_Act_Wind_Article_North_American_Wind_Power_June_2011.pdf The last aspect of...Act-qualified vessel Impact – Destroys all solvency
Johnson, 12 (Vague Maritime Laws Preventing U.S. Offshore Wind Development, Posted by Matt Johnson on Tue, Jul 31, 2012 @ 01:17 PM – Energy Acuity)
http://www.energyacuity.com/blog/bid/198593/Vague-Maritime-Laws-Preventing-U-S-Offshore-Wind-Development Federal maritime laws...of the U.S. |
