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Rare earth supply and demand are stable now but supply is limited – the plan causes supply shortages and bottlenecks
Bloomberg 12 [ Jim Snyder writer for Bloomberg, January 5, 2012, Five Rare Earths Crucial for Clean Energy Seen In Short Supply, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-05/five-rare-earths-crucial-for-clean-energy-seen-in-short-supply.html; AMDG]

Falling Prices¶ While prices of rare earths fell in the second half of 2011
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position across the supply chain requires a capable workforce,” the report said.
Turns the case - Nuclear power requires large quantities of rare-earth elements – supply bottlenecks prevent industry renaissance
Spence 11 (Timothy Spence, writer for EurActiv "Rare-earth shortage to hamper clean energy: EU study" November 16, 2011 www.euractiv.com/sustainability/rare-earth-shortage-hamper-clean-news-508967)

Looming shortages of metals that are in high demand and dominated by a single supplier
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demand for the same metals whilst they have also limited restrictions on export.”

Government Incentivized renewables production trades off with military acquisition of rare earths
Burnett 11 (Sterling, senior fellow with the Natonal Center for Policy Analysis"Will Green Energy Make the United States Less Secure?" November 1, 2011 www.ncpa.org/pub/ib103)

The more the United States embraces green energy technologies, the worse off it will
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technologies means that there is less available for critical aerospace and military technologies.

Rare earth acquisition Key to nuclear primacy - guided missiles, first strike capabilities
Kennedy 10 (J. Kennedy, President of Wings Enterprises, March 2010, “Critical and Strategic Failure of Rare Earth Resources,” online: 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.”
Loss of U.S. nuclear primacy causes global nuclear war
Caves 10 (John P. Caves Jr., Senior Research Fellow in the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction at the National Defense University, January 2010, “Avoiding a Crisis of Confidence in the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent,” Strategic Forum, No. 252)

Perceptions of a compromised U.S. nuclear deterrent as described above would have
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scale far more catastrophic than what nuclear-armed terrorists alone could inflict.

Tournament: Gonz | Round: 1 | Opponent: Whitman | Judge:
Obama winning by 3 points  - our uniqueness assumes any “thumper” they might read
Zeleny 9/14(Jeff, NYT Politics Staff, 2012, "Poll: Obama Holds Narrow Edge Over Romney", http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/poll-obama-holds-narrow-edge-over-romney/)

President Obama holds a narrow
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Libya and across the Arab world. 

The campaign needs to stay on message – a move to the right on energy would split the base
John Kemp, Reuters market analyst, 8-24-12 (COLUMN-Romney, Obama both evade key energy issues: Kemp. http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/24/column-kemp-energy-us-vote-idINL6E8JO9SC20120824)

U.S. presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have offered starkly different
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Republicans remain hostile to cap and trade and other forms of carbon pricing. 

Base enthusiasm is critical to an Obama win
Barnes, Political Correspondent, Washington Examiner, 7-23-12 (Fred. To arouse his base, Obama goes left, left and left. http://washingtonexaminer.com/to-arouse-his-base-obama-goes-left-left-and-left/article/2502948#.UDBPQN1lTQg) 

The usual strategy for presidential candidates is to appeal to the political center in hopes
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. Except for the conservative press, the media largely ignored his speech. 

A Romney victory ensures a strike against Iran
White 7-3-12 (Jeremy B., International Business Times – National Affairs Reporter, 7-3-2012, International Business Times, Romney Foreign Policy: A ‘Replay of the Bush Administration’?, http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/359154/20120703/romney-full-scale-crisis-russia-iran-syria.htm)

A President Romney would have less hesitation about attacking Iran's nuclear facilities. In response
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a special authorization for military force. The President has that capacity now."

Global nuclear war
Hirsch 6 (Jorge, professor of Physics at the University of California at San Diego, 4-22-2006, Centre for Research on Globalization, Nuking Iran, http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticleandcode=HIR20060422andarticleId=2317, accessed 7-5-2012, JKE)

JH: Iran is likely to respond to any US attack using its considerable missile
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the next global conflict we will all be gone before anybody has prevailed.

Tournament: Gonz | Round: 1 | Opponent: Whitman | Judge:
The affirmative represents a masculinized attempt to impose security through control – this entrenches gender hierarchies and prevents successful alternatives.

Tickner 1992
(J. Ann Tickner, Professor of International Relations at USC. Gender in International Relations: Feminist Perspectives on Achieving Global Security. 1992, http://www.ciaonet.org/book/tickner/)

In previous chapters I have
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, including unequal gender relations

Gendered structures of international relations and politics culminate in environmental destruction, nuclear war, and extinction

Tickner 1992
(J. Ann Tickner, Professor of International Relations at USC. Gender in International Relations: Feminist Perspectives on Achieving Global Security. 1992, http://www.ciaonet.org/book/tickner/)

In the modern West, women's
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we espouse in the home. 

Tournament: Gonz | Round: 1 | Opponent: Whitman | Judge:
State action gets modeled due to local innovation
Lash ’07 (Jonathan, “Climate Policy in the State Laboratory: How States Influence Federal Regulation and the Implications for U.S. Policy,” World Resources Institute, September, http://www.wri.org/publication/climate-policy-in-the-state-laboratory)

America has a long and
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build the low-carbon economy of the future.

And, No Solvency Deficit - Federal Policies Rely On State Implementation Anyway—Their Solvency Deficits Link To Them As Much
Butler and Masey ,Profs of Law @ Kansas School of Law and Cornell, ‘95 (Henry and Jonathan, Using Federalism to Improve Environmental Policy, p. online: http://www.utoronto.ca/env/papers/Butler/butler0.htm , )

It often is asserted that
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environmental agencies is deficient

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Hierarchy produces the domination of nature and causes inevitable extinction- embracing alternative energy sources only conceals danger to the biosphere by mystifying the root causes of environmental destruction.
Bookchin 80
(Murray, ‘Open Letter to the Ecology Movement’, in Toward an Ecological Society, http://www.green-rainbow.org/Committees/Strategic_Planning/RL014_Bookchin_Ecology.pdf, Accessed 7/18/08 *Gender Paraphrased in brackets)

It would be infused by hierarchy even
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one's most basic ideals and goals.

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Critique must engage the state.  Failure to do so guarantees that the alternative will fail, no coalitions will be formed, and politics will be ceded to authoritarian Right-wing groups.  Only engaging the institutions of the state can transform them.  And the permutation solves all of these problems.

Mouffe 2009
(Chantal Mouffe is Professor of Political Theory at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, "The Importance of Engaging the State", What is Radical Politics Today?, Edited by Jonathan Pugh, pp. 233-7)

In both Hardt and Negri, and Virno, there is therefore emphasis upon ’
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my view, is how we should conceive the nature of radical politics.
Critical Theory destroys your ability to engage in productive debates and political solutions.  It is wishful thinking that produces only "me-search" and not "research".

Chandler 2009
(David Chandler is Professor of International Relations at the University of Westminster, "Questioning Global Political Activism", What is Radical Politics Today?, Edited by Jonathan Pugh,  pp. 81-2)

Today more and more people are ’doing politics’ in their academic work. This
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peers and colleagues at the level of political or intellectual debate and organisation.
Policy debate is good for education, the development of empathy, and producing real world engagement from participants.  Clear rules, a stable topic, and institutional role playing and simulation are integral to the process.  The things you criticize about debate make it a unique exercise in active learning.

Lantis 8
(Jeffrey S. Lantis is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Chair of the
International Relations Program at The College of Wooster, "The State of the Active Teaching and Learning Literature", http://www.isacompss.com/info/samples/thestateoftheactiveteachingandlearningliterature_sample.pdf-http://www.isacompss.com/info/samples/thestateoftheactiveteachingandlearningliterature_sample.pdf)

Simulations, games, and role-play represent a third important set of active
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topic, the development of empathy, and acquisition and retention of  knowledge.

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Technology doesn’t inevitably lead to domination- capitalism is the real cause of colonization of the life-world.  Their focus on ontology lets capitalist social relations off the hook.

Marsh 95
(James L., Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, Critique, Action, and Liberation p. 328-329)
A second kind of de-differentiated
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, and let off the hook.

The affirmative’s focus on immaterial relations rather than class conflict continues capitalism’s hegemony.  This prevents a revolutionary mode of consciousness.

Mas’ud Zavarzadeh, Dept English @ Syracuse, 1994, “The Stupidity that Consumption is Just as Productive as Production,” The Alternative Orange, V 4, Fall/Winter, http://www.etext.org/Politics/AlternativeOrange/4/v4nl_cpp.html

The task of this text 1 is
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made more tolerable, justifiable and naturalized.

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Courts can rule on environmental regulatory policies – there’s precedent
Latourette 8 (Shawn M., J.D. candidate, Rutgers University School of Law--Camden, May 2009; Lead Notes and Casenotes Editor for the Rutgers Law Journal "NOTE: GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE: A POLITICAL QUESTION?" Rutgers Law Journal 40 Rutgers L..J. 219 LN)

The goal of this Note has
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presents a political question.

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A. Definitions:

1. Financial incentives include funding and loan guarantees; government purchase agreements are distinct.

Czinkota et al, 9 - Associate Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University (Michael, Fundamentals of International Business, p. 69 – google books)

Incentives offered by policymakers to facilitate foreign investments are mainly of three types: fiscal

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import quotas, and local content requirements, and investments in infrastructure facilities.

2.  Incentives are a negotiated offer external to the agent offering it – this means the federal government can’t offer incentives to itself.  The affirmative just has a federal agency adopt alternative energy.

Grant 2

 (professor of political science at Duke University (Ruth, “THE ETHICS OF INCENTIVES: HISTORICAL ORIGINS AND CONTEMPORARY UNDERSTANDINGS,” Economics and Philosophy, 18 (2002) 111, proquest)

Similarly, `incentive' is sometimes used as if it were synonymous with `motivation'

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the term historically within discourses of social control is illustrative of this point.

B. The Violation- The plan doesn’t offer a financial incentive to a third party actor.  It just mandates that the DOD purchase electricity generated from its own SMRs.

C. Reasons to Prefer

1. Limits: The resolution calls for incentives to increase energy production, limiting the topic to market mechanisms to modify the behavior of private actors. Including federal procurement or power purchase agreements explodes the topic, exploding the topic.  Just in the area of the military, they include nuclear icebreakers, solar tanks, air force Coal to Liquid, etc. etc.

2. Ground: Their interpretation allows the aff to avoid all our core disad ground by only affecting individual bases or federal installations,  which are insulated from larger effects on the energy market.  Kills our politics and energy markets ground.

3.  The plan is extratopical: the phrase “in the US” modifies energy production in the resolution.  However, in the plan, it only modifies where the military bases are located.  This means that even if they prove that the SMRs they purchase power from are owned and operated by third party actors other than the DOD, the plan allows them to purchase electricity from, for example, South Korean SMR operators to bases there.

D. Topicality is a jurisdictional voting issue to direct discussion towards fair and equitable division of ground.

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Hafnium supply is keeping pace with demand now but supply is limited – the plan causes supply shortages and market volatility that trades off with the aerospace industry

Lipmann 12 (Anthony, Founder of Lipmann Walton and Co LTD "MMTA Meta Statistics - Hafnium" January 5, 2012 www.lipmann.co.uk/articles/MMTA_html(%%))

Unlike the listed Zirconium producers above

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would still remain a limiting factor.

Nuclear expansion causes supply bottlenecks and high prices – the link independently turns the case – prevents nuclear renaissance and Recycling is impossible.

Abbott September ‘12 (Derek, professor in the Schoolar of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Adelaide, Australia – Physicist and Electronic Engineer with a focus on energy-technology and global energy demand “Limits to growth: Can nuclear power supply the world’s needs?” Bulletin of Atomic Scientists September/October 2012 Vol 68 (5).

Could nuclear power be rapidly

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them unavailable to future generations.

Aerospace key to econ, heg, deterrence, space exploration

Thompson 9 (David, President – American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, “The Aerospace Workforce”, Federal News Service, 12-10, Lexis)

Aerospace systems are of considerable importance to U.S. national security, economic

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and scientists -- one of the largest concentrations of technical brainpower on Earth.

Economic decline causes war – studies prove

Royal, Director Cooperative Threat Reduction DOD, ’10 (Jedediah, “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 decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict

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not featured prominently in the economic-security debate and deserves more attention.

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Averting fiscal cliff top of the docket and Obama PC key to compromise

Atkins 11-8 (Suzanne. Boston Herald. Prez returns to D.C. with more clout. http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/20221108prez_returns_to_dc_with_more_clout)

WASHINGTON — When President Obama

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more power to push back.

GOP will politicize nuclear incentives ensuring a battle

Nelson and Northey 9-24-12 (Gabriel, and Hannah, , EandE reporters, “DOE funding for small reactors languishes as parties clash on debt,”http:~/~/www.eenews.net/public/Greenwire/2012/09/24/3url:http://www.eenews.net/public/Greenwire/2012/09/24/3(% class="StyleStyleBold12pt" style="font-size:13.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt" %))

But when it comes to straight-

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know how to do that."

No compromise triggers a double dip recession

Boston Globe 11-7-12 (Economy kept Obama afloat, blocked Romney win/ http:~/~/bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2012/11/07/economy-kept-obama-afloat-blocked-romney-win/GGjoaHhlk06KobPutBJoSP/html(% class="StyleStyleBold12pt" style="font-size:13.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt" %))

Most immediately, the president and Congress will have to deal with the looming “

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willing to negotiate a tax overhaul that includes higher taxes for the wealthy?

Double dip causes collapse of the Chinese government and worldwide economic downturn

Lindorff 11 (Dave, Investigative Journalist, “If This Is a Double-Dip Recession, What Are the Global Ramifications?”, On Wall Street, August 26, http:~/~/www.onwallstreet.com/news/-2674849-1.html(% class="StyleStyleBold12pt" style="font-size:13.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt" %))

But what if he's wrong and things don’t get better? What if, as

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that they could be dragged back into recession themselves being “not negligible.”

Triggers a nuclear civil war and regional conflicts

Yee and Storey 02 (Herbert Yee, Professor of Politics and International Relations at the Hong Kong Baptist University, and Ian Storey, Lecturer in Defence Studies at Deakin University, 2002 (The China Threat: Perceptions, Myths and Reality, RoutledgeCurzon, pg 5)

The fourth factor contributing to

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its neighbours and the world

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The Department of Defense should develop Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion plants on military bases.

Military lead on OTEC is key to commercialization – the plan spills over globally

Jean 2010(Grace, Writer for National Defense, April 1, "Renewable Energy: Navy Taps Oceans for Power", EBSCO)

Because of the high costs associated with water pumping technology, the OTEC concept will

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Defense will lead the charge to get the technology demonstrated,” says Varley.

OTEC is the only way to solve climate change—zero emissions and sequestration, and it solves energy

Bechtel and Netz 1998(No date Given, last date cited, Maria and Erik, "OTEC - Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion", http:~/~/www.exergy.se/ftp/pdf)

One of the most critical problems of

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and near-shore marine ecosystems.

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The United States Federal Government should substantially reduce restrictions on and substantially increase financial incentives for domestic production of nuclear power in the United States by requiring that all future procurement of US Navy cruiser, destroyer, and amphibious assault class vessels be of vessels that run on nuclear power.
The plan eliminates all current cruisers, destroyers, and amphibious assault class vessels that currently exist, dry-docking 90% of United States navy, collapsing United States naval supremacy in the short term, causing all of the impacts to a decline in U.S. supremacy to collapse until we can develop a nuclear fleet—that takes years to produce, meaning there is a large risk of an impact in the interim.

The counterplan solves the entirety of the aff—it sends the signal of naval nuclear development that is required to solve the aff, and causes a transition to a green fleet. The only distinction is whether or not we have a fleet in the short term to address global challenges.

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Reliance upon the phonetic alphabet destabilizes the balance of human mental evolution, creating a destructive trend toward masculine values that subliminally reprograms the user
Shlain 1998(Dr. Leonard Shlain is a neurosurgeon at California-Pacific Medical Center and contributor to The Encyclopedia of Creativity, The Alphabet Versus The Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image, 1998, pg. 66-8)

Aside from the obvious benefits that
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society (usually a young child) into alphabet 

The unchallenged dominance of alphabetic text is a threat to human survival, we must promote the synthesis of left and right brain information-processing systems to prevent extinction
Logan 1986(Robert K Logan, Ph.D, Professor of Physics at the University of Toronto, The Alphabet Effect: The Impact of the Phonetic Alphabet on the Development of Western Civilization, 1986, pg. 244-5)

The computer, by combining left- and
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brought to heel by the left brain within each individual.

Tournament: Weber RR | Round: 4 | Opponent: Michigan CM | Judge: Jim Schultz
Immigration reform passes now – top of the docket and has bipartisan support
Martinez 1-24-13 (Jennifer. Staff Writer. The Hill. Bipartisan group of senators to introduce high-skilled immigration bill.  http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/279227-bipartisan-group-of-senators-to-introduce-high-skilled-immigration-bill#ixzz2J0RSUJqO0) 

A bipartisan group of senators is poised ... but he "doubted it" because the measure will help boost the U.S. economy. 

Plan costs political capital
MART 8 Mergers and Acquisitions Round Table, This section includes quotes from Andrew Spitzer, Founder of the Energy and Power Group at Harris and Williams Co., and Douglas Korn of Irving Place Partners. “Combustible; The volatility of the energy sector has turned the industry upside down. Top players in the space discuss what this means for investors and how dealmakers can capitalize.,” Dec 1, Lexis
But it's also important to remember that oil is a fungible commodity ... energy policy that tries to accomplish what either candidate proposed.

Obama’s leverage is key to keeping the peace and getting it done
Foley 1-15-13 (Elise . Staff writer, “Obama Gears Up For Immigration Reform Push In Second Term,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/15/obama-immigration-reform_n_2463388.html)

Now there's the question of how Obama gets there. ... won't be enough to win over Republicans.

Its key to Indian cooperation
Madan 1-17-13 (fellow in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, “The India Investment,” http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2013/01/the-india-investment,)

While diplomatic, defense and economic engagement get the most attention, cooperation ... infrastructure sector in India to greater U.S. investment.

Key to Indian economic growth
Blackwill, 2011 (Council on Foreign Relations, The United States and India:  A Shared Strategic Future,   http://www.google.com/url?sa=tandrct=jandq=andesrc=sandsource=webandcd=6andsqi=2andved=0CF0QFjAFandurl=http%3A%2F%2Fi.cfr.org%2Fcontent%2Fpublications%2Fattachments%2FUSIndia_jointstudygroup_IIGG.pdfandei=FjcBUernJofe9ATY_oD4AQandusg=AFQjCNE7_JtNUI8fUzMOzxawlu7_1PhkQwandsig2=0lhWHtYjTAaAmmJaQPL1Vwandbvm=bv.41248874,d.eWU)

The United States will continue to be important ... expertise, capital, and technology with it to the dynamic Indian market.
That’s key to preventing India-Pakistan conflict
Garten 95 (former undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade, 1995 (Federal Document Clearing House Congressional Testimony. LN)

Paramount among those interests are the commercial ... or one with whom the promise of cooperation and friendship is greater.

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Oil prices high
Reuters 1-2-13 (Robert Gibbons and Matthew Robinson, “Oil rises on US fiscal deal, hits highest since Oct”, http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/02/markets-oil-idUSL4N0A70Q420130102, Jan 2nd 2013, MSN)

Further support for oil came from ... remain potential flashpoints in the energy-rich region

US NG production tanks prices
NPR 12 (John Ydstie, writer for NPR, "Is U.S. Energy Independence Finally Within Reach?" March 7, 2012 www.npr.org/2012/03/07/148036966/is-u-s-energy-independence-finally-within-reach)

Rising gas prices have been the big energy story ... Canada, not unstable places like the Middle East.

Key to the Russian economy.
Ridgwell 12(Harry, VOA reporter, “Fallin Oil Prices Prompt Rusian Economic Fears” http://www.voanews.com/content/falling-oil-prices-prompt-russian-economic-fears/1206097.html)
ONDON - Oil prices have shown a steady fall in ... begun falling - from around $125 per barrel in March to around $100 by June.

Russian economic decline causes nuclear war
FILGER 2009 (Sheldon, author and blogger for the Huffington Post, “Russian Economy Faces Disastrous Free Fall Contraction” http://www.globaleconomiccrisis.com/blog/archives/356)
In Russia historically, economic health and political ... Economic Crisis is its least dangerous consequence.

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Rare earth prices are low now – the plan causes price spikes and supply shortages.
Bloomberg 12 Jim Snyder writer for Bloomberg, January 5, 2012, Five Rare Earths Crucial for Clean Energy Seen In Short Supply, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-05/five-rare-earths-crucial-for-clean-energy-seen-in-short-supply.html;

Falling Prices¶ While prices of rare earths ... the supply chain requires a capable workforce,” the report said.

Sudden energy investment skyrockets rare earth prices – devastates manufacturers and deters innovation across all industries – that turns the case
Epstein 12 Nicholas Epstein, Chicago Policy Review, Medium Rare: What’s Cooking in the Rare Earth Element Market? Evaluating Rare Earth Element Availability: A case with Revolutionary Demand From Clean Technologies Elisa Alonso, Andrew M. Sherman, Timothy J. Wallington, Mark P. Everson, Frank R. Field, Richard Roth, and Randolph E. Kirchain Environmental Science and Technology. 2012.Jul 12th, 2012 http://chicagopolicyreview.org/2012/07/12/medium-rare-whats-cooking-in-the-rare-earth-element-market/

REE supplies are vulnerable for several reasons. ... supply-chain, and deters additional innovation.

China will respond by cutting off rare earth supply – culminates in U.S.-China war.
Cohen 7 David Cohen, New Scientist, 5-23-7 “Earth's natural wealth: an audit” http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19426051.200-earths-natural-wealth-an-audit.html

These may sound like drastic solutions, but as Graedel ... create a big risk of conflict, says Reller.

Extinction.
White 11 Mr. Hugh White is professor of strategic studies at the Australian National University in Canberra and a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney. The Obama Doctrine WSJ, 11/25/11 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204452104577057660524758198.html 

One risk is that escalating strategic competition ... might be dangerously unclear and disastrously low.

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1NC

Financial incentives are distinct from regulatory obligations like feed-in tariffs—purchase agreements aren’t T
O’Brien, Minister of State, Department for Energy and Climate Change, UK Parliament, 11/18/8
(Mike, “Clause 20 — Terms and conditions,” http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2008-11-18b.159.3)

I have quite a lot still to say, so I shall try to give
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. What is proposed will be a real feed-in tariff scheme.

Block

Financial incentives are distinct from feed-in tariffs, and the aff adds restrictions
Brady, 4 - A Thesis In The Department of Political Science Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts (Public Policy and Public Administration) at Concordia University Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Jonathan, “Wind Boom, Wind Bust: An Examination of the Conditions and Policies that Led to Gennany's Wind Industry and Canada's Lack Thereof,” December, http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/8274/1/MR20699.pdf) 

Government employed regulatory and financial incentives have played a salient role in this rapid growth
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in wind energy production and wind industry development) during the last decade.
Feed-in tariff devolves authority to states and regulatory mandates are distinct from financial incentives– this kills core negative ground based on federal action
Gielecki et al-EIA-1
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

Federal Incentives, Mandates, and Programs for Renewable Energy In response to energy security
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exempt publicly owned utilities, local and county governments, and rural cooperatives.
Feed-in tariffs are extratopical, they have a long term contract component – kills our ability to read market adjustment and pricing arguments

Siegel 11 – Their Author
(Bari Faye, technology writer and marketing consultant for Noveda Technologies. “When It Comes to Rebates, SRECs Make Long-Term Sense.” Written for Clean Techies. 07/20/11. http://blog.cleantechies.com/2011/07/20/when-it-comes-to-rebates-srecs-make-long-term-sense/http://blog.cleantechies.com/2011/07/20/when-it-comes-to-rebates-srecs-make-long-term-sense/)

The FiT system offers long-term contracts (up to 25 years) and
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feed-in-tariff system doesn’t deal with quotas or minor goals.

Renewable Energy Credits aren’t the same as feed-in tariffs

Siegel 11
(Bari Faye, technology writer and marketing consultant for Noveda Technologies. “When It Comes to Rebates, SRECs Make Long-Term Sense.” Written for Clean Techies. 07/20/11. http://blog.cleantechies.com/2011/07/20/when-it-comes-to-rebates-srecs-make-long-term-sense/http://blog.cleantechies.com/2011/07/20/when-it-comes-to-rebates-srecs-make-long-term-sense/)

The SREC system is based upon incentives; those who produce more energy are able to benefit far more than those who don’t. Seems fair, right? On the other hand, the FiT plan is subscription-based and, at the end of the day, subject to government decisions, politics and available funding.

Their author makes a distinction
Siegel 11
(Bari Faye, technology writer and marketing consultant for Noveda Technologies. “When It Comes to Rebates, SRECs Make Long-Term Sense.” Written for Clean Techies. 07/20/11. http://blog.cleantechies.com/2011/07/20/when-it-comes-to-rebates-srecs-make-long-term-sense/http://blog.cleantechies.com/2011/07/20/when-it-comes-to-rebates-srecs-make-long-term-sense/)

One of the most important factors in moving the United States over from conventional to solar energy is making it financially enticing for the average user, as well as for producers. Currently, this enticement comes in the form of rebates, most notably sustainable renewable energy credits (SRECs) and feed-in tariffs (FiTs).¶ Of course, all business decisions come with pros and cons; choosing which rebate to go after is no different. Each type of rebate has benefits and detractors. Understanding your own companies’ needs will help determine which rebate is a better choice for you and, ultimately, more sustainable in the long term.

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Xi has political capital to push reform agenda now
Florcruz 3/16 (Jaime, CNN.com Special China Correspondent, “Xi Jinping: China's new boss a man with a dream”, http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/16/world/asia/china-xi-presidency)

And Xi's new team? "It's a team of doers," Huang added.
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for China's 1.3 billion people -- and for the entire world.
The plan drains Xi’s political capital, hardliners see it as economic containment
DeLisle 12 (Jacques deLisle is Director of FPRI’s Asia Program and the Stephen Cozen Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, “Conference Report: Energy, Environment, and Security in Asia”, Foreign Policy Research Institute, October, https://www.fpri.org/articles/2012/10/conference-report-energy-environment-and-security-asia)

Despite the energy-related and broader foreign policy reasons for pursuing cooperation (including
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.-China cooperation in a potentially sensitive issue area such as green energy.  

Political capital is key to reforms, necessary to maintain the economy and political stability
Ford 3/5 (Peter Ford, “China's next leaders aim to launch new economic era”, Christian Science Monitor, http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2013/0305/China-s-next-leaders-aim-to-launch-new-economic-era-video)

Xi and Li will take the helm of a country that has enjoyed average annual
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political capital to fight their own party” which harbors so much corruption.

Causes nuclear civil war and regional conflicts
Yee and Storey 02 (Herbert Yee, Professor of Politics and International Relations at the Hong Kong Baptist University, and Ian Storey, Lecturer in Defence Studies at Deakin University, 2002 (The China Threat: Perceptions, Myths and Reality, RoutledgeCurzon, pg 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.

1AC - NG reduce restrictions, state fill in good.

1NC:
States CP
Immigration DA
FG Restrictions CP
Kazakhstan DA
Gender K
On Case - India Energy Security CP, Warming DA

Block:
Kazakhstan DA
India Energy CP
Case
FG Restrictions CP, Coal Good Impact Turns

2NR:
FG CP, Coal Good

1NC: T: FIT Not Incentives, OTEC + India CP, REM DA, China PTX, Case
Block: Case, REM, T
2NR: T