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1NC First Priority Shell

The affirmative has chosen to utilize the federal government and
framed their 1AC to focus on issues that can be resolved by
strengthening tempered sovereignty. This continues the
non-transgressive tradition of "hear no evil, see no evil". Their
failure to commit to unflinching Native struggle reproduces the
colonial order and Native destruction. We should reject the aff and
commit to Native land rights and absolute sovereignty as a First
Priority

CHURCHILL 96 ~[Ward; Creek and enrolled Keetoowah Band Cherokee;
Former professor of Ethnic Studies @ the University of Colorado; From
a Native Son: Selected Essays on Indigenism, 1985-1995; pp. 519-521~]

Leaving aside questions concerning the validity of various treaties,
the beginning point for any
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first priority for everyone seriously committed to accomplishing
positive change in North America.

And, elaborating Indigenous struggle through the rubric of
government policy strengthens colonial society and weakens Indigenous
struggle – only unflinching praxis solves

Wilderson 10 ~[Frank B. III, Ph.D., Associate Professor at UC Irvine,
former ANC member, Red, White %26 Black: Cinema and the Structure of
U.S. Antagonisms, pages 167-168, og~]
Clearly, Deloria draws here largely from the specificity of his own La-kota
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(the Slave), though there are essential differences between the two rubrics.

The alternative is to give back the land —- we must disassemble
the state structures that are built on intergroup domination.

CHURCHILL 96 ~[Ward; Creek and enrolled Keetoowah Band Cherokee;
Former professor of Ethnic Studies @ the University of Colorado; From
a Native Son: Selected Essays on Indigenism, 1985-1995; pp. 527-531~]

My own inclination, which is in some ways an emotional preference, tends to
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bound together by their biore-gional and other natural cultural affinities.56

Russian Oil DA

Russia is on the brink of civil war.  High oil prices prop up Putin and prevent massive backlash.

Foreign Policy 12, "Powder Keg" 6/12/2012 <http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/06/12/powder_keg-http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/06/12/powder_keg>

Making predictions in Russia is a notoriously ridiculous activity, but it is especially tricky
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Russia is a fool’s game, it never hurts to be a pessimist.

The perception of a change in demand will change the price

• • Kosakowski, 11
    (Paul, writer and long-time investor from investopedia.com, 6/11, Investopedia.com "What Determines Oil Prices", http://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/determining-oil-prices.asp~%23axzz1zuSutPpH-http://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/determining-oil-prices.asp, 7/7/12 MDRJ)
    Not quite. The price of oil as we know it is actually set in
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    present as oil futures contracts are sold (possibly sold short as well).

LOW PRICES WILL RESULT IN RUSSIAN ARMS SALES TO "WORLD HOT SPOTS"

Michael G Gallagher, PhD degrees in the field of international studies 2007 http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/IH28Dj02.html
Russia, without the massive cash flow provided by its oil and natural-gas reserves, would be forced to rely for its continued economic existence on the far skinnier profits generated by other raw-material exports and its none-too-competitive factories. Sliding incomes could drive the Russians to peddle their military hardware at fire-sale prices in trouble spots around the world.

Russian arms sales to Syria causes civil war.

VOA 12, "Clinton Says Russian Arms Sales to Syria Raise Concerns" by Scott Stearns <http://www.voanews.com/articleprintview/1146087.html-http://www.voanews.com/articleprintview/1146087.html>
OSLO, Norway - Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country is not supplying arms
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mandate to push Damascus to confront what she calls terrible dangers in Syria.

Syrian civil war leads to World War 3 and nuclear holocaust.

Global Grind 12, "Will Syria Lead to WWIII?" 5/30/2012 by Garvey Ashurst <http://globalgrind.com/news/reasons-why-syrian-civil-war-lead-world-war-3-http://globalgrind.com/news/reasons-why-syrian-civil-war-lead-world-war-3>
Since the birth of this nation, America has been a proponent of freedom and
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not handled in the most delicate fashion ... welcome to World War III.

Israeli Politics DA

Netanyahu Will Not First-Strike Iran In The Status Quo; He Thinks He Can Use The Election To Force Obama To Be More Aggressive Against Iran.

Ben-Meir, 2012:
(Alon Ben-Meir. Senior Fellow, NYU’s Center For Global Affairs. Israel’s Posturing:Behind Netanyahu and Barak’s Threats  To Attack Iran. 8/21/2012.)

The Netanyahu government has already expressed its displeasure with the strategy the Obama administration has
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it reaches the point of no return or enters the zone of immunity.

Expanding Domestic Energy Production Will Be Perceived As Withdrawal From The Middle East In Favor Of Western Allies And Will Kill Commitment To Israel

Gonzalez, 2012:
(Expanded Oil Drilling Helps U.S. Wean Itself From Mideast. Angel Gonzalez. Journalist For The Wall Street Journal. June 27, 2012).

Still, growing domestic energy production could allow the U.S. to lessen
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energy program at the Institute of the Americas in La Jolla, Calif.

We’re On The Brink; Absent A Sustained U.S. Commitment, Israel Will First-Strike

Kampeas, 2012:
(Increased Israel Chatter On Iran Is About Sending A Message To Washington.  August 19, 2012. Ron Kampeas. Journalist For JTA, The Global News Service Of The Jewish People.)

Some Israeli analysts say that pronounced signals from their country’s leadership in recent days that
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reality is that we still think there is room to continue to negotiate."

An Israeli First-Strike Causes Global Nuclear War

Roberts, 2012:
(Paul Roberts. Former Assistant Secretary Of The U.S. Treasury and Associate Editor Of The Wall Street Journal. August 17-19, 2012. Stumbling Towards Nuclear War.) 

Netanyahu is not alone. He has the american neoconservatives in his corner. The
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want to scare anyone" in "the use of a nuclear weapon."

China DA

China Is Leading In Renewables In The Status Quo

BBC 11. James Melik, China leads world in green energy investment, BBC News, Sept. 15, 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14201939

Johanna Klein, who invests in private equity funds on behalf of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), says clean energy is probably past the point of being the "flavour of the month" in terms of being the latest fad where investors want to put their money.
"The trend is fairly robust and fairly long-term at this point," she says.
China is building a coal plant a week, but is dedicated to having the
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to countries like China as having forged a path to a greener future.

Renewable Energy is at the core of China’s soft power strategy

Mark L. Clifford is the executive director of the Asia Business Council, 01.21.2011, http://english.caixin.com/2011-01-21/100219608_all.html-http://english.caixin.com/2011-01-21/100219608_all.html
How can China build a soft-power image? Contributing to the Green Climate
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But a modest contribution could pay big dividends in terms of international goodwill.

U.S. Leadership In Renewable Energy Trades Off With Chinese Leadership

Wong, 2009:
(Julian L, Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress, "Ensuring and Enhancing U.S. Competitiveness While Moving Toward a Clean-Energy Economy", http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/07/wong_testimony.html/-http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/07/wong_testimony.html/, Acc: 8/2/12, og)
The United States won the race to the moon, but we’re losing the race
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Senate to seize the clean energy economic opportunity, and reestablish our leadership.

Loss of Soft Power Triggers A Return To Hard Power, Causing An Expansionist Military Policy

Pan 2006:
(Esther Pan, Council on Foreign Relations, June 2, 2006 http://www.cfr.org/publication/10824/-http://www.cfr.org/publication/10824/)

Some of Beijing’s military investments—including improved air and naval power, increased radar
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—that will preclude the need for Beijing to use force in Asia. 

The Resulting Arms Race Escalates To Global Nuclear War

Fuerth 2001(Leon Fuerth is the Shapiro Visiting Professor at the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University, "Return of the Nuclear Debate", The Washington Quarterly, Autumn 2001, pg. 97)
As for China, its resources may limit it only to modernization in forms it
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consequences for relations between the United States and its allies will be disastrous. 

Governmentality K

Oil is at the center of all debates about energy, and is the source of the entire normalizing edifice that has created the crises identified by the 1AC. Only a critical investigation of oil’s governmentality can make it possible to prepare for and respond to these crises.

McWhorter 05 ~[Ladelle McWhorter is Associate Professor of. Philosophy and Women’s Studies and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Richmond. "The technology of biopower," Foucault Studies, No 3~]
Like May, I am skeptical of the idea that high tech innovations have done
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we must transform ourselves through the practice of genealogy as a spiritual exercise.

Plans reducing restrictions or increasing incentives for energy production are examples of neoliberal governmentality – even for solar and wind.

Di Muzio 12 ~[Tim Di Muzio is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence in Global Governance Research, University of Helsinki. "The crisis of petro-market civilization." Global crises and the crisis of global leadership, edited by Stephen Gill. p. 83-85~]
Current trends, then, are patently unsustainable. However, the scale of the
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to a point and thereafter purchase permits for additional pollution (Bond 2008).

Failure to resist status quo governmentality results in extinction

Dillon 96 ~[Michael Dillon is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Lancaster, Politics of Security: Towards a Political Philosophy of Continental Thought, p. 14~]
The way of sharpening and focusing this thought into a precise question is first provided
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technology, and the advent of the real prospect of human species extinction.

The alternative is to approach the truth claims of the affirmative with a critical attitude that analyzes governmentality and aims at de-subjectification. This is the only way to engage questions of change without sacrificing ethics and being constrained by destructive or intolerable ideas and standards of judgment.

Hamann 09 ~[Trent H. Hamann is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St. John’s University. "Neoliberalism, governmentality, and ethics," Foucault Studies, No 6~]
Tying all of these modes of resistance together is the question "Who are we
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asking it. In his introduction to The Politics of Truth he writes:
The ’we’ always comes after, emerging only through the on-going light its activities shed on the habits and practices through which people come to govern themselves—and so see themselves and one another. Indeed in this lies precisely the originality of the critical attitude, its singular sort of universality, its distinctive relation to ’today’—to ’now’, ’the present’, l’actuel.37
This "critical attitude" that Foucault repeatedly refers to in all of his discussions
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it in his book Foucault’s Askesis: An Introduction to the Philosophical Life,
Power functions by investing, defining, and caring for the body understood as a bioeconomic entity. The operation of biopower is to define the freedom and truth of the individual in economic and biological terms. Reason is given the task of comprehending the body in these terms and setting the conditions within which it can be free. ...The formation of the disciplines marks the moment where askesis itself was absorbed within biopolitics.
Foucault explicitly identified critique, not as a transcendental form of judgment that would subsume
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be a work of art, but not a life. O’Leary writes:
Foucault is less interested in the critical power of art, than in the ’artistic’ or ’plas-tic’ power of critique. For Foucault, not only do no special advantages accrue from the autonomy of the aesthetic, but this autonomy unnecessarily restricts our possibilities for self-constitution. Hence, not only is Foucault aware of the specific nature of aesthetics after Kant, he is obviously hostile to it.41
What O’Leary rightly identifies here is Foucault’s interest in an aesthetics of existence that specifically
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locations, from the international anti-globalization movement to local community organizing.

TOGA CP

Text: The National Conference of State Legislatures and the National Governors Association should commit to _.

====The counterplan solves, creating collective action by states and doing a better job of spreading policy nationally. Sends a unique global federalist signal. Disproves their generic theory args.====
Resnick %26 Liman 08 ~[Judith Resnik is Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Founding Director of the Arthur Liman Public Interest ProgramWhy the Local Matters: Federalism, Localism, and Public Interest Advocacy Papers from the Eleventh Annual Liman Colloquium at Yale Law School, 2008 http://www.law.yale.edu/why_the_local_matters_final_122109.pdf~~]
Having sketched some of the continuities over the centuries that localities have played in U
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through these organizations serve as mechanisms by which to domesticate the "foreign."

Secessionist movements are inevitable. Must avoid escalation to civil wars

Defne 12 ~[Ezgi, Defne, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science New York University Abu Dhabi, Making Secession Possible: Federalism as a Capacity Building Instrument, files.nyu.edu/de339/public/Ezgi%20Job%20Market%20Paper.pdf, 6/20/2012~]
A thorough exploration of secessionist movements can enable us to better manage them when they
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develop and are resolved and this paper is a contribution towards this goal.

Failed states cause multiple scenarios for extinction, turn case

Myers and Choi 06 ~[12/12/2006, "Terrorism, Failed States, and Enlightened National Interest", Young-Jin Choi is the permanent representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations, and Joanne Myers is Director of the Carnegie Council’s Public Affairs Programs~]
The question arises now: Can we turn a blind eye to those failed states
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massacre, could be healed. Not global warming, not nuclear apocalypse.

Counterplan gives secessionist movements key guidance, encouraging federalism and preventing quick fragmentation of national governments

Defne 12 ~[Ezgi, Defne, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science New York University Abu Dhabi, Making Secession Possible: Federalism as a Capacity Building Instrument, files.nyu.edu/de339/public/Ezgi%20Job%20Market%20Paper.pdf, 6/20/2012~]
The extent of the local government’s decision-making jurisdiction depends on the level of
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than entirely by the region as would be the case post-secession.

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Russian Small Arms

Russia is on the brink of civil war.  High oil prices prop up Putin and prevent massive backlash.

Foreign Policy 12, "Powder Keg" 6/12/2012 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/06/12/powder_keg-http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/06/12/powder_keg

Making predictions in Russia is a notoriously ridiculous activity, but it is especially tricky

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Russia is a fool’s game, it never hurts to be a pessimist.

Supply growth suppresses prices, causing Russian economic decline

Gonzalez 6/27/2012 (Angel, Houston Bureau Chief at Dow Jones Newswires and Contributor to the Wall Street Journal, "Expanded Oil Drilling Helps U.S. Wean Itself From Mideast," The Wall Street Journal)

The prospect that new sources of supply in the Americas could lead to years of flat or even falling oil prices is a source of great concern in the Kremlin. Surging oil revenues over his 12 years in power have helped President Vladimir Putin pay for an eightfold increase in government spending, going to everything from pension and wage hikes to costly projects like the Sochi Olympics to a major military buildup.

LOW PRICES WILL RESULT IN RUSSIAN ARMS SALES TO "WORLD HOT SPOTS"

Michael G Gallagher, PhD degrees in the field of international studies 2007 http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/IH28Dj02.html

Russia, without the massive cash flow provided by its oil and natural-gas reserves, would be forced to rely for its continued economic existence on the far skinnier profits generated by other raw-material exports and its none-too-competitive factories. Sliding incomes could drive the Russians to peddle their military hardware at fire-sale prices in trouble spots around the world.

Russian arms sales to Syria causes civil war.

VOA 12, "Clinton Says Russian Arms Sales to Syria Raise Concerns" by Scott Stearns http://www.voanews.com/articleprintview/1146087.html-http://www.voanews.com/articleprintview/1146087.html

OSLO, Norway - Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country is not supplying arms

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mandate to push Damascus to confront what she calls terrible dangers in Syria.

Syrian civil war leads to World War 3 and nuclear holocaust.

Global Grind 12, "Will Syria Lead to WWIII?" 5/30/2012 by Garvey Ashurst http://globalgrind.com/news/reasons-why-syrian-civil-war-lead-world-war-3-http://globalgrind.com/news/reasons-why-syrian-civil-war-lead-world-war-3

Since the birth of this nation, America has been a proponent of freedom and

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not handled in the most delicate fashion ... welcome to World War III.

CP

HTGR (DoD)

The USfg should….except for high temperature gas cooled reactors.

A. DoD budget aligned with DoD strategic guidance now—additional tradeoffs collapse the entire package

Harrison 12 Todd Harrison, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Priorities, 8/24/2012, ANALYSIS OF THE FY 2013 DEFENSE BUDGET AND SEQUESTRATION, http://www.csbaonline.org/publications/2012/08/analysis-of-the-fy2013-defense-budget-and-sequestration/-http://www.csbaonline.org/publications/2012/08/analysis-of-the-fy2013-defense-budget-and-sequestration/

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 defense budget currently being debated in Congress is

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unscathed and the Department will likely be forced to revise its strategic guidance.

B. HTGR’s are expensive and include cost escalators.

Ryan 6/29/2011, D A. Ryan an engineering by training, Masters in Mechanical Engineering, and a PhD in solar energy systems, http://daryanenergyblog.wordpress.com/ca/part-6_htgr/-http://daryanenergyblog.wordpress.com/ca/part-6_htgr/

The choice of materials also has implications for the HTGR design. Going for a

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out of those aforementioned super-alloys, which will likely prove expensive.

====C. Plan causes massive tradeoffs with core missions====

Spencer, research fellow in nuclear energy – Heritage, 6/22/’11 (Jack, "Capability, Not Politics, Should Drive DOD Energy Research,"http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/06/capability-not-politics-should-drive-dod-energy-research)-http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/06/capability-not-politics-should-drive-dod-energy-research)

With multiple wars ongoing, traditional threats looming, and new ones emerging, the

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things that have no market value—hence the need for government support.

D. C. U.S. military readiness is KT global peace

Spencer 00’, 9/15/00, Jack Spencer-http://www.heritage.org/About/Staff/JackSpencer_old.cfm is Policy Analyst for Defense and National Security in the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies at The Heritage Foundation.

U.S. military readiness cannot be gauged by comparing America’s armed forces with

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from acting aggressively in regions of vital national interest, thereby preserving peace.

 
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1NC First Priority Shell
The affirmative has chosen to utilize the federal government and
framed their 1AC to focus on issues that can be resolved by
strengthening tempered sovereignty. This continues the
non-transgressive tradition of "hear no evil, see no evil". Their
failure to commit to unflinching Native struggle reproduces the
colonial order and Native destruction. We should reject the aff and
commit to Native land rights and absolute sovereignty as a First
Priority
CHURCHILL 96 Ward; Creek and enrolled Keetoowah Band Cherokee;
Former professor of Ethnic Studies @ the University of Colorado; From
a Native Son: Selected Essays on Indigenism, 1985-1995; pp. 519-521
Leaving aside questions concerning the validity of various treaties,
the beginning point for any
AND
first priority for everyone seriously committed to accomplishing
positive change in North America.
And, elaborating Indigenous struggle through the rubric of
government policy strengthens colonial society and weakens Indigenous
struggle – only unflinching praxis solves
Wilderson 10 Frank B. III, Ph.D., Associate Professor at UC Irvine,
former ANC member, Red, White %26 Black: Cinema and the Structure of
U.S. Antagonisms, pages 167-168, og
Clearly, Deloria draws here largely from the specificity of his own La-kota
AND
(the Slave), though there are essential differences between the two rubrics.
The alternative is to give back the land —- we must disassemble
the state structures that are built on intergroup domination.
CHURCHILL 96 Ward; Creek and enrolled Keetoowah Band Cherokee;
Former professor of Ethnic Studies @ the University of Colorado; From
a Native Son: Selected Essays on Indigenism, 1985-1995; pp. 527-531
My own inclination, which is in some ways an emotional preference, tends to
AND
bound together by their biore-gional and other natural cultural affinities.56