Tournament: GSU | Round: 2 | Opponent:  | Judge: 

Shell

Violation: Plan doesn’t mandate an increase incentive for production. Increasing incentives for energy productions means providing incentives to convert energy from a natural resource. At best it’s effects topical because it leads to market conditions that incent increased production

1. Increase means ““to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality;augment that’s Dictionary.com

2. For means “intented to reach; directred or belonging to” that’s Collins English Dictionary 09

3. Financial incentives means “monetary benefits offered to consumers, employees and organizations to encourage behavior or actions which otherwise would not take place. A financial incentive motivates actions which otherwise might not occur without the monetary benefit.” That’s business dictionary.com

4. “Energy production refers to the process of converting energy from a natural resource, such as coal, into a form that can be easily used by the general public, such as electricity.” – that’s Genel 12

Rauf Genel 12 (science and technology website, checked August 13, 2012, http://raufgenel.com/english-articles/physics/subjects-of-physics/energy/energy-technology.html) From the Perspective of physics, all technological devices that produce or use energy can be viewed as energy transformers. Contextually, increasing financial incentives for energy production means increasing incentives for increasing the supply of a particular form of energy

USDOE – 12 (checked August 22, 2012, http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/repi/)

The Renewable Energy Production Incentive (AND energy sources and to promote market utilization of renewable energy technologies.

EPA 12 (http://www.epa.gov/osw/hazard/wastemin/minimize/energyrec/rpsinc.htm, checked September 14, 2012)

Federal The AND produced must be consumed on-site. This Initiative ends in 2007.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 2 | Opponent:  | Judge: 

CP Text: President Obama should initiate a Presidential Memorandum that directs a Blue Ribbon Commission to recommend a report on procuring small modular reactors for its military installations in the United States.

Creating a Blue Ribbon Commission Report on nuclear power solves the aff- creates a necessary study, builds consensus and feasability

Parthemore and Rogers, 10 (Christine Parthemore and Will Rogers, Christine Parthemore is the Bacevich fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Will Rogers is a CNAS researcher. This piece is based on a recently released CNAS report on climate change, energy and the Department of Defense available, Nuclear Reactors on Military Bases May Be Risky, May 20, 2010http://www.rollcall.com/news/-46456-1.html

On the other hand,AND . Ensuring national security interests and a cleaner energy future demands no less.

Blue Ribbon Commissions solve- coalesce political support to pass- and avoids politics

Tama, 11 (Jordan, Dr. Jordan Tama specializes in the U.S. foreign policy making process, presidential-congressional relations, intelligence reform, counterterrorism policy, and blue-ribbon commissions. He is the author of Terrorism and National Security Reform: How Commissions Can Drive Change During Crises (Cambridge University Press, 2011). “In Defense of Blue-Ribbon Commissions,” April 20, 2011, http://www.democracyjournal.org/arguments/2011/04/in-defense-of-blue-ribbon-commissions.php)

Progressives do not have—AND facilitating bipartisan agreement on pressing challenges.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 2 | Opponent:  | Judge: 

Congress will reach a deal and avoid a “fiscal cliff” in the lame duck now- avoids economic collapse

Reuters, 9-21 (Will Lame Duck Congress Save US From ‘Fiscal Cliff’?, http://www.cnbc.com/id/49119887)

Slowly and quietly, AND the jolt of indiscriminate spending cuts and tax hikes that would occur under current law.

DOD SMRs cause massive fights in Congress

Parthemore and Rogers, 10 (Christine Parthemore and Will Rogers, Christine Parthemore is the Bacevich fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Will Rogers is a CNAS researcher. This piece is based on a recently released CNAS report on climate change, energy and the Department of Defense available, Nuclear Reactors on Military Bases May Be Risky, May 20, 2010http://www.rollcall.com/news/-46456-1.html

Are small nuclear reactors AND opinion will also be major concerns.

Obama has sufficient political capital now on the fiscal cliff- it’s key

ASP, 9-21 (The author of xpostfactoid, a blog that occasionally breaks the surface, usually by paying close attention to the language of President Obama and other elected officials and commentators. I have a Ph.D in medieval literature and so have segued from parsing the subtexts of mystics like Julian of Norwich to deconstructing political rhetoric, http://xpostfactoid.blogspot.com/2012/09/ezra-kleins-unconvincing-theory-that.html)

Obama also used theAND . Republicans are screaming much louder than Democrats about the sequester, disastrous though the cuts may be on the domestic side.

Economic crisis causes war-~--strong statistical support

Royal 10 – Jedediah Royal, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, 2010, “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises,” in Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215

Less intuitive is how periods of AND should be considered ancillary to those views.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 2 | Opponent:  | Judge: 

Electrical Grid Neg- DOD Specific

Generator backs means no impact

Aimone, 12 (Statement of Mr. Michael Aimone Director Business Enterprise Integration Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations and Environment) Before the House Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Security Technologies, September 12, http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/Testimony%20-%20Aimone.pdf)

Standby Power Generation Currently, AND , to support base recovery.

Also microgrids- solves the impactAimone, 12 (Statement of Mr. Michael Aimone Director Business Enterprise Integration Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations and Environment) Before the House Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Security Technologies, September 12, http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/Testimony%20-%20Aimone.pdf)

Although the AND and in “island” mode.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 2 | Opponent:  | Judge: 

AT: Cyber Attacks

Grid is protected against cyber attacks

Sorebo, 10 (Gib Sorebo is a recognized expert in assisting government and private sector organizations in their efforts to address cybersecurity risks and to comply with legal and regulatory requirements. Sorebo is a chief cybersecurity technologist and vice president for SAIC, where he is responsible for coordinating cybersecurity activities in the energy sector companywide and contributes to a variety of smart grid security research efforts, February 08, 2012, http://365.rsaconference.com/blogs/critical-infrastructure/authors/gns100)

Similarly, the Grey Goose Report note that AND calling out the electricity industry for failures that we’ve all been subjected to is not very productive.

Strong rigorous standards solve- no risk of cyber-attack taking out the grid

Sorebo, 10 (Gib Sorebo is a recognized expert in assisting government and private sector organizations in their efforts to address cybersecurity risks and to comply with legal and regulatory requirements. Sorebo is a chief cybersecurity technologist and vice president for SAIC, where he is responsible for coordinating cybersecurity activities in the energy sector companywide and contributes to a variety of smart grid security research efforts, July 16, 2012, http://365.rsaconference.com/blogs/critical-infrastructure/authors/gns100)

The other statements made AND entire implementation life cycle. 

No risk of cyber-attack

Sorebo, 12 (Gib Sorebo is a recognized expert in assisting government and private sector organizations in their efforts to address cybersecurity risks and to comply with legal and regulatory requirements. Sorebo is a chief cybersecurity technologist and vice president for SAIC, where he is responsible for coordinating cybersecurity activities in the energy sector companywide and contributes to a variety of smart grid security research efforts, July 16, 2012, http://365.rsaconference.com/blogs/critical-infrastructure/authors/gns100)

Arguably, there was nothing wrong with AND provide appropriate incentives and solutions.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 2 | Opponent:  | Judge: 

Nuclear Leadership Neg

DOE already created these programs—no reason that doesn’t solve the advantage.

1. Nuclear leadership fails- failed nuclear negotiations with Iran, north Korea and Pakistan all prove

Reuters, 8-31 (After early successes, Obama struggles to implement disarmament vision, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/31/us-usa-nuclear-arms-idUSBRE87U06B20120831)

Obama made significant AND fissile material for nuclear arms.

2. Alternate Causalities make Nuclear leadership impossible

A. Nuclear waste

Restuccia, 12 (Andrew, Official: Lack of nuclear waste dump is a ‘serious failure of the American government’, February 01, http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/207963-official-delay-in-establishing-nuke-waste-dump-serious-failure-of-the-american-government)

The head of a federal commission AND federal relationships very sharply.”

B. IAEA politicization, lack of effective cooperation and breakdown of NSG

Hibbs, 11 (Mark, Mark Hibbs is a senior associate in Carnegie's Nuclear Policy Program, based in Berlin. Before joining Carnegie, for over 20 years he was an editor and correspondent for nuclear energy publications, including Nucleonics Weekand Nuclear Fuel, published by the Platts division of the McGraw-Hill Companies. “Nuclear energy 2011: A watershed year,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 2012 68 http://carnegieendowment.org/files/Nuclear_Energy_2011.pdf)

2011 was a AND look out for in 2012

C. Ambiguity over 123 Agreements

Hibbs, 12 (Mark, Senior associate, Nuclear Policy Program, “Negotiating Nuclear Cooperation Agreements” http://carnegieendowment.org/2012/08/07/negotiating-nuclear-cooperation-agreements/d98z)

The United States is currently negotiating bilateral AND create incentives to get desired results.

3. Turn - expanding nuclear leadership increases tech transfer – causing prolif

Keeny, 07 - former deputy director of the U.S Arms Control and Disarmament agency (Spurgeon, PANEL II OF A COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS SYMPOSIUM; SUBJECT: CAN NUCLEAR ENERGY GO BEYOND THE ENERGY POLICY ACT OF 2005? June 18, L/n)

MR. KEENY: I'd just like to add one point. AND reminiscent of that -- (off mike) -- fast -- (inaudible).

Tournament: GSU | Round: 2 | Opponent:  | Judge: 

1NC- Solvency- Generic

Domestic opposition, gas prices, lack of nuclear engineers- make nuclear power impossible

Szondy, 12 (David Szondy is a freelance writer based in Monroe, Washington. An award-winning playwright, he has contributed to Charged and iQ magazine and is the author of the website Tales of Future Past, Feature: Small modular nuclear reactors - the future of energy?, February 16, 2012, http://www.gizmag.com/small-modular-nuclear-reactors/20860/)

The problem is that nuclear energy is AND have a hard time matching it.

Gas prices and federal policy on fuel management makes nuclear power not competitive-

Peterson, 12 (J. Scott Peterson Senior Vice President of Communications, Nuclear Energy Institute, New Nuclear Construction Will Help Secure U.S. Energy Technology Leadership, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/j-scott-peterson/new-nuclear-construction-_b_1292429.html)

Nuclear energy, AND This is a political problem however, not a technical challenge. 

Incentives fail- infeasible and inadequate

Cohen, 11 (Steven, Executive director, Columbia University’s Earth Institute, A Plea for Presidential Leadership on Sustainable Energy, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-cohen/a-plea-for-presidential-l_b_844300.html)

The amount of investment AND fossil fuel industry.

Reactor retirement undermines solvency- outweighs the plan

O’Conner, 11 (Dan O’Connor is a Policy Fellow in AEL’s New Energy Leaders Project and will be a regular contributor to the website. How Nuclear Fits into Obama’s Energy Goal, 02-03, http://leadenergy.org/2011/02/how-nuclear-fits-into-obamas-ambitious-goal/)

The fact that the nuclear industry AND portfolio can grow in that time frame.

Regulatory, financial, operational and logistical challenges block commercialization

O’Conner, 11 (Dan O’Connor is currently an engineer at Exelon Nuclear. He previously worked with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s International Project on Innovative Reactors and Fuel Cycles (INPRO) and Westinghouse Electric Company’s Research and Technology Unit, “Small Modular Reactors: Miracle, Mirage, or Between?” January 04, 2012, https://theenergycollective.com/aelstaff/49322/small-modular-reactors-miracle-mirage-or-between)

But even in the stages AND to waste storage.

1NC- Solvency- DOD

DOD alone is insufficient to make SMR uncompetitive

King et al, 11 (Marcus King, Associate Director of Research, Associate Research Professor of International Affairs, LaVar Huntzinger, Thoi Nguyen, Feasibility of Nuclear Power on U.S. Military Installations, March 2011, http://www.cna.org/sites/default/files/research/Nuclear%20Power%20on%20Military%20Installations%20D0023932%20A5.pdf)

The costs associated with AND , vendors investments, and direct congressional appropriation for that purpose.

SMRs undermine leadership cause anti-US resentment- no turns economic and technical barriers block

Smith, 11 (Terrence P, is program coordinator and research assistant with the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at CSIS, where he assists with projects on global growth and economic governance, with a particular focus on the dynamic Asia-Pacific region.An Idea I Can Do Without: “Small Nuclear Reactors for Military Installations” February 16, 2011 http://csis.org/blog/idea-i-can-do-without-small-nuclear-reactors-military-installations)

The report repeatedly emphasizes the point AND My point is, maybe that is where they should stay.

DOD SMRs uniquely lead to public backlash- also fails lack of personnel, management, oversight and regulatory credentials

Parthemore, 11 (Christine, Christine Parthemore was a Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where she directed the Natural Security Program and the Natural Security Blog. This program explores national security and foreign policy issues related to natural resources and their consumption, including energy, minerals, land, water, climate change and biodiversity loss. She is also an Adjunct Professor in Johns Hopkins University's Global Security Studies Program, and serves on the Council of Advisors for U-Mass Boston's Collaborative Institute for Oceans, Climate and Security, Debate Continues on Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, June 28, 2011, http://www.cnas.org/blogs/naturalsecurity/2011/06/debate-continues-small-modular-nuclear-reactors.html)

What I dislike is the unique focus on military AND

and other problems.

Public perception is key

Bonass et al, 12 (Matt Bonass, Michael Rudd and Richard Lucas are partners in Bird and Bird’s energy and utilities sector group.  Mr Bonass and Mr Rudd are co-editors of Renewables:  A Practical Handbook.  Mr Rudd is head of Bird and Bird’s nuclear practice. Author interviews, Renewable energy: the fallout from Fukushima, http://www.globelawandbusiness.com/Interviews/Detail.aspx?g=910fcfa6-9a2d-4312-b034-9bbcb2dad9e0)

There is no doubt that AND

politically unacceptable to many.

SMRs cause accidents- DOD energy efficiency and renewables solve

Smith, 11 (Terrence P, Terrence Smith is program coordinator and research assistant with the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at CSIS, where he assists with projects on global growth and economic governance, with a particular focus on the dynamic Asia-Pacific region, An Idea I Can Do Without: “Small Nuclear Reactors for Military Installations” February 16, 2011 http://csis.org/blog/idea-i-can-do-without-small-nuclear-reactors-military-installations)

The proposed solution: AND supplies short of going nuclear.

Obama has sufficient political capital now on the fiscal cliff- it’s key

ASP, 9-21 (The author of xpostfactoid, a blog that occasionally breaks the surface, usually by paying close attention to the language of President Obama and other elected officials and commentators. I have a Ph.D in medieval literature and so have segued from parsing the subtexts of mystics like Julian of Norwich to deconstructing political rhetoric, http://xpostfactoid.blogspot.com/2012/09/ezra-kleins-unconvincing-theory-that.html)

Obama also used the AND may be on the domestic side.

Economic crisis causes war-~--strong statistical support

Royal 10 – Jedediah Royal, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, 2010, “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises,” in Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215

Less intuitive is how periods of economic AND considered ancillary to those views.

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Plan accelerates energy addiction.  Renunciation reclaims the possibility of politics

Robert – 03 (Energy, Jean Robert, teacher and activist for alternative technologies, taught at Penn State as part of a group of intellectuals invited by Ivan Illich to venture into researches on the archeology of modern certainties, teaches at school of architecture of the University of Cuernavaca and La Salle University,  graduated as an architect from the Swiss Polytechnical Institute (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule), former UN consultant, http:~/~/www.pudel.uni-bremen.de/pdf/energy_1.pdf)

In contrast, both E and "energy" radically threaten AND  cannot do much better than to reread Illich (1973).

Vote Neg: Renunciation destabilizes the Aff framing, creates space for awareness

I can imagine no complex of controls AND  in a very particular way, blasphemous.

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
A.     Rationality and modernism self-destruct.  The alternative is post-rationalist seduction.

Dr. Miller 04 (Dr Robert Miller Existentialist Society Lecture December 2004, Baudrillard s Philosophy Of Seduction: an overview)

To appreciate Baudrillard s philosophy of Seduction AND Seduction, as we'll see, is a philosophy which does just that.

B.    The self described firebrand lesbian novelist Sage Sweetwater explains:

Small Pox Blankets

arm scratched
 with something out of a bottle
 genocide of dirty politics

distribution hollywood trade
 buffalo hides set the stage
 cover up politics with smallpox blankets

film tent set up on a hill
 croaking of the raven
 howling of the wolf

eaten by maggots
infected politics
 deadly outbreak

cold water plunge
 governor hears
 malicious extortion

spreading smallpox through the council
 film screen preferring
 death to surrender

C.   The seduction either solves or it doesn’t

Dr. Miller 04 (Dr Robert Miller Existentialist Society Lecture December 2004, Baudrillard s Philosophy Of Seduction: an overview)

There is a twofold movement in Baudrillard s double game: AND produced meanings and seduce them back to the abyss.

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
The affirmative's neoliberal rationality attempts to molarize an image of the proper subject that locks the soul into stasis and guarantees economic collapse and transition wars - the impact is social death
Bifo 2011
(Franco Berardi, Professor of Social History and Communication at the Academia di belle Arti in Milan and Founder of A/Traverse, After the Future, ed. Genesko%26Thoburn, AKPress, p. 141-47)

More than ever, economic rationality… …fabric of language and imagination.

This focus on rational economic science has created a bloodthirsty form of capitalism that erases affective engagements with desire and makes violence inevitable - neoliberalism constantly produces crisis to rationalize its capacity for control - this makes the destruction of all life the very impulse of the economy 
Wiltgen 2005
(James, Professor of History and Critical Theory at CalArts, "Sado-Moneatrism or Saint Fond – Saint Ford", in Consumption in the Age of Information, ed. Cohen and Rutsky, BERG, New York, p. 107-10)

How does digital capitalism intertwine… …their dense and complex oscillations.

Vote negative to reject the 1AC. 
The economy and global capital are crumbling around us - we should use the collapse as a site for organizing affective singularity outside of the realm of economics
Bifo 2011
(Franco Berardi, Professor of Social History and Communication at the Academia di belle Arti in Milan and Founder of A/Traverse, After the Future, ed. Genesko%26Thoburn, AKPress, p. 147-54)

Activism has generally conceived the… …should be considered an unending process.

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
The affirmative embraces a violent techne which frames the environment as a source for energy. This enframing reinforces subject/object dualism and reduces the environment to standing reserve.

Beckman 2000

/Tad, Professor at Harvey Mudd, “MARTIN HEIDEGGER AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS”, http:~/~/www2.hmc.edu/~~tbeckman/personal/html/

Perhaps it is not difficult to understand AND

but their subjective status of standing-ready for human design. (8)http://www2.hmc.edu/~~tbeckman/personal/Heidart.html#N_8_

We must take a step back from technology and calculative thinking and ask the question of how we orient ourselves to being in the world. This meditative shift is crucial to contemplating technicity and thus radically altering our vision of the world.

Ziarek 12

(Krzysztof, Professor of Comparative Literature at SUNY-Buffalo, “The Global Unworld: A Meditative Manifesto”, Impasses of the Post-Global: Theory in the Era of Climate Change, Vol. 2/)

At issue, as I suggested earlier,AND . The crisis of (un)worlding.

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CP Text: A USFG state owned enterprise should increase production of ______ on _______.

SOEs develop can effectively develop energy infrastructure and the economy

O'Driscoll 10 (Eoin, Chairman of Forfas, July 2010, "The Role of State Owned Enterprises: Providing Infrastructure and Support Economic Recovery" p. 3)

The commercial semi-state sector AND  skills) and entrepreneurship.

SOEs can generate large revenues for the government

Capobianco and Christiansen 11 (Antonio and Hans, "Competitive Neutrality and State-Owned Enterprises: Challenges and Policy Options" OECD Corporate Governance Working Papers #1, p. 8-9)

Protecting fiscal revenues. AND  the utilities sectors.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Kentucky GR | Judge:
The affirmative's neoliberal rationality attempts to molarize an image of the proper subject that locks the soul into stasis and guarantees economic collapse and transition wars - the impact is social death
Bifo 2011
(Franco Berardi, Professor of Social History and Communication at the Academia di belle Arti in Milan and Founder of A/Traverse, After the Future, ed. Genesko%26Thoburn, AKPress, p. 141-47)

More than ever, economic rationality… …fabric of language and imagination.

This focus on rational economic science has created a bloodthirsty form of capitalism that erases affective engagements with desire and makes violence inevitable - neoliberalism constantly produces crisis to rationalize its capacity for control - this makes the destruction of all life the very impulse of the economy
Wiltgen 2005
(James, Professor of History and Critical Theory at CalArts, "Sado-Moneatrism or Saint Fond – Saint Ford", in Consumption in the Age of Information, ed. Cohen and Rutsky, BERG, New York, p. 107-10)

How does digital capitalism intertwine… …their dense and complex oscillations.

Vote negative to reject the 1AC.
The economy and global capital are crumbling around us - we should use the collapse as a site for organizing affective singularity outside of the realm of economics
Bifo 2011
(Franco Berardi, Professor of Social History and Communication at the Academia di belle Arti in Milan and Founder of A/Traverse, After the Future, ed. Genesko%26Thoburn, AKPress, p. 147-54)

Activism has generally conceived the… …should be considered an unending process.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Kentucky GR | Judge:
CP:

The USFG should amend Exon-Florio to more narrowly define national security as explained by our solvency evidence, Carroll-Emory. 

Carroll-Emory International Law Review-9 23 Emory Int'l L. Rev. 167 COMMENT: BACK TO THE FUTURE: REDEFINING THE FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND NATIONAL SECURITY ACT'S CONCEPTION OF NATIONAL SECURITY

Exon-Florio should be amended AND that are not allies of the United States;

Narrowing the CFIUS definition of national security would solve protectionism and politicization of the process. Nonproblematic transactions would be excluded while transactions that threaten national security would be included

Carroll-Emory International Law Review-9 23 Emory Int'l L. Rev. 167 COMMENT: BACK TO THE FUTURE: REDEFINING THE FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND NATIONAL SECURITY ACT'S CONCEPTION OF NATIONAL SECURITY

This proposed definition of national AND  involving a foreign governmental takeover. 226

Narrowing CFIUS solves case and protects national security

Carroll-Emory International Law Review-9 23 Emory Int'l L. Rev. 167 COMMENT: BACK TO THE FUTURE: REDEFINING THE FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND NATIONAL SECURITY ACT'S CONCEPTION OF NATIONAL SECURITY

Limiting the Exon-Florio definition of national security AND  Only by embracing globalization and cooperation can the United States truly achieve national security.

CFIUS review provides leverage to detect and ensure Chinese NOCs withdraw from Iran

Downs, their solvency author – 12, China fellow at Brookings, 7-19-12 (Erica S. Downs is a fellow at the John L. Thorton China Center at The Brookings Institution, “Getting China to Turn on Iran,” July 19,http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/getting-china-turn-iran-7215)

The arrival of China’s NOCs AND CNOOC’s proposed takeover of Nexen.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 3 | Opponent: MSU GT | Judge: 

Counterplan: The USFG should substantially increase financial support for fusion research and development in the U.S., and loan guarantees for fusion power generation.

While there are valid criticisms to be made of loan guarantees in other contexts, a comprehensive examination of the DOE loan program demonstrates they are uniquely effective when directed towards specific power production projects such as plan

Douglas – 12 (MIT graduate, frmr Chief Sustainability Officer and Sr. Vice President of Cloud Computing at Sun, currently a Vice President at Applied Minds, on the board of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), a Technology Advisor to Boston Rising, a Strategic Advisor to SkySQL, and a Sr. fellow at the Breakthrough Institute, http://nearwalden.com/blog/analysis-of-the-doe-loan-program/-http://nearwalden.com/blog/analysis-of-the-doe-loan-program/)
The final questions of this paper are whether a DOE loan
AND
A successful and effective use of federal energy innovation dollars.

Leveraging means loan guarantees cut costs by over 80%

Brown 12 (Loan guarantees for Clean Energy Technologies: Goals, Concerns, and Policy Options Phillip Brown Specialist in Energy Policy January 17, 2012)

Tournament: NDT | Round: 3 | Opponent: MSU GT | Judge: 

1NC

Collapse inevitable: money is a false concept of wealth that when combines with faulty economic calculations and indefinite death will inevitably implode

Atcheson 12 (John Atcheson has more than 30 years in energy and the environment with government, private industry, and the nation’s leading think tanks.  He is working on a novel about climate change. "A Book Review of ’The Crash Course’: The Unsustainable Future Of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment," April 28, 2012, http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/04/28/469780/a-book-review-of-the-crash-course-the-unsustainable-future-of-our-economy-energy-and-environment/-http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/04/28/469780/a-book-review-of-the-crash-course-the-unsustainable-future-of-our-economy-energy-and-environment/) KJS
Martenson is an intellectual omnivore.  From peak oil
AND
Understanding the economy, then we’re flying blind.

Quebec can’t secede – separatists are boxed in

Mckenna 12 (8-8, Peter, Columnist at Chronicle Herald, "Could Quebec really separate?," http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/124720-could-quebec-really-secede-http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/124720-could-quebec-really-secede)
On the issue of any unilateral
AND
Issue in a semi-permanent deep freeze.

Status quo NNSA nuclear scientists are SUFFICIENT but the plan makes it UNTENABLE

APS 8
APS (American Physical Society), Report from the APS Panel on Public Affairs Committee on Energy and Environment, June 2008, Readiness of the US Nuclear Workforce for 21^st Century Challenges, http://www.aps.org/policy/reports/popa-reports/upload/Nuclear-Readiness-FINAL-2.pdf-http://www.aps.org/policy/reports/popa-reports/upload/Nuclear-Readiness-FINAL-2.pdf; JN
4. The continuing, largely static,
AND
academia each play a major role.

Turns the advantage – NNSA key to verification – their author

Davis 10 – Dr. Jay Davis, National Security Fellow – Center for Global Security Research, Founding Director – Defense Threat Reduction Agency of the United State Department of Defense, and Chair – American Physical Society Panel on Public Affairs, et al., "Technical Steps to Support Nuclear Arsenal Downsizing," February, http://www.aps.org/policy/reports/popa-reports/upload/nucleardownsizing.PDF;JN-http://www.aps.org/policy/reports/popa-reports/upload/nucleardownsizing.PDF;JN
NNSA has continued to support development
AND
And remote monitoring technologies

2NC/1NR

2. Collapse of the present order is inevitable.  The key political task is the preparation of individuals who can demonstrate that the breakdown of the industrial illusion is a precondition for designing convivial modes of production.  Our link evidence says renunciation of plan and the 1AC scholarship is essential to developing this argument and consciousness.  Failure to do so risks extinction and global tyranny

Professor Illich – 75 (PhD at the University of Salzburg (an exploration of the nature of historical knowledge), frmr Visiting Professor of Philosophy and of Science, Technology, and Society at Penn State, also taught at the University of Bremen, Tools for Convivality)
I can only conjecture on how the breakdown of industrial
AND
Postindustrial society in which several distinct modes of

Plan makes no sense – squo solves

Bishop 12, former General Counsel of the Nuclear Energy Institute, October 25, 2012, http://debateandtherealworld.com/article.php?id=4-http://debateandtherealworld.com/article.php?id=4
D+TRW: What is the current status
AND
Again, such incentives would provide no value now.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 5 | Opponent: JMU BL | Judge:
The affirmative's neoliberal rationality attempts to molarize an image of the proper subject that locks the soul into stasis and guarantees economic collapse and transition wars - the impact is social death
Bifo 2011
(Franco Berardi, Professor of Social History and Communication at the Academia di belle Arti in Milan and Founder of A/Traverse, After the Future, ed. Genesko%26Thoburn, AKPress, p. 141-47)

More than ever, economic rationality… …fabric of language and imagination.

This focus on rational economic science has created a bloodthirsty form of capitalism that erases affective engagements with desire and makes violence inevitable - neoliberalism constantly produces crisis to rationalize its capacity for control - this makes the destruction of all life the very impulse of the economy 
Wiltgen 2005
(James, Professor of History and Critical Theory at CalArts, "Sado-Moneatrism or Saint Fond – Saint Ford", in Consumption in the Age of Information, ed. Cohen and Rutsky, BERG, New York, p. 107-10)

How does digital capitalism intertwine… …their dense and complex oscillations.

Vote negative to reject the 1AC. 
The economy and global capital are crumbling around us - we should use the collapse as a site for organizing affective singularity outside of the realm of economics
Bifo 2011
(Franco Berardi, Professor of Social History and Communication at the Academia di belle Arti in Milan and Founder of A/Traverse, After the Future, ed. Genesko%26Thoburn, AKPress, p. 147-54)

Activism has generally conceived the… …should be considered an unending process.

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The rock isn't gonna die - but only the elite will be able to get off it
Dickens and Ormrod 7 - Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex AND Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Brighton
(Peter and James, Cosmic Society: Towards a Sociology of the Universe, pg 156-157, dml)

On the other hand, some sociologists...particular species and ecological systems.

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The rock isn't gonna die - but only the elite will be able to get off it
Dickens and Ormrod 7 - Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex AND Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Brighton
(Peter and James, Cosmic Society: Towards a Sociology of the Universe, pg 156-157, dml)

On the other hand, some sociologists...particular species and ecological systems.

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The U.S. Air force should create and implement a prize to demonstrate a nuclear powered propulsion booster in the U.S.

The air force has the tech to oversee the counterplan – they have their own space program
Halvorson 12 (Todd Halvorson, Florida Today, 3:08p.m. EST December 11, 2012, Air Force launches top-secret mini-space shuttle, http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/11/air-force-launch-top-secret-mini-shuttle/1761367/

An Atlas V rocket blasted off…nature of which remains classified.

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Uniqueness and Internal Link
NASA’s new direction has been focused on science missions-specifically climate change observations which are critical to gaining an international consensus on warming
Thompson, Livescience staff writer, 10
(2-2, Andrea, “The ‘new’ NASA will look back at Earth,” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35206524)atw

NASA’s new proposed budget will…he told LiveScience.

NASA would compensate for new costs by cutting science missions
Arthur et al, 4
(September, David, Adrienne Ramsay, and Robie Samanta Roy of CBO’s National Security Division wrote the report under the general supervision of J. Michael Gilmore. Kathy Gramp of CBO’s Budget Analysis Division, supervised by Kim Cawley, contributed to the analysis. Adebayo Adedeji reviewed the manuscript for factual accuracy. David Auerbach, Mathew Goldberg, David Moore, and Elizabeth Robinson provided thoughtful comments on early drafts o the study, as did space consultant Dwayne Day, John Logsdon of George Washington University, and former CBO intern Robbie Shingler. (The assistance of external responding to many requests for information., “A Budgetary Analysis of NASA’s New Vision for Space Exploration,” http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=5772andtype=0andsequence=3) atw

Another way to meet potentially…growth in the human lunar exploration mission.

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Air force has the capacity to test new tech
Cohen 12 (Boeing-built unmanned space plane returns to Earth
By Aubrey Cohen, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF Updated 11:50p am Monday, June 18, 2012 Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/business/boeing/article/Boeing-built-unmanned-space-plane-returns-to-earth-3642402.php#ixzz2P3MoIlqu

A Boeing-built unmanned, reusable…commitment faced by other programs.”

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Overview

Warming outweighs asteroids prefer our comparative evidence it has the same magnitude, a better timeframe, and is literally 40,000 times more probable and the author has a Ph.D in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology
Boslough, Ph.D Applied Physics California Institute of Technology, 10
(Mark received a BS in physics from Colorado State University and his MS and PhD in applied physics from the California Institute of Technology. His graduate research focused on impact physics, geophysics, shock wave properties, and high-pressure equations of state of rocks and minerals, Defending Planet Earth: Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies: Final Report, p. 127-128) atw

Asteroids and climate change are the only two threats…relative threat from various causes

Internal Link

Emperically prioritized costs tradeoff with science missions
IMT, 2-17
(Industry Market Trends, a comprehensive, daily industrial blog with a bi-weekly newsletter, publishes the latest industrial developments, best practices, market trends and opinions of our editors and readers, “What NASA’s New Budget eans for Aerospace,” http://news.thermasnet.com/IMT/archives/2010/02/what-nasas -new-budget-means-for-aerospace.htm)

The latest NASA budget will redirect…science and Earth observations.”

NASA will reallocate funds to meet new costs
Arthur et al, 4
(September, David, Adrienne Ramsay, and Robie Samantha Roy of CBO’s National Security Division wrote the report under the general supervision of J.Michael Gilmore. Kathy Gramp of CBO’s Budget Analysis Division, supervised by Kim Cawle8y, contributed to the analysis. Adebayo Adediji reviewd the manuscript for factual accuracy. David Auerbach, Matthew Goldberg, David Moore, and Elizabeth Robinson provided thoughtful comments on early drafts of the study, as did space consulatant Dwayne Day, John Logsdon of George Washington University, and former CBO intern Robbier Schingler. ITHe assistance of external reviewers implies no responsibility to the final product, which rests solely with CBO.) The authors are also grateful to analysts and officials from NASA for Nresponding to many requests for information., “A Budgetary Analysis of NASA’s New Vision for Spae Exploration,” http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=5772andtype=0andsequence=3) atw

CBO assumed in its analysis that funding…robotic support missions in the analysis described in Chapter 3.)

Even just speculation over NASA’s funding prevents a coordinated weather effort
Carmichael, Ph.D, 7
(3-29, Statement of Bruce Carmichael, PhD,. Director, Aviation Applications Program Research Applications Laboratory National Center for Atmospheric Research, Before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics Committee on Science and Technology, Hearing on JDPO and the Next Generation Air Transportation System: Status and Issues, http://www.ucar.edu/oga/pdf/carmichael_testimony%203-07.pdf) atw

The FAA is requesting substantial…this area have disappeared.

Warming Impact Extension

Action now is key to prevent extinction-90% scientific consensus we 8 years left to address the impact
Gloucester Citizen, 10-2
(2009 “Clergyman calls for people to join climate march,” 1/n) atw

After the dramatic floods of 2007…being wiped out – including us.

The “any risk” logic would make all decisionmaking impossible—evaluate probability over magnitude
MESKILL 2009 (David, professor at Colorado School of Mines and PhD from Harvard, “The "One Percent Doctrine" and Environmental Faith,” Dec 9, http://davidmeskill.blogspot.com/2009/12/one-percent-doctrine-and-environmental.html)
Tom Friedman's piece today in the Times on the AND , with the time (just barely) to take action.