Tournament: UT-Dallas | Round: 1 | Opponent: Augustana AH | Judge: 

CP

The United States federal government should substantially increase financial incentives for the conversion of domestic weapons production to non-military spending.

The action in their evidence that prevents militarization is the removal of funding from weapons programs we do that means we solve that advantage.

OIL DA

We’re decades away from transition away from oil –massive influx of wind and  solar will kill oil prices and spark transition worries.

BRYCE ’11 – Senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute (Bryce, Robert. "Don’t Count Oil Out". October 14, 2011. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2011/10/oil_and_gas_won_t_be_replaced_by_alternative_energies_anytime_so.single.html)

There are three reasons why hydrocarbons will continue to dominate the global energy mix for
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are not qualitatively superior; and their production will not be substantially cheaper."

That causes Saudi to crash oil prices – they’ll flood the market

HULBERT ’12 - Lead Analyst at European Energy Review; Senior Research Fellow, Netherlands Institute for International Relations; Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Security Studies (Hulbert, Matthew. "OPEC’s Pending Bloodbath". June 10, 2012. http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewhulbert/2012/06/10/opecs-pending-bloodbath/)

That’s unlikely to happen, precisely because Riyadh can bring further pricing pressures to bear
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will want restraint to come far faster and far deeper to firm prices.
The line being spun from the ’free lunch’ brigade is that storage should easily
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expense. Russia is no different outside the cartel: free riding 101.
Saudi Arabia (and its GCC partners) might be willing to play ball given
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global economy more breathing space (and Washington greater leeway over Iranian sanctions).
But the real reason to let prices fall a little further isn’t just to make
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prompt prices) once the global economy and demand side fundamentals were fixed.
The fact they weren’t is principally because the market thinks vast swathes of unconventional production
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Brazilian pre-salt horribly deep; Russian Arctic plays simply impossible.
So when OPEC meets in Vienna expect Saudi Arabia to call the shots. The
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unless the cartel is absolutely determined to keep pricing itself out of existence.

Decreasing prices crushes the alternative energy transition and causes climate change

HUAG ’11 -  Former Director at the International Energy Agency; educated at Harvard; chairs the Advisory Group on Energy of the EC and is Senior Research Advisor at the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies (Huag, Marianne. "Clean energy and international oil". November 1, 2011. http://oxrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/1/92.abstract)

Developing and commercializing clean energy is one of the basic strategies to combat climate change
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/CNG, are considered the most likely technologies that will reduce oil demand
Such fundamental transformation of the energy sector evolves over time through coevolution of technologies,
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for best solutions in both a country-specific and a global context.
Which energy mix of clean energy will evolve is highly uncertain. However, the
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major investors in clean technology and cost-competitive producers will become crucial.
What are the chances that the transformative dynamic towards clean energy is derailed again?
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, the probability that a clean energy transition will unfold is very high.
First, RD%26D and niche market support has unleashed a wave of scientific interest and technological creativity to explore clean-fuel and end-use alternatives in all scientifically advanced countries. The assumption that competitive backstop technologies for oil will be ready to be scaled up within the 10–20-year period is not only plausible but very likely.
Second, the institutional and policy support in favour of clean energy, while highly fragmented and imperfect, is creating vibrant industries with increasing competitive pressure for all technologies, and sustainability as an overarching core value. In brief, the trend to slowing oil demand growth appears irreversible in the absence of a ’black swan event’.
Can international oil influence the trend through price or quantity strategies, now, before
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and help accelerate market readiness and market opportunities of backstop technologies for oil.

Warming is anthropogenic and causes extinction

DEIBEL ’7 - Professor of IR at National War College, Foreign Affairs Strategy (Terry L. Deibel, "Conclusion: American Foreign Affairs Strategy Today Anthropogenic – caused by CO2")

Finally, there is one major existential threat to American security (as well as
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States, but potentially to the continued existence of life on this planet.

POLITICS

Immigration reform passage is likely as a result of Obama’s exertion of political capital – Boehner will let it though without a majority of the majority

Kludt 1/3/13 (Tom, Assistant Editor of TPM Media’s PollTracker, "Report: Obama To Make Push For Immigration Reform This Month," http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/report-obama-to-make-push-for-immigration-reform)

President Barack Obama is prepared to use his political capital to pursue immigration reform this
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, without worrying about a majority of the majority," the aide said.

Obama won’t waste political capital on fights outside of immigration – plan forces him to expend it and disrupts his triangulation strategy

Thrush 1/1 (Glenn Thrush, White House for Politico, "Fiscal cliff: President Obama’s legacy trap," Politico, 1/1/13 http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/fiscal-cliff-obamas-legacy-trap-85636.html-http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/fiscal-cliff-obamas-legacy-trap-85636.html)

While Democrats outside the West Wing viewed the fight over the fiscal cliff as a
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fights he feels he can’t win than he was before beating Mitt Romney.

The plan uniquely disrupts Obama’s ability to pass immigration reform – energy policy derails compromises and its being avoided now.

Day 12/27/12 Rob Day is a Partner with Black Coral Capital, based in Boston. He has been a cleantech private equity investor since 2004, and acts or has served as a Director, Observer and advisory board member to multiple companies in the energy tech and related sectors, currently including Digital Lumens, Next Step Living, and Powerit Solutions. "Cleantech Investing: 2013 Predictions" http://www.greentechmedia.com/cleantech-investing/post/cleantech-investing-2013-predictions-http://www.greentechmedia.com/cleantech-investing/post/cleantech-investing-2013-predictions 

I plan to write up some observations soon from a couple of trips I made
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the White House and Congress horse-trade in favor of higher priorities.

Impact – Global Aging – Open immigration key to US aging transition – solves global aging.

Haas, ’7 (Political Science Professor — Duquesne, International Security, Summer)

The more the United States maintains its enviable demographic position (compared with the other
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jeopardize the level of global influence and security that the UnitedStates enjoys today.

Failure to address global aging results in Multiple nuclear wars.

Jackson %26 Howe, 11(Senior Fellow – CSIS %26 Senior Associate – CSIS,http://csis.org/files/publication/110104_gai_jackson.pdf)

A number of demographic storms are now brewing in different parts of the developing world
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already has nuclear weapons, while the other seems likely to obtain them.

Turns every impact — Aging crisis makes solvency for any global problem impossible.

Peterson, ’99 (President — IIE, Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb)
The list ofmajor global hazards in the next century has grown long and familiar.
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manage, the other major challenges that will face us in the future.

kritik

Green consumerism just sustains consumption in another form – buying into the reforms of the "green economy" depoliticizes the role of the individual 
Kahn, ’9 (Richard, Associate Professor of educational foundations and research at the university of North Dakota, "Producing Crisis: Green Consumerism as an Ecopedagogical Issue", from J. Sandlin and P. McLaren’s Critical Pedagogies of Consumption: Living and Learning Beyond the Shopocalypse, http://antiochla.academia.edu/ecopedagogy/Papers/84865/Producing_Crisis_Green_Consumerism_as_an_Ecopedagogical_Issue-http://antiochla.academia.edu/ecopedagogy/Papers/84865/Producing_Crisis_Green_Consumerism_as_an_Ecopedagogical_Issue, JD)

Since green consumerism’s modest beginnings in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the last
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formula thereby absolves us of deeper levels of social inquiry and political action. 

Makes extinction inevitable: try or die for the alt

Heinberg, ’4 (Richard, Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute, faculty @ New College of California , author and recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award for excellence in energy education, Power Down: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World, P. 148-150)

Now perhaps we can draw some general conclusions about what happens as complex societies disintegrate
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people flew in metal birds and got everything they wanted by pressing buttons.

Reject the AFF’s "greenwashed" consumerism to rethink our individual consumption of energy and end endorse a radical pedagogy aimed at restructuring of society around sustainable imperatives

Kahn, ’9 (Richard, Associate Professor of educational foundations and research at the university of North Dakota, "Producing Crisis: Green Consumerism as an Ecopedagogical Issue", from J. Sandlin and P. McLaren’s Critical Pedagogies of Consumption: Living and Learning Beyond the Shopocalypse, http://antiochla.academia.edu/ecopedagogy/Papers/84865/Producing_Crisis_Green_Consumerism_as_an_Ecopedagogical_Issue-http://antiochla.academia.edu/ecopedagogy/Papers/84865/Producing_Crisis_Green_Consumerism_as_an_Ecopedagogical_Issue, JD)

• • Running on the Treadmill
    The Chairman of the board will always tell you that he spends his every waking
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    nature proper is prototypical of all other forms of social alienation and dehumanization.
    For Critical Ecopedagogy
    Today, we can easily imagine the extinction of the human
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    in the ongoing struggle for another world. All power to the imagination%21 

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Kills the alt – the AFF’s "technology of behavioral change" cedes our political agency and depoliticizes our participation within the energy economy by endorsing contradictory frameworks
Webb, ’12 (Janette, Professor at the Institute of Governance School of Social and Political Science University of Edinburgh, "Climate Change and Society: The Chimera of Behaviour Change Technologies",  1/10/12, Sociology; 2012 46: 109, Sage Online, JD)

These examples show the institutionally embedded complexity of ordinary practices, and suggest that a
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, and shared obligations for transition to a sustainable society on the other. 

• • Shallow Understandings, Calculative Behaviour and Denial
    Such splitting, Cohen (2001) argues, is significant as a social practice
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    erosion of a sense of capacity and collective responsibility for a shared fate.
    Submerged Policy Knowledge about Societal Change
    Processes of denial and splitting have not, however, excluded more subtle understandings of
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    to the margins and defined them as outside the frame of practicable change.
    Conclusions
    Neo-liberal micro-economic governance, through behaviour change technology, offers limited
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    responsibilities for policy, in relation to actions grounded in the common good. 

Makes the alt a footnote; market forces make alt solvency impossible 
Trainer, ’11 (Ted, University of New South Wales, Australia, "The radical implications of a zero growth economy", real-world economics review, issue no. 57,  http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue57/Trainer57.pdf-http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue57/Trainer57.pdf**, JD)

The far reaching and profoundly radical implications of zero-growth The growth problem is
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rest of the house will function more or less as it did before.   
• If you do away with growth then there can be no interest payments. If more has to be paid back than was lent or invested, then the total amount of capital to invest will inevitably grow over time. The present economy literally runs on interest payments of one form or another; an economy without interest payments would have to have totally different mechanisms for carrying out many processes. 
• Therefore almost the entire finance industry has to be scrapped, and replaced by arrangements whereby money is made available, lent, invested etc., without increasing the wealth of the lender. That is incomprehensible to most current economists, politicians and ordinary people. 
• Among related problems is how to provide for old age, when this can’t be done via superannuation schemes relying on returns on invested savings?   
• The present economy is literally driven by the quest to get richer; this
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not necessarily a difficult problem; See Trainer 2010a, Ch. 5.)
• The problem of inequality would become acute and would demand attention. It could
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fair shares...which again would involve a very different kind of society.
• Above all, if there is to be no growth there can be no
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capitalism. If we must cease growth we must scrap the market system.
• The above changes could not be made unless there was also a profound cultural
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richer than they were. Nations strive to become richer all the time.
• The logically inescapable point here is that in a zero-growth economy there
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has been the dominant driving force in Western culture for several hundred years. 

Drives a wedge between the alt and the plan, guaranteeing the k impacts
Hess, ’9 (David, Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University and renowned author, "Localist Movements in a Global Economy", http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262512327chap1.pdf-http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262512327chap1.pdf**, JD)

Rather than approach environmental and social problems as an interwoven whole, the greening of
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than the mirage that it has become after decades of neoliberal policy making. 

Increases in supply precludes radical questioning of sustainable imperatives – reduced consumption is pre-requisite
Willis %26 Eyre, ’11 (Rebecca, associate of Green Alliance environmental think tank, and Nick,  Jackson Senior Research Fellow in Energy at the ECI and Oriel College. He also leads the ECI programme on Lower Carbon Futures, Demanding less: why we need a new politics of energy, December 2011, P. 10-13, JD)

 Why can’t we carry on as we are? Our exploitation of energy has
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But first: how, and why, has this supply obsession developed? 

we meet your ethic an addiction to risk that gambles our survival on cheap access to energy
Klein, 10 (Naomi,  award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the New York Times and ~%231 international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. In 2004, her reporting from Iraq for Harper’s won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. Additionally, her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, The Globe and Mail, El Pais, L’Espresso and The New Statesman, among many other publications. She is a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and holds an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of King’s College, Nova Scotia, "ADDICTED TO RISK", http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2010/12/on-precaution-http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2010/12/on-precaution)

After telling ourselves for so long that our tools and technology can control nature,
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reminds us that life is too precious to be risked for any profit. 

Turns the AFF – the drive to sustain consumption satisfies self-interest at the cost of self-preservation
Cook, ’6 (Deborah, PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR, "Staying Alive", Rethinking Marxism-http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t713395221, Volume 18-http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t713395221~tab=issueslist~branches=18, Issue 3 -http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g747865579July 2006 , pages 433 – 447, Informaworld)

Maintaining that this division of labor between symbolic and material reproduction is beneficial because it
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destroying not just the entire species, but all life on the planet.

Extinction Inevitable

Consumption turns the case – energy crises makes all environment impacts and nuclear war inevitable in the short term
Ehrlich 11 – president of the Centre for Conservation Biology at Stanford University (Paul R., 10/27, "A global population of seven billion - the point of no return?" http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/1045/a-global-population-of-seven-billion-the-point-of-no-return)

As the world population passes the seven billion mark - we are seeing climate disruption
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of humanity’s environmental problems trace to economic overshoot - too much total consumption. 

Now  Later

Collapse now better than later – 5 comparative reasons
Farrell, ’11 (Paul, writes the column on behavioral economics. He’s the author of nine books on personal finance, economics and psychology, Farrell was an investment banker with Morgan Stanley; executive vice president of the Financial News Network; executive vice president of Mercury Entertainment Corp; and associate editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. He has a Juris Doctor and a Doctorate in Psychology, "7 reasons U.S. needs a Good Depression now", 7/5/11, http://www.marketwatch.com/story/7-reasons-us-needs-a-good-depression-now-2011-07-05?pagenumber=2)

Totally predictable: No Black Swans in 2000, 2008 … nor in 2012 Yes
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the problems bigger, our faith weaker … don’t raise the debt ceiling. 

Collapse now allows us to survive, but delay risks multiple scenarios for extinction
Barry 8 – Ph.D. in Land Resources from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Masters of Science in Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development also from Madison, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Marquette University (Glen, 01/14, "Economic Collapse And Global Ecology," http://www.countercurrents.org/barry140108.htm)

Humanity and the Earth are faced with an enormous conundrum — sufficient climate policies enjoy
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or our total collapse can be a final, fatal death swoon.

Even if they win their offense, complexity means quick collapse is net better for humanity
Vail 5 – attorney at Davis Graham %26 Stubbs LLP in Denver, Colorado specializing in litigation and energy issues, former intelligence officer with the US Air Force and energy infrastructure counterterrorism specialist with the US Department of the Interior (Jeff, 04/28, "The Logic of Collapse," http://www.jeffvail.net/2005/04/logic-of-collapse.html)

But despite the declining marginal returns, society is not capable of reducing expenditure,
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that "this time, in our civilization, things will be different"?

Tournament: Northwestern | Round: 1 | Opponent: Kentucky StGe | Judge: Seth Gannon
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A --- Interpretation --- restrictions are direct governmental limitations on production
Annamaria Viterbo 12 , Assistant Professor in International Law at the University of Torino, PhD in International Economic Law from Bocconi University and Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, 2012, International Economic Law and Monetary Measures: Limitations to States' Sovereignty and Dispute, p. 166
In order to distinguish an exchange restriction from a trade measure, the Fund chose not to give relevance to the purposes or the effects of the measure and to adopt, instead, a technical criterion that focuses on the method followed to design said measure.
An interpretation that considered the economic effects and purposes of the measures (taking into
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balance of payments reasons would have fallen within the competence of the Fund.
After lengthy discussions, in 1960 the IMF Executive Board adopted Decision No. 1034-(60/27).46 This Decision clarified that the distinctive feature of a restriction on payments and transfers for current international transactions is "whether it involves a direct governmental limitation on the availability or use of exchange as such*.47 This is a limitation imposed directly on the use of currency in itself, for all purposes.
“On” means in contact with and links “restrictions” only to energy production
Arthur Butler Graham 16, “Brief for Appellants – Wilson v. Dorflinger and Sons”, Court of Appeals, State of New York, Reg. 108, Fol. 387, 1916, p. 11-12
The Standard Dictionary defines the word “on” as follows:¶ “In or
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are controlled by the operator, in whatever direction he may deem advisable.
Energy production refers to the extraction, conversion, and distribution of energy
Koplow 4 Doug Koplow is the founder of Earth Track in Cambridge, MA. He has worked on natural resource subsidy issues for 20 years, primarily in the energy sector "Subsidies to Energy Industries" Encyclopedia of Energy Vol 5 2004www.earthtrack.net/files/Energy%20Encyclopedia,%20wv.pdf
3.2 Production
Energy production includes all stages from the point of resource location through distribution to the final consumers. Specific items examined here include resource extraction, resource conversion (including electricity), the various distribution links to bring the energy resource to the point of final use, and accident risks.

B --- Violation --- Exon-Florio doesn’t restrict Energy Production--- it regulates Foreign Direct investment, possibly in energy. 

EXON-FLORIO PROVISION, SECTION 721 OF THE DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT OF 1950
http://www.swfinstitute.org/research/exonflorio.php

Introduction. The United States has traditionally welcomed Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and provided foreign investors fair, equitable and nondiscriminatory treatment with few limited exceptions designed to protect national security. The Exon-Florio provision is implemented within the context of this open investment policy. The intent of Exon-Florio is not to discourage FDI generally, but to provide a mechanism to review and, if the President finds necessary, to restrict FDI that threatens the national security.

C --- Vote neg ---
1 --- Ground --- they avoid links to core disads which are based on increases in energy production --- the US companies are already producing energy --- they just allow foreign firms to acquire those US companies
2 --- Unlimits—allows for affs that repeal a environmental or corporate regulations that have no effect on the amount of energy produced, kills neg ground
3 --- Precision --- restriction is narrower than regulation
US District Court 9—Judge Thomas E. Johnson, US District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/west-virginia/wvsdce/5:2009cv00152/61171/33
9 The fourth prong of the Central Hudson test refers to "regulation" of
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more broad or no more expansive than 'necessary' to serve its substantial interests").

2
CP Text:
The United State federal government should substantially expand the US-China Shale Gas Resource Initiative.
The United States federal government should covertly sabotage the Iranian nuclear program.

Shale Gas Govt-govt cooperation is critical to Chinese development.
John Richardson 12/21/12 US Support For Big China Shale Gas Challenge. http://www.icis.com/blogs/asian-chemical-connections/2012/12/us-support-for-big-china-shale.html

A US-China Shale Gas Training Programme has been launched by the independent White
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technologies for domestic applications, with the eventual aim to sell them overseas.

The covert sabotage solves -- We can disrupt the Iranian program and set it back enough to let democracy take hold.
Henry, Terrence The covert option: can sabotage and assassination stop Iran from going nuclear?FOREIGN AFFAIRS The Atlantic Monthly December 1, 2005
Even if Iran succeeds in acquiring all the supplies it needs (and it may
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the Gulf, which could be more ominous than anything witnessed to date. 

3

Immigration reform passage is likely, but not guaranteed – it’s key to reviving the economy
Christian 2/8 (Amber Christian, International Business Times, “Immigration Reform: Possibilities And Prospects,” 2/8/13 http://www.ibtimes.com/immigration-reform-possibilities-prospects-1072864)

Despite years of a stalemate between Republicans and Democrats on immigration reform, the other
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reform puts more pressure and possibility on Washington than anytime in recent history.
The plan uniquely disrupts Obama’s ability to pass immigration reform – energy policy derails compromises and its being avoided now.
Day 12/27/12 Rob Day is a Partner with Black Coral Capital, based in Boston. He has been a cleantech private equity investor since 2004, and acts or has served as a Director, Observer and advisory board member to multiple companies in the energy tech and related sectors, currently including Digital Lumens, Next Step Living, and Powerit Solutions. “Cleantech Investing: 2013 Predictions” http://www.greentechmedia.com/cleantech-investing/post/cleantech-investing-2013-predictions 

I plan to write up some observations soon from a couple of trips I made
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the White House and Congress horse-trade in favor of higher priorities.
Sustaining immigration levels through reform is crucial to solving the aging crisis in the US.
Robert Legge, Editorial Columnist, July 29,'10(http://www2.starexponent.com/news/2010/jul/29/immigration_americas_weapon_against_the_worlds_agi-ar-458433/)
We’ve long been warned about the rapid increase in the world population— 2.
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economy. Is there any other choice besidesmuch more, hopefullylegal, immigration?
Failure to address global aging results in Multiple nuclear wars.
Jackson and Howe, 11(Senior Fellow – CSIS and Senior Associate – CSIS,http://csis.org/files/publication/110104_gai_jackson.pdf)

A number of demographic storms are now brewing in different parts of the developing world
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already has nuclear weapons, while the other seems likely to obtain them.

Turns every impact -- Aging crisis makes solvency for any global problem impossible.
Peterson, '99 (President -- IIE, Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb)
The list ofmajor global hazards in the next century has grown long and familiar.
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manage, the other major challenges that will face us in the future.

4
The Affirmative’s appeal to transcendent top-down approaches to politics ensures the worst forms of biopolitical violence continue through the co-option of subjectivity in the name of the state.
Beasley-Murray 09 (Jon Beasley-Murray, Assistant Professor in Hispanic Studies, including social and political theory, ”PART TWO: CONSTITUTION” http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/jbmurray/research/jbm_escalon.pdf EB)
Affect is, for Deleuze and Spinoza, an index of power: we may
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but also demonstrates reason’s addicted dependence upon sensual as well as spiritual stimulation.

Our alternative is a radical break from transcendence through adopting a machine-oriented ontology.
Machines cannot be co-opted through transcendence because they do not have an identity, subjectivity or end, rupturing all common notions of capturable life potential.
Colebrook 02 (Claire Mary Colebrook, Doctor of Philosophy (University of Edinburgh, 1993), English professor at Penn State University, “Gilles Deleuze” (Routledge Critical Thinkers).
One of the key ideas that runs throughout Deleuze’s work and which links his philosophy
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with the mind or brain being one (sophisticated) machine among others.

Solvency
The rejection of Chinese wind investment is a huge alt cause.
Inside US Trade 1/4/13 U.S., CHINA DISCUSS EXPORT CONTROLS and INVESTMENT, BUT PROGRESS UNCLEAR  Proquest

On Chinese investment in the U.S., Chen stressed that the U.
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"based on ideological reasons," something U.S. observers deny.

send.”
The Ralls decisions outweighs – much more important symbolically.  
Edward Alden 10/2/12 Council on Foreign Relations The Changing Politics of Chinese Trade and Investment http://blogs.cfr.org/renewing-america/2012/10/02/the-changing-politics-of-chinese-trade-and-investment/
On the same day last week that President Obama was issuing an order blocking a
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getting harder – is to figure out whether both can be done simultaneously.

Turn – Bilateral Investment Treaty Leverage – The plan eliminates US leverage in ongoing bilateral investment treaty negotiations. Kills talks.
Inside US-China Trade 12/5, 2012 HORMATS SAYS BIT TALKS WITH CHINA MAY NOT LEAD TO COMPREHENSIVE DEAL Lexis

Overall, Hormats reiterated the administration's message that while it welcomes Chinese investment into the
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its companies seeking to invest in the U.S., he said.

The US-China BIT solves the entire case and is critical to stabilize the global investment regime.
Karl P. Sauvant and Huiping Chen 12/17/12 , ‘A China – US bilateral investment treaty: A template for a multilateral framework for investment?,’ Columbia FDI Perspectives, No. 85, December 17, 2012. Karl P. Sauvant (karlsauvant@gmail.com) is Resident Senior Fellow at the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment (VCC), Columbia Law School/The Earth Institute, Columbia University and former VCC Founding Executive Director and Director of UNCTAD’s Investment Division; Huiping Chen (daichen@xmu.edu.cn) is Professor of International Law at Xiamen University Law School (China). http://www.vcc.columbia.edu/content/china-us-bilateral-investment-treaty-template-multilateral-framework-investment

US concerns as a host country seem to become more pronounced, reflected in the
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economies, but also for the evolution of the international investment law regime.

Iran Adv

No chance of leverage in Iran talks – Recent statements prove.
Boston Herald 2/8/13 Stalemate on Iran http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/editorials/2013/02/stalemate_iran

Vice President Joe Biden said last week that direct talks with Iran over its nuclear
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go on, but anyone hoping for a breakthrough shouldn’t hold their breath.

Econ

China no longer fears protectionism as a result of US policy --- CFIUS is good because it forces Chinese corporations to build-up their regulatory experience and capability --- ultimately incentivizes reforms that liberalize the Chinese economy
Daniel H. Rosen 12, partner at the Rhodium Group, and Thilo Hanemann research director at the Rhodium Group, “The Rise in Chinese Overseas Investment and What It Means for American Businesses,” China Business Review, July-September 2012, https://www.chinabusinessreview.com/public/1207/rosen.html
Initially, politicians in Washington and elsewhere were caught off guard by rising Chinese investment
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wider opportunities for foreign multinationals in industries currently off-limits to them.

Gas
--- China’s moving away from coal now
Ailun Yang 10-15, Senior Associate – World Resources Institute, “What Is The Future Of King Coal In China?” 10-15-12, http://insights.wri.org/news/2012/10/what-future-king-coal-china
China’s great thirst for coal is undeniably troubling from a sustainable development standpoint. However
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capacity is likely to be only half of what was installed last year.

Tournament: Northwester | Round: 6 | Opponent: George Mason DaMo | Judge:
T- FI
Financial incentives must be directed at Production.
Financial incentives must be targeted at energy generation
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.
RandD isn’t tied to energy production—plan is an indirect incentive
EIA, Energy Information Administration, Office of Energy Markets and End Use, U.S. DOE, ‘92
(“Federal Energy Subsidies: Direct and Indirect Interventions in Energy Markets,” ftp://tonto.eia.doe.gov/service/emeu9202.pdf)

Research and development. The budgetary cost of Government-funded research and development (
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energy prices and costs, and so could be considered an indirect subsidy.

Violation: SMR’s incentivize RandD not energy production.
Vote Neg—tons of bidirectional mechanisms impact energy tech in ways that could increase production—only direct financial disbursements for increased production create a predictable and manageable topic
EIA, Energy Information Administration, Office of Energy Markets and End Use, U.S. DOE, ‘92
(“Federal Energy Subsidies: Direct and Indirect Interventions in Energy Markets,” ftp://tonto.eia.doe.gov/service/emeu9202.pdf)

In some sense, most Federal policies have the potential to affect energy markets.
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through financial incentives, regulation, public enterprise, or research and development.

Politics

Immigration reform is moving through the Senate but the specifics still need to be negotiated – Obama’s political capital is key

CBS News 1/28/13 “Key senators agree on sweeping immigration reform” http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57566097/key-senators-agree-on-sweeping-immigration-reform/

A bipartisan group of leading senators has reached agreement on the principles of sweeping legislation
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supporting immigration reform with a path to citizenship has become a political imperative.

The plan uniquely disrupts Obama’s ability to pass immigration reform – energy policy derails compromises and its being avoided now.
Day 12/27/12 Rob Day is a Partner with Black Coral Capital, based in Boston. He has been a cleantech private equity investor since 2004, and acts or has served as a Director, Observer and advisory board member to multiple companies in the energy tech and related sectors, currently including Digital Lumens, Next Step Living, and Powerit Solutions. “Cleantech Investing: 2013 Predictions” http://www.greentechmedia.com/cleantech-investing/post/cleantech-investing-2013-predictions 

I plan to write up some observations soon from a couple of trips I made
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the White House and Congress horse-trade in favor of higher priorities.

 Immigration reform is necessary to revive the economy.
Ezra Klein 1/31/13 Worried about the economy? Then pass immigration reform  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/31/worried-about-the-economy-then-pass-immigration-reform/
Washington tends to have a narrow view of what counts as “economic policy.”
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business owners. Immigration reform is a way to get more of both.
Econ decline causes nuclear war
Mead 9. 2/4, Walter Russell, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, Only Makes You Stronger: Why the recession bolstered America, The New Republic
None of which means that we can just sit back and enjoy the recession.
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the world economy back on track, we may still have to fight. 

Renewables
Renewables are competitive now
Tickell, 8/20/12 – British journalist, author and campaigner on health and environment issues, and author of the Kyoto2 climate initiative (Oliver, “Does the world need nuclear power to solve the climate crisis?” http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/aug/20/world-need-nuclear-power-climate-crisis)

However, non-hydro renewables are growing very fast – up 15% in
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dangers and long- term liabilities. It is both romantic and right.

Investment in nuclear power would keep funds away from renewable energy – empirically proven – this means warming
NIRS 2k, “Keep Nuclear Power From Receiving More Subsidies at the Expense of Sustainable Energy and Energy Efficiency,” Nuclear Information and Resource Service, 2000, http://www.nirs.org/climate/background/cdmnukesnirsbackground.htm, accessed 8-12-2012.
Further investment in nuclear would also keep funds away from renewable energy development. This
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greenhouse gas reduction benefit we receive, while we hurt sustainable technology investment. 

Renewables solve extinction
Wood 10 (Duncan, Director – Program in International Relations and Canadian Studies Program – Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, “Environment, Development and Growth: U.S.-Mexico Cooperation in Renewable Energies,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars – Mexico Institute, May, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/U.S.%20Mexico%20Cooperation%20in%20Renewable%20Energies.pdf)
It is by now common knowledge that the world is facing a climate change crisis
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alternative sources of energy is a crucial component of climate change mitigation strategies.

CP

The United States Federal Government should allocate funding to the Department of Defense for the development of 300-700 megawattmodular reactors for the United States military.

CP Text – Copy and Paste plan text Remove size/megawatts/scale phrase and insert 300-700 megawatt reactors.
Medium sized 300-700 mgw reactors solve the case and avoid the net benefit.
Carrelia et al 2010 Progress in Nuclear Energy Volume 52, Issue 4, May 2010, Pages 403–414 Economic features of integral, modular, small-to-medium size reactors M.D. Carellia, P. Garroneb, G. Locatellib, M. Mancinib, C. Mycoffa, P. Truccob, M.E. Ricottic, , a Westinghouse, Science and Technology Center, 1344 Beulah Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15235, USA b Politecnico di Milano, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, v. Lambruschini,4, 20156 Milano, Italy c Politecnico di Milano, Department of Energy, CeSNEF-Nuclear Engineering Division, v. La Masa, 34, 20156 Milano, Italy http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.lib.uh.edu/10.1016/j.pnucene.2009.09.003,

To overcome these constraints, the adoption of Small-Medium size Reactors (SMRs
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comparison with the state-of-the-art Large size Reactors.
The CP solves the case – modular reactors solve the advantages not smallness.
Carrelia et al 2010 Progress in Nuclear Energy Volume 52, Issue 4, May 2010, Pages 403–414 Economic features of integral, modular, small-to-medium size reactors M.D. Carellia, P. Garroneb, G. Locatellib, M. Mancinib, C. Mycoffa, P. Truccob, M.E. Ricottic, , a Westinghouse, Science and Technology Center, 1344 Beulah Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15235, USA b Politecnico di Milano, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, v. Lambruschini,4, 20156 Milano, Italy c Politecnico di Milano, Department of Energy, CeSNEF-Nuclear Engineering Division, v. La Masa, 34, 20156 Milano, Italy http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.lib.uh.edu/10.1016/j.pnucene.2009.09.003,

Gen IV defines “modularity like” the idea of construction and deployment of a
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, the NOAK is reached with less MWe installed for SMRs than LRs.

Small K
“Small reactors” creates a metaphor similar to children’s toys – that’s bad because it shuts down discussion about safety and implementation.
ROSS CARPER and SONJA SCHMID Summer 2011 Issues in Science and Technology Ross Carper (rosscarper@gmail.com), a writer based in Washington state, is the founding editor of the creative nonfiction project BeyondtheBracelet.com. Sonja Schmid (sschmid@vt.edu) is an assistant professor in Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Tech. The Little Reactor That Could? http://www.issues.org/27.4/carper.html
We don’t know all the answers yet, but we should avoid being drawn in
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political, and organizational contexts in which these machines will ultimately be used.
This attempt to minimize risks means that we won’t be able to deliberate about nuclear power in general. Turns the case.
Eyles and Fried 2012 The Anatomy of a Brand: Shaping Nuclear Discourse to Create the Perception of a "Clean World" John Eyles, McMaster University Jana Fried, McMaster University Volume 3, Issue 1 • 2012 • Article 1 Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy

In sum, the nuclear industry has adopted an interpretive strategy in which metaphor and
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its core activities by ignoring, trivializing or minimizing the often unspoken risk.
NUCLEAR MELTDOWN WILL DESTROY ALL LIFE
WASSERMAN 2002 Harvey, enior advisor to Greenpeace USA and the Nuclear Information and Resource 

Service “Nuclear Power and Terrorism,” Earth island Journal Spring 2002 Vol. 17, No.1delo-uwyo

As at Three Mile Island, where thousands of farm and wild animals died in
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core of our life and of all future generations must be shut down.