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| 09/22/2012 | Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: WSU DO | Judge: Ozzie Text: The fifty states and relevant sub-national actors should substantially increase market-fixed production cost incentives for domestic deployment of small modular nuclear reactors.The states can do the planHaynes 5 (Rusty, Policy Analyst, N.C. Solar Center, N.C. State University, “Systematic Support for Renewable Energy in the United States and Beyond: A Selection of Policy Options and Recommendations” http://www.dsireusa.org/documents/PolicyPublications/Haynes_KIER_Keynote.pdf)
In the absence of strong, continuous federal support for renewable energy, dozens of
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incentives, rebates, grants, production incentives and low-interest loans.
Nuclear MarketWatch 7 (“States Maneuver to Lure New Nuclear Power Plants”, 5/21/7, http://energyjustice.net/pipermail/nukenet_energyjustice.net/2007-May/002037.html)
In a positive shift for U.S. power companies planning a new fleet
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costs to their customers, while Georgia regulators are considering a similar move. NEI 8 (Nuclear Energy Institute, “The Trickle-Up Effect”, http://nei.org/resourcesandstats/publicationsandmedia/newslettersandreports/nuclearpolicyoutlook/)
Ten states have passed policies instituting some form of cost recovery assurance for nuclear plant construction. Three states have introduced and one has passed legislation requiring that nuclear energy be included in some form of clean or alternative energy portfolio. Six of the 13 states with moratoriums preventing new nuclear plants are considering removing those bans. Two states have passed local tax incentives for nuclear plants. NEI 8 (Nuclear Energy Institute, “The Trickle-Up Effect”, http://nei.org/resourcesandstats/publicationsandmedia/newslettersandreports/nuclearpolicyoutlook/)
Moreover, states are not acting in isolation. Regional organizations and coalitions are furthering the cause of clean, reliable electricity generation and related issues. The NCSL in May unanimously adopted a resolution supporting off-site interim storage of used nuclear fuel. The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) also backed a resolution supporting interim storage, as did the Energy Council, comprised of 10 energy-producing states. NRC 12 (Nuclear Regulatory Commission, “Agreement State Program”, March 29, 2012, http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/state-tribal/agreement-states.html)
NRC provides assistance to States expressing interest in establishing programs to assume NRC regulatory authority
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States have entered into Agreements with NRC, and others are being evaluated. Brown Et Al. 2 (Elizabeth Brown, Patrick Quinlan, Harvey M. Sachs and Daniel Williams,“Tax Credits for Energy Efficiency and Green Buildings: Opportunities for State Action”, March 02, http://aceee.org/research-report/e021)
States play a fundamental role in addressing energy use and the adoption of energy efficiency
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residents, the United States and its citizens, and the global climate. Greenberger 12 (James, Executive Director of the National Alliance for Advanced Technology Batteries, “Efforts to Promote Energy Storage Should Look to the States”, March 2, http://naatbatt.org/naatbatt-blog/efforts-to-promote-energy-storage-should-look-to-the-states/)
Many of the barriers to deploying distributed energy storage arise, not from a lack
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, which has been adopted by all 50 states with only minor variations. Koza Et Al 6 (John R. Koza, Former consulting professor at Stanford University, “Every Vote Equal”, http://www.every-vote-equal.com/pdf/EVECh5new_web.pdf)
The term “uniform state law” usually refers to a law drafted and recommended
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Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act, and the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act. Koza Et Al 6 (John R. Koza, Former consulting professor at Stanford University, “Every Vote Equal”, http://www.every-vote-equal.com/pdf/EVECh5new_web.pdf)
Energy Compacts include the Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas, the Southern States Energy Compact (originally the Southern Interstate Nuclear Compact), the Midwest Energy Compact, and the Western Interstate Energy Compact (originally the Western Interstate Nuclear Compact). |
| 09/22/2012 | Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: WSU DO | Judge: Ozzie Levine 9/5
Greg Lavine, 9-5-2012, "End of Summer News Puts Nuclear Renaissance on Permanent Vacation" Truth Out, http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11339-end-of-summer-news-puts-nuclear-renaissance-on-permanent-vacation RegisterGuard 12
Register Guard, 2-12-2012, "No nuclear renaissance Congress should reconsider industry subsidies" The Register Guard – Newspaper, http://special.registerguard.com/web/opinion/27591784-47/nuclear-power-federal-industry-plant.html.csp-http://special.registerguard.com/web/opinion/27591784-47/nuclear-power-federal-industry-plant.html.csp E360 12
(publication of the Yale School of Forestry %26 Environmental Studies, August 20, 2012, "GERMAN SHIFT FROM NUCLEAR
TRIGGERS AN INCREASE IN COAL BURNING" http://e360.yale.edu/digest/germany_shift_from_nuclear_power_causes_surge_in_coal_burning/3596/-http://e360.yale.edu/digest/germany_shift_from_nuclear_power_causes_surge_in_coal_burning/3596/) HDG
The German government’s decision to phase out all of the nation’s nuclear power plants following
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4 percent last year and accounted for 30 percent of global energy production. China Post 8/20
(August 20, 2012, "Gov’t seeking ways to cut back on nuclear power use: minister" http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2012/08/20/351510/Govt-seeking.htm-http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2012/08/20/351510/Govt-seeking.htm) HDG
A comprehensive review of Taiwan’s energy supply structure is underway to comply with the nation’s
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in a stable manner," according to a statement released by the Cabinet. Market Watch 8/21
(August 21, 2012,"Japan to weigh nuclear-power-free future" http://www.marketwatch.com/story/japan-to-weigh-nuclear-power-free-future-2012-08-21-http://www.marketwatch.com/story/japan-to-weigh-nuclear-power-free-future-2012-08-21) HDG
The Japanese government is considering a new energy strategy that would envision a nuclear-
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is likely to recommend a zero-nuclear option, the report said. NEIG 12
(August 22, 2012, "What The Latest IAEA Report Tells About The Future Of Nuclear Energy" http://seekingalpha.com/article/822091-what-the-latest-iaea-report-tells-about-the-future-of-nuclear-energy-http://seekingalpha.com/article/822091-what-the-latest-iaea-report-tells-about-the-future-of-nuclear-energy) HDG
While the overall tone of the report paints an optimistic picture for the long-
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outcome will continue to contribute to elevated sector volatility and fears of further downside Lyons ’11
Chernobyl: when truth went into meltdown Rob Lyons From: The Australian March 26, 2011 12:00AM
DURING the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, experts have been keen
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to make a difference of less than 1 per cent in cancer mortality". Jaworowski in 4
Zbigniew, MD, PhD, Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection, Lessons of Chernobyl - with particular reference to thyroid cancer, http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/chernobyl/jaworowski.html
This was the worst possible catastrophe of a badly constructed nuclear reactor, with a
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as a proof that nuclear power is a safe means of energy production. Even Ayson concedes a terror attacks is unlikely and the response by Nations is just guessing.Ayson ’10 – Centre for Strategic Studies @ Victoria University
Robert Ayson, Centre for Strategic Studies, Victoria University of Wellington. "After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects". Studies in Conflict %26 Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7 July 2010 , pages 571 – 593. InformaWorld
It is just possible that a terrorist nuclear attack could catalyze an inter-state
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group might set off a wider nuclear exchange either inadvertently or by design. Ayson ’10
Robert Ayson, Centre for Strategic Studies, Victoria University of Wellington. "After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects". Studies in Conflict %26 Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7 July 2010 , pages 571 – 593. InformaWorld.
Even if the actual perpetrators of the nuclear violence and any leaders of the terrorist
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to join together in what would amount to a significant show of force. Kimball ’9
Daryl. President of the ACA. Change U.S. Nuclear Policy? Yes, We Can. September 2009. http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2009_09/focus.
Given the United States’ conventional military edge, no plausible circumstance requires or could justify
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this point would mark one of the most significant political decisions since Hiroshima." Not built into contingency plans and legitimacy – nuclear weapons are just a deterrentUN Wire ’1
9/20/1. http://www.unwire.org/unwire/20010920/18354_story.asp.
In an all-out war against terrorism, the United States would be unlikely
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missiles and precision bombs, that are considered more effective than nuclear weapons. |
| 09/22/2012 | Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: WSU OD | Judge: Osbourne Merkel 9/21
Jesse, Reporter and Pollster, Policy Mic, “Obama vs Romney Polls: When You Crunch the Numbers, Romney is Actually Doing Very Well”, http://www.policymic.com/articles/15145/obama-vs-romney-polls-when-you-crunch-the-numbers-romney-is-actually-doing-very-well
Two things typically happen after the major parties conventions come to an end. People
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, ask Al Gore if a scant few votes can make a difference. Butanda 12 (Sylvia, April 10, 2012, “Second UT Energy Poll reports increasing public support for domestic energy” http://www.dailytexanonline.com/university/2012/04/10/second-ut-energy-poll-reports-increasing-public-support-domestic-energy)
A national online poll has revealed the growing public backing for domestic energy, with
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obtain a designated percentage of their electricity from renewable sources,” he said. SMRs publically popular – shortened time frame and accountability to the NRC.Coyne, ‘10
(Philip, 2010 WISE Intern, “Addressing How Light Water Small Modular Reactors Should be Licensed“, WISE, 7-29-10,)
10 CFR Part 52 provides a number of options for the applicants to choose from
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inspecting the constructed facility, and the NRC supervising during the entire process.
Mead 12
Walter Russell Mead is the Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relationshttp://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/06/06/green-politics-hurting-obama-in-swing-states/
These states have more than shale gas in common: all of them are also
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of this issue. It may come back to bite him come November. Obama re-election equals unilateral nuclear disarmament and nuclear warFerrara ‘12
ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP), “Peter Ferrara
Obama's Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament”, http://theacru.org/acru/obamas_unilateral_nuclear_disarmament/
As Frank Gaffney wrote in the February 22 Washington Times:¶ The Obama Administration continues
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threatens your very life, and the lives of your family and children. Hughes ‘12
G. Philip Hughes, former ambassador and White House national security aide for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, is a senior director of the White House Writers Group The Dangers of Obama's Nuclear Disarmament Promise
April 23, 2012 http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/g-philip-hughes/2012/04/23/the-dangers-of-obamas-nuclear-disarmament-promise
That's a reasonable summary of the Obama administration's approach to U.S. national
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, could end up being one of history's most expensive "cheap thrills." The Examiner 9/21
Mitt Romney winning 301 electoral votes as projected by polling data. 9/21/12. http://www.examiner.com/article/mitt-romney-winning-301-electoral-votes-as-projected-by-polling-data-1.
If the election were held today Mitt Romney would win 301 electoral votes while Barack
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above shows the map based on this analysis and projection of electoral votes. The Examiner 9/18
Mitt Romney likely election win indicated by polls from key swing states. 9/18/12. http://www.examiner.com/article/mitt-romney-likely-election-win-indicated-by-polls-released-today-from-key-swing.
Two national polls of the presidential race show Mitt Romney leading over President Obama while
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shows these five states and their value in electoral voters in dark red. Chambers 9/21
Dean, Reporter, the Examiner, “Mitt Romney likely win of five key swing states shown by Purple Poll surveys”, http://www.examiner.com/article/mitt-romney-likely-win-of-five-key-swing-states-shown-by-purple-poll-surveys?cid=rss
The five states, in dark red in the map above, are worth 84
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key swing states, makes a strong case for Romney winning in November. Chambers 9/21
Dean, Reporter, the Examiner, “Mitt Romney likely win of five key swing states shown by Purple Poll surveys”, http://www.examiner.com/article/mitt-romney-likely-win-of-five-key-swing-states-shown-by-purple-poll-surveys?cid=rss
The bipartisan polling firm Purple Strategies has released today the latest Purple Poll surveys in
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for Romney. Odds are likely they will support Romney in higher percentages. Reich 9/20
ROBERT B. REICH, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, was Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration. Four Reasons Why Romney Might Still Win. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/romney-election-chances_b_1899694.html. - Between now and Election Day come two jobs reports from the Bureau of
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Chinese economy slowing, the upcoming job reports are unlikely to be stellar.
Reich 9/20
ROBERT B. REICH, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, was Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration. Four Reasons Why Romney Might Still Win. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/romney-election-chances_b_1899694.html.
3. During the next 7 final weeks of the campaign, the anti-
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gobs of money used to motivate voters to polling stations can be critical. The Examiner 9/18
Mitt Romney likely election win indicated by polls from key swing states. 9/18/12. http://www.examiner.com/article/mitt-romney-likely-election-win-indicated-by-polls-released-today-from-key-swing.
Ohio (18 electoral votes): Election observers almost universally agree that both candidate need
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state as George W. Bush did in 2004 running against John Kerry. The Examiner 9/21
Mitt Romney winning 301 electoral votes as projected by polling data. 9/21/12. http://www.examiner.com/article/mitt-romney-winning-301-electoral-votes-as-projected-by-polling-data-1.
The pattern of skewed polls, most of the commissioned by the mainstream media,
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heavily-skewed polls distort any average or analysis that relies on them. Morris 9/21
Dick. Former political campaign strategist and consultant. Why The Polls Under State Romney Vote. 9/21/12. http://www.dickmorris.com/why-the-polls-under-state-romney-vote/. - All of the polling out there uses some variant of the 2008 election turnout as
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3. race either tied or Romney ahead, a view much closer to reality.
Gardett 8-23-12
Peter Gardett Reporter for AOL Energy As Voters Focus on Energy, API Chief Begs: 'Turn Us Loose'¶ Published: August 23, 2012 http://energy.aol.com/2012/08/23/as-voters-focus-on-energy-api-chief-begs-turn-us-loose/?icid=related1
The US oil and natural gas business has been an unusual bright spot for the
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create a comprehensive energy plan at the time when we need it most." Snow 8/14
WASHINGTON, DC, Aug. 14¶ 08/14/2012¶ By Nick Snow¶ OGJ Washington Editor
http://www.ogj.com/articles/2012/08/api-to-intensify-vote-4-energy-effort-in-five-key-states.html
The American Petroleum Institute will increase its Vote 4 Energy program in Colorado, Florida
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and 24% Independent, with another 6% unspecified, it said. Shesgreen ‘12
Deidre Shesgreen, “Energy issues electrify Ohio Senate race” Marion Star, Jul. 7, 2012, http://www.marionstar.com/article/20120707/NEWS03/207070304
WASHINGTON - When it comes to energy issues, Democrat Sherrod Brown and Republican Josh
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play an even more influential role in framing the debate, Foreman said. Ingersoll, ‘11
(Daniel, Senior Program Manager at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ASME 2011 Small Modular Reactors Symposium, “AN OVERVIEW OF THE SAFETY CASE FOR SMALL MODULAR REACTORS”, September 28-30 2011, pg. 5, http://brc.gov/sites/default/files/meetings/presentations/crozat_-_brc_smr_questions_10-20-2011.pdf)
Several SMR designs emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s in response to lessons
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the desired level of resilience but also created concern regarding their economic viability. Coombes ‘12
Andrew, Staff Writer, Aljazeera, “US election outcome depends on swing states”, http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/07/201272984739750251.html
The outcome of the US election is likely to be decided by a small number
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Republican. They are called swing states because they swing back and forth." Base support and turnout are key to the electionCillizza 8/19
Chris, Politics Reporter, the Washington Post, “Is the 2012 election more about base than undecideds?”, http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2012-election-more-about-base-than-undecideds/2012/08/19/2cd2f98c-ea02-11e1-9ddc-340d5efb1e9c_story.html
Conventional wisdom dictates that President Obama and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney will spend the
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and an opposition party strongly energized to oust him. (Sound familiar?) Abramowitz ‘12
(Alan, Senior Columnist, Center For Politics.org, Prof Poli Sci @ Emory, 5/31, http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/buying-a-presidential-election-its-not-as-easy-as-you-think/
The airwaves in the eight or 10 states that will decide the outcome of the
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. But I’ll have more to say about that in my next article. |
| 09/22/2012 | Tournament: UMKC | Round: 3 | Opponent: Gonzaga EU | Judge: S Peterson Manufacturing is growing and we’ll surpass China againHemphill and Perry 12
(Thomas Hemphill, professor of strategy, innovation and public policy at the University of Michigan, and Mark Perry, scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, April 2012, “A U.S. Manufacturing Strategy for the 21st Century: What Policies Yield National Sector Competitiveness?” Proquest)
The concerns expressed by the U.S. electorate about the status of manufacturing
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many critics believe the nation is overdue for a "national manufacturing strategy." Hemphill and Perry 12
(Thomas Hemphill, professor of strategy, innovation and public policy at the University of Michigan, and Mark Perry, scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, April 2012, “A U.S. Manufacturing Strategy for the 21st Century: What Policies Yield National Sector Competitiveness?” Proquest)
It is important to note that the manufacturing sector made significant gains in both employment
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computers, software and semiconductors, and oil and natural-gas equipment. Davidson 12
(Adam Davidson, American journalist focusing on business and economics issues for National Public Radio, January 2012, “Making It in America” http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/01/making-it-in-america/8844/)
I had come to Greenville to better understand what, exactly, is happening to
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from American factories, adjusted for inflation, has risen by a third. Unistar 10
(Unistar Nuclear Energy, January 2010, “Rebuilding the nucleaR eneRgy WoRkfoRce” http://www.unistarnuclear.com/IB/workforce.pdf)
The reinvigoration of the nuclear energy industry will depend on the availability of qualified staff
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, fringe benefits, and good working conditions for all craft workers.2 Unistar 10
(Unistar Nuclear Energy, January 2010, “Rebuilding the nucleaR eneRgy WoRkfoRce” http://www.unistarnuclear.com/IB/workforce.pdf)
However, the simple fact is that the nuclear energy industry faces a serious workforce
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an additional 13 percent is expected to leave due to other reasons.”9 Ferguson 6 – prof of history @ Harvard
Niall Ferguson 2006, Professor of History @ Harvard, The Next War of the World, Foreign Affairs 85.5, Proquest
There are many unsatisfactory explanations for why the twentieth century was so destructive. One
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economic catastrophe, and some severe economic crises were not followed by wars. Empirical studies show no causal relationship between economic decline and warMiller 1 – prof of economics
Morris Miller 2001, Professor of Economics, Poverty: A Cause of War?, http://archive.peacemagazine.org/v17n1p08.htm
Library shelves are heavy with studies focused on the correlates and causes of war.
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by increasing repression (thereby using one form of violence to abort another)." Boehmer 7 – associate prof of poly sci @ UT-El Paso
Charles Boehmer, Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science @ University of Texas at El Paso. “The Effects of Economic Crisis, Domestic Discord, and State Efficacy on the Decision to Initiate Interstate Conflict”. Politics and Policy. Volume 35, Issue 4, Pages 774-809. Wiley InterScience. December 7, 2007.
I have theorized in this study that economic growth should be positively related to militarized
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appear secure, meaning they face manageable levels of internal protest and rebellion. |
| 09/23/2012 | Tournament: UMKC | Round: 6 | Opponent: Fullerton CT | Judge:
Burkett 6
Paul, “Marxism and Ecological¶ Economics¶ Toward a Red and Green Political Economy”
Like the energy school, the eco-Sraffian approach tends to naturalise capitalism’s¶
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the revolutionary¶ changes in the class hierarchy needed to reverse this ordering. gimenez 2001
[Martha, Prof. Of Sociology at CU Boulder, “Marxism and Class, Gender and Race”, Race Gender and Class, Vol. 8, p. online]
There are many competing theories of race, gender, class, American society,
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what happens in social interactions grounded in "intersectionality" is class power. THE DETERMINISM OF CAPITAL IS RESPONSIBLE FOR INSTRUMENTALIZATION—THIS MOBILIZES AND ALLOWS FOR THE 1AC’S SCENARIOS
dyer-witherford 99
[Nick, Prof at U. of Western Ontario, Cyber Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism ]
For capitalism, the use of machines as organs of “will over nature”
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degree to which this project of mastery has backfired is all too obvious. The Alternative is to
Vote Negative to validate and adopt the method of structural/historical criticism that is the 1NC.METHOD IS THE FOREMOST POLITICAL QUESTION BECAUSE ONE MUST UNDERSTAND THE EXISTING SOCIAL TOTALITY BEFORE ONE CAN ACT—GROUNDING THE SITES OF POLITICAL CONTESTATION OUTSIDE OF LABOR HUMANIZE CAPITAL AND PREVENT A TRANSITION
tumino 2001
[Stephen, Prof English at Pitt, ““What is Orthodox Marxism and Why it Matters Now More than Ever”, Red Critique, p. online]
Any effective political theory will have to do at least two things: it will
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determinism of corporate theory ("knowledge work") that masquerades as social theory. And the have no offense – the method of micro-politics is an insufficient starting point to address wasteEvans 11 - a lecturer in sociology and a Sustainable Consumption Institute research fellow at the University of Manchester
David, “Waste Matter,” http://www.sci.manchester.ac.uk/uploads/evans-waste-matters.pdf
There is no doubt that a focus -consumption, practice and environment. YOU CANNOT PERMUTE A METHOD—IT STRIPS OUT ALL OF THE CONCEPTUAL THEORY THAT ALLOWS US TO BOTH UNDERSTAND THE WORLD AND TO CREATE A PRAXIS TO END OPPRESSION.
tumino 2001
[Stephen, Prof English at Pitt, ““What is Orthodox Marxism and Why it Matters Now More than Ever”, Red Critique, p. online]
Orthodox Marxism has become a test-case of the "radical" today.
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the exploitation of labor under capitalism giving it an acceptable "human face." Meszaros 95
[Istavan, Prof. Emeritus at Sussex, Beyond Capital: Towards a Theory of Transition] p. 930
THE difficulty is that the ‘moment’ of radical politics is strictly limited by the
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which are in fact necessarily dictated by the established socioeconomic structure in crisis. The aff fundamentally misunderstands the relationship between capitalism and fossil fuels—fossil fuels are a tool manipulated by capitalist modes of production. History proves that capitalism created the necessary drive to accumulate energy and use it as a mode of social controlMcNally 6
David, “Marx, Machinery and Motive Power: the Thermodynamics of Class Struggle” April 9
The “colossal” productive forces of social labor that Marx and Engels referred to
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and the economic laws of motion inherent to capitalism as an economic system. |
| 09/23/2012 | Tournament: UMKC | Round: 6 | Opponent: CSUF CT | Judge: And, Resolved means to enact by lawWords and Phrases 64
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Definition of the word “resolve,” given by Webster is “to express an opinion or determination by resolution or vote; as ‘it was resolved by the legislature;” It is of similar force to the word “enact,” which is defined by Bouvier as meaning “to establish by law”. Black’s Law Dictionary 90
6th Ed., p. 695
In the United States, government consists of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches in addition to administrative agencies. In a broader sense, includes the federal government and all its agencies and bureaus, state and county governments, and city and township governments. Merriam-Webster 2
Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, 2002, 10th Edition, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/should
Used in auxiliary function to express obligation, propriety, or expediency
Effective deliberation requires a forum of discussion that facilitates Gutmann and Thompson 86
(Amy Gutmann 96 is the president of Penn and former prof @ Princeton, AND Dennis Thompson is Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy at Harvard University, Democracy and Disagreement, pp 1)
Deliberative democracy involves reasoning about politics, and nothing has been more controversial in political
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of the conditions and content of deliberative democracy we begin to develop here. Talisse 5—Professor of Philosophy @Vandy
Robert, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Deliberativist responses to activist challenges, 31(4) p. 429-431
The argument thus far might appear to turn exclusively upon different conceptions of what reasonableness
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of justice. Insofar as the activist denies this, he is unreasonable. Switch side portable skills are key to solving real world violence and exclusionHarrigan 08
Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, Vol. 29 (2008) 37 AGAINST DOGMATISM: A CONTINUED DEFENSE OF SWITCH SIDE DEBATE Casey Harrigan, University of Georgia
Given the now almost all-consuming exceptionalist mantra, debate is one of the
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can provide at least a modest check against the most extreme governmental abuses. Policy training is uniquely valuable for social advocacy—their engagement is defensive and doesn’t solve our advantagesThemba-Nixon 2k—Exec Director of the Praxis Project
Makani, Colorlines, Changing the Rules: What Public Policy Means for Organizing Jul 31, 2000. Vol. 3, Iss. 2; pg. 12, proquest
"This is all about policy," a woman complained to me in a recent
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should be. And then we must be committed to making it so.
2NC Clash
The disposal of the resolution’s method bankrupts our ability to test ideas.
Zarefsky, 2008
David Zarefsky, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, Journal of Communication, “Knowledge Claims in Rhetorical Criticism” doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.2008.00405.x
The way out of this dilemma is to reconsider the ideal of verification. It
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to scrutinize claims and determine which are more deserving of acceptance as true. Dogma—failure to engage in rigorous scrutiny of the plan causes dogmatism-- Effective deliberation is crucial to the activation of personal agency ---this activation of agency is vital to preventing mass violence and genocide and overcoming politically debilitating self-obsession
Roberts-Miller 3
Patricia Roberts-Miller 3 is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Texas "Fighting Without Hatred:Hannah Ar endt ' s Agonistic Rhetoric" JAC 22.2 2003
Totalitarianism and the Competitive Space of Agonism Arendt is probably most famous for her analysis
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process to which the people enacting it have fallen captive. (87) Talisse 5—Professor of Philosophy @Vandy
Robert, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Deliberativist responses to activist challenges, 31(4) p. 429-431
The argument thus far might appear to turn exclusively upon different conceptions of what reasonableness
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of justice. Insofar as the activist denies this, he is unreasonable. Giroux 12
Henry A. Giroux currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department, Truthout | Op-Ed http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8009-gated-intellectuals-and-ignorance-in-political-life-toward-a-borderless-pedagogy-in-the-occupy-movement
Such intellectuals are essential to democracy, even as social well-being depends on
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deregulation and unfettered privatization that are central to a neoliberal project.(7) We turn the impacts for higher education—Higher education is being rendered disposable by government policies and requires effective advocacy to solve. Without effective advocacy outside of debate their won’t be a debate spaceGiroux 12
Henry A. Giroux currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department, Truthout | Op-Ed http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8009-gated-intellectuals-and-ignorance-in-political-life-toward-a-borderless-pedagogy-in-the-occupy-movement
Higher education is worth mentioning because, for the gated intellectuals, it is one
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the very meaning and mission of the university as a democratic public sphere. Giroux 11
http://truth-out.org/news/item/923:youth-in-a-suspect-society-coming-of-age-in-an-era-of-disposability
What is horrifying about the plight of youth today is not just the severity
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the space of the possible is larger than the one currently on display. Only training for engaged political engagement can solve for war, waste, and disposabilityGiroux 11
http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/henry-giroux/higher-education-under-siege-challenging-casino-capitalism%E2%80%99s-culture-of-crue
Democracy’s promises are laying bare the sordid realities that now speak in its name.
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, subjectivities, identities, social relations, and world views of individuals . Establishing constraints on the topics for discussion in debate does not cause internal exclusion and breaking down those constraints doesn’t solve it because the absence of clash and the refusal of the burden of rejoinder only flips external exclusion---the way to resolve internal exclusion is to broaden the scope of what counts as a persuasive argument within a given topic---for example, our model of debate would welcome the use of narrative and personal experience on behalf of a topical argument---this middle ground most effectively resolves their exclusion argumentsGert Biesta et al 9, professor of Education and Director of Research at the School of Education, University of Stirling, Susan Verducci , Assistant Professor at the Humanities Department at San José State University, and Michael S. Katz, professor of philosophy and education at San Jose State, Education, Democracy and the Moral Life, 2009, p. 105-107
This example not only shows why the issue of inclusion is so prominent in the
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is to be done remains central” (ibid., p.168). Foss 93—Prof of Comms @ U Colorado at Denver
Sonja, Beyond Persuasion: A Proposal for an Invitational Rhetoric, Speech Communication Association convention, November, 1993
The primary and distinguishing feature of invitational rhetoric is a decision by the rhetor to
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refuse to participate in the violation implicit in the intent to change others. |
| 09/23/2012 | Tournament: UMKC | Round: 8 | Opponent: ASU DN | Judge: Andy Casey The affirmative’s production-oriented approach to energy locks-in devastating consumption patterns and guarantees error-replication
Princen 2 – Professor of Natural Resources @ U of Michigan
Thomas, Associate Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, where he also co-directs the Workshop on Consumption and Environment, Michael Maniates, Professor of Political Science and Environmental Science at Allegheny College, and Ken Conca, professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, “Confronting Consumption,” Confronting Consumption, Chapter 1
Such intuition is even making its way, albeit slowly, into scholarly circles,
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techniques, all warranting a change in incentive structures via laws and regulations. Princen 2 – Professor of Natural Resources @ U of Michigan
Thomas, Associate Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, where he also co-directs the Workshop on Consumption and Environment, Michael Maniates, Professor of Political Science and Environmental Science at Allegheny College, and Ken Conca, professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, “Confronting Consumption,” Confronting Consumption, Chapter 2
The difficulty in conducting such a transformative research agenda, I submit, Lies in
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the analysis. Goods may be good but cautious consuming is better.7 Ehrenfeld 5 – Professor of Ecology @ Rutgers
David, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources @ Rutgers University, “The Environmental Limits to Globalization”, Conservation Biology Vol. 19 No. 2, EBSCO
The known effects of globalization on the environment are numerous and highly significant. Many
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have become so thoroughly entwined with ours within the global environment we share. The alternative is to: reject the affirmative and approach the 1ac harms from the angle of consumptionPrincen 2 – Professor of Natural Resources @ U of Michigan
Thomas, Associate Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, where he also co-directs the Workshop on Consumption and Environment, Michael Maniates, Professor of Political Science and Environmental Science at Allegheny College, and Ken Conca, professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, “Confronting Consumption,” Confronting Consumption, Chapter 1
Given our dissatisfaction with prevailing, fragmentary approaches to consumption and its externalities, we
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, to stimulate thought, and to point to new forms of intervention. Start from consumption—Princeton 2 says you should use the angle of consumption as an alternative framing for your decision calculus—this means you privilege method as a prior question—evaluating the benefits of production pollutes the judge space and keeps us from developing a new analytic framework with the vocabulary of anti-consumption – their framework argument ties us to contemporary political discourse that always privileges consumptionPrincen 3 – Professor of Natural Resources @ U of M
Thomas Princen, Associate Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, where he also co-directs the Workshop on Consumption and Environment, "Principles for Sustainability: From Cooperation and Efficiency to Sufficiency," Global Environmental Politics 3.1, 2003, p. 33-50
Global timber harvesters are squeezing more and more fiber out of a hectare of forest
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3 Global water manage- ment illustrates the need for such a focus. Bobertz 95 – Professor of Law @ U-Nebraska
Bradley, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Nebraska College of Law. A.B. 1983, Grinnell College; J.D. 1988, SUNY Buffalo Law School, Legitimizing Pollution Through Pollution Control Laws: Reflections on Scapegoating Theory, Lexis
Questions of guilt lead to matters of atonement. "The real question," one
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is liberated, free to pursue its old ways without fear of reprisal. Public Sphere DA¬- failure to critically examine modes of production and consumption ensures public sphere collapse- that creates a ruthless authoritarianism that ends in disease spread, war, and massive global povertyGiroux ‘6, (Henry A. Giroux currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in Canada. “Dirty Democracy and State Terrorism: The Politics of the New Authoritarianism in the United States,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 26.2 (2006) 163-177.)
While it would be ludicrous to suggest that the United States either represents a mirror
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alone, war forced 20 million children to leave their homes.16
2NC Perm Front Line Princen 2 – Professor of Natural Resources @ U of Michigan
Thomas, Associate Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, where he also co-directs the Workshop on Consumption and Environment, Michael Maniates, Professor of Political Science and Environmental Science at Allegheny College, and Ken Conca, professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, “Confronting Consumption,” Confronting Consumption, Chapter 2
All these production-oriented measures fall within the realm of "environmental improvement.
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to material activity up and down the chain of resource-use decisions. Princen 99 - Professor of Natural Resources @ U of M
Thomas, Associate Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, where he also co-directs the Workshop on Consumption and Environment, 99, "Consumption and environment: some conceptual issues," Ecological Economics, 31, p. 347–363
Consumption ranks with population and technology as a major driver of environmental change and yet
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the potential of helping analysts and others transcend conventional approaches to excess throughput. |
| 09/23/2012 | Tournament: UMKC | Round: 8 | Opponent: ASU DN | Judge: Andy Casey Rare Element Resources Ltd, 12
http://www.rareelementresources.com/s/Uses.asp Other industrial uses include: phosphors in colour TV and fluorescent lighting, garnet bubble
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shielding, detectors and counters. Thorium is a potential atomic fuel source.
Dent 9
Peter C. Dent, Vice President of Business Development at Electron Energy Corporation, August 2009, “HIGH PERFORMANCE MAGNET MATERIALS: RISKY SUPPLY CHAIN,” online: http://www.electronenergy.com/media/amp16708p27.pdf
Today, nearly 100% of the world’s rare earth metals and over 94%
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stark contrast to the total lack of NdFeB manufacturing in the United States.
Adams 10
Mike Adams, Editor of NaturalNews, January 26, 2010, “Global supply of rare earth elements could be wiped out by 2012,” online: http://www.naturalnews.com/028028_rare_earth_elements_mining.html
It's the bubble you've probably never heard of: The rare earth bubble. And
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looming crisis in rare metals... upon which much of western civilization rests. |
| 09/24/2012 | Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: WSU DO | Judge: Ozzie Compliance Campaign-12
( fight for US compliance to International laws), “Iran or the USA: Who really violates international obligations?”, February 3, http://compliancecampaign.wordpress.com/tag/npt/. Google. 7/8/12. JD.
There is no mention in the defense strategy of pursuing nuclear disarmament, an explicit
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the catastrophic humanitarian consequences that would result from the use of nuclear weapons.
1NC AT Prolif Krepon 9
Michael. Co-Founder of the Henry L. Stimson Center, a Diplomat Scholar at the University of Virginia, and the author of Better Safe Than Sorry: The Ironies of Living With the Bomb. "The mushroom cloud that wasn't: why inflating threats won't reduce them." Foreign Affairs 88.3 (May-June 2009).
Today, as was the case during the Cold War, there is no shortage
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are insufficient; reducing the nuclear threat requires success over the long haul. Emissions from uranium mining and plant building cause warming more than nuclear solves itMez 12
(Lutz Mez, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, 5/7/12, “Nuclear energy–Any solution for sustainability and climate protection?” Science Direct)
In the coming decades, indirect CO2 emissions from nuclear power plants will moreover increase
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received any attention in international climate-protection negotiations to this very day. Pearce 12
Joshua, May 8, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University, MDPI “Limitations of Nuclear Power as a Sustainable Energy Source” http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/4/6/1173/htm
Emissions from fossil fuels not only need to be eliminated, but they must be
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a solution to fossil-fuel induced climate change on a global scale.
Kerr 11
Richard “Bleak Prospects for Avoiding Dangerous Global Warming” [http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/10/bleak-prospects-for-avoiding-dangerous.html] October 23
The bad news just got worse: A new study finds that reining in greenhouse
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creating biofuels and storing the carbon dioxide from their combustion in the ground. And, consensus of experts agree no impact to warming
Hsu ‘10
Jeremy, Live Science Staff, July 19, pg. http://www.livescience.com/culture/can-humans-survive-extinction-doomsday-100719.html
His views deviate sharply from those of most experts, who don't view climate change
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crop yields, so we're essentially doing an experiment whose result remains uncertain."
Past adaptation proves we’ll survive—they were equally as drastic/rapid
Vaidyanathan 10—fellow @ International Development Center
[Gayathri Vaidyanathan, Scientific American, “How Have Hominids Adapted to Past Climate Change?,” 4/13/10, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=hominids-adapt-to-past-climate-change]
Studying past changes could provide clues about future evolutionary adaptations as humans address anthropogenic global
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because we are a species that's emerged from a long history of adaptation."
Smith 11
(Terrance, Feb 16, 2011 “An Idea I Can Do Without: “Small Nuclear Reactors for Military Installations’” http://csis.org/blog/idea-i-can-do-without-small-nuclear-reactors-military-installations) HDG
The reactors are purely for energy purposes, but in a world that seems to
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knowledge in general), I have a tough time seeing how it helps. No risk of nuclear tipping points – empirically denied, Cold War was worse, and ignores allies calculationsGavin 10- international affairs prof and director of Lyndon B Johnson School @ UT Austin
Francis. Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. Same As It Ever Was: Nuclear Alarmism, Proliferation, and the Cold War. International Security. Winter 2009/2010. Muse.
One of the greatest fears of nuclear alarmists is that if a key state acquires
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" states such as Germany, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Snowball arguments should be tossed out- states have their own reasons for not getting nukes and three tests in the last ten years disprove this argumentAlagappa in ‘8—senior fellow @ East-West Center
[Muthiah, Distinguished Senior Fellow at East-West Center, “Reinforcing National Security and Regional Stability”, in The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia, ed. M. Alagappa, P. 521-522]
It will be useful at this juncture to address more directly the set of instability
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the drivers of national and regional security in Iran and the Middle East. Even if the aff ceased all emissions 4 degree warming is inevitable and would trigger their impactsHamilton 10 – Professor of Public Ethics @ ANU
Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics in Australia, 2010, “Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change,” pg 27-28
The conclusion that, even if we act promptly and resolutely, the world is
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, a global response proportionate to the problem was deferred for several years. |
| 10/06/2012 | Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent: Fullerton BS | Judge: Kurr His unverifiable generalizations are understandable because he relies of Lacanian and Marxist structuralism – We’ll quote Wilderson’s method sectionWilderson 10
A Note on Method¶ Throughout this book I use White, Human, Master
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which constructs the three essential positions which in turn structure US. antagonisms. This is non-falsifiable and fails – no support for generalizing from the particularRobinson 5
(PhD Political Theory, University of Nottingham) 05
(Theory and Event, Andrew, 8:1, The Political Theory of Constitutive Lack: A Critique)
One of the functions of myth is to cut out what Trevor Pateman terms the
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jump from the singular to the universal’, without reference to particular contexts. ====Lacanianism is conservativism—it abandons political change and merely redescribes the status quo in new symbolic terms====
Robinson 4—PhD in Political Theory, University of Nottingham
Andrew, The Politics of Lack, The British Journal of Politics %26 International Relations Volume 6, Issue 2, pages 259–269, May 2004
The centrality of the idea of betrayal and of the revolution which ’commits suicide’
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political preferences (for instance, to keep Lenin in and Hitler out). Psychoanalysis results in fatalism, passivity, and inactionGordon 1—Psychotherapist
Paul, Psychoanalysis and Racism: The Politics of Defeat, Race Class 2001 42: 17
The postmodernists’ problem is that they cannot live with dis appointment. All the tragedies
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the world, not just to interpret it, need to look elsewhere. Gordon 1—Psychotherapist
Paul, Psychoanalysis and Racism: The Politics of Defeat, Race Class 2001 42: 17
The problem with the application of psychoanalysis to social institu tions is that there can
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true, then nothing can be false and therefore nothing can be true. They assume that anti-black animus arises from nothingness but its caught up in a broader web of historical power relationships like Islamophobia and nativism-anti-blackness is not an independent entity—it’s the extension of other forms of impression, starting with the 1942 Spanish Conquest of th e Iberirian peninsula
Charoenying 8
(citing Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Prof of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley) 8
(Timothy, Islamophobia %26 Anti-Blackness: A Genealogical Approach, http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/islamophobia-anti-blackness-genealogical-approach)
The year 1492 marked a major turning point in the trajectory of Western Civilization.
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the way for the enslavement and human trafficking of sub-Saharan Africans. Their narrative overdetermines the importance of race in slavery – the origin of slavery is race-neutral – it was caused by economic, nationalism and religion-err neg—vast majority of scholarship agrees that slavery and anti-blackness were NOT sympotnaic of the the black body—ignores millions of chrisitan and European slaves an the enslavement of ingidengous Americans
OSU 4 – Citing Robert Davis, a professor of History @ The Ohio State University
Robert, "WHEN EUROPEANS WERE SLAVES: RESEARCH SUGGESTS WHITE SLAVERY WAS MUCH MORE COMMON THAN PREVIOUSLY BELIEVED," http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/whtslav.htm
"Much of what has been written gives the impression that there were not many
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colonialists" and not as the victims they sometimes were, Davis said. The argument that slavery ontologically defined the black body in opposition to whiteness papers over the origins of white and child slavery. This doesn’t mean that any form of slavery is legitimate, but that you should be skeptical of the claim that all social relationships are determined by anti-BlacknessHoffman 2k – author of They Were White and They Were Slaves: The Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early America and Industrial Britain
Michael, "The Forgotten Slaves: Whites in Servitude in Early America and Industrial Britain," http://www.revisionisthistory.org/forgottenslaves.html
Before British slavers traveled to Africa’s western coast to buy Black slaves from African chieftains
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originally was a reference to Whites of East European origin - "Slavs." Cummiskey ’96
(David, Associate Philosophy Professor, Bates College, Kantian Consequentialism, p. 129-131)
It does, however, support the consequentialist interpretation. Since the moral demand to
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conclusion that the more persons with dignity who are saved, the better. Muhwati 05
Itai Muhwati Department of African Languages and Literature, University of Zimbabwe http://ir.uz.ac.zw:8080/jspui/bitstream/10646/515/1/Muhwati-Mass-Neurosis.pdf-http://ir.uz.ac.zw:8080/jspui/bitstream/10646/515/1/Muhwati-Mass-Neurosis.pdf
The physical wreckage and spiritual paralysis that is by definition an expression of this image
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and many more. These are designations that bespeak helplessness and mass neurosis. Brown 09
Vincent Brown is Professor of History and of African and African-American
Studies at Harvard University. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
DECEMBER 2009 http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/documents/brown-socialdeath.pdf
Burnard consequently concurs with Patterson: "slavery¶ completely stripped slaves of their cultural
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helpful to focus on what the enslaved actually made of their¶ situation. Brown 09
Vincent Brown is Professor of History and of African and African-American
Studies at Harvard University. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
DECEMBER 2009 http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/documents/brown-socialdeath.pdf
Like scholars of resistance before him, Rucker effectively refutes any contention that the enslaved
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power of slaveholders, but the very terms and conditions of social existence. |
| 10/06/2012 | Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 3 | Opponent: UMKC AG | Judge: Bausch Interp—reduce means to make something "smaller or less in amount, degree, or size", from New Oxford American Dictionary ’12CDK Structures Inc, 09
Wind Turbines - Local Obstacles http://www.cdkstructures.net/index.php?page=Local-obstacles
State and local governments not only provide incentives for the installation of wind turbines and
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not only persist, but are routinely being enacted as you read this. |
| 10/06/2012 | Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 3 | Opponent: UMKC AG | Judge: Bausch -more Dem leaning states
-Latino, women, and African American vote
-Obama Super PAC support
Dionne 10/4
E.J., Reporter, Columbia Post Dispatch, "Romney faces Electoral College hurdle", http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/editorials/2012/10/04/romney-faces-electoral-college-hurdle.html
In one sense, this is surprising. Our antiquated Electoral College actually gives Republicans
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the GOP’s comfort zone is making his Electoral College problem even more daunting. LeVine 12
Steve LeVine. How dirty is Romney prepared to get to win election?. 6/13/12. http://oilandglory.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/06/12/how_dirty_is_romney_prepared_to_get_to_win_election.
Is Barack Obama sufficiently dirty to win re-election? Not according to presumptive
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in eight years’ turned out to be an applause line," Yergin noted. Obama win key to prevent xenophobic policy towards China – Romney will spark trade war and increase confrontationsTraub, 12
~James, journalist specializing in foreign affairs, writes "Terms of Engagement," a weekly column on ForeignPolicy.com, "Foreign Affairs: The "more enemies, fewer friends" doctrine, Washington Monthly, January/February, http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/january_february_2012/features/foreign_affairs034475.php?page=1-http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/january_february_2012/features/foreign_affairs034475.php?page=1, ALB~
The Republicans tend to paint themselves as hardheaded realists as against Obama’s universalist idealism;
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the Soviet Union in the 1960s would be a mistake of historic proportions. Trade wars cause global economic collapse and U.S.-China conflictLiu ’05 (Henry C., Chair – New York Private Investment Group, The Coming Trade War Part 6, Asia Times Online, 8-20, http://atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/GH20Dj01.html)
US geopolitical hostility toward China will manifest itself first in trade friction, which will
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to be fought over by killing consumers in a world plagued with overcapacity. Auslin 9 (Michael, Resident Scholar – American Enterprise Institute, and Desmond Lachman – Resident Fellow – American Enterprise Institute, "The Global Economy Unravels", Forbes, 3-6, http://www.aei.org/article/100187)
What do these trends mean in the short and medium term? The Great Depression
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may be a series of small explosions that coalesce into a big bang. |
| 10/06/2012 | Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 3 | Opponent: UMKC AG | Judge: Bausch Eilperin 8 (Juliet, Washington Post Staff Writer, "25% of Wild Mammal Species Face Extinction" 10/7/8, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100600641.html)
At least a quarter of the world’s wild mammal species are at risk of extinction
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unintentional killing by pollution, ship strikes and being caught in fishing nets. Mongabay 9 (One of the world’s most popular environmental science and conservation news sites "869 species extinct, 17,000 threatened with extinction" July 02, 2009 http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0702-iucn.html)
The report found some plant and animal groups to be particularly vulnerable. One third
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due to human development will interfere with migration to safer elevations and latitudes. Easterbrook 96 (Gregg, senior editor of The New Republic, former fellow at the Brookings Institute, "A Moment on the Earth", p.25, published by Penguin, 4.1.96)
"Fragile environment" has become a welded phrase of the modern lexicon, like
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dreaming ape. Human assaults on the environment, though mischievous, are pinpricks |
| 10/09/2012 | Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 5 | Opponent: UNT MQ | Judge: Ozzie Text: The United States Federal Government should offer purchase power agreements to companies that generate electricity from small gas-cooled nuclear reactors, small liquid metal-cooled nuclear reactors, and small molten salt-cooled nuclear reactors.It competes – "small modular reactors" include 60 different reactor designs – the plan mandates the inclusion of "water reactors" – the CP excludes itKing et al 11 (Dr. Marcus, Research Analyst and Project Director – CNA Corporation’s Center for Naval Analyses, LaVar Huntzinger, and Thoi Nguyen, "Feasibility of Nuclear Power on U.S. Military Installations," CNA Analysis and Solutions, March, http://www.cna.org/sites/default/files/research/Nuclear%20Power%20on%20Military-http://www.cna.org/sites/default/files/research/Nuclear Power on Military %20Installations%20D0023932%20A5.pdf)
Status of SMR technologies and commercialization ¶ According to two recent International Atomic Energy Agency
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the PRISM, MHR, and HPM designs are given in figure 2. Independently – not specifying which type of SMR they use is a voter – there are over 60 different types of reactors with distinct cooling systems and designs – that’s key to negative disad and cp ground. Absent that, the aff is a moving target.Sokolski 4 (Henry, Executive Director – Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, in the Preface of "A Fresh Examination of the Proliferation Dangers of Light Water Reactors," NPEC, 10-19, http://npec.xykon-llc.com/files/20041022-GilinskyEtAl-LWR.pdf)
The U.S. and its allies are now trying to deny Iran the
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, is similar to that of devices made of pure weapons grade plutonium. Morgan and Shea 10 (Daniel, and Dana A., Special in Science and Technology – CRS, "The Helium-3 Shortage: Supply, Demand, and Options for Congress," Congressional Research Service, 12-22, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41419.pdf)
In addition to the nuclear weapons program, potential sources of helium-3 include tritium produced as a byproduct in commercial heavy-water nuclear reactors; extraction of naturally occurring helium-3 from natural gas or the atmosphere; and production of either tritium or helium-3 using particle accelerators. Until recently, the ready supply of helium-3 from the nuclear weapons program meant that these alternative sources were not considered economic. With the current shortage, this perception may change. Gsponer and Hurni 8 (Dr. Andre, PhD in Physics and Research Associate – University of Chicago, and Jean-Pierre, PhD in Physics – University of Geneva, "ITER: The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor and the Nuclear Weapons Proliferation Implications of Thermonuclear-Fusion Energy Systems," Independent Scientific Research Institute, 2-2, http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0401110.pdf)
Technical points related to thermonuclear weapons and their proliferation • A few grams of tritium
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be used as the explosive charge of some future-generation nuclear weapons. Wilson 4 (Jim, Professor – Naval Post Graduate School and Chief Scientist – Neptune Sciences, "Dangerous Science," Popular Mechanics, Vol. 181, Iss. 8; pg. 75, Research Library database. 2004, August. Project muse)
BEYOND H-BOMBS Although explosions have from time to time occurred in cold fusion apparatus
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in the hands of terrorists bent on ending civilization. Causing nuclear wars –escalates ongoing disputes and risk of nonstate organizations proliferatingEvans and Kawaguchi ’09
Gareth, Professor of law at Australian National University, President Emeritus of the International Crisis Group, former Australian Foreign Minister, commission co-chair ; Yoriko, former Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, Member of the Advisory Board of the Energy and Climate Change Working Group of the Clinton Global Initiative, M.Phil In Economics; Report includes Dr. Alexei Arbatov, Head of the Center for International Security of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chair of the Nonproliferation Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center; "ELIMINATING NUCLEAR THREATS Repor t of the A Practical Agenda for Global Policymakers," November 2009 Report of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament; http://icnnd.org/Reference/reports/ent/downloads.html, AD 9/19/12
Ensuring that no new states join the ranks of those already nucleararmed must continue to
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nuclear power centres divided by multiple and cross-cutting sources of conflict. And those conflicts all escalate to extinctionUtgoff in 2 —Deputy Director of Strategy, Forces and Resources @Institute for Defense Analysis
~Victor A., Deputy Director of Strategy, Forces, and Resources Division, Institute for Defense Analyses, "Proliferation, Missile Defence and American Ambitions," Survival, v. 44 n. 2, Summer 2002~.
In sum, widespread proliferation is likely to
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bury the bodies of dead cities or even whole nations. |
| 10/09/2012 | Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 5 | Opponent: UNT MQ | Judge: Ozzie CO2 key to agriculture—benefits of C02 outweigh and the risks from warming are uncertain and adaptation solvesIdso 9
Sherwood, Keith and Craig Idso, "The Future of Life on Earth: What to Do about CO2", Volume 12, Number 50: 16 December 2009, ~http://www.co2science.org/articles/V12/N50/EDIT.php-http://www.co2science.org/articles/V12/N50/EDIT.php~~
In a subsequent study, Tilman et al. (2002) suggested a strategy
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from experiencing one of the greatest mass extinctions events of its entire history. Ice Age is coming now and leads to extinction—Science is better than Aff Ev—comparatively outweighs global warming—continued CO2 burning is keyDeming 9—geophysicist
David Deming is a geophysicist and associate professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma. The Coming Ice Age, 5/13/09, http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/the_coming_ice_age.html
In northern Europe, the Little Ice Age kicked off with the Great Famine of
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be based on a realistic appraisal that takes both climate scenarios into consideration. Hof et al 11—professor @ Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate @ University of Copenhagen
Christian, "Rethinking species’ ability to cope with rapid climate change" Global Change Biology (2011) 17
Ongoing climate change is assumed to be exceptional because of its unprecedented
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that lessons must be learned for modelling future impacts of climate change on species. Kenny 12— senior fellow at the Center for Global Development
Charles "Not Too Hot to Handle" ~http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/04/09/not_too_hot_to_handle~~ April 9
What about other diseases? Christian Zimmermann at the University of Connecticut and
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compensate for the consequences of climate change." We can deal with this one. Peters and Chrystal ’3 – Director of Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases @ UT and Chairman of Genetics Medicine @ Cornell
Dr. Clarence, Director of Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases @ UT, and Dr. Ronald, Chairman of Genetics Medicine @ Cornell, FDCH Political Transcripts, "U.S. REPRESENTATIVE CHRISTOPHER COX (R-CA) HOLDS HEARING ON COUNTERING THE BIOTERRORISM THREAT", 3-15, Lexis.
PETERS: I think we have one example from the movement of the Conquistadors to
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wipe out civilization, but the consequences to our society would be enormous. No impact to ocean acidification and its not caused by anthropogenic warmingEschenbach 10 |
| 10/09/2012 | Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 7 | Opponent: Emory AD | Judge: Bankey EWaste DA Nath 10
(Stanford Journal of International Relations, Vol. XI | No. 2 , Spring, "Cleaning Up After Clean Energy: Hazardous Waste in the Solar Industry", http://www.stanford.edu/group/sjir/pdf/Solar_11.2.pdf-http://www.stanford.edu/group/sjir/pdf/Solar_11.2.pdf, Ishan Nath is a sophomore at Stanford University doublemajoring in Economics and Earth Systems with a focus on energy science and technology)
The first question facing solar firms is how to address the prospect of used panels
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he warns, the situation could escalate into "a major disaster." 4 Templeton 9
Seattle Journal for Social Justice Volume 7 Issue 2 Spring/Summer 2009 Article 21 4-16-2012 The Dark Side of Recycling and Reusing Electronics: Is Washington’s E-Cycle Program Adequate? Nicola J. Templeton, 1 JD, Seattle University School of Law, 2009; BSc (Eng.), Chemical Engineering, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2002
Environmental degradation is the degradation of the quality of life. 94 Exporting toxic e
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"reuse" exports are by no means limited to these countries. 103 |
| 10/09/2012 | Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 7 | Opponent: Emory AD | Judge: Bankey PV DA Plan drives up the demand for silicon—trades off with the semiconductor industryCal Finder 10
Nationwide Home Solar Power Contractors and Information, "Why use silicon to make photovoltaic cells?" ~http://solar.calfinder.com/ask/why-use-silicon-2~~
Silicon is the material backbone of the current solar industry. Silicon is vital to
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fact that the solar industry must compete with the electronics industry for silicon. The San Francisco Chronicle 6
("Chip material shortage spooks Silicon Valley", http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/09/04/MNGIEKV0CS1.DTL, July 9,2008)
Silicon Valley has weathered business cycles and foreign competition, but in recent months,
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, we are watching the polysilicon market very carefully for the long term." Cutting edge semiconductor industry is critical to maintaining military dominance – critical to radar, UAVS, cruise missiles, missile defense, communication, etc.Lieberman ’3
Joseph Lieberman, US Senator. "The National Security Aspects of the Global Migration of the U.S. Semiconductor industry. June 5, 2003. http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2003_cr/s060503.html
The Pentagon’s Advisory Group on Electron Devices (AGED) has warned that the Department
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China, Taiwan and Singapore) is not an acceptable national security option. Zhang and Shi 11 – *Yuhan Zhang is a researcher at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Currently on leave from Graduate School in Economic and Political Development, Lin Shi, MA from Columbia in International Affairs, also serves as an independent consultant for the Eurasia Group and a consultant for the World Bank
America’s decline: A harbinger of conflict and rivalry, http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2011/01/22/americas-decline-a-harbinger-of-conflict-and-rivalry/
This does not necessarily mean that the US is in systemic decline, but it
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forecast in a future that will inevitably be devoid of unrivalled US primacy. |
| 10/13/2012 | Tournament: UNLV | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wyoming BJ | Judge: Whit Restrictions must be legal and prevent or limit the conditions of energy productionGoogle Dictionary No Date
"Restriction" ~www.google.com~
A limiting condition or measure, esp. a legal one. The word "on" in the resolution is a preposition describing the relationship between the verb restriction and the object productionUniversity of Houston-Clear Lake Writing Center 12
http://prtl.uhcl.edu/portal/page/portal/WC/Files/TIPSHEET_ESLEDITING
Prepositions are words that express relationships related to space and time. For example, in the sentence "We talk on the phone," the preposition "on" denotes a spatial relationship between the noun "we" and the object of the preposition, "phone." COAG, 2009
Published by the Department of Climate Change on behalf of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Expert Group on Streamlining Greenhouse and Energy Reporting, "National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Streamlining Protocol" climatechange.gov.au/~/media/publications/greenhouse-report/nger-streamlining-protocol.pdf
7.1 Energy production Under the NGER Act corporations are required to report on
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. The NGER (Measurement) Determination outlines methodologies for estimating energy production. Dyson et al, 3 - International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
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these incentives within the realm of economic and fiscal policy is practically limitless. Knutson 10
Scott Knudson, author and writer http://www.examiner.com/article/forgiving-it-s-meaning-is-its-syllables
The word "for" is a function word that indicates "purpose". Sherlock 11
¶ Master Limited Partnerships: A Policy Option for the Renewable Energy Industry ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶ Molly F. Sherlock ¶ Analyst in Economics ¶ ¶ Mark P. Keightley ¶ Analyst in Public Finance http://www.renewableenergypost.com/
An MLP is a type of business structure that is taxed as a partnership,
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capital, in turn, could increase investment in the renewable energy sector. (1) infinitely regressive: under any other interpretation the AFF could reduce ANY regulation on business or administration. OR anything that increased the costs of production. That means AFFs to remove employment restrictions, foreign tariffs, health care mandates, etc would be topical. Small limits are key to topic debate and competitive equity.(2) Ground: any restriction on the "operation" and not "production" undermines core NEG ground. It’s already hard enough to be NEG; don’t allow interps that make the topical bidirectional.Beinecke, 2012
Frances Beinecke, Switchboard/NRDC, CommonDreams, "Obama Administration Must Say No to Industry Loopholes in Natural Gas Fracking Standards" April 15, https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/15-0
NRDC experts analyzed green completion and nine other pollution control measures and found them to
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a recent post, the industry wants an exemption that swallows the rule. 3) Limits—there are thousands of potential enablers of energy production they could create, they could make strategic reserves of solar energy, argue that we need a slush fund for nuclear power. Those cases are terrible for debate—lets them claim signal advantages without affecting energy4) Effects T—at best the increase of incentives occurs as a result of the plan, not the mandate, that’s an independent voting issue—letting the Neg take multiple steps to be topical amplifies the research burden for the Neg |
| 10/14/2012 | Tournament: UNLV | Round: 5 | Opponent: OU LM | Judge: Todd Jordan The 1AC reinscribes an objective aesthetic to wind turbines- instead of an ugly and blighting nature, their perspective folds them into pastoral accounts of the beauty of windmills amongst the tulips. This image confines "nature" to a limited and bounded enclosure that flips the case. Their 1AC author asks the same question we do- is viewing the farms as beautiful any less static a viewpoint than viewing them as ugly?1AC Author Brisman ’5
Brisman ~’5 Avi Brisman Law Clerk with a J.D. "THE AESTHETICS OF WIND ENERGY SYSTEMS" 2005 13 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 1
Imagine a wind farm on an otherwise untouched, natural landscape.2¶ Then
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? Or is¶ this simply a question of subjective or intersubjective preference? 1AC Author Brisman ’5
Brisman ~’5 Avi Brisman Law Clerk with a J.D. "THE AESTHETICS OF WIND ENERGY SYSTEMS" 2005 13 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 1
And so we reach the same dialectical impasse that is¶ being reached across the
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are having opposite experiences and¶ contradictory judgments. It’s practically a paradox%21 McWhorter 92 Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies Department of Philosophy University of Richmond, 92 ~LaDelle, Heidegger and the Earth: Essays in Environmental Ethics, page (check page ~%23)~
"Thinking today must concern itself with the earth. Wherever we turn - on
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also ground the most basic patterns of our current ways of being human. ===2NC A2: Perm=== The aff is just aesthetic functionalism- it is an aesthetic reading of wind farms based on objective prescriptions of beauty. That understanding absolutely reveals the wind turbine as a technological object, concealing its essence. Our alternative alone is a better lens of analysis, because it allows us to explore the limitations of the objective reading of turbines.1AC Author Brisman ’5
Brisman ~’5 Avi Brisman Law Clerk with a J.D. "THE AESTHETICS OF WIND ENERGY SYSTEMS" 2005 13 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 1
Examining these different frames will offer us a way to¶ address a second,
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its conceptual connections to industrialization, are placed in a larger ecological context. Will DA- imposing an objective reading of nature is a violent act of will. It is an act of hegemonic superposition of the human subject that eviscerates all other potential subjectivities and wills a single path for our human-earth relationship into existence.1AC Author Brisman ’5
Brisman ~’5 Avi Brisman Law Clerk with a J.D. "THE AESTHETICS OF WIND ENERGY SYSTEMS" 2005 13 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 1
It makes sense, though, that beauty is a relational property, since it
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willing to bring more of what it represents into the¶ world.6 ====C.) Kantian ethics- their advocacy is literally a defense of Kantian ethics- that means the Nietzsche critique links to them.====
1AC Author Brisman ’5
Brisman ~’5 Avi Brisman Law Clerk with a J.D. "THE AESTHETICS OF WIND ENERGY SYSTEMS" 2005 13 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 1
Examining these different frames will offer us a way to¶ address a second,
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its conceptual connections to industrialization, are placed in a larger ecological context. |
| 10/16/2012 | Tournament: Kentucky | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Georgetown | Judge: Turn, Desalination trades off with more effective demand management strategiesFood and Water Watch 09
Food %26 Water Watch is a nonprofit organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food. Food %26 Water Watch works with grassroots organizations¶ around the world to create an economically and environmentally viable future¶ Desalination An Ocean of Problems http://documents.foodandwaterwatch.org/doc/Desal-Feb2009.pdf-http://documents.foodandwaterwatch.org/doc/Desal-Feb2009.pdf
With all costs considered, ocean desalination is a risky¶ water supply option.
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¶ alternatives and efficiency programs offer great potential¶ for alleviating water supply problem
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s at a much lower cost¶ and without the dangers associated with large scale
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desalination could¶ use conservation programs to provide their water needs¶ instead. Katz 11
David, Feb, "Hydro-Political Hyperbole", Global Environmental Politics, Director
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, transboundary resource management, and the economics of ecosystem restoration. Proj Muse
A number critiques have been leveled against both the theory and the empirical evidence behind
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explicitly over water, and this took place over 4500 years ago.35
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Moreover, he could document only seven cases of acute conflict over water.
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"support for a scarcity theory of water conflict is somewhat ambiguous."42 Collins and Wohlforth 4
(Kathleen, Professor of Political Science – Notre Dame and William, Professor of Government – Dartmouth, "Defying ’Great Game’ Expectations", Strategic Asia 2003-4: Fragility and Crisis, p. 312-313)
Conclusion The popular great game lens for analyzing Central Asia fails to capture the declared
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the major powers are in a better position to serve as a stabilizing force
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than analogies to the Great Game or the Cold War would suggest. It
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11, as well as reinforce regional and domestic stability in Central Asia. Without viable waste disposal – there is no way the renaissance can happen
Smith 11
GAR SMITH JUNE 2011 NUCLEAR ROULETTE http://ifg.org/pdf/Nuclear_Roulette_book.pdf-http://ifg.org/pdf/Nuclear_Roulette_book.pdf (GAR SMITH—Editor Emeritus of Earth Island Journal, a former editor of Common Ground magazine, a Project Censored Award-winning journalist, and co-founder of Environmentalists Against War.)
With the future of a storage facility in Germany in doubt, that leaves only
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.Whether such schemes could be carried out successfully and economically remains speculative.
Independent reasons why the industry is slowing – cost increases, difficulty of obtaining permits, investor abandonment, and safety shortcomings
Smith 11
GAR SMITH JUNE 2011 NUCLEAR ROULETTE http://ifg.org/pdf/Nuclear_Roulette_book.pdf-http://ifg.org/pdf/Nuclear_Roulette_book.pdf (GAR SMITH—Editor Emeritus of Earth Island Journal, a former editor of Common Ground magazine, a Project Censored Award-winning journalist, and co-founder of Environmentalists Against War.)
In 2006, global nuclear power grew by only 1,400 megawatts (MW
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to help match the remaining costs for the %2410 billion Vogtle plant. Water stress is set to become Asia’s defining crisis of the twenty-first century
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have seriously reduced its flow. Climate change has added to the threat. |
| 10/16/2012 | Tournament: Kentucky | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Georgetown AM | Judge: Counterplan solves the case and avoids innovation DACSPO 10,
Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at ASU, "four policy principles for energy innovation %26 climate change: a synthesis", June, http://www.catf.us/resources/publications/files/Synthesis.pdf-http://www.catf.us/resources/publications/files/Synthesis.pdf
Government purchase of new technologies is a powerful way to accelerate innovation through increased demand
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innovation. Public procurement of other renewable energy technologies could be similarly important. Wesoff 10
Eric. Anatomy of a Power Purchase Agreement. 5/12/10. http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/anatomy-of-a-power-purchase-agreement/.
Marc Roper, the VP of Sales at PPA firm Tioga Energy, was the
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those technologies will have to get to market through other means than PPAs. Baru 9
Sanjaya is a Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School in Singapore Geopolitical Implications of the Current Global Financial Crisis, Strategic Analysis, Volume 33, Issue 2 March 2009 , pages 163–168.
The management of the economy, and of the treasury, has been a vital
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economic growth and military power – the classic ’guns vs butter’ dilemma. O’Rourke and Daggett 07
Ronald O’Rourke¶ Specialist in National Defense¶ Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division¶ Stephen Daggett¶ Specialist in National Defense¶ Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division Defense Procurement: Full Funding Policy —¶ Background, Issues, and Options for Congress http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL31404.pdf
The House¶ Appropriations Committee, in its report (H.Rept. 107
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from budgeting for shipbuilding programs on the basis of advanced¶ appropriations.21 O’Rourke and Daggett 07
Ronald O’Rourke¶ Specialist in National Defense¶ Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division¶ Stephen Daggett¶ Specialist in National Defense¶ Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division Defense Procurement: Full Funding Policy —¶ Background, Issues, and Options for Congress http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL31404.pdf
¶ DOD, in¶ recent budget submissions and testimony, has proposed or suggested
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affect¶ DOD’s budgeting practices, budget discipline, and annual funding requirements. Ornstein 06
Norman J. Ornstein is a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Thomas E. Mann holds the
W. Averell Harriman Chair and is a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution.
They are the authors of The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on
Track Foreign Affairs, November/December 2006 http://acme.highpoint.edu/~~msetzler/USPol/Americanreads/CongOversightFA06.pdf
The making of sound U.S. foreign policy depends on a vigorous,
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partisan exercise that ignores broad policy issues for the sake of cheap publicity. Permutation and the plan are distinct – alternative financing purchases the energy from nuclear reactors, while procurement purchases the actual, physical nuclear reactors – means they would sever the alternative financing mechanism of the 1ac and it s a voting issue because it makes them a moving targetAnd, your solvency evidence indicates you’re PPAsFitzpatrick, Freed and Eyoan 11
Ryan Fitzpatrick, Senior Policy Advisor for Clean Energy at Third Way, Josh Freed, Vice President for Clean Energy at Third Way, and Mieke Eoyan, Director for National Security at Third Way, June 2011, Fighting for Innovation: How DoD Can Advance CleanEnergy Technology... And Why It Has To, content.thirdway.org/publications/414/Third_Way_Idea_Brief_-_Fighting_for_Innovation.pdf
Leverage Savings From Efficiency and Alternative Financing to Pay for Innovation. In an age
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of innovative and fledgling technologies in the terms of its EULs and PPAs. Marquesse draws the distinction between the plan and the counterplan ~yellow again~Jeffrey Marqusee 12, Executive Director of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) and the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) at the Department of Defense, "Military Installations and Energy Technology Innovation", March, http://bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Energy%20Innovation%20at%20DoD.pdf-http://bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Energy Innovation at DoD.pdf The key reason that DoD cannot passively rely on the private sector to provide a
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middle where microgrids and their relationship to energy storage and electric vehicles reside. Counterplan and plan are distinct – the plan is a means to an end while the counterplan just purchases the endArmstrong %26 Hamrin – no date
A. John Armstrong, Esq. %26 Dr. Jan Hamrin. The Renewable Energy Policy Manual. http://www.oas.org/dsd/publications/Unit/oea79e/ch08.htm
Electricity, not the renewable resource, is the product of value.¶ Streamline and
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legislation or practice allows entities other than the national utility to generate electricity. Department of Energy – Energy Efficiency %26 Renewable Energy, 2/24/2011 (Federal Renewable Energy Project Implementation: From RFP to Project Closeout, p. http://www1.eere.energy.gov/femp/pdfs/rewebinar_projectimp_qa.pdf)
Q: How often does an agency own the project versus third-party ownership
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renewable projects that are bundled with energy efficiency under an ESPC or UESC. Oxford Dictionaries Online
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/for
affecting, with regard to, or in respect of: she is responsible for the efficient running of their department the demand for money COAG, 2009
Published by the Department of Climate Change on behalf of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Expert Group on Streamlining Greenhouse and Energy Reporting, "National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Streamlining Protocol" climatechange.gov.au/~/media/publications/greenhouse-report/nger-streamlining-protocol.pdf
7.1 Energy production Under the NGER Act corporations are required to report on
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. The NGER (Measurement) Determination outlines methodologies for estimating energy production. Would be a reason to vote negative because it explodes the limits of the topic and allows any aff that incentivizes tech procurementNo link differential—1AC reads generic evidence that says procurement solves the aff- that’s their Andreas and BreezeFitzpatrick et al ’11
Ryan, Senior Policy Advisor for Clean Energy; Josh Freed is the Vice President for Clean Energy at Third Way Mieke Eoyang is Director for National Security at Third Way ; Third Way is the leading think tank of the moderate wing of the progressive movement " Fighting for Innovation: How DoD Can Advance Clean Energy Technology... And Why It Has To ," http://www.google.com/url?sa=t%26rct=j%26q=%26esrc=s%26source=web%26cd=2%26ved=0CEAQFjAB%26url=http%3A%2F%2Fcontent.thirdway.org%2Fpublications%2F414%2FThird_Way_Idea_Brief_-_Fighting_for_Innovation.pdf%26ei=qvdLUMv9Bo369gS36IHQCg%26usg=AFQjCNGb9TOO069aF0CT-EADvO8wsN9DjA June 2011 AD 9/8/12
Use the Procurement Process to Promote Innovative Energy Technologies The DoD has over %24400
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DoD’s energy goals, even if these procurements come with higher upfront costs. DiPeso 10
Jim DiPeso is Vice President, Policy %26 Communications, ConservAmerica, Winter 2010, Environmental Quality Management, "Can DOD Lead the Way to a Better Energy Future?," http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tqem.20283/abstract AD 9/12/12
Using DOD’s Purchasing Power Finally, one sure way to create a market for innovative
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return annual energy-bill savings exceeding %241 million per year.23
As the military makes further progress on alternative fuels and renewables, the purchasing power
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renewable energy more practical and affordable for everyday uses, experts say."24 2nc AT Andres and BreetzAndres and Breetz vote negative – DoD must provide initial demonstration that the technology is feasible ~read only yellow – blue is Georgetown~Andres and Breetz 11
Richard Andres, Professor of National Security Strategy at the National War College and a Senior Fellow and Energy and Environmental Security and Policy Chair in the Center for Strategic Research, Institute for National Strategic Studies, at the National Defense University, and Hanna Breetz, doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Small Nuclear Reactorsfor Military Installations:Capabilities, Costs, andTechnological Implications, www.ndu.edu/press/lib/pdf/StrForum/SF-262.pdf-http://www.ndu.edu/press/lib/pdf/StrForum/SF-262.pdf
Thus far, this paper has reviewed two of DOD’s most pressing energy vulnerabilities—
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will dictate standards on nuclear reactor reliability, performance, and proliferation resistance. Hayward et al 10
(Steven Hayward, F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at AEI, Mark Muro, senior fellow and director of policy for the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, Ted Norhaus, author, researcher, and political strategist @ Breakthrough Institute, and Michael Shellenberg, president and co-founder of Breakthrough Institute, October 2010, "HOW A LIMITED AND DIRECT APPROACH TO ENERGY INNOVATION CAN DELIVER CLEAN, CHEAP ENERGY, ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY AND NATIONAL PROSPERITY" http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/Post-Partisan%20Power.pdf)
Despite the importance of science and education, energy innovation is not the sole domain
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and it should be ¶ distinguished from the morass of existing energy subsidies. Hayward et al 10
(Steven Hayward, F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at AEI, Mark Muro, senior fellow and director of policy for the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, Ted Norhaus, author, researcher, and political strategist @ Breakthrough Institute, and Michael Shellenberg, president and co-founder of Breakthrough Institute, October 2010, "HOW A LIMITED AND DIRECT APPROACH TO ENERGY INNOVATION CAN DELIVER CLEAN, CHEAP ENERGY,
ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY AND NATIONAL PROSPERITY" http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/Post-Partisan%20Power.pdf)
Lastly, the federal government must help facilitate the transfer of new technologies from the
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D and production activities and increase the commercialization of ¶ new technologies.¶ 37 Spencer and Loris 11
Jack Spencer is Research Fellow in Nuclear Energy in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, and Nicolas D. Loris is a Research Associate in the Roe Institute, at The Heritage Foundation. A Big Future for Small Nuclear Reactors? February 2, 2011. http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/02/a-big-future-for-small-nuclear-reactors.
Small modular reactors (SMRs) have garnered significant attention in recent years, with
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to new reactor certification and to develop a sustainable nuclear waste management strategy. Hopf 10
Jim Hopf - Clean Energy Standard gains traction at Nuclear Energy Summit http://theenergycollective.com/ansorg/48554/clean-energy-standard-gains-traction-nuclear-energy-summit-http://theenergycollective.com/ansorg/48554/clean-energy-standard-gains-traction-nuclear-energy-summit
Nuclear energy summit participants also devoted significant attention to Small Modular Reactors (SMRs).
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times of high deficits, when many are eager to control government spending. Federal Times 10
http://www.federaltimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100131/departments05/1310301
The Pentagon has an advantage over most agencies because it has more financing tools at its disposal, Kidd said. The Defense Department and Energy’s power management authorities are the only agencies allowed by law to enter into power purchase agreements for longer than 10 years. Most power purchase agreements are for 20-year terms. Bollinger 10
Paul P. Bollinger Jr. was the first Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Energy and Partnerships; and, the former Special Assistant to the Senior Energy Executive in the Air Force during President George W. Bush’s Administration. He is an Adjunct Energy Fellow at the National Defense University. Congress are you Listening? DOD Energy Leader Needed Now http://dodenergy.blogspot.com/2010/02/congress-are-you-listening-dod-energy.html
Review and modification of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) scoring of energy projects on military bases. Since the 1990’s OMB has required long-term government contracts to be paid, for the full amount, in the year of execution. Armstrong %26 Hamrin – no date
A. John Armstrong, Esq. %26 Dr. Jan Hamrin. The Renewable Energy Policy Manual. http://www.oas.org/dsd/publications/Unit/oea79e/ch08.htm
The single most important key to project financing is a power purchase agreement. A
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been exporting approximately 500 megawatts of geothermal-generated electricity to Southern California. Hawkins 7
DAVID G. HAWKINS, DIRECTOR, CLIMATE CENTER, NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL. 6/28/7. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-110shrg61973/pdf/CHRG-110shrg61973.pdf.
A price ceiling would also undermine innovation by creating a ¶ risk that investments in
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with trading for compliance, should provide adequate protection ¶ against price spikes. Hayward et al 10
(Steven Hayward, F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at AEI, Mark Muro, senior fellow and director of policy for the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, Ted Norhaus, author, researcher, and political strategist @ Breakthrough Institute, and Michael Shellenberg, president and co-founder of Breakthrough Institute, October 2010, "HOW A LIMITED AND DIRECT APPROACH TO ENERGY INNOVATION CAN DELIVER CLEAN, CHEAP ENERGY,
ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY AND NATIONAL PROSPERITY" http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/Post-Partisan%20Power.pdf)
In addition to reforming energy deployment subsidies and launching a new competitive deployment ¶ strategy
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demonstrate small modular reactors at ¶ DOE nuclear facilities and DOD military bases. Wang, 1/20/2012 (Ucilia – contributor to Forbes, Feds to Finance Small Nuclear Reactor Designs, Forbes, p. http://www.forbes.com/sites/uciliawang/2012/01/20/feds-to-finance-small-nuclear-reactor-designs/)
Just because small nuclear reactors promise many economic and environmental benefits (they don’t produce
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that nuclear power should remain an important part of the country’s energy mix. Armstrong %26 Hamrin – no date
A. John Armstrong, Esq. %26 Dr. Jan Hamrin. The Renewable Energy Policy Manual. http://www.oas.org/dsd/publications/Unit/oea79e/ch08.htm
The government may mandate that all distribution companies have a certain amount of renewable energy
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around" as the debt-service costs of these facilities are retired. Spencer and Loris 11
Jack Spencer is Research Fellow in Nuclear Energy in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, and Nicolas D. Loris is a Research Associate in the Roe Institute, at The Heritage Foundation. A Big Future for Small Nuclear Reactors? February 2, 2011. http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/02/a-big-future-for-small-nuclear-reactors.
Government Intervention. Too many policymakers believe that Washington is equipped to guide the nuclear
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cost and risk of a more mature technology that already dominates the marketplace. Goeke and VanZoest 10
Robert and Christopher. Captains in the USAF. The Art of the Deal: How Can the Air Force Successfully Execute Renewable Energy Transactions? December 2010.
The DoD is poised to change the dynamics of the renewable energy market. Because of established federal, department, and agency goals, renewable energy procurement has been pushed to the near front of the line. Private industry has not embraced the renewable energy market yet, because it is prohibitively expensive. Therefore, it is the DoD that will essentially flood the market with RE procurement, which will in turn increase competition and ultimately drive prices down. Hayward et al 10
(Steven Hayward, F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at AEI, Mark Muro, senior fellow and director of policy for the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, Ted Norhaus, author, researcher, and political strategist @ Breakthrough Institute, and Michael Shellenberg, president and co-founder of Breakthrough Institute, October 2010, "HOW A LIMITED AND DIRECT APPROACH TO ENERGY INNOVATION CAN DELIVER CLEAN, CHEAP ENERGY,
ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY AND NATIONAL PROSPERITY" http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/Post-Partisan%20Power.pdf)
The government has a long history of successfully driving innovation and price declines in emerging
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over time, making the subsidies effectively ¶ permanent. This must change. |
| 10/16/2012 | Tournament: Kentucky | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Georgetown AM | Judge: Wanner 12
Thomas Wanner¶ Green Economy and Growth in the Asia Pacific: constructing Green Markets and Green Consumers¶ WORKING PAPER No. 39 http://www.caglkyschool.com/pdf/working%20papers/NATBMA/NATBMA_WP12-39.pdf-http://www.caglkyschool.com/pdf/working papers/NATBMA/NATBMA_WP12-39.pdf
Green growth is conceived not as replacement of sustainable development but rather as a subset
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between economic growth and environmental sustainability for achieving green economies and green growth. Princen 2 – Professor of Natural Resources @ U of Michigan
Thomas, Associate Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, where he also co-directs the Workshop on Consumption and Environment, Michael Maniates, Professor of Political Science and Environmental Science at Allegheny College, and Ken Conca, professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, "Confronting Consumption," Confronting Consumption, Chapter 2
The difficulty in conducting such a transformative research agenda, I submit, Lies in
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the analysis. Goods may be good but cautious consuming is better.7 Ehrenfeld 5 – Professor of Ecology @ Rutgers
David, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources @ Rutgers University, "The Environmental Limits to Globalization", Conservation Biology Vol. 19 No. 2, EBSCO
The known effects of globalization on the environment are numerous and highly significant. Many
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have become so thoroughly entwined with ours within the global environment we share. |
| 10/16/2012 | Tournament: Kentucky | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Georgetown AM | Judge: Inajima and Okada 9/6 (Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yuji Okada, Bloomberg, "Japan Weighs Its Energy Options Amid Nuclear, Renewables Debate", 9/6/12, http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/09/japan-weighs-its-energy-options-amid-nuclear-renewables-debate-http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/09/japan-weighs-its-energy-options-amid-nuclear-renewables-debate)
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, facing declining approval ratings, recently signaled the government is
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energy analyst at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., said by phone. Nye and Armitage 12 *Joseph, American political scientist and former Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard Richard, 13th United States Deputy Secretary of State, the second-in-command at the State Department (August 2012, "The U.S.-Japan Alliance anchoring stability in asia" A report of the csis japan chair, http://csis.org/files/publication/120810_Armitage_USJapanAlliance_Web.pdf-http://csis.org/files/publication/120810_Armitage_USJapanAlliance_Web.pdf)
The tragedies of March 11, 2011, are fresh in our minds, and
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U.S.-Japan cooperation on nuclear research and development is essential. Abe victory escalates the Senkaku islands disputeBloomberg 9/26 ("Ex-Japan Premier Abe Named Head of LDP Before Election Fight", 9/26/12, http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-09-26/former-japan-premier-abe-elected-as-head-of-opposition-ldp-http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-09-26/former-japan-premier-abe-elected-as-head-of-opposition-ldp)
An advocate of revising Japan’s pacifist constitution to loosen military restrictions, Abe has called
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one another and I plan to control the situation with that strategic awareness." Tatlow 9/14 (Didi Kirsten, China columnist for the International Herald Tribune, "Rising Tension — and Stakes — in Japan-China Island Dispute", 9/14/12, http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/rising-tension-and-stakes-in-japan-china-island-dispute/)
It has all the ingredients of a future tragedy, peppered with grim farce.
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use nuclear weapons in the dispute, claiming it would be "simpler." |
| 11/01/2012 | Tournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: GMU KL | Judge: Vint Ehring and Chinale 11
Lothar Ehring (Assistant to Mr. Péter Balás, Deputy Director-General at
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Law: Wto, Nafta and Energy Charter" p. 134-5
The perfect example to test and discuss this interpretation is the famous case of OPEC
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time and this makes a qualitative difference that is impossible to set aside. Dictionary.com No Date
~http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/reduce~~
to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one’s weight by 10 pounds. They’re not an incentive—financial incentives for energy production require a financial transaction between the government and the producer of energyDSIRE No Date
Database of State Incentives for Renewable and Efficiency, sponsored by the DOE ~http://www.dsireusa.org/glossary/~~
DSIRE organizes incentives and policies that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency into two general
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– usually for one or two days – from the state sales tax. Merriam Webster Online
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/for
Definition of FOR 1 a —used as a function word to indicate purpose a grant for studying medicine b —used as a function word to indicate an intended goal left for home acted for the best c —used as a function word to indicate the object or recipient of a perception, desire, or activity now for a good rest run for your life an eye for a bargain California Energy Commission 5
"California Energy Flow (Energy Balances)" ~http://energyalmanac.ca.gov/overview/energy_flow.html~~ June
The California Energy Balances (CALEB) project was an effort by Lawrence Berkeley National
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balancing of supply, transformation, and consumption data in a given year. "Production facility" means conversion, compression, liquefying, refining, treating and processing – it’s not extractionTitle 17 California Code of Regulations 2012
http://www.arb.ca.gov/regact/2011/lcfs2011/15dayatt1.pdf
"Production facility" means, with respect to any liquid fuel (other than
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for transportation use in a vehicle ¶ without further physical or chemical processing. b) topic education—circumvents the core of the mechanism debate and moves the topic from increased domestic to production to random conversion processes, also guts disad UQ ground because it doesn’t require an increase |
| 11/01/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on grounds that it is arbitrary and capricious should issue a permanent injunction preventing the Department of Energy from requiring application approval for production facilities to export natural gas.The D.C. circuit has jurisdiction over federal agencies and empirically strikes down regulationsAdler 2K
Jonathan Adler is a senior fellow in environmental policy at the Competitive Enterprise¶ Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research and advocacy organization in Washington, D.C., where he¶ previously served as Director of Environmental Studies P o l i c y S t u d y N o . 2 6 9¶ No Intelligible Principles:¶ The EPA’s Record in Federal Court¶ http://reason.org/files/3217ecd7bf37b4ea6aa81d4dc9f59a26.pdf
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is
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, across the board, will fail to get through each hoop.41 -election cycles ensure uncertainty
Anderson 9/12
(Jared, "The Flawed US Energy Policy Discussion," http://energy.aol.com/2012/09/12/the-flawed-us-energy-policy-discussion-http://energy.aol.com/2012/09/12/the-flawed-us-energy-policy-discussion, accessed 9-15-12, CMM)Are the energy industry and the business of politics incompatible?
It could be the simplest explanation for why the US does not have a comprehensive
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and is too complex to be evaluated in two or four year segments. Golden 10
John Golden is Assistant Professor, University of Texas School of Law¶ The Federal Circuit and the D.C. Circuit:¶ Comparative Trials of Two Semi-¶ Specialized Courts http://groups.law.gwu.edu/LR/ArticlePDF/78-3-Golden.pdf
The D.C. and Federal Circuits both provide examples of relatively¶ new
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through¶ 1980, to 5629 in fiscal years 1981 through 1988.11 Gotshal et al 11
Michael J. Lyle¶ Heath P. Tarbert¶ Sunny Thompson are lawyers for Weil, Gotshal %26 Manges LLP http://www.metrocorpcounsel.com/articles/15041/dodd-frank-one-year-later-primer-federal-rulemaking-process
No discussion of federal rulemaking should fail to highlight the unique role played by the
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it often has specific statutory jurisdiction to hear appeals from federal agencies.62 The D.C. Circuit has jurisdiction over federal agencies and empirically strikes down regulationsAdler 2K
Jonathan Adler is a senior fellow in environmental policy at the Competitive Enterprise¶ Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research and advocacy organization in Washington, D.C., where he¶ previously served as Director of Environmental Studies P o l i c y S t u d y N o . 2 6 9¶ No Intelligible Principles:¶ The EPA’s Record in Federal Court¶ http://reason.org/files/3217ecd7bf37b4ea6aa81d4dc9f59a26.pdf
Most challenges to EPA regulations are heard in the U.S. Court of
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that of federal¶ agencies as a whole as found in prior analyses. Counterplan solves certainity—instantly perceived by industry watch dogs
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JIM ROSSI is Associate Professor of State Administrative Procedure, Florida¶ State University College of Law; Visiting Associate Professor, University of Texas School of¶ Law, DOES THE SOLICITOR GENERAL ADVANTAGE¶ THWART THE RULE OF LAW IN THE¶ ADMINISTRATIVE STATE? http://www.law.fsu.edu/journals/lawreview/downloads/281/Rossi2.pdf
Government reformers often decry an "unequal playing field" in¶ the litigation arena
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Court decisions,¶ in defining the rule of law for the regulatory state. Tobias 93
University of Miami Law Review University of Miami-http://www.lexisnexis.com.www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true%26risb=21_T8860751907%26format=GNBFI%26sort=BOOLEAN%26startDocNo=26%26resultsUrlKey=29_T8860751910%26cisb=22_T8860751909%26treeMax=true%26treeWidth=0%26csi=7371%26docNo=33, September, 1993, 48 U. Miami L. Rev. 159, 14068 words, ESSAY: The D.C. Circuit as a National Court, Carl Tobias *
Many aspects of the D.C. Circuit’s caseload warrant reliance on nationwide pools
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agency determinations, affect millions of Americans and have national and international ramifications. Golden 10
John Golden is Assistant Professor, University of Texas School of Law¶ The Federal Circuit and the D.C. Circuit:¶ Comparative Trials of Two Semi-¶ Specialized Courts http://groups.law.gwu.edu/LR/ArticlePDF/78-3-Golden.pdf
There are other differences between the D.C. and Federal Circuits.¶ The
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as the scope or validity of one or more particular¶ patent claims. Smith 07
James, attorney at law http://www.bmpllp.com/publications/articles.php?action=display_publication%26publication_id=81-http://www.bmpllp.com/publications/articles.php?action=display_publication%26publication_id=81.
Most notably, because an injunction is an order of a court, persons who
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to threaten or obtain incarceration via injunctive relief than through formal criminal charges. ANA 12
Association of National Advertisers http://www.ana.net/content/show/id/24108
In a 2-1 decision in RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company v. FDA announced
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the District of Columbia issued a permanent injunction blocking enforcement of the law. Obama can’t get the blame for D.C. decisions—He hasn’t appointed a single member of the court and it is controlled by RepublicansBiskupic 10/5/12
Joan Biskupic Reporter for Reuters¶ WASHINGTON | Fri Oct 5, 2012 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/05/us-usa-obama-appealscourts-idUSBRE89405E20121005-http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/05/us-usa-obama-appealscourts-idUSBRE89405E20121005
Notably, President Obama has not added a single judge to the powerful U.
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president’s domestic agenda and has been a stepping-stone for Supreme Court justices Court decisions can’t and won’t be made an election issue by either sideEpps 10/17/12
Garrett Epps, a former reporter for The Washington Post
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/10/why-obama-and-romney-dont-talk-about-the-supreme-court/263741/
The high court came up so little in part because Obama doesn’t want to talk
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to be wasted at best, and dangerous to the candidates at worst. Unah 02
Isaac Unah University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The American Political Science Review-http://www.jstor.org.www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/action/showPublication?journalCode=amerpoliscierevi, Vol. 96, No. 1 (Mar., 2002), pp. 202-203 ¶ Published by: American Political Science Association-http://www.jstor.org.www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=apsa
For decades the U.S. courts of appeals were afflicted with the proverbial middle child syndrome. They were given less than deserved attention by legal scholars and political scientists, and their decisions commanded less media and popular attention than rulings by the Supreme Court and even decisions of federal district courts. To many observers, the appeals courts were relatively invisible.
Wittes 2010
The Emerging Law of Detention: The Guantánamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking¶ Legal Architecture for the War on Terror-http://www.brookings.edu/topics/legal-architecture-for-the-war-on-terror.aspx, Guantánamo-http://www.brookings.edu/topics/guantanamo.aspx, Terrorism-http://www.brookings.edu/topics/terrorism.aspx, Courts-http://www.brookings.edu/topics/courts.aspx, Judges-http://www.brookings.edu/topics/judges.aspx¶ Benjamin Wittes-http://www.brookings.edu/experts/wittesb.aspx, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies-http://www.brookings.edu/governance.aspx Robert M. Chesney-http://www.brookings.edu/experts/chesneyr.aspx, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Governance Studies-http://www.brookings.edu/governance.aspx Rabea Benhalim, Legal Fellow, Governance Studies-http://www.brookings.edu/governance.aspx ¶ The Brookings Institution¶ http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2010/0122_guantanamo_wittes_chesney.aspx-http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2010/0122_guantanamo_wittes_chesney.aspx.
President Obama’s decision not to seek additional legislative authority for detentions at Guantánamo Bay,
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—are writing for the military and for the nation as a whole.
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John Golden is Assistant Professor, University of Texas School of Law¶ The Federal Circuit and the D.C. Circuit:¶ Comparative Trials of Two Semi-¶ Specialized Courts http://groups.law.gwu.edu/LR/ArticlePDF/78-3-Golden.pdf
Recent empirical work indicates that Supreme Court Justices possess "a clear predisposition¶ .
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¶ (describing a thirty-year "duel between Bazelon and Burger"). ENS 03
Environmental News Wire
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2003/2003-02-04-09.asp
If appointed to the DC Circuit court, Estrada would have a say in the outcome of a wide variety of environmental lawsuits, as the DC Circuit holds exclusive jurisdiction to hear challenges to many federal laws, including national environmental legislation. The court’s decisions are seldom reviewed by the Supreme Court. Humpries %26 Songer 99
Law and Politics in Judicial Oversight of Federal¶ Administrative Agencies¶ Martha Anne Humphries¶ Donald R. Songer¶ Dept of Political Science University of South Carolina – Columbia http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1060%26context=poli_facpub
The courts of appeals have traditionally played a central role in the judicial review¶
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likely to have both the first and the final word in the judicial arena |
| 11/01/2012 | Tournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: GMU KL | Judge: Vint Ikenson 9
~Daniel, associate director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, " A Protectionism Fling: Why Tariff Hikes and Other Trade Barriers Will Be Short-Lived," March 12, 2009, http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10651~~
Although some governments will dabble in some degree of protectionism, the combination of a
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far more impressive than when governments attempt to limit choices through policy constraints. Picker 6
Colin. Associate professor UMKC school of law. "Trade and Security: Empiricism, Change, Emotion %26 Relevancy." 2006. Online.
The changed environments in which the new conflicts arise suggest that trade policy will not
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raise concerns for those that advocate employment of trade policy in conflict situations. -Samsung lawsuits
-US ruling that Kolon had to pay US chemical industry for stealing secrets
-ban on synthetic fiber
-refrigerator anti-dumping tariffs
-motor vehicles
Korea Times 9/3
"Trade Protectionism" ~http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2012/09/137_118970.html~~
Will the specter of trade protectionism haunt the world again as the global economic slump
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half alone, the figure hit an all-time high of 16. Reuters 8/21
"Argentina accused of "protectionism" at WTO, strikes back" ~http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/21/us-argentina-trade-idUSBRE87K0W620120821~~
(Reuters) - The United States and Japan assailed Argentina’s import rules as protectionist
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WTO complaint, alleging discriminatory treatment by Spain against Argentine shipments of biodiesel. China Daily 9/13
"US to keep anti-dumping duty on China pure magnesium" ~http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2012-09/13/content_15754975.htm~~
WASHINGTON — The US government decided Wednesday to maintain the existing anti-dumping duty
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duty margin runs at 24.67 percent to 305.56 percent. AFP 8/22
"EU group slams protectionism in China wine row" ~http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gIGgYGgJLd_9mVvJaPD4l2NEPsKQ?docId=CNG.15e4f7a43aabaec9536ab12757140127.1d1~~
SHANGHAI — A European business group on Wednesday criticised Chinese calls to probe EU wine
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and consumers would be the biggest victims," Moens said in a statement. Brides Trade BioRes 11
(Bridges Trade and Biological Resources News Digest, produced by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in an effort to compliment its activities at the increasingly important intersection of trade and biological resources, 7/25/11, "Tensions Build over Chinese Rare Earth Quotas," Bridges Trade BioRes-http://ictsd.org/news/biores/, Volume 11-http://ictsd.org/news/biores/volume11/, Number 14-http://ictsd.org/news/biores/volume11/number14/, International Centre for Trade and International Development, http://ictsd.org/i/library/111203/-http://ictsd.org/i/library/111203/)
Meanwhile, manufacturers in Europe, Japan, and the US are preparing themselves for
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, as Lynas is already building a rare earths plant in the country. Hard Assets Investor 08
(Hard Assets Investor, a Van Eck Associates-sponsored, research oriented Web site devoted to sharing ideas about hard assets investing, developed as an educational resource for both individual and institutional investors interested in learning more about commodity equities, 11/4/08, "Rare Earth Metals Not So Rare but Valuable," Seeking Alpha, http://seekingalpha.com/article/103972-rare-earth-metals-not-so-rare-but-valuable-http://seekingalpha.com/article/103972-rare-earth-metals-not-so-rare-but-valuable)
In Australia, there are currently a number of rare earth mining projects at various
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, which will produce some 1,124,000 tonnes of REO. Zhou 11
(Yan, China Daily, "Rare earths output ratio to decrease," http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2011-06/16/content_12708457.htm)
BEIJING - The world’s supply of rare-earth minerals will outstrip demand within five
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director of academic department, the Chinese Society of Rare Earths (CSRE). -Canada and other countries rare earths solve US supplyHard Assets Investor 08
(Hard Assets Investor, a Van Eck Associates-sponsored, research oriented Web site devoted to sharing ideas about hard assets investing, developed as an educational resource for both individual and institutional investors interested in learning more about commodity equities, 11/4/08, "Rare Earth Metals Not So Rare but Valuable," Seeking Alpha, http://seekingalpha.com/article/103972-rare-earth-metals-not-so-rare-but-valuable-http://seekingalpha.com/article/103972-rare-earth-metals-not-so-rare-but-valuable)
In addition to Neo Material Technologies out of Toronto, with its operation in China
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:US) Grace Davison division are actively involved in processing rare earths. Mineral exports solves extinction
Adams ’10 ("Global supply of rare earth elements could be wiped out by 2012", Mike Adams, January 26, 2010, consumer health advocate and award-winning journalist, created NaturalNews.TV, CEO of a highly successful email newsletter software company, executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, http://www.naturalnews.com/028028_rare_earth_elements_mining.html-http://www.naturalnews.com/028028_rare_earth_elements_mining.html Blair and Yali 06 - *President of the World Security Institute Editor in chief of Washington Observer
(Bruce Blair. President of the World Security Institute. and Chen Yali, Editor in chief of Washington Observer, Autumn 2006, "The Fallacy of Nuclear Primacy" accessed as pdf)
Primacy is a double-edged sword that may confer advantage and court disaster at
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The strategic capabilities ’gap’ is too wide to be closed anytime soon. Nuclear deterrence doesn’t matter
Gerson 09
(Michael S. Gerson, research analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses, "Conventional Deterrence in the Second Nuclear Age," Fall 2009, Paramters, Vol. 39, Iss. 3, ProQuest ajs)
In the current international security environment, conventional deterrence can be useful against nonnuclear and
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thinking nuclear possession provides opportunities for aggression and coercion below the nuclear threshold. |
| 11/05/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Organizing the economy around innovation and competition creates economics of speed- leads to rapid investment shifting and product development- that’s unsustainable and makes financial collapse inevitableGoldman et al. ’6
(Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson, Noah Kersey-http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/2_1/authors2006_1.html, Landscapes of the Social Relations of Production in a Networked Society, Fast Capitalism 2.1, http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/2_1/SocialRelations.html)
The formula for success is knowledge, power, mobility, and determination. Situated
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losers than winners in casino capitalism. The landscape of risk is omnipresent.
Incentives like the plan removes barriers to speed and increases the pace of global economic transaction- ensures environmental collapse, resource wars, and extinctionSimons ’10
(Petrus, Former Trader and Economist, PhD in Philosophy, Accelerate or Slow Down, Stimulus: The New Zealand Journal of Christian Thought %26 Practice, Vol. 18 (2010): 32-25)
Paul Virilio’s metaphor of a car which travels at high speed is very apt.
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century wears on, we will experience ever more painfully that speed kills.
Prior refusal of the economics of speed is key- fractures its hegemony and opens space for a multitude of economic timescapes- only this re-framing can lead to effective capitalismHassan ’5
(ARC Senior Research Fellow, Media and Communications @ Univ. of Melbourne) (Robert, Timescapes of the Network Society, Fast Capitalism 1.1, http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism-/1_1/hassan.html) Nonetheless, the truly revolutionary thing about the information technology revolution and the network society
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can shape it into something(s) we haven’t yet dreamed of. Hart and Ernst ’7
(David, Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, Dieter, Senior Fellow at the East-West Center, Governing the Global Knowledge Economy: Mind the Gap%21, East-West Center, Economic Series, No. 93, January 2008, www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/ECONwp093_2.pdf-http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/ECONwp093_2.pdf)
Although the deterrent effect of "free-riding" is the most obvious global
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pretenders jostling for advantage, most of whom will be wasting their money. Gibson-Graham ’3
(J.K., Julie Graham, Professor of Geography @ UMass, Katherine Gibson, Professorial Fellow in the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy @ University of Western Sidney, "ENABLING ETHICAL ECONOMIES: COOPERATIVISM AND CLASS", Crit Sociology March 2003 vol. 29 no. 2 123-161)
As part of an ongoing project committed to exploring the potentialities and possibilities of building
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articulating these ethical and political stances that ’community’ is called into being.
Public Sphere DA¬- failure to critically examine economics of speed ensures public sphere collapse- that creates a ruthless authoritarianism that ends in disease spread, war, and massive global povertyGiroux ’6, (Henry A. Giroux currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in Canada. "Dirty Democracy and State Terrorism: The Politics of the New Authoritarianism in the United States," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 26.2 (2006) 163-177.)
While it would be ludicrous to suggest that the United States either represents a mirror
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1990s alone, war forced 20 million children to leave their homes.16
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| 11/10/2012 | Tournament: Wake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Boston College | Judge: Hayes Watson Weisman 10/1
Jonathan, Congressional Correspondent for the New York Times, "Leaders at Work on Plan to Avert Mandatory Cuts" October 1, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/us/senate-leaders-at-work-on-plan-to-avert-fiscal-cliff.html?hp%26_r=1%26
WASHINGTON — Senate leaders are closing in on a path for dealing with the "
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the deal, deliver the members of his party and sign the bill." Shaw ’12
Andrew Shaw is an Associate with McKenna, Long and Aldridge a member of the Government Affairs team where he focuses primarily on energy issues at the intersection of Canada-U.S. relations. He uses his knowledge and experience of Congress and the Executive Branch to advise clients on critical energy and environmental public policy issues Will LNG Exports be the Next Divisive Energy Issue? http://www.politicsandlawblog.com/2012/02/17/will-lng-exports-be-the-next-divisive-energy-issue/-http://www.politicsandlawblog.com/2012/02/17/will-lng-exports-be-the-next-divisive-energy-issue/¶
In 2005, Congress passed the Energy Policy Act of 2005, a piece of
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motion to intervene, but one can expect similar challenges in the future. -even if defense cuts are inevitably included, sequestration is substantively worse
Serbu 11-9
Jared, "Next few weeks critical to defining DoD in second Obama term," Federal News Radio, http://www.federalnewsradio.com/394/3112410/Next-few-weeks-critical-to-defining-Defense-Department-in-second-Obama-term
In some ways, a second Obama term is likely to mean some degree of
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it’s the fact that the process robs leaders of any discretion to prioritize. McNeel 10-18 - chairman, president and CEO of LORD Corporation, a global company headquartered in Cary, N.C.
Rick, "Uncertainty over sequestration needs to end," The Hill, http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-a-budget/262843-uncertainty-over-sequestration-needs-to-end
Employers across the country are increasingly concerned about the massive cuts to defense and other
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and the high-tech competitive edge on which America’s national security depends. Harris and Burrows 9 - *PhD in Euro History, member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit
Mathew, PhD European History @ Cambridge, counselor in the National Intelligence Council (NIC) and Jennifer is a member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit "Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis" http://www.ciaonet.org/journals/twq/v32i2/f_0016178_13952.pdf-http://www.ciaonet.org/journals/twq/v32i2/f_0016178_13952.pdf
Increased Potential for Global Conflict
Of course, the report encompasses more than economics and indeed believes the future is
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within and between states in a more dog-eat-dog world. Reuters 10/28
"Fiscal Cliff Economic Impact ’Could Be Worse’ Than Expected" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/29/fiscal-cliff-worse-exptected_n_2035049.html
WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (Reuters) - The United States runs the risk of
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," said Michael Hanson, an economist with the bank in New York. Mandel 9/27
Harold Syracuse Business News Examiner "Fitch says fiscal cliff could set off global recession" http://www.examiner.com/article/fitch-says-fiscal-cliff-could-set-off-global-recession
The ratings agency stated, "The U.S. fiscal cliff represents the
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fiscal cliff is confronted and avoided this could be bad news for everyone. Studies demonstrate that Economic stagnation also spreads international violence and warRoyal 10 — Jedidiah Royal, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, M.Phil. Candidate at the University of New South Wales, 2010 ("Economic Integration, Economic Signalling and the Problem of Economic Crises," Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, Edited by Ben Goldsmith and Jurgen Brauer, Published by Emerald Group Publishing, ISBN 0857240048, p. 213-215)
Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict
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such, the view presented here should be considered ancillary to those views. Schroeder and Robb 11/9
Robert and Greg, Marketwatch staff writers, "Fiscal-cliff talks to start next Friday" ~http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-11-09/economy/35005697_1_middle-class-tax-tax-cuts-fiscal-cliff~~
Obama held out an olive branch to Republicans, saying he would listen to their
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tax rates.¶ Obama said he was "encouraged" by Boehner’s remarks. AP 11/8
"’Fiscal cliff’ crisis tops victorious Obama’s agenda" ~http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20121108/POLITICS01/211080391/-Fiscal-cliff-crisis-tops-victorious-Obama-s-agenda?odyssey=tab~|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE~
Washington — One day after a bruising, mixed-verdict election, President Barack
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government, we’ll be there to meet him half way," McConnell said. Bloomberg 11/8
"Fiscal cliff: Republicans signal oppenness to deficit deal without budging" ~http://newyork.newsday.com/news/nation/fiscal-cliff-republicans-signal-oppenness-to-deficit-deal-without-budging-1.4201255~~
Congressional Republicans are offering a deficit-reduction solution to newly re-elected President
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rational, principled compromise," Biden told reporters traveling on his plane yesterday. Market Watch 11/7
"Boehner, Reid show willingness for deal to avoid fiscal cliff" ~http://blogs.marketwatch.com/election/2012/11/07/taxes-a-moving-target-in-fiscal-cliff-deal/~~
House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid on Wednesday each left the
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are almost certainly going up anyway, as Goldman Sachs’s Jan Hatzius says. Will pass now—Obama pushing and republicans willing to compromiseJackson 11/9
David, USA Today staff writer "Obama calls for ’fiscal cliff’ talks with Congress" ~http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2012/11/09/obama-boehner-white-house-fiscal-cliff/1694733/~~
4:55PM EST November 9. 2012 - President Obama, inviting congressional leaders
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work on an agreement that averts the entire fiscal cliff," Boehner said. 10TV.com 11/7
"’Fiscal Cliff’ Looms For President, Congress" ~http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2012/11/07/columbus-fiscal-cliff-looms-for-president-and-congress.html~~
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A day after the election, stocks dropped as Americans turn
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over, Reid and minority leader Mitch McConnell can maybe find common ground. Obama and Congress will cooperate over fiscal cliff in the lame duck – bipartisan efforts are already underwayMarcus 10/27
Ruth, JD Harvard University, American journalist who currently writes an op-ed column for The Washington Post, Finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in commentary
"How will fiscal cliff get fixed? It depends on who wins?" October 27, 2012
Ruth Marcus Washington Post Writers Group
http://azstarnet.com/news/opinion/how-will-fiscal-cliff-get-fixed-it-depends-on-who/article_32ad6002-981e-52fd-abbb-597f60771dec.html
Yet the Congress that limped back to town after the 2010 election was surprisingly fruitful
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balk? - both men see a budget deal as a legacy moment. Weisman 11/8/12
Jonathan, NYT staff writer, "Congress Sees Rising Urgency on Fiscal Deal" ~http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/us/politics/congress-sees-rising-urgency-on-fiscal-deal.html~~
But members of Congress clearly see recent events creating an opening in the postelection session
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to say they needed to give their leaders breathing room and avoid brinkmanship. Trauzzi 10-25-12
Monica Trauzzi Reporter for Environmental News
http://www.eenews.net/tv/transcript/1595-http://www.eenews.net/tv/transcript/1595
Monica Trauzzi: So zeroing in on the Hill, specifically which policymakers are you
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go up, and the chemical industry will be forced to export jobs. Levi 12
Michael is a Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. "A Strategy for U.S. Natural Gas Exports," June, http://www.hamiltonproject.org/files/downloads_and_links/06_exports_levi.pdf
But there is also great wariness in many quarters about the¶ prospect of allowing
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, particularly the¶ desire to secure cheap energy inputs for their industries. Not a question of whether it’s net bipartisan - creates controversy Not question of controversy on the floor – create signal that not cooperation, not highest priority Their Reuters Evidence says Obama will take time – "opponents warn that exports would spike fuel costs for consumers and undermine a domestic manufacturing recovery." – says divisive among centrist Democrats – Skeptics include Wyden Montgomery and Goldfarb 11/7
Lori and Zachary, Washington Post staff writers, "’Fiscal cliff’ clock starts as election fades to background" ~http://niagara-gazette.com/webextra/x691734193/Fiscal-cliff-clock-starts-as-election-fades-to-background~~
WASHINGTON — After an election focused heavily on the economy and the soaring national debt
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provide the excuse and cover for both sides to come to the table." Obama has abandoned push for XO on cybersecurityArmerding 10/30
Taylor is a freelance writer at International Data Group. He worked as associate editorial page editor at The Eagle-Tribune for 11 years. Taylor holds a B.A. in literature from Wheaton College.
"Hopes for federal cybersecurity standards fading"
http://www.csoonline.com/article/720261/hopes-for-federal-cybersecurity-standards-fading
While the Obama administration
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than issue the executive order. |
| 11/10/2012 | |
| 11/10/2012 | Tournament: Wake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Boston College | Judge: Hayes Watson Ruch 12
(Grace Ruch, 5/8/12, "US, Japan Leaders Meet on 60th Anniversary of Alliance to Talk Security, Exchanges, and Blossoms," http://www.japanmattersforamerica.org/2012/05/us-japan-summit-security-exchanges-and-blossoms/-http://www.japanmattersforamerica.org/2012/05/us-japan-summit-security-exchanges-and-blossoms/
Obama-Noda Summit: "A Shared Vision for the Future"¶ Prime Minister
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serve as a symbol of the strong relationship and friendship between our countries." Global Times 7-27
News, "Cold politics could drive Sino-Japanese relations to freezing point", http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90883/7889853.html
Japan has undergone a rise of new nationalism in recent years, especially after the
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future. This creates conditions for deepening the alliances between Washington and Tokyo. -shared global interests
-fear of china
-fear of North Korea
-perceived by Japan as necessary to prevent territorial disputes
-Japanese financial contribution is key to prevent US backlash
Sang-ho 9-7
Song, "US-Japan alliance grows for Asia-Pacific security balance," Asia News Network, "http://www.asianewsnet.net/home/news.php?id=33084%26sec=1
On the surface, the alliance between the US and Japan appears to have worsened
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China Sea, which are called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese. McCormack 9 - emeritus professor at Australian National University in Canberra, a coordinator at Japan Focus
Gavan, "History Too Long Denied: Japan’s Unresolved Colonial Past and Today’s North Korea Problem," http://www.globalresearch.ca/history-too-long-denied-japan-s-unresolved-colonial-past-and-today-s-north-korea-problem/14469
Strip away the verbiage of the Security Council 2009 pronouncements on the North Korea problem
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as the pin that holds the contradictory elements of the package in place. Kapila 12
Subhash. International Relations and Strategic Affairs analyst. JAPAN’S POLITICAL INSTABILITY %26 ITS STRATEGIC IMPACT. http://dagobertobellucci.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/japans-political-instability-its-strategic-impact-by-dr-subhash-kapila/.
In the last few years, two striking Japan-US Security Relationship issues can
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is rising strategically strong in East Asia. Japanese insecurities therefore are raised.
And then their evidence begins Their evidence
More seriously, Japanese insecurities are magnified further when Japan perceives that United States policy
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in to fill the vacuum to the strategic discomfiture of the United States. Cronin et al. 12
Center for New American Security, Patrick, Paul Fiarra, and Zachary Hosford, Senior Advisor @ CNAS, April "The China Challenge: Military, Economic and Energy Choices Facing the US-Japan Alliance,".
Alliance power also hinges on how – and to what ¶ degree – the United
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future of Japan’s nuclear power industry is in doubt following the Fukushima disaster. No risk of US-China conflict over Taiwan – Chinese-Taiwan relations are high and investments are increasing, and China wouldn’t risk conflict with the U.S.Fettweis ’11
Christopher Fettweis, Professor of Political Science @ Tulane. "Dangerous Times: The Futurist Interviews Christopher Fettweis". World Future Society. 1/12/2011. http://www.wfs.org/content/dangerous-times-futurist-interviews-christopher-fettweis
THE FUTURIST: Not too long ago, people in the United States feared that
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they can’t export. It would be the end of their economic miracle. War over Taiwan unlikely and won’t escalate.Fisher 11
Max Fisher is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where he edits and writes for the International channel. "5 Most Likely Ways the U.S. and China Could Spark Accidental Nuclear War". October 31, 2011. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/5-most-likely-ways-the-us-and-china-could-spark-accidental-nuclear-war/247616/
China-watchers may have noticed something missing from this list: a Chinese invasion
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kind of groundwork the U.S. and China can lay now. No war over Taiwan – Taiwan has abandoned its aim to declare independence and China will not use military force.Ross ’10
Robert S. Ross is Professor of Political Science at Boston College, Associate, John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. "The Rise of Chinese Power and the Implications for the Regional Security Order". 2010. Orbis. Science Direct.
The most conspicuous and important Taiwan accommodation of mainland power is the demise of Taiwan’s
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leadership remains committed to cooperation and incremental peaceful change across the Taiwan Strait. Bremmer and Sparks ’9
Ian Bremmer is president and Willis Sparks is a Global Macro analyst at Eurasia Group. It’s not China that threatens American leadership. 10/8/9. http://eurasia.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/10/08/its_not_china_that_threatens_american_leadership-http://eurasia.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/10/08/its_not_china_that_threatens_american_leadership.
Beijing’s primary military concern is the risk of a direct or proxy conflict with the United States over Taiwan. But the Chinese leadership knows that no U.S. government will support a Taiwanese bid for independence, and why should China invade the island when it can co-opt most of Taiwan’s business elite with privileged access to investment opportunities on the mainland? Globalization has been good to China’s Communist Party, and wars are bad for business. Relations improving between China and Taiwan – no warSaunders and Kastner ’9
Phillip C. Saunders is a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University. Scott Kastner is an assistant professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. 7/27/9. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/07/27/is_a_china_taiwan_peace_deal_in_the_cards-http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/07/27/is_a_china_taiwan_peace_deal_in_the_cards.
In 1995 and 1996, as China fired ballistic missiles across the Taiwan Strait,
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have become a symbol of the dramatic improvement in cross-strait relations. Bitzinger and Desker ’8 – Senior Fellow @ International Studies Perspectives
Richard and Barry, PhD from UCLA and Senior Fellow @ International Studies Perspectives, Dean of the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Why East Asian War is Unlikely, Survival-http://www.informaworld.com.www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/smpp/title~content=t713659919~db=all, Volume 50-http://www.informaworld.com.www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/smpp/title~content=t713659919~db=all~tab=issueslist~branches=50, Issue 6 -http://www.informaworld.com.www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/smpp/title~content=g906414492~db=allDecember 2008 , pages 105 – 128
The Asia-Pacific region can be regarded as a zone of both relative insecurity
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this suggests that war in Asia - while not inconceivable - is unlikely. |
| 11/10/2012 | Tournament: Wake | Round: 3 | Opponent: Texas GM | Judge: Kyle Vint Text: The United States federal government should remove states’ and Homeowner’s Associations’ restrictions on community wind siting.Solves all of the aff—solvency comes from localized distributed energy—Their solvency author discusses both wind and solar—if they claim solar is sufficient to solve than wind should be sufficient as well—if they say wind isn’t sufficient than solar isn’t sufficient alone either.Pursley and Wiseman 11—their author
~Garrick, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law, and Hannah, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Tulsa College of Law, "Local Energy", Emory Law Journal, 60 Emory L.J. 877~
Distributed renewable generation so far remains an intriguing anomaly in a primarily centralized system of
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turbine, as installed, can fulfill a family’s or business’s energy needs. Paterson 7
Robert, "The Future of Personal Renewable Energy" ~http://robpaterson.wordpress.com/2006/08/26/the-future-of-personal-renewable-energy/~~
The AVX400 turbine has amazing potential: co-op communities in NYC could install
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smog are bigger eyesores, but hey—everyone has a different opinion. Aff’s main solvency advocate criticizes solar—proves the CP can’t be net worsePursley and Wiseman 11—their author
~Garrick, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law, and Hannah, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Tulsa College of Law, "Local Energy", Emory Law Journal, 60 Emory L.J. 877~
Sensitivity to differing local conditions is particularly important in strategies to promote the adoption of
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a host of additional issues that will vary dramatically with local conditions. n324 Pursley and Wiseman 11—their author
~Garrick, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law, and Hannah, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Tulsa College of Law, "Local Energy", Emory Law Journal, 60 Emory L.J. 877~
California, unlike the few states that have addressed distributed renewables and have focused primarily
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town lines but has cabined these powers within state land-energy standards. Pursley and Wiseman 11—their author
~Garrick, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law, and Hannah, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Tulsa College of Law, "Local Energy", Emory Law Journal, 60 Emory L.J. 877~
The deployment of distributed renewable generation systems is an essential component of America’s sustainable future
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of approaches to renewables deployment from which other localities can pick and choose. |
| 11/10/2012 | Tournament: Wake | Round: 3 | Opponent: Texas GM | Judge: Kyle Vint Kratochwil 8 – professor of international relations – European University Institute
Friedrich, "The Puzzles of Politics," pg. 200-213
The lesson seems clear. Even at the danger of "fuzzy boundaries", when
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Besides, "timing" seems to be quite recalcitrant to analytical treatment. Mesquita ’11
Bruce Bueno De Mesquita, Julius Silver Professor of Politics at New York University, July 18, 2011. "Fox-Hedging or Knowing: One Big Way to Know Many Things. http://www.cato-unbound.org/2011/07/18/bruce-bueno-de-mesquita/fox-hedging-or-knowing-one-big-way-to-know-many-things/?utm_source=feedburner%26utm_medium=feed%26utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cato-unbound+%28Cato+Unbound%29
It is hard to say which is more surprising, that anyone still argues that
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and evaluated through replicable tests of evidence, we progress toward better prediction.
Clemens 1 – Professor of Political Science @ Boston
Walter, Europe’s New Security Challenges, p. 64-66
Economic security. What if the main threat to Europe is thought to be eco
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, however, Russia depends far more on the US than vice versa.
Aff doesn’t lead to solar decentralization—multiple alt causes a) federal incentives structure and net metering rules
Farell 10—their author
~John, an ILSR senior researcher specializing in energy policy developments that best expand the benefits of local ownership and dispersed generation of renewable energy, "Community Solar Power"~
We define community solar as a solar PV project with multiple individual owners living in
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and the proceeds allocated by¶ providing credits on the residents’ electricity bills.
Texas stop’s here
In this paper, we explore whether community solar can:¶ • Overcome existing financial
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than individual ownership and preferably offer participants a good¶ return on investment. Farell 10—their author
~John, an ILSR senior researcher specializing in energy policy developments that best expand the benefits of local ownership and dispersed generation of renewable energy, "Community Solar Power"~
Securities Regulations
A second serious issue for community solar is illustrated by the struggles of the University
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entities to support community solar will minimize the hurdles from¶ securities regulations. Farrell 11
http://www.ilsr.org/more-centralized-v-decentralized-solar/
A recent Colorado news story captures the spirit of my last post on the tension
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basic structure of federal tax incentives, distributed generation operates at a disadvantage. AT Pursley and Wiseman (Last 1AC Card)Plan doesn’t stop state preemption which takes out the aff—removing state regulations on solar siting is SEPARATEPursley and Wiseman 11—their author
~Garrick, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law, and Hannah, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Tulsa College of Law, "Local Energy", Emory Law Journal, 60 Emory L.J. 877~
Our suggestion, then, is that the federal government should first establish some minimum
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to anti-renewables interests and stifle the adoption of distributed renewables. n314 In one sense, this is similar to other "federal leadership with subnational government
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theoretical and doctrinal issues concerning the legality of our proposed cooperative regulatory scheme. Takes out the entire aff—states have a strong history of preempting local policies, especially concerning energy and productionPursley and Wiseman 11—their author
~Garrick, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law, and Hannah, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Tulsa College of Law, "Local Energy", Emory Law Journal, 60 Emory L.J. 877~
~*950~ To maximize the degree of location-specific variation that is
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. We briefly address legal objections to this approach in the next subsection. "Partipatory democracy" devolves into relativism – leads to unquestionable oppression and passivist nihilismKiely 95 – Professor of International Politics
Ray, professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University, "Third Worldist Relativism: A New Form Of Imperialism", Journal of Contemporary Asia v25 no2 p159-78
First, as many critics have pointed out (see Habermas 1987; Dews 1987
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political position which is potentially a crude justification for the way things are. Hoffman and Pippert 5—their author
~Steven M. Hoffman, PhD, Professor of Political Science at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Angela High-Pippert, PhD, Director of Women’s Studies at the University of St. Thomas, and serves on the ACTC Women’s Studies Coordinating Committee, "Community Energy: A Social Architecture for an Alternative Energy Future", Bulletin of Science Technology %26 Society 2005 25: 387~
The maturation of these technologies has sparked a¶ good deal of conversation about a
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for a¶ substantive change in the ongoing operation of the¶ grid. Plan doesn’t spillover to other facets of civil societyHoffman and Pippert 5—their author
~Steven M. Hoffman, PhD, Professor of Political Science at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Angela High-Pippert, PhD, Director of Women’s Studies at the University of St. Thomas, and serves on the ACTC Women’s Studies Coordinating Committee, "Community Energy: A Social Architecture for an Alternative Energy Future", Bulletin of Science Technology %26 Society 2005 25: 387~
The nature of community energy and the role that¶ such initiatives might play in
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public¶ policy making or in any sort of sustained political¶ process. |
| 01/03/2013 | Tournament: USC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Vandy BM | Judge: Josh Miller ====Immigration reform will pass in the status quo – insulated from the fiscal cliff – capital key and key to American economic competitiveness ==== ====Kinnari 12/29====
Aaron, founder of the Future Forum a platform for educating and engaging young leaders on important global issues, Immigration Reform Would Be the Biggest Gift We Could Get This Year. 12/29/12. http://www.policymic.com/articles/21633/immigration-reform-would-be-the-biggest-gift-we-could-get-this-year.
When it takes session in January, the 113th Congress will have a number of
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will be the gift that will keep on giving for generations to come. MOX is wildly controversial and triggers spending debates====Matson 11 – Staff @ Scientific American====
John, "MOX Battle: Mixed Oxide Nuclear Fuel Raises Safety Questions," http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mox-fuel-nuclear
But, as with most issues relating to nuclear energy, the use of MOX
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kind of see it as a nuclear equivalent to a bridge to nowhere." Top priority and PC is key====Hesson 1/2====
Ted, Reporter, ABC News, "Analysis: 6 Things Obama Needs To Do for Immigration Reform", http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/things-president-obama-immigration-reform/story?id=18103115~~%23.UOSdSYnjlJ4
On Sunday, President Barack Obama said that immigration reform is a "top priority
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year. "There’s only limited oxygen in the room," Chishti said. The loss of economic leadership results in global conflict, withdrawal of global power projection, and escalation of hotspots====Friedberg and Schoenfeld 8====
Aaron, professor of politics and international relations at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, Gabriel, Visiting Scholar @ Witherspoon Institute, The Dangers of a Diminished America, WSJ, 10/21, Proquest
Pressures to cut defense spending, and to dodge the cost of waging two wars
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of these countries seek to divert attention from internal travails with external adventures. And it turns the Aff Power Engineering 7/11
"North American nuclear industry facing major workforce shortage, report says" ~http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2012/07/north-american-nuclear-industry-facing-major-workforce-shortage-report-says.html~~
A report by GlobalData says that the nuclear power industry in the U.S
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have a significant positive impact on the production of a quality nuclear workforce. Hardy 11
Roger, staff writer, 9/15/11, "Nuclear Power - Skills for a new nuclear age" Modern Power System, Lexis
In gearing up for the start of a civil nuclear new build programme, however
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in their comfort zone and build up experience in their own niche area). Links to politics – triggers prolif and nuclear security debates and is perceived as a waste of limited cash – Matson – specific to reprocessing – Link should determine the direction of uniqueness because political capital can resolve current problemsPerera 12
David, "Senate appropriators make fewer cuts to DOE nonproliferation programs," Fierce Homeland Security, http://www.fiercehomelandsecurity.com/story/senate-appropriators-make-fewer-cuts-doe-nonproliferation-programs/2011-09-14
The plan to make MOX from plutonium is controversial and both the House and Senate reports note difficulties encountered by the program. The NNSA "remains without any civilian customers for its MOX fuel," the House report says, while Senators comment on "a history of rising costs and schedule delays."
ced.¶ 10 Bunn 3 - Associate Professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government
Matthew, et al, "THE ECONOMICS OF REPROCESSING VS. DIRECT DISPOSAL OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL," http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/repro-report.pdf
Third, the argument is based on the questionable assumption that while it would be
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new reactor types required would be an enormous institutional and political ¶ challenge. Cooper 12-20 – JD
Bo, "Immigration Reform Prospects For 2013," Metro Corporate Council, http://www.metrocorpcounsel.com/articles/21794/immigration-reform-prospects-2013
Cooper: They generally are very supportive of comprehensive reform, with a firm emphasis
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of us knows how it will play out, but the game’s on. Beckman 10 – Professor of Political Science
Matthew N. Beckman, Professor of Political Science @ UC-Irvine, 2010, "Pushing the Agenda: Presidential Leadership in U.S. Lawmaking, 1953-2004," pg. 53
To the cynic, meetings between White House officials and congressional leaders offer little more
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a two-pronged approach: mobilizing leading allies and deterring leading opponents. Foley and Stein 1/2
Elise and Sam, "Obama’s Immigration Reform Push To Begin This Month" ~http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/02/obama-immigration-reform_n_2398507.html~~ January 1 mtc
It remains unclear what type of immigration policies the White House plans to push in
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reform, it’s still unclear which of them plan to join the push. Trend 12/31
Reporter, "U.S. President puts immigration reform at top of 2013 agenda", http://en.trend.az/regions/world/usa/2104727.html
US President Barack Obama Sunday named immigration reform as his top priority in the coming
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chaired by Vice President Joe Biden to come in with proposals in January. Concede Obama has PC now and pushing – Hassen evidenceBurritt 1/2
Chris. CEOs Give U.S. Politicians Incomplete Grade on Fiscal Cliff Work. 1/2/13. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-03/ceos-give-u-s-politicians-incomplete-grade-on-fiscal-cliff-work.html. Citing Matthew Shay, CEO of the National Retail Federation in Washington.
Even so, passage of a limited deal offers no guarantee that Congress will tackle
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to get the big deal because people are going to lose their enthusiasm." Feldmann 1-2
Linda, "’Fiscal cliff’ deal: How Obama won and lost," http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/fiscal-cliff-deal-how-obama-won-and-lost
Those three anvils hanging over Washington’s head are likely to consume attention as the deadlines
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longstanding pledge to enact comprehensive reform, could mean action, almost regardless. Huffington Post 1/2
Elise Foley and Sam Stein, Reporters, "Obama’s Immigration Reform Push To Begin This Month", http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/02/obama-immigration-reform_n_2398507.html
WASHINGTON — Despite a bruising fiscal cliff battle that managed to set the stage for
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to fund the government and a debt ceiling that will soon be hit. No debt ceiling fights and Obama won’t get involvedOremus 1/2
Will, Staff Writer, Slate, "Obama Tells Congress He Will Not Tolerate Another Debt-Ceiling Debacle", Obama Tells Congress He Will Not Tolerate Another Debt-Ceiling Debacle
In a brief address Tuesday night, President Obama saluted the passage of a fiscal
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released a statement saying, "Now the focus turns to cutting spending." Will pass – cliff deal paves the way for bipartisanship and Obama is pushing
Estes 1/2
Adam Clark, Reporter, The Atlantic Wire, "Obama’s Push for Immigration Reform Starts Now", http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/01/obamas-push-immigration-reform-starts-now/60525/
Everybody knew that Obama was going to tackle immigration reform in his second term.
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might have leaders in both parties working together and singing ’Kumbaya.’" Halper 1/2
Daniel, Online Editor, Weekly Standard, "Obama to ’Quickly’ Go for Immigration Reform and Gun Control", http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-quickly-go-immigration-reform-and-gun-control_693547.html
President Barack Obama will go for immigration reform and gun control this month, the
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what progress this group has made and what immigration laws it might propose. More ev
Cooper 12-20 – JD
Bo, "Immigration Reform Prospects For 2013," Metro Corporate Council, http://www.metrocorpcounsel.com/articles/21794/immigration-reform-prospects-2013
Editor: Why is it likely that the new Congress will address immigration?¶ Cooper: Virtually all observers were expecting that if he won a second term, President Obama would come under a great deal of pressure to make a second-term push to fulfill his first-term promise to pass immigration reform. But in the wake of November’s election, immigration reform gained momentum, overnight, far beyond what even the strongest reform advocates were hoping for. |
| 01/03/2013 | Tournament: USC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Vandy BM | Judge: Josh Miller Yonhap, 3-8-2012, "U.S. unlikely to allow S. Korea to reprocess nuclear fuel," http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2012/03/08/23/0301000000AEN20120308007100315F.HTML
The United States is unlikely to allow South Korea to adopt its indigenous technology aimed
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to make it easier to export nuclear power plants, the diplomat said. Failure to maintain a hardline on domestic reprocessing shatters US diplomatic pressure – ensures South Korean reprocessingSagan 11 - poly sci prof @ Stanford, co-chair Global Nuclear Future Initiative
Scott, 4-18, "The International Security Implications of U.S. Domestic Nuclear Power Decisions," http://cybercemetery.unt.edu/archive/brc/20120621005012/http://brc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/sagan_brc_paper_final.pdf
A similar phenomenon occurs when policy makers and scholars underestimate the international effect of the
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U.S. does not reprocess spend fuel for commercial purposes. 21 South Korean ENR causes South Korean prolif and undermines US nonprolif efforts with Iran, North Korea, and Southeast AsiaKeck 12 - Assistant Editor of The Diplomat
Zachary, "Rough Waters? The State of the ROK-U.S. Alliance," The Diplomat, 8-22-12, http://thediplomat.com/flashpoints-blog/2012/08/22/rough-waters-the-state-of-the-rok-u-s-alliance/
Washington’s concerns over South Korean’s nuclear
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order to properly rebalance its forces in the region. Lyon 9 - Program Director, Strategy and International, with Australian Strategic Policy Institute
December, previously a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Queensland, "A delicate issue, Asia’s nuclear future"
Deterrence relationships in Asia won’t look like East–West deterrence. They won’t be
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the numbers and locations of weapons to minimise the vulnerability of their arsenals. Hayes 10 Peter Hayes, *Executive Director of the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, AND, Michael Hamel-Green, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development act Victoria University
"The Path Not Taken, the Way Still Open: Denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia," http://www.nautilus.org/fora/security/10001HayesHamalGreen.pdf
But the catastrophe within the
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priority consideration from the international community. |
| 01/03/2013 | Tournament: USC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Vandy BM | Judge: Josh Miller The aff fails to account for the complexity of the decision making process in Native American tribes. Siding solely with the environmental movement fails to interrogate the larger problems involved in decisions about mines and waste storage.Yamamoto and Lyman 1
Eric K, Hawaii Law School law prof., and Jen-L W, UC Berkeley visiting law prof., University of Colorado Law Review, 72 U. Colo. L. Rev. 311, Spring, p. 311-313, ln
For example, as Native communities endeavor to ameliorate conditions of poverty and social dislocation
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about environmentalists who sometimes treat them as mascots for the environmental cause. n52-http://www.lexisnexis.com/lnacui2api/frame.do?reloadEntirePage=true%26rand=1348080173825%26returnToKey=20_T15565693953%26parent=docview%26target=results_DocumentContent%26tokenKey=rsh-20.92817.33560959937 We cannot condemn all decisions to store nuclear waste as misguided and wrong. We should at least consider the notion that Native Americans are making calculated decisions balancing social and economic needs with health and environmental concerns.Yamamoto and Lyman 1
Eric K, Hawaii Law School law prof., and Jen-L W, UC Berkeley visiting law prof., University of Colorado Law Review, 72 U. Colo. L. Rev. 311, Spring, p. 311-313, ln
Some commentators on environmental racism treat the meaning of race with sophistication. n101-http://www.lexisnexis.com/lnacui2api/frame.do?reloadEntirePage=true%26rand=1348080173825%26returnToKey=20_T15565693953%26parent=docview%26target=results_DocumentContent%26tokenKey=rsh-20.92817.33560959937 The
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of particular communities of color and their current cultural and economic concerns. n103-http://www.lexisnexis.com/lnacui2api/frame.do?reloadEntirePage=true%26rand=1348080173825%26returnToKey=20_T15565693953%26parent=docview%26target=results_DocumentContent%26tokenKey=rsh-20.92817.33560959937
In doing so, the writings sometimes ignore the distinct sovereignty-based claims of
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on their lands, inciting the wrath of non-Native neighbors. n107-http://www.lexisnexis.com/lnacui2api/frame.do?reloadEntirePage=true%26rand=1348080173825%26returnToKey=20_T15565693953%26parent=docview%26target=results_DocumentContent%26tokenKey=rsh-20.92817.33560959937
These stories turn sideways traditional environmentalist notions of Native Americans as the primitive foot soldiers
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in order to build an economic base to assure cultural and political survival?
Context is key here in framing the relevant question. In the Campo Band’s situation
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what social and economic tradeoffs? And who should make the judgment call? Spenser 12
(Jack, senior research fellow in Nuclear-Energy Policy at the Heritage Foundation, May 10, 2012, "Uncle Sam, Derelict Nuclear-Waste Disposer", http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2012/05/uncle-sam-derelict-nuclear-waste-disposer-http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2012/05/uncle-sam-derelict-nuclear-waste-disposer) HDG
Solyndra was back in the news recently. The big story: It had left
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administration is slowly killing cheap, reliable and "green" nuclear energy. Lehr 9 – PhD
Jay, "Yucca Mountain Site Ideal for Spent Nuclear Fuel," http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2009/04/01/yucca-mountain-site-ideal-spent-nuclear-fuel
Spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste have been accumulating in the United
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than 2,000 scientists and engineers working at government and university laboratories. Lehr 9 – PhD
Jay, "Yucca Mountain Site Ideal for Spent Nuclear Fuel," http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2009/04/01/yucca-mountain-site-ideal-spent-nuclear-fuel
The Yucca Mountain site is located in a very dry and remote area of the
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water to penetrate into, or radioactive particles to escape from, the repository
.¶ Additionally, as already noted, the closed hydrological system water table lies a
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to ensure nothing will ever escape. I’ll outline those measures next month. Hargreaves 11 – Analyst @ CNN Money
Steve, "Nuclear waste: Back to Yucca Mountain?," CNN Money, http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/06/news/economy/nuclear_waste/index.htm
Located in the middle of the desert a hundred miles northwest of Las Vegas,
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almost all the things that make for a good repository, Yucca has." Inhofe 6 – Senator from OK
James, "Yucca Mountain: The Most Studied Real Estate on the Planet," Report to Senate Chairman, http://epw.senate.gov/repwhitepapers/YuccaMountainEPWReport.pdf
Between 1987 and 2002, DOE spent another %243.8 billion on scientific
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delay and dilute any radioactive material that migrates from waste ¶ packages.¶ 15 Inhofe 6 – Senator from OK
James, "Yucca Mountain: The Most Studied Real Estate on the Planet," Report to Senate Chairman, http://epw.senate.gov/repwhitepapers/YuccaMountainEPWReport.pdf
In deep geologic disposal, the one overriding concern is the potential for radioactive ¶
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that dry rock mid-way between the surface and the water table. Inhofe 6 – Senator from OK
James, "Yucca Mountain: The Most Studied Real Estate on the Planet," Report to Senate Chairman, http://epw.senate.gov/repwhitepapers/YuccaMountainEPWReport.pdf
The dry remote location of Yucca Mountain is only the first of many protective features
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¶ than expected, the others will still protect public health and safety. |
| 01/03/2013 | Tournament: USC | Round: 3 | Opponent: Wake LM | Judge: Logan Chin Energy Library 8
"Very high temperature gas-cooled reactor," http://www.theenergylibrary.com/node/11862
The Very-High-Temperature Reactor (VHTR) is a graphite-moderated
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heat to either a hydrogen-production demonstration facility or a gas turbine. Plan overcomes prohibitive pricing of PBMRs ensuring meltdowns, prolif, and waste dumpingMakhijani %26 Boyd 10 *Arjun, electrical and nuclear engineer who is President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Michele, former director of the Safe Energy Program at Physicians for, Staff Scientist at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
("Small Modular Reactors No Solution for the Cost, Safety, and Waste Problems of Nuclear Power" http://ieer.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/small-modular-reactors2010.pdf-http://ieer.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/small-modular-reactors2010.pdf)
The Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) is a high-temperature gas-
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(consisting of uranium dioxide fuel pellets) or vitrified high level waste. Lendman 11 – Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (Stephen, 03/ 13, "Nuclear Meltdown in Japan," http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/03/13/nuclear-meltdown-in-japan)
For years, Helen Caldicott warned it’s coming. In her 1978 book, "
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seem mild by comparison. Potentially, millions of lives will be jeopardized. Widespread prolif risks nuclear war –escalates ongoing disputes and risk of nonstate organizations proliferatingEvans and Kawaguchi ’09
Gareth, Professor of law at Australian National University, President Emeritus of the International Crisis Group, former Australian Foreign Minister, commission co-chair ; Yoriko, former Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, Member of the Advisory Board of the Energy and Climate Change Working Group of the Clinton Global Initiative, M.Phil In Economics; Report includes Dr. Alexei Arbatov, Head of the Center for International Security of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chair of the Nonproliferation Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center; "ELIMINATING NUCLEAR THREATS Repor t of the A Practical Agenda for Global Policymakers," November 2009 Report of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament; http://icnnd.org/Reference/reports/ent/downloads.html, AD 9/19/12
Ensuring that no new states join the ranks of those already nucleararmed must continue to
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nuclear power centres divided by multiple and cross-cutting sources of conflict. And those conflicts all escalate to extinctionUtgoff in 2 —Deputy Director of Strategy, Forces and Resources @Institute for Defense Analysis
~Victor A., Deputy Director of Strategy, Forces, and Resources Division, Institute for Defense Analyses, "Proliferation, Missile Defence and American Ambitions," Survival, v. 44 n. 2, Summer 2002~.
In sum, widespread proliferation is likely to lead to an occasional shoot-out
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a hill to bury the bodies of dead cities or even whole nations. ====Terrorist Attack, accidents, and waste dumping====
TMIA No Date
TMIA No Date, What’s Wrong With the Modular Pebble Bed Reactor?, http://www.tmia.com/old-website/pebbles.html
The lack of a containment building is a necessity because cooling is by natural convection
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acknowledges that there is approximately 1 defect per pebble associated with these layers. ====Terrorist Attack, accidents, and waste dumping====
TMIA No Date
TMIA No Date, What’s Wrong With the Modular Pebble Bed Reactor?, http://www.tmia.com/old-website/pebbles.html
The lack of a containment building is a necessity because cooling is by natural convection
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acknowledges that there is approximately 1 defect per pebble associated with these layers. Bernstein and Gerami 12
(Paul Bernstein, Senior Research Fellow in the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction (CSWMD) at the National Defense University, and Nina Gerami, Research Fellow in CSWMD, *ENR = uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing* June 2012, "Proliferation Risks of Civilian Nuclear Power Programs" http://wmdcenter.dodlive.mil/files/2012/06/CSWMD-Proceedings-3-FINAL.pdf)
Nuclear Renaissance? Lending added urgency to nonproliferation efforts is the possibility that nuclear power
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deferring their plans, while others have vowed to stay on track.6 |
| 01/03/2013 | |
| 01/08/2013 | Tournament: Fullerton | Round: 6 | Opponent: MSU BC | Judge: Jake Thompson Hagel confirmation will pass – PC is key and there’s no room for other fightsLizza 1-7
Ryan, "WILL HAGEL SPIKE THE G.O.P.’S FEVER?," New Yorker, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/01/how-much-will-the-nomination-of-chuck-hagel-hurt-obamas-second-term-agenda.html
President Obama’s nomination of Chuck Hagel for Defense Secretary has added yet another intense political
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the Hagel fight will have a cost to the rest of his agenda. Holland 12
Andrew, Senior Fellow for Energy and Climate – American Security Project, "A Tough Budget for Fusion", American Security Project Blog, 3-1, http://americansecurityproject.org/blog/2012/the-budget-for-fusion/
ASP believes that the fusion budget should be increased significantly, up to the point
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be able to capitalize on the advancements in fusion science that will come. -prevents US attack on Iran
-solves Iran through negotiations
-solves fiscal military overstretch
Beinart 1-7 – M. Phil @ Oxford
Peter, associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York, senior political writer for The Daily Beast , former editor of TNR "Why Hagel Matters," The Daily Beast, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/07/why-hagel-matters.html
If media reports are true, Barack Obama will soon nominate Chuck Hagel to be
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one day look back upon Chuck Hagel’s nomination as the day it did. Afrasiabi 12-22 - former political science professor at Tehran University, Boston Universityand Bentley College. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, UC Berkeley, Binghamton University, Center For Strategic Research, Tehran and Institute for Strategic Studies in Paris
Kaveh L, " Middle East peace hinges on will" http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NL22Ak05.html
The cause of peace is predicated on the propensity of decision-makers to opt
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a clearer picture that would shed lights on the answer to this question. The Nation 5
8/6, Lexis
The above analysis vividly indicates US aggressive intentions on some pretext against Iran. US
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would amount to mass destruction and elimination of most of the global civilisation. Michael Moran, 8-20-2010; Foreign Affairs columnist for GlobalPost, covering global economics, politics and U.S. foreign policy from New York; Moran ran CFR.org, the website of the Council on Foreign Relations, Opinion: The war over war with Iran http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/middle-east/100820/iran-war-nuclear-proliferation-israel
Yet U.S. military planners concluded long ago that Iran’s nuclear program has
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stay away from taking the final, fateful step – testing a weapon. Kemp 10 - Director of Regional Strategic Programs at The Nixon Center, served in the White House under Ronald Reagan, special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the National Security Council Staff, Former Director, Middle East Arms Control Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Geoffrey Kemp, The East Moves West: India, China, and Asia’s Growing Presence in the Middle East, p. 233-4
The second scenario, called Mayhem and Chaos, is the opposite of the first
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a tsunami-like impact on stability. In this scenario, major disruptions ====Immediately slows growth====
WSJ ’11
Jerry A. Dicolo and Brian Baskin "The Stealth Return of %24100 Oil," 2/11/11online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703610604576158613735835374.html
Rising prices throughout the industry could have big implications for the U.S.
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been such a gradual change in prices, people have adjusted to it." WSJ 1-6
"White House to Go on Offense for Hagel Pick" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323482504578225532918927080.html
Those officials acknowledge they have a bruising confirmation fight ahead. They also say they
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Republicans would go so far as to block consideration of the nomination entirely. Todd 1-8
Chuck, "First Thoughts: No margin for error in Hagel nomination," NBC News, http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/08/16412788-first-thoughts-no-margin-for-error-in-hagel-nomination?lite - No margin for error in Hagel nomination: Yesterday’s official rollout of Chuck Hagel
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, and he won’t have that opportunity for a good week or so.
Cassata 1-7
Donna, "Obama Digs in for a Fight on Hagel, Brennan Picks," ABC News, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/obama-nominate-chuck-hagel-defense-secretary-18147879?page=2~~%23.UOtR74njlH0
Digging in for a fight, President Barack Obama riled Senate Republicans and some Democrats
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to face a tougher path, though both are likely to be confirmed. Carafano 1-8
James, "Hunkering Down for the Confirmation Hearings," Heritage, http://blog.heritage.org/2013/01/08/hunkering-down-for-the-confirmation-hearings/
Toward the top of the new Senate’s to-do list will be confirmation hearings for the top three spots on President Obama’s second-term national security team. Confirmation hearings are among Washington’s favorite "blood sport." The real question is always whose blood they will be out for. Raum 1-7
Tom, "THE RESET: Obama, GOP drawing battle lines," http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/01/07/3769979/the-reset-obama-gop-drawing-battle.html~~%23storylink=cpy
President Barack Obama is heading toward bruising fights on Capitol Hill on multiple fronts even
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about to find out how much political goodwill he has in the bank. Washington Post 1-7
"President Obama picks a confirmation fight. Can he win it?," http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/01/07/president-obama-picks-a-confirmation-fight-can-he-win-it/
When President Obama formally nominates Chuck Hagel to be the next Secretary of Defense later
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, but the White House has to get ahead of this thing quickly." Rubin 1-7 – Washington Post Staff
Jennifer Rubin, "Topsy-turvy Hagel politics" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/01/07/topsy-turvy-hagel-politics/
The ironies (or hypocrisies? betrayals?) abound. The question is what happens
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, to engage in a high-visibility fight none of them want. No debt ceiling fights and Obama won’t get involvedOremus 1/2
Will, Staff Writer, Slate, "Obama Tells Congress He Will Not Tolerate Another Debt-Ceiling Debacle", Obama Tells Congress He Will Not Tolerate Another Debt-Ceiling Debacle
In a brief address Tuesday night, President Obama saluted the passage of a fiscal
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released a statement saying, "Now the focus turns to cutting spending." Broad ’12
William J., NYT, "So Far Unfruitful, Fusion Project Faces a Frugal Congress," 9/29/12 www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/science/fusion-project-faces-a-frugal-congress.html?pagewanted=all%26_r=0
For more than 50 years, physicists have been eager to achieve controlled fusion,
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money to keep the project alive, is going to want some explanations.¶ ——mstrkf—— "We didn’t achieve the goal," said Donald L. Cook, an
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trouble and that continuing the funding at the current level makes no sense." Winners win is not true for Obama – it must be a large, domestic, and economic victory.Kuttner ’11
Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, as well as a distinguished senior fellow of the think tank Demos. "Barack Obama’s Theory of Power". The American Prospect. May 16, 2011. http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=barack_obamas_theory_of_power-http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=barack_obamas_theory_of_power
Obama won more legislative trophies during his first two years than Clinton did, but
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and for bankers. (See this month’s special report on page A1.) Purdum 10 – Award winning journalist who spent 23 years with the NY Times
(12/20/10, Todd S., Vanity Affair, "Obama Is Suffering Because of His Achievements, Not Despite Them," http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/12/obama-is-suffering-because-of-his-achievements-not-despite-them.html-http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/12/obama-is-suffering-because-of-his-achievements-not-despite-them.html)
With this weekend’s decisive Senate repeal of the military’s "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
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has remained outspokenly critical of business as usual by both parties in Washington). Health care and energy prove winners don’t win – capital is finiteLashof ’10
Dan Lashof, director of the National Resource Defense Council’s climate center, Ph.D. from the Energy and Resources Group at UC-Berkeley, 7-28-2010, NRDC Switchboard Blog, "Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda: Lessons from Senate Climate Fail," http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/dlashof/coulda_shoulda_woulda_lessons.html
Lesson 2: Political capital is not necessarily a renewable resource. Perhaps the most
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political capital in time to help push climate legislation across the finish line. -conventional wisdom underestimates political capital theory
Beckman 10 – Professor of Political Science
Matthew N. Beckman, Professor of Political Science @ UC-Irvine, 2010, "Pushing the Agenda: Presidential Leadership in U.S. Lawmaking, 1953-2004," pg. 2-3
Developing presidential coalition building as a generalizable class of strategies is itself instructive, a
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is real, often substantial, and, to date, greatly underestimated. Beckman 10 – Professor of Political Science
Matthew N. Beckman, Professor of Political Science @ UC-Irvine, 2010, "Pushing the Agenda: Presidential Leadership in U.S. Lawmaking, 1953-2004," pg. 17
Even though Washington correspondents surely overestimate a sitting president’s potential sway in Congress, more
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and do) draw on to help build winning coalitions on Capitol Hill. Star-Ledger ’9
(Mayors warned to spend wisely, February 21, 2009, LN)
In the days since the White House and Congress came to terms on the %24
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use the full power of my office and our administration to stop it." |
| 01/08/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: -multiple examples of DOE labs accepting private funding
GAO 9—their 2AC solvency deficit author
– United States Government Accountability Office, "Technology Transfer: Clearer Priorities and Greater Use of Innovative Approaches Could Increase the Effectiveness of Technology Transfer at Department of Energy Laboratories", June, http://www.gao.gov/assets/300/290971.html
Even when outside entities are interested in partnering with a ¶ laboratory, negotiating technology
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partner is currently commercializing and expects to ¶ bring to market in 2009. Olynyk 2
"Exchange with Olynyk 2" ~http://msudebate.blogspot.com/2012/10/exchange-with-olynyk-2.html~~ - I don’t think anything legally stops C-Mod from getting funding from state governments (or even private actors), it’s just exceedingly unlikely that this would happen. C-Mod has a budget of about %2429-million/year; I don’t think Massachusetts, for example, funds anything close to this amount for research. This kind of thing has always (since WWII at least) been done through the federal government. And, you say, why could states not pool funds – well sure, but why would (say) Pennsylvania fund a research facility in Mass? So while it’s not strictly impossible, I don’t see it happening, realistically.
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| 02/09/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Huffington Post 2/8
Obama Hoping Immigration Debate Takes Backseat To Gun Gight?, 2/8/13, Lexis
Not even two months into his second term and the president is looking to tackle
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of reforms we need for our economy. It’s already being incredibly lobbied." Harder 2/6
Amy, "In Washington, Energy and Climate Issues Get Shoved in the Closet" ~http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/power-play/in-washington-energy-and-climate-issues-get-shoved-in-the-closet-20130206~~ mtc
A week later, one senator, Republican Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, was standing
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panel, to move through Congress smaller bits of energy and environmental policy. Lopez-Levy 12 – PhD Candidate at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies of the University of Denver
Arturo, "The Latin American Gorilla," Foreign Policy in Focus, http://www.fpif.org/articles/the_latin_american_gorilla
Few political acts would have a greater effect on U.S.-Latin American
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remittances, investment, and the voting preferences of expatriates from those countries. Spills over to broader relations – solves, warming, and prolifShifter 12 - President of the Sol M. Linowitz Forum Intern-American Dialogue
Michael, "Remaking the Relationship: The United States and Latin America" Inter-American Dialogue Policy Report — April — www.thedialogue.org/PublicationFiles/IAD2012PolicyReportFINAL.pdf
There are compelling reasons for the United States and Latin America to ¶ pursue more
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—both ¶ from the United States and from Latin America and the Caribbean Mazo 10 – PhD in Paleoclimatology from UCLA
Jeffrey Mazo, Managing Editor, Survival and Research Fellow for Environmental Security and Science Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, 3-2010, "Climate Conflict: How global warming threatens security and what to do about it," pg. 122
The best estimates for global warming to the end of the century range from 2
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adaptation to these extremes would mean profound social, cultural and political changes. MBS 12
Mays Business School, "Immigrant Entrepreneurs May Speed Up Our Economic Recovery," http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/03/22/immigration-entrepreneurs-may-speed-up-our-economic-recovery/
The StartUp Visa Act—which was first introduced in 2010 after being debated in
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the House Majority Leader may signal a willingness to take this issue on. Khalilzad 11 – PhD, Former Professor of Political Science @ Columbia, Former ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan
Zalmay Khalilzad was the United States ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations during the presidency of George W. Bush and the director of policy planning at the Defense Department from 1990 to 1992. "The Economy and National Security" Feb 8 www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/259024
Today, economic and fiscal trends pose the most severe long-term threat to
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, hostile states would be emboldened to make aggressive moves in their regions. Baeza and Langevin 9
Gonzalo Baeza and Mark Langevin, Ph.D, "The Convergence We Need?" March 31, 2009, http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2009/0103/comm/baezalangevin_convergence.html
The dual challenges of overcoming the mounting global economic crisis and moving toward a renewable
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administration, one further complicated by the deepening economic crisis and rising unemployment. Hill 3 – Commander, United States Southern Command
General James T. Hill, Heritage Lecture ~%23790, "Colombia: Key to Security in the Western Hemisphere," 6-2-2003, www.heritage.org/Research/LatinAmerica/HL790.cfm
Fighting Terrorism¶ The war on terrorism is my number one priority in the region
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is more innocent blood being spilt by their greed for white powder profits. Unistar 10
(Unistar Nuclear Energy, January 2010, "Rebuilding the nucleaR eneRgy WoRkfoRce" http://www.unistarnuclear.com/IB/workforce.pdf)
However, the simple fact is that the nuclear energy industry faces a serious workforce
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, the nuclear energy industry in particular is facing a worrisome demographic shift. Large sections of the nuclear energy facility workforce are preparing to retire. The 2009
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an additional 13 percent is expected to leave due to other reasons."9 Washington Post 2/3
Reid: Senate will pass immigration reform, 2/3/13, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/02/03/reid-senate-will-pass-immigration-reform/
Senate Majority Harry Reid (D-Nev.) guaranteed Sunday that the Senate would
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proposed pathway to citizenship for the nation’s more than 11 million illegal immigrants. Top of the agenda and gaining momentumSeldin 2/6
Jeff, Battle for US Immigration Reform Gathers Steam, 2/6/13, Voice of America News, Lexis
U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to make immigration reform a priority
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something gets done, all too aware such hopes have been dashed before. Shanghai Daily 2/1
’Time is now’ to overhaul US immigration, 2/1/13, Lexis
PRESIDENT Barack Obama declared that "now is the time" to fix the broken
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issue with at least some kind of bipartisan support in a deeply divided Congress , where gun control and tackling the massive deficit face far bigger fights ahead.¶
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to get it passed by Congress, to the disappointment of many Hispanics. Daily News 1/25
Allan Wernick, Reporter, "A look at where key Congressional players stand on immigration indicates reform could come soon", http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/citizenship-now/immigration-chances-good-sweeping-immigration-reform-article-1.1245988
As expected, President Obama confirmed his support for immigration reform in his inaugural address
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players on the immigration reform debate have been saying and doing this year: Beckman 10 – Professor of Political Science
Matthew N. Beckman, Professor of Political Science @ UC-Irvine, 2010, "Pushing the Agenda: Presidential Leadership in U.S. Lawmaking, 1953-2004," pg. 53
To the cynic, meetings between White House officials and congressional leaders offer little more
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a two-pronged approach: mobilizing leading allies and deterring leading opponents. Foley and Stein 1/2
Elise and Sam, "Obama’s Immigration Reform Push To Begin This Month" ~http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/02/obama-immigration-reform_n_2398507.html~~ January 1 mtc
It remains unclear what type of immigration policies the White House plans to push in
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reform, it’s still unclear which of them plan to join the push. Gun control is all posturing and rhetoric – immigration firstGoodman 2/2
Douglas, retired military, After Filibuster Reform and Gun Control, Congress Will Focus On Spending and Taxes, 2/2/13, http://www.policymic.com/articles/24741/after-filibuster-reform-and-gun-control-congress-will-focus-on-spending-and-taxes
With three months of breathing room, the deficit appears to have taken a back
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rest with the willingness of those lawmakers with high NRA grades to participate. Graham 1/28
Lindsey, Senator, Sen. Graham to Pres. Obama: There’s no pathway to citizenship without border security, 1/28/13, http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/on-the-record/2013/01/29/sen-graham-obama-theres-no-pathway-citizenship-without-border-security
GRAHAM: Well, by the time ObamaCare was done, it took the whole
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over this. This will not get done without the president being involved. -conventional wisdom underestimates political capital theory
Beckman 10 – Professor of Political Science
Matthew N. Beckman, Professor of Political Science @ UC-Irvine, 2010, "Pushing the Agenda: Presidential Leadership in U.S. Lawmaking, 1953-2004," pg. 2-3
Developing presidential coalition building as a generalizable class of strategies is itself instructive, a
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is real, often substantial, and, to date, greatly underestimated. Beckman 10 – Professor of Political Science
Matthew N. Beckman, Professor of Political Science @ UC-Irvine, 2010, "Pushing the Agenda: Presidential Leadership in U.S. Lawmaking, 1953-2004," pg. 17
Even though Washington correspondents surely overestimate a sitting president’s potential sway in Congress, more
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and do) draw on to help build winning coalitions on Capitol Hill. Eberly 1-21 - assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Todd, "The presidential power trap," Baltimore Sun, Lexis
Only by solving the problem of political capital is a president likely to avoid a
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the current president’s mind today as he takes his second oath of office. Plan’s not a win—pushing random bills not on the agenda make Obama look weakGalston 10
William, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Brookings, "President Barack Obama’s First Two Years: Policy Accomplishments, Political Difficulties" Brookings Institute — Nov 4~
Second, the administration believed that success would breed success—that the momentum from
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avoid the conclusion that it was—and remains—a political liability. Bunn 3 - Associate Professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government
Matthew, et al, "THE ECONOMICS OF REPROCESSING VS. DIRECT DISPOSAL OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL," http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/repro-report.pdf
Third, the argument is based on the questionable assumption that while it would be
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new reactor types required would be an enormous institutional and political ¶ challenge. Bastin ’08
Clinton, Chemical Engineer, Retired, was responsible for the Atomic Energy Commission’s Reprocessing Plutonium at the DOW’s Savannah River Plant, president of Federal Employees Union at DOE, recognized by the DOE in a¶ Distinguished Career Service Award as "the U.S. authority on reprocessing¶ and initiator of total quality management and partnering¶ agreements.""We Need to Reprocess Spent Nuclear Fuel, And Can Do It Safely, At Reasonable COst," 21st Century Science %26 Technology, http://www.google.com/url?sa=t%26rct=j%26q=%26esrc=s%26source=web%26cd=2%26cad=rja%26ved=0CDYQFjAB%26url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.21stcenturysciencetech.com%2FArticles%25202008%2FSummer_2008%2FReprocessing.pdf%26ei=vXoWUaXhA-OY2AW96IHoCg%26usg=AFQjCNGM3Ih0vEswAtWlpjYAcJEPDYuQRg%26bvm=bv.42080656,d.b2I
More Failed Reprocessing Ideas At the same time, the San Diego-based company
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fuel particles are then formed into rods or tennisball¶ size "pebbles.") McSlarrow ’04
Kyle E., Deputy Secretary of Energy,"Federal Document Clearing House Congressional TestimonyJuly 13, 2004 TuesdayNUCLEAR POWER AND NATIONAL ENERGY POLICYSECTION: CAPITOL HILL HEARING TESTIMONY," Lexis
While, as we all know, there is still much to be done,
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goal of accepting commercial and defense high-level nuclear waste by 2010. Weinstein 12
Bernard L., Associate Director, Maguire Energy Institute at Southern Methodist University and George W. Bush Institute Fellow, Bipartisanship Elusive Without Realism, August 13, 2012, http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/08/finding-the-sweet-spot-biparti.php
But though America is "energy rich," we behave as though we’re "energy
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fiction. Unfortunately, that’s not likely to happen in the foreseeable future. Fox News 11 (March 15, 2011, "New Nuclear Plants in United States Less Palatable Politically After Japanese Disaster" http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/15/implications-nuclear-ax/
Just like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year put a
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nuclear power plans can continue," McCain told KFI-550 in Phoenix. Torrenegra 12 – Colombian immigrant, entrepreneur
Alex, "Startup Visa: American by Choice, Bootstrapper by Passion," http://www.wired.com/business/2012/04/opinion-torrenegra-startup-visa/
Until the 1920s, the U.S. used to welcome risk-takers
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is easy, investment regulation is friendly, job laws don’t punish startups,
Marked here and risk and failure are socially accepted. No other country in the world
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of hardworking entrepreneurs and explorers that its founders envisioned over 200 years ago. Salem News 2/4
Our view: Path widens for immigration reform, 2/4/13, http://www.salemnews.com/opinion/x1525010782/Our-view-Path-widens-for-immigration-reform
Fortunately, there have always been respected GOP leaders trying to lead the party toward
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will make things better for America and for those hoping to come here. National Journal 2/2
Insiders Optimistic About Immigration Reform, 2/2/13, http://www.nationaljournal.com/blogs/hotlineoncall/2013/02/insiders-optimistic-about-immigration-reform-02
Cautious optimism: That’s the best way to describe how both Democratic and Republican Political
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have seen the light to make it happen," said another Democratic Insider. |
| 02/10/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Aimone, 9/12/12 - Director Business Enterprise Integration Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations and Environment) (Michael, Congressional Testimony, http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/Testimony%20-%20Aimone.pdf)
DoD’s facility energy strategy is also focused heavily on grid security in the name of
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Technologies); Fort Sill, OK (Eaton); and several other installations. Douglas Birch 10-1, former foreign correspondent for the Associated Press and the Baltimore Sun who has written extensively on technology and public policy, 10/1/12, "Forget Revolution," Foreign Policy, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/10/01/forget_revolution?page=full
Government officials sometimes describe a kind of Hieronymus Bosch landscape when warning of the possibility
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that even a large-scale blackout would not necessarily have catastrophic consequences. Grid is resilient and sustainableClark 12, MA candidate – Intelligence Studies @ American Military University, senior analyst – Chenega Federal Systems, 4/28/’12
(Paul, "The Risk of Disruption or Destruction of Critical U.S. Infrastructure by an Offensive Cyber Attack," American Military University) In 2003, a simple physical breakdown occurred – trees shorted a power line and caused a fault –
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been significantly increased (U.S. Senate¶ Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 2012). Clark 12, MA candidate – Intelligence Studies @ American Military University, senior analyst – Chenega Federal Systems, 4/28/’12
(Paul, "The Risk of Disruption or Destruction of Critical U.S. Infrastructure by an Offensive Cyber Attack," American Military University) The Department of Homeland Security worries that our critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR
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establish robust security guidelines and cyber security measures (Gohn and Wheelock 2010). |
| 02/10/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Maybury, 12
(Chief Scientist-USAF, "Energy Horizons: United States Air Force Energy S%26T Vision 2011-2026," 1/31, http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/usaf/energy.pdf)
Space is the ―ultimate high ground, providing access to every part of the
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plants decrease in size, their utility on board space based assets increases. Su ’10
Jinyuan Su, The Silk Road Institute of International and Comparative Law, School of Law, Xi’an Jiaotong University. "Towards an effective and adequately verifiable PPWT". Space Policy Volume 26, Issue 3, August 2010. ScienceDirect.
First, deployment of space-based weapons by a state would be highly likely
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discriminately. The situation would worsen as more states acquired an ASAT capability. They cannot win on impact turns- deterrence collapse inevitable and causes extinctionHitchens ’8
Theresa Hitchens, directs the Center for Defense Information in Washington, D.C., and leads its Space Security Project, in cooperation with the Secure World Foundation. She is author of Future Security in Space: Charting a Cooperative Course (2004) and was editor of Defense News from 1998 until 2000. "Space Wars". Scientific American, Mar2008, Vol. 298, Issue 3. EbscoHost
Yet any arms race in space would almost inevitably destabilize the balance of power and
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reliably distinguishing an intentional act from an accidental one would be highly problematic. |
| 03/21/2013 | Tournament: Districts | Round: 5 | Opponent: UNT KP | Judge: Crowe Office of Energy Development, 2013
"Wind Power" http://www.in.gov/oed/2413.htm
Wind power, electricity generated by capturing the wind’s energy with modern wind turbines, is one of the lowest-cost, renewable electricity alternatives currently available. Wind power is a clean, domestic electricity resource that has seen a tremendous amount of growth and technology improvement over the past several years. 2. Limits amplify this problem- wind’s potential is fleeting and endless. As a concept it’s neat; as a debate topic it would make argument impossible.Kubota, no date
Davin K. Kubota, hawaii.edu/~davink/MYTHOLOGY%20CLASS/WIND/windindex.html
We need water to sustain life, fire to cook our food and make things
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the notion that an entire nation or culture has a unified belief system. |
| 03/21/2013 | Tournament: Districts | Round: 5 | Opponent: UNT KP | Judge: Crowe Stern and Druckman ’2k
Paul C. Stern, National Research Council, and Daniel Druckman, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. "Evaluating Interventions in History: The Case of International Conflict Resolution". International Studies Review, Spring 2000, p. 62-63. Academic Search Premiere.
Using several distinct research approaches or sources of information in conjunction is a valuable strategy
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the results coming from any single study, method, or data source. Wendt ’98, professor of international security – Ohio State University
(Alexander, "On Constitution and Causation in International Relations," British International Studies Association)
As a community, we in the academic study of international politics spend too much
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sparring over epistemology is often one-sided, intolerant caricatures of science. Their aff is just relativism- their justification for the necessity of including non-western viewpoints is that refusing to do so would muscle out truths that seem objective to non-western societies. You can’t just say you don’t reject scientific objectivity and make it so- either you believe in objective scientific rationality, or you don’t. Any scientific system they create is just relativist.Nanda ’98
~Meera, microbiologist now completing second Ph.D in science and tech studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, "The Epistemic Charity of the Social Constructivist Critics of Science and Why the Third World Should Refuse the Offer," A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths about Science, ed. Noretta Koertga, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, 300uwyo-ajl~
Indeed, the constructivists could easily point to Donna Haraway’s opposition to nativism, relativism
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and society and instead end up legitimizing all kinds of ethnonationalism and nativisms. Flint, Associate Professor of Geography, 4
Colin, The geography of war and peace: from death camps to diplomats, Google Book
Nationalism in one or another meaning continues to play a role in wars, but
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its classical or in one of its postmodem shapes: imperial or ethnic. Mignologo Epistemology is flawed and contradictory – stems from misreading of Derridean differeanceMichaelson and Shershow, 7
Scott Michaelsen and Scott Cutler Shershow Rethinking Border Thinking South Atlantic Quarterly Winter 2007 106(1): 39-60; doi:10.1215/003 82876-2006-014
Toward the end of The Darker Side, these three points of departure from Derrida
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themselves clearly attest, within the strange economy of what Derrida famously calls différance Zenko and Cohen ’12
Micah Zenko is a Fellow in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. Michael A. Cohen is a Fellow at the Century Foundation. "Clear and Present Safety: The United States Is More Secure Than Washington Thinks". Foreign Affairs. New York: Mar/Apr 2012. Vol. 91, Iss. 2; pg. 79. ProQuest.
Economic bonds among states are also accelerating, even in the face of a sustained
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an essential instrument for reducing poverty in developing countries, have more than tripled in the past decade, to more than %24440 billion each year.
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and safety because countries with poor human development are more war-prone. Western civilization is reflexive and self-correcting – criticisms of the western intellect are based in a guilt complex for past colonialism.Warraq ’8
Ibn Warraq, senior research fellow at the Center for Inquiry. "Defending the West". January 8, 2008. http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=29399
Said, influenced by Foucault, Marx and the French intellectual tradition, refuses to
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the West against the greatest threat that it has faced since the Nazis. |
| 03/23/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Holman 3/21
Kwame, "Progress on Immigration Reform Leaves Rep. Gutierrez Elated and Wary" ~http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/03/progress-on-immigration-reform-leaves-leading-advocate-elated-wary.html~~ mtc
This week, the Republican National Committee, Sen. Rand Paul, R-
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congressional recess. Legislation could arrive on the president’s desk before summer’s end. Harder 2/6
Amy, "In Washington, Energy and Climate Issues Get Shoved in the Closet" ~http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/power-play/in-washington-energy-and-climate-issues-get-shoved-in-the-closet-20130206~~ mtc
A week later, one senator, Republican Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, was standing
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panel, to move through Congress smaller bits of energy and environmental policy. Hirsch, 2/7
Michael Hirsch, National Journal, "There’s No Such Thing as Political Capital" 2013, http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/there-s-no-such-thing-as-political-capital-20130207
But the abrupt emergence of the immigration and gun-control issues illustrates how suddenly
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but to move. It’s your choice.¶ The future is wide open. Trujillo and Melgoza 2/21
Mr. Trujillo is chairman of the Trujillo Group, LLC and co-chairman of the Latino Donor Collaborative. Mr. Melgoza is the CEO of Geoscape International Inc. The Economic—and Demographic—Case for Immigration Reform, 2/21/13, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323951904578290471589119346.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Since the November election, there has been much talk in Washington and on the
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a coherent and enforceable immigration policy is in place and here to stay. ====Sustained decline causes nuclear war====
Harris and Burrows 9
Mathew, PhD European History @ Cambridge, counselor in the National Intelligence Council (NIC) and Jennifer is a member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit "Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis" http://www.ciaonet.org/journals/twq/v32i2/f_0016178_13952.pdf-http://www.ciaonet.org/journals/twq/v32i2/f_0016178_13952.pdf
Increased Potential for Global Conflict
Of course, the report encompasses more than economics and indeed believes the future is
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more focus on preemption rather than defense, potentially leading to escalating crises. Royal 10 — Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense
Jedediah, "Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises?", 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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the extent to which international and external conflicts self-reinforce each other. (Blomberg %26 Hess, 2002, p. 89) Economic decline has
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such, the view presented here should be considered ancillary to those views. Alden 12 - Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow @ CFR
(Edward Alden, Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), specializing in U.S. competitiveness, 2/29/12, "How to Tackle the Manufacturing Skills Shortage" http://blogs.cfr.org/renewing-america/2012/02/29/how-to-tackle-the-manufacturing-skills-shortage/)
Is there a skills shortage that is hampering the still modest, but encouraging recovery
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surprise, is that companies can no longer find the employees they need.
We talked about some of the conventional remedies–expanded community college opportunities, which
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are again looking to expand, they cannot find the workers they need. Hardy 11
Roger, staff writer, 9/15/11, "Nuclear Power - Skills for a new nuclear age" Modern Power System, Lexis
In gearing up for the start of a civil nuclear new build programme, however
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in their comfort zone and build up experience in their own niche area). Daily Iowan 2/1
Immigration reform not done, 2/1/13, http://www.dailyiowan.com/2013/02/01/Opinions/31576.html
And make no mistake: Obama will be given credit if immigration reform passes. A big win this early in his second term will strengthen the wind already at his back from his election. Obamacare passed after almost two years of work and sucked the president dry of electoral goodwill. If Republicans don’t use immigration to sap Obama’s political capital, Obama will have enough remaining momentum to take on climate change before the midterms. Clark 9
Duncan, editorial environmental consultant to the London Guardian, co-director of GreenProfile, January 2, 2009, "The carbon footprint of nuclear war," online: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/jan/02/nuclear-war-emissions
Almost 700m ~million~ tonnes of CO2 would be released into the Earth’s atmosphere
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people, who’s going to be thinking about the impact on global warming? Haass 8 – President @ CFR
Richard. President of the Council on Foreign Relations. 11/8/8. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122611110847810599.html-http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122611110847810599.html.
There will be other policy consequences of recession. It will be more difficult to
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buy U.S. assets despite a clear need for their dollars. Anderson 4 – Ph. D in Economics from the University of Washington, President of PERC (Property and Environment Research Center), Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
’Cooling the Global Warming Debate’, http://www.perc.org/articles/article446.php
The link between greenhouse gas emissions and economic prosperity is no different. Using data
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of global warming "not kill the goose that lays the golden eggs." Lopez-Levy 12 – PhD Candidate at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies of the University of Denver
Arturo, "The Latin American Gorilla," Foreign Policy in Focus, http://www.fpif.org/articles/the_latin_american_gorilla
Few political acts would have a greater effect on U.S.-Latin American
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remittances, investment, and the voting preferences of expatriates from those countries. Spills over to broader relations – solves, warming, and prolifShifter 12 - President of the Sol M. Linowitz Forum Intern-American Dialogue
Michael, "Remaking the Relationship: The United States and Latin America" Inter-American Dialogue Policy Report — April — www.thedialogue.org/PublicationFiles/IAD2012PolicyReportFINAL.pdf
There are compelling reasons for the United States and Latin America to ¶ pursue more
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—both ¶ from the United States and from Latin America and the Caribbean Hill 3 – Commander, United States Southern Command
General James T. Hill, Heritage Lecture ~%23790, "Colombia: Key to Security in the Western Hemisphere," 6-2-2003, www.heritage.org/Research/LatinAmerica/HL790.cfm
Fighting Terrorism¶ The war on terrorism is my number one priority in the region
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is more innocent blood being spilt by their greed for white powder profits. Thomas 8 – Professor of Economics
John Thomas, Professor of Economics, January 18 2008, Becker-Posner Blog, Accessed April 8 2008, http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2008/01/terrorism_and_e.html
However lack of economic growth also helps terrorism. To manage in the modern world
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West and thus it must become a great power by any means necessarily. Turner 12/14
Dan Turner has been an editorial editor or writer with the LA Times since 2004, "Not another gun control diatribe" http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-guns-connecticut-20121214,0,404849.story
President Obama is a master at this kind of bait-and-switch tactic
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controls and, yes, gun control. Smart politician. Disappointing leader. Huffington Post 3/10
Jennifer Bendery, Repoter, "Kevin McCarthy: ’I Wouldn’t Underestimate The House’s Ability To Pass The Immigration Bill’", http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/10/kevin-mccarthy-immigration_n_2848385.html
WASHINGTON — Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), the third-highest
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," McCarthy said. "He’ll pass bills that Republicans are moving forward." Labor doesn’t derail CIR—key insider knowledge, its exaggerated and they won’t risk getting the blame for derailing itBusiness Insider 3/22 (conclusion)
"A Huge Fight Between Big Business And Big Labor Is Threatening To Derail Immigration Reform" ~http://www.businessinsider.com/unions-business-immigration-reform-2013-3~~ mtc
The union federation and the chamber have been in talks for months, with the
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director of the pro-reform America’s Voice Education Fund, told TPM. Nakamura 3/22
David, The Washington Post, "Immigration reform impasse deepense between labor, business," 3/22/13 www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/03/22/immigration-reform-impasse-deepens-between-labor-business/
But Jeff Hauser, a spokesman for the AFL-CIO, said that the
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work on a written draft of the legislation over the next two weeks. USA Today 3/22
Susan Davis and Jackie Kucinich, USA Today, "Congress turns to domestic policy after budget battles," 3/22/13 www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/03/21/budget-congress-recess-immigration-guns/2006219/
Renewed interest in overhauling the nation’s immigration laws, and how or whether to create
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to again vote on increasing the debt ceiling, the nation’s borrowing authority. -conventional wisdom underestimates political capital theory
Beckman 10 – Professor of Political Science
Matthew N. Beckman, Professor of Political Science @ UC-Irvine, 2010, "Pushing the Agenda: Presidential Leadership in U.S. Lawmaking, 1953-2004," pg. 2-3
Developing presidential coalition building as a generalizable class of strategies is itself instructive, a
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is real, often substantial, and, to date, greatly underestimated. Beckman 10 – Professor of Political Science
Matthew N. Beckman, Professor of Political Science @ UC-Irvine, 2010, "Pushing the Agenda: Presidential Leadership in U.S. Lawmaking, 1953-2004," pg. 17
Even though Washington correspondents surely overestimate a sitting president’s potential sway in Congress, more
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and do) draw on to help build winning coalitions on Capitol Hill. German 12
Ben German, "Another DOE-backed solar panel company goes belly-up" The Hill, 6/28/12, http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/235409-another-doe-backed-solar-company-collapses
Abound Solar, a company that won a %24400 million Energy Department (DOE) loan guarantee in 2010 to manufacture advanced solar panels, is closing and filing for bankruptcy, according to DOE. Abound’s collapse follows last year’s demise of the solar company Solyndra and is sure to feed Republican attacks on White House green energy programs despite support for Abound’s loan from several GOP lawmakers ahead of its approval. Weinstein 12
Bernard L., Associate Director, Maguire Energy Institute at Southern Methodist University and George W. Bush Institute Fellow, Bipartisanship Elusive Without Realism, August 13, 2012, http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/08/finding-the-sweet-spot-biparti.php
But though America is "energy rich," we behave as though we’re "energy
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fiction. Unfortunately, that’s not likely to happen in the foreseeable future. Fox News 11 (March 15, 2011, "New Nuclear Plants in United States Less Palatable Politically After Japanese Disaster" http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/15/implications-nuclear-ax/
Just like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year put a
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nuclear power plans can continue," McCain told KFI-550 in Phoenix. |
| 03/29/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 3 | Opponent: | Judge: Donnelly 3/27
Kristin, Reporter and Author, "House group "very close" to putting forward immigration package", http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/03/27/house-group-very-close-to-putting-forward-immigration-package/
A House bipartisan group working on a comprehensive immigration bill is "very close"
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and this is the best opportunity we’ve had in generations," Yarmuth said. Harder 2/6
Amy, "In Washington, Energy and Climate Issues Get Shoved in the Closet" ~http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/power-play/in-washington-energy-and-climate-issues-get-shoved-in-the-closet-20130206~~ mtc
A week later, one senator, Republican Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, was standing
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panel, to move through Congress smaller bits of energy and environmental policy. Hirsch, 2/7
Michael Hirsch, National Journal, "There’s No Such Thing as Political Capital" 2013, http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/there-s-no-such-thing-as-political-capital-20130207
But the abrupt emergence of the immigration and gun-control issues illustrates how suddenly
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but to move. It’s your choice.¶ The future is wide open. ====CIR key to destroy Skolkovo====
Aervitz 10
~Irina Aervitz – writer for the Moscow News, "Yes to Silicon Valley – but whose?," 07/06/2010, http://www.mn.ru/comments/20100607/187864167.html~~
As more countries turn to innovation and technology to boost growth and competitiveness, President
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American investor, get on a plane and start living the American dream. ====Prevents Russian Bulava missiles ====
GMNR 9 – Translated Russian Military Journal
(Global Military: Global Military News and Report, November 4, 2009 http://www.global-military.com/u-s-media-said-the-latest-russian-submarine-launched-missile-is-a-waste-can-not-be-successfully-developed.html-http://www.global-military.com/u-s-media-said-the-latest-russian-submarine-launched-missile-is-a-waste-can-not-be-successfully-developed.html) U.S. Global strategic networks November 4, published an article entitled "
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the "Bulava" missile production to another for better weapons factories recommendations. ====Bulavas are key to Russia’s attempts to reestablish strategic deterrence – causes miscalculated nuclear war and extinction====
Engdahl 7
(F. William Engdahl, contributor to the Centre for Research on Globalization, February 20, 2007, "Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: Or, what happens when Cowboys don’t shoot straight like they used to… ," online: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=vaandaid=4873-http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=vaandaid=4873)
In December 2006, Putin told Russian journalists that deployment of the new Russian mobile
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irradiate the planet and, perhaps, end human civilization in the process.¶ ====Turns econ and heg====
Nye 12 Joseph S. Nye, a former US assistant secretary of defense and chairman of the US National Intelligence Council, is University Professor at Harvard University. "Immigration and American Power," December 10, Project Syndicate, http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/obama-needs-immigration-reform-to-maintain-america-s-strength-by-joseph-s—nye CAMBRIDGE – The United States is a nation of immigrants. Except for a small
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long way toward fulfilling his promise to maintain the strength of the US. |
| 03/29/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Text: The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia should issue a permanent injunction against restrictions on the production of crude oil on federal lands.The D.C. circuit has jurisdiction over federal agencies and empirically strikes down regulationsAdler 2K
Jonathan Adler is a senior fellow in environmental policy at the Competitive Enterprise¶ Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research and advocacy organization in Washington, D.C., where he¶ previously served as Director of Environmental Studies P o l i c y S t u d y N o . 2 6 9¶ No Intelligible Principles:¶ The EPA’s Record in Federal Court¶ http://reason.org/files/3217ecd7bf37b4ea6aa81d4dc9f59a26.pdf
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is
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, across the board, will fail to get through each hoop.41 Rossi 2K
JIM ROSSI is Associate Professor of State Administrative Procedure, Florida¶ State University College of Law; Visiting Associate Professor, University of Texas School of¶ Law, DOES THE SOLICITOR GENERAL ADVANTAGE¶ THWART THE RULE OF LAW IN THE¶ ADMINISTRATIVE STATE? http://www.law.fsu.edu/journals/lawreview/downloads/281/Rossi2.pdf
Linda Cohen and Matthew Spitzer’s study, The Government Litigant¶ Advantage,6 sheds
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in defining the rule of law in¶ administrative law practice and scholarship.¶ |
| 03/29/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Text: The United States federal government should reduce restrictions on the production of crude oil on continental land, the Atlantic OCS, the Pacific OCS, the Alaska OCS, and the Western Gulf of Mexico OCSWikipedia No Date ~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Continental_Shelf~~ The United States OCS has been divided into four leasing regions:~2~
Gulf of Mexico OCS Region
Atlantic OCS Region
Pacific OCS Region
Alaska OCS Region Katz 13—retired vice admiral, former commander of the Fifth Fleet
Doublas, "A Strong Navy" ~thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-a-budget/275395-a-strong-navy~ January 3 mtc
On the other hand, even with the increasingly austere fiscal climate unfolding, the
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to crises, to include humanitarian, no matter where they flare up. Expanded gas drilling destroys naval readiness— current leases don’t triggerWeiss 12—senior fellow @ Center for American Progress Action Fund
Daniel, "The American Energy Initiative" ~http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/green/report/2012/09/13/37822/the-american-energy-initiative-a-focus-on-the-outlook-for-achieving-north-american-energy-independence-within-the-decade/~~ September 13 mtc
Mid-Atlantic offshore drilling would interfere with national defense¶ There have been recent
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and administrative policies" according to recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office.
Roughead 7 — Admiral, US Navy, Chief of Naval Operations
Gary, James Conway, General, US Marine Corps, and Thad Allen, Admiral, US Coast Guard, "A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower," ~www.navy.mil/maritime/Maritimestrategy.pdf~ October
This strategy reaffirms the use of seapower to influence actions and activities at sea and
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ability to retaliate against aggressors conventionally, unconventionally, and with nuclear forces. |
| 03/29/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: A. Topical restrictions are prohibitions on place and amount.Sagar, Hongyan, Ananth, 2005
Ambuj Sagar, PhD materials science, Oliver Hongyan, PhD engineering, and Ananth, PhD physics, all 3 are research fellows, Kennedy School of Govt @ Harvard, 7 Vt. J. Envtl. L. 1
The energy sector encompasses activities relating to the production, conversion, and use of
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in industrial, residential, commercial, transportation and other end-uses. Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, 2013
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of: used as a function word to indicate the object of an action denoted or implied by the preceding noun love of nature NEED, 20012
National Energy Education Development Project, InfoBook Activities, need.org/needpdf/infobook_activities/PriInfo/SourcesP.pdf
We use many different energy sources to do¶ work for us. Energy sources
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, coal is¶ the number one energy source for generating¶ electricity. Anell, 1989
Chairman, WTO panel¶ "To examine, in the light of the relevant GATT provisions, the matter referred to the¶ CONTRACTING PARTIES by the United States in document L/6445 and to make such findings as will¶ assist the CONTRACTING PARTIES in making the recommendations or in giving the rulings provided¶ for in Article XXIII:2." 3. On 3 April 1989, the Council was informed that agreement had been reached on¶ the following composition of the Panel (C/164): Composition Chairman: Mr. Lars E.R. Anell Members: Mr.¶ Hugh W. Bartlett Mrs. Carmen Luz Guarda CANADA - IMPORT RESTRICTIONS ON ICE CREAM AND¶ YOGHURT Report of the Panel adopted at the Forty-fifth Session of the CONTRACTING PARTIES on 5¶ December 1989 (L/6568 - 36S/68)¶ http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/88icecrm.pdf
The United States argued that Canada had failed to demonstrate that it effectively restricted domestic
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to what the situation would be in the absence of all government measures. Doub, 76
Energy Regulation: A Quagmire for Energy Policy Annual Review of Energy Vol. 1
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. He was born September 3, 1931, in Cumberland, Md.)
FERS began with the recognition that federal energy policy must result from concerted efforts in
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agencies. Unfortunately, this example is the rule rather than the exception. |
| 03/29/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: UPI 2/8
United Press International "U.S. announces offshore oil, gas auction"~http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2013/02/08/US-announces-offshore-oil-gas-auction/UPI-19131360323937/~~ February 8 mtc
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) — All unleased areas in the U
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in U.S. territorial waters of the central Gulf of Mexico. Glut now – the problem is lack of refining capacity – which the plan doesn’t solveSimon 13
Isac, "The Next Oil Glut Investors Need to Be Aware Of," http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/01/16/the-next-oil-glut-investors-need-to-be-aware-of.aspx
The booming shale oil production in the North America resulted in an oil glut in
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refineries to process most of the heavy, bituminous crude oil it produces . This will open up global supply and collapse pricesAFP 13
"Oil Glut Ahead? US Oil Output to Reach 26-year High," http://www.industryweek.com/competitiveness/oil-glut-ahead-us-oil-output-reach-26-year-high
U.S. oil production will jump 23% over the next two years
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drop to %24105 on average this year and %2499 in 2014. Henderson 12-12
Greg, "U.S. oil glut makes %2450 oil a possibility," http://www.cattlenetwork.com/e-newsletters/drovers-daily/183229202.html
America’s booming oil industry could help push oil prices lower over the next few years
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high as growth in global oil supplies lags population growth and economic output. 1NC Squo Solves Gonzalez 12
Angela, "Expanded Oil Drilling Helps U.S. Wean Itself From Mideast " ~http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304441404577480952719124264.html~~ June 27 mtc
HOUSTON—America will halve its reliance on Middle East oil by the end of
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car engines and a growing supply of renewable fuel will help curb demand. —newest
—answers their "spending" warrant
—speaks to enemies and allies
Wallace 3-30 (That’s tomorrow in Australia) - political reporter based in The Australian’s Melbourne bureau. In a 10-year career in journalism he has covered four elections
Rick, "Solid moves show pivot to Asia not rhetoric," The Australian, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/solid-moves-show-pivot-to-asia-not-rhetoric/story-e6frg6so-1226609216240
DOUBTERS of Washington’s commitment to its Asian allies may be tough to find this week
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show Beijing and other Asian powers it is in the region to stay. Iraq and Afghanistan withdrawal solves their warrantUPI 3-22
"Asia-Pacific pivot not just about military," http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2013/03/22/Asia-Pacific-pivot-not-just-about-military/UPI-46731363967998/
A U.S. defensive pivot to the Asia-Pacific entails more than shifting military assets to the region, U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said.¶ The U.S. Defense Department is changing its focus to the Asia-Pacific as military engagement with Iraq has ended and the Afghan war draws to a close. 1NC Must Read (Foreign Entanglement/Relations) Levi 12—energy and environment senior fellow @ CFR
Michael, "Oil and Gas Euphoria Is Getting Out of Hand" ~http://blogs.cfr.org/levi/2012/05/07/oil-and-gas-euphoria-is-getting-out-of-hand/~~ May 7 mtc
This sort of assertion has become increasingly commonplace among smart people. A few weeks
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world market, even if those were produced from underneath our own soil. ESLC 12—Energy Security Leadership Council
The New American Oil Boom: Implications for Energy Security pg 34 mtc
Rising oil production will not mitigate the foreign and military challenges of U.S
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security of this region or any other region critical to global oil flows.
1nc No Alliance Collapse Tow 7 – 1ac evidence
Tow 7 – William T. Tow is Professor, Department of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University. AND* Amitav Acharya is Professor of Global Governance, Department of Politics, University of Bristol. December 2007, "Obstinate or obsolete? The US alliance structure in the Asia–Pacific" ips.cap.anu.edu.au/ir/pubs/work_papers/07-4.pdf
The above observation leads to a third explanation for US bilateral alliance persistence in the
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seas—an activity North Korea perceives as directly aimed against itself. 59 Yongian 12
Zheng Yongian, Director of the East Asian Institute- National University of Singapore, 3-19-2012, "Cultural Reasons China Won’t Go to War with the US" The Strait Times, http://newshub.nus.edu.sg/news/1203/PDF/CULTURAL-st-19mar-pA20.pdf
After the United States’ declaration of a "return" to Asia, Sino-
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own grand tradition is a peaceful China, be it authoritarian or democratic. Mead 12 – James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College
Walter Russell, 1-18-12, "Energy Revolution 3: The New American Century" http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/07/18/energy-revolution-3-the-new-
. ¶ Depending on the size of China’s unconventional domestic reserves (and some analysts
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to risk cutting off its maritime connections to the rest of the world. Rosecrance et al 10
(Richard, Political Science Professor @ Cal and Senior Fellow @ Harvard’s Belfer Center and Former Director @ Burkle Center of IR @ UCLA, and Jia Qingguo, PhD Cornell, Professor and Associate Dean of School of International Studies @ Peking University, "Delicately Poised: Are China and the US Heading for Conflict?" Global Asia 4.4, http://www.globalasia.org/l.php?c=e251-http://www.globalasia.org/l.php?c=e251)
Will China and the US Go to War? If one accepts the previous analysis
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to territorial expansion and war with the US? The answer is no. 1NC NK Kang, prof of IR @ USC, ’10
David, 12/31/2010. http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/koreas-new-cold-war-4653
However, despite dueling artillery barrages and the sinking of a warship, pledges of
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and muscle-flexing aside—keep smaller incidents in their proper perspective. Asia Prolif Asian proliferation is stable—arsenals will be small, survivable and stable. All the conditions Sagan references don’t obtainCha in ’1—Assoc Professor of Government @Georgetown
~Victor, Assoc. Professor of Government at Georgetown, "The second nuclear age: Proliferation pessimism versus sober optimism in South Asia and East Asia", Journal of Strategic Studies, Dec. 2001~
These arguments also fail to comprehend how the bipolar superpower experience has greatly prejudiced our
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assume a necessary causal connection between small programs and de-stabilizing outcomes. 1nc AT: Malacca Sakamoto 8 – Professor of International Law
http://www.scj.go.jp/en/sca/pdf/8th/o4.pdf
Thank you very much for your insightful and provocative presentation, Prof. Beckman..
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State but also stakeholders have to share costs in a fair balanced manner.
1NC AT Heg—AT Solves Conflict No correlation between hegemony and resolving conflicts.Maher 10—PhD Candidate in Political Science @ Brown
Richard, Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science department at Brown University, The Paradox of American Unipolarity: Why the United States Will Be Better Off in a Post-Unipolar World, 11/12/2010 Orbis, ScienceDirect
Primacy: The Ability to Influence Outcomes. The other way to think about power
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, or seek to decrease their reliance or dependence on American security guarantees. 1NC AT Heg—AT Decline Transition War Fettweis 10—assistant professor of political science @ Tulane
Christopher, Survival, Volume 52, Issue 2, April
One potential explanation for the growth of global peace can be dismissed fairly quickly:
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to reach the conclusion that world peace and US military expenditure are unrelated. Transition wars will not occur – the international system is coalition-based, it is not a dyadic transition and international law solves.Ikenberry ’11 – Professor of Politics and International Affairs @ Princeton
G. John Ikenberry, the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. "A World of Our Making". Democracy A Journal of Ideas. Issue ~%2321, Summer 2011. http://www.democracyjournal.org/21/a-world-of-our-making-1.php?page=1
A second feature of this order is the coalition-based character of its leadership
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will lead China deeper into the existing order rather than away from it. 1NC AT Econ MPX Jervis 11 – Professor of Political Science @ Columbia
Robert, Professor in the Department of Political Science and School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, December 2011, "Force in Our Times," Survival, Vol. 25, No. 4, p. 403-425
Even if war is still seen as evil, the security community could be dissolved
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times bring about greater economic conflict, it will not make war thinkable. Empirical studies show no causal relationship between economic decline and warMiller 1 – prof of economics
Morris Miller 2001, Professor of Economics, Poverty: A Cause of War?, http://archive.peacemagazine.org/v17n1p08.htm
Library shelves are heavy with studies focused on the correlates and causes of war.
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by increasing repression (thereby using one form of violence to abort another)." Boehmer 7 – associate prof of poly sci @ UT-El Paso
Charles Boehmer, Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science @ University of Texas at El Paso. "The Effects of Economic Crisis, Domestic Discord, and State Efficacy on the Decision to Initiate Interstate Conflict". Politics and Policy. Volume 35, Issue 4, Pages 774-809. Wiley InterScience. December 7, 2007.
I have theorized in this study that economic growth should be positively related to militarized
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appear secure, meaning they face manageable levels of internal protest and rebellion. Boehmer 7 – associate prof of poly sci @ UT-El Paso
Charles Boehmer, Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science @ University of Texas at El Paso. "The Effects of Economic Crisis, Domestic Discord, and State Efficacy on the Decision to Initiate Interstate Conflict". Politics and Policy. Volume 35, Issue 4, Pages 774-809. Wiley InterScience. December 7, 2007.
Scholars such as MacFie (1938) and Blainey (1988) have nevertheless questioned
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robust cross-national explanations and tests of economic growth and interstate conflict. 1NC Account Deficit—No Solve Rusnak ’12
Karl, writer for Economyincrisis.org non-profit corporation dedicated to educating legislators and the American public and publish critical but overlooked facts and figures, keeping our readers up-to-date with daily articles regarding the U.S. economy. B.A., Economics and Political Science, The Ohio State University. May 9. Drilling Won’t Fix Our Trade Deficit
In a recent post on Forbes.com, contributor Tim Worstall put forth the
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fix our economy than pretending that we can drill our way to prosperity. 1NC Account Deficit—No Impact Fisher Investments ’11 Gordon 12
Stephen Gordon, 9-11-2012, "What does a trade deficit mean for GDP? Not much.," http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/09/11/what-does-a-trade-deficit-mean-for-gdp-not-much/
Statistics Canada’s latest release for the international merchandise trade balance shows that the trade deficit
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the fact that the word "deficit" is used shouldn’t alarm you. 1NC Jobs Levi ’11
Michael Levi is David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, Foreign Affairs, "New energy jobs won’t solve the U.S. unemployment problem", http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/19/new-energy-jobs-wont-solve-the-u-s-unemployment-problem/
U.S. President Barack Obama and the leading Republican candidates for president don’t
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in sectors that collectively make up less than five percent of the economy. Levi 12
Michael, Senior Fellow at CFR for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, July/August, "Think Again: The American Energy Boom" http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/06/18/think_again_the_american_energy_boom?page=full-http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/06/18/think_again_the_american_energy_boom?page=full
"The U.S. Energy Boom Will Create Millions of New Jobs."¶
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another decade, these will mostly come at the expense of jobs elsewhere. 1NC Prices—Supply/Drilling Bewig ’12
Matt, Reporter, August 13th, All Gov, "CBO Says Drilling on Federal Land Won’t Net Much Money or Energy", http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/cbo-says-drilling-on-federal-land-wont-net-much-money-or-energy?news=844911
It turns out that the slogan "drill, baby, drill" ought to
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.58 — exactly the opposite result predicted by supporters of more drilling. ESLC 12—Energy Security Leadership Council
The New American Oil Boom: Implications for Energy Security pg 21
The notion of energy independence is based on a simple idea: that the United
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are set in a global market, and the volatility of oil prices. Jones ’12
Forrest, Reporter, Money News, "Krugman: More Oil Drilling Won’t Help Economy by Creating Jobs", http://www.moneynews.com/Markets/Krugman-Oil-Drilling-Economy/2012/03/16/id/432834
Drilling for more oil in the United States won’t lower prices at the pump and
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," Geithner told the Economic Club of New York, according to Reuters. 1NC Manufacturing—Oil Not Key Verleger 12— visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and was director of the Office of Energy Policy at the US Treasury in the Carter administration
Philip, "The coming US boom and how shale gas will fuel it" ~http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/09fbb2ac-87b8-11e1-ade2-00144feab49a.html~~%23axzz2KHYJuFvm~~ April 23 mtc
Ten years from today, the CEA and Federal Reserve chairman will again celebrate a
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-cost energy producers. Every other country relies on the Exxon type. 1NC Manufacutring—Worker Shortage Alden 12 - Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow @ CFR
(Edward Alden, Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), specializing in U.S. competitiveness, 2/29/12, "How to Tackle the Manufacturing Skills Shortage" http://blogs.cfr.org/renewing-america/2012/02/29/how-to-tackle-the-manufacturing-skills-shortage/)
Is there a skills shortage that is hampering the still modest, but encouraging recovery
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are again looking to expand, they cannot find the workers they need. Asian War Bitzinger and Desker ’8 – Senior Fellow @ International Studies Perspectives
Richard and Barry, PhD from UCLA and Senior Fellow @ International Studies Perspectives, Dean of the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Why East Asian War is Unlikely, Survival-http://www.informaworld.com.www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/smpp/title~content=t713659919~db=all, Volume 50-http://www.informaworld.com.www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/smpp/title~content=t713659919~db=all~tab=issueslist~branches=50, Issue 6 -http://www.informaworld.com.www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/smpp/title~content=g906414492~db=allDecember 2008 , pages 105 – 128
The Asia-Pacific region can be regarded as a zone of both relative insecurity
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this suggests that war in Asia - while not inconceivable - is unlikely. |
| 03/29/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Johnson, 2008
Kent Johnson, Associate Professor of Logic %26 Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine, Philosophy Compass 3/1 (2008): 119–134, An Overview of Lexical Semantics,
What about the part-whole construction? This construction has the¶ form Subject
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action, perhaps one requiring contact, must be performed on the object. Restriction is a noun for the verb "restrict"- you can diminish behavior that restricts (verb), but you cannot diminish restrictions (nouns). To reduce restrictions, they must eliminate at least one.Words %26 Phrases 2004
v37A p411
Legislature power to make the discrimination ex-cluding certain securities from the list of those available for investment, the word "restriction" meaning "limitation or confinement within bounds," etc., and the word "restrict" meaning "to restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine."—State v. Stewart, 161 P. 309, 53 Mont. 18. US Code, 9
(26 CFR 54.4980F-1, lexis)
§ 54.4980F-1 Notice requirements for certain pension plan amendments significantly reducing the rate of future benefit accrual. (c) Elimination or cessation of benefits. For purposes of this section, the terms reduce or reduction include eliminate or cease or elimination or cessation. -election cycles ensure uncertainty
Anderson 9/12
(Jared, "The Flawed US Energy Policy Discussion," http://energy.aol.com/2012/09/12/the-flawed-us-energy-policy-discussion-http://energy.aol.com/2012/09/12/the-flawed-us-energy-policy-discussion, accessed 9-15-12, CMM)Are the energy industry and the business of politics incompatible?
It could be the simplest explanation for why the US does not have a comprehensive
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and is too complex to be evaluated in two or four year segments. |
| 03/29/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: 2NC Squo Solves Gramp and LaFave 12
Kathleen Gramp and Jeff LaFave, CBO Budget Analysis Division, August 2012, http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/08-09-12_Oil-and-Gas_Leasing.pdf
Other than the temporary ban on leasing in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, there
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unless a future Administration chooses to restart the process before that plan expires. Weiss 12—director Climate Strategy @ Center for American Progress Action Fund,
Daniel J., "Dept. Of Interior Finds 72 Percent Of Offshore Acreage Leased By The Oil Industry Is ’Idle’" ~http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/05/15/484558/dept-of-interior-finds-nearly-two-thirds-of-acreage-leased-by-the-oil-industry-lies-idle/-http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/05/15/484558/dept-of-interior-finds-nearly-two-thirds-of-acreage-leased-by-the-oil-industry-lies-idle/~~ May 15 mtc The Department of Interior released an updated analysis of fossil fuel leases today, finding
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less oil in 2011 than in 2006 — all while making record profits. 2NC MPX Boehmer 7 – associate prof of poly sci @ UT-El Paso
Charles Boehmer, Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science @ University of Texas at El Paso. "The Effects of Economic Crisis, Domestic Discord, and State Efficacy on the Decision to Initiate Interstate Conflict". Politics and Policy. Volume 35, Issue 4, Pages 774-809. Wiley InterScience. December 7, 2007.
Scholars such as MacFie (1938) and Blainey (1988) have nevertheless questioned
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robust cross-national explanations and tests of economic growth and interstate conflict. Asia Shuo 12
Wang, "Closer Look: Why War Is Not an Option" ~http://english.caixin.com/2012-09-12/100436770.html~~ September 12 mtc
There won’t be a war in East Asia.¶ The United States has five military
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is no possibility of a war in East Asia, not even remotely. Economic Times 12
"Japan,China military conflict seen unlikely despite islets row" ~http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-09-24/news/34062139_1_chinese-surveillance-ships-diaoyu-senkaku~~ September 24 mtc
TOKYO: Hawkish Chinese commentators have urged Beijing to prepare for military conflict with Japan
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to manage the row before it becomes a full-blown military confrontation.
Iran International Crisis Group 2-25-13
Middle East Report N°138 25 February 2013
http://www.crisisgroup.org/~~/media/Files/Middle%20East%20North%20Africa/Iran%20Gulf/Iran/138-spider-web-the-making-and-unmaking-of-iran-sanctions.pdf
An assessment of the pattern of mutual escalation during the past several years shows that
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¶ Iran firing back", The New York Times, 23 October 2012. International Crisis Group 2-25-13
Middle East Report N°138 25 February 2013
http://www.crisisgroup.org/~~/media/Files/Middle%20East%20North%20Africa/Iran%20Gulf/Iran/138-spider-web-the-making-and-unmaking-of-iran-sanctions.pdf
Many broad lessons can be learned from the international community’s long experience¶ with sanctioning
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regime¶ cronies (but also some rebel groups) can profit.258 International Crisis Group 2-25-13
Middle East Report N°138 25 February 2013
http://www.crisisgroup.org/~~/media/Files/Middle%20East%20North%20Africa/Iran%20Gulf/Iran/138-spider-web-the-making-and-unmaking-of-iran-sanctions.pdf
Vali Nasr, a former adviser to the U.S. State Department,
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line US Policy tips Iran toward belligerence", Bloomberg, 5 January 2012. Its unique—They are not aggressing and not proliferating nowEdwards 2/27/13
Alex Edwards is Contributing Editor at The Majalla. He gained a master’s degree in International Relations and the Middle East from Durham University before training as a journalist. He is currently a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics, An Enduring Stalemate ¶ There is no end in sight in the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program¶ http://www.majalla.com/eng/2013/02/article55238711-http://www.majalla.com/eng/2013/02/article55238711
One of the senators on the panel declared that Iran poses an "existential threat
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pragmatic for the most part, and geared towards securing Iranian interests.¶ ¶ 1NC AT Heg—AT Decline Transition War Fettweis 10—assistant professor of political science @ Tulane
Christopher, Survival, Volume 52, Issue 2, April
One potential explanation for the growth of global peace can be dismissed fairly quickly:
AND
to reach the conclusion that world peace and US military expenditure are unrelated. Transition wars will not occur – the international system is coalition-based, it is not a dyadic transition and international law solves.Ikenberry ’11 – Professor of Politics and International Affairs @ Princeton
G. John Ikenberry, the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. "A World of Our Making". Democracy A Journal of Ideas. Issue ~%2321, Summer 2011. http://www.democracyjournal.org/21/a-world-of-our-making-1.php?page=1
A second feature of this order is the coalition-based character of its leadership
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will lead China deeper into the existing order rather than away from it. Mueller in ’10
John Mueller, professor of political science at Ohio State University. "Calming Our Nuclear Jitters". Issues in Science and Technology. 1/1/2010. Vol.26,Iss.2;p.58-66. Academic Search Premiere.
Those who warn about the likelihood of a terrorist bomb contend that a terrorist group
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to pull off the deed drop to one in well over three billion. |
| 03/29/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: MBS 12
Mays Business School, "Immigrant Entrepreneurs May Speed Up Our Economic Recovery," http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/03/22/immigration-entrepreneurs-may-speed-up-our-economic-recovery/
The StartUp Visa Act—which was first introduced in 2010 after being debated in
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the House Majority Leader may signal a willingness to take this issue on. Turns competitiveness and econTrujillo and Melgoza 2/21
Mr. Trujillo is chairman of the Trujillo Group, LLC and co-chairman of the Latino Donor Collaborative. Mr. Melgoza is the CEO of Geoscape International Inc. The Economic—and Demographic—Case for Immigration Reform, 2/21/13, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323951904578290471589119346.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Since the November election, there has been much talk in Washington and on the
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a coherent and enforceable immigration policy is in place and here to stay. Donnelly 3/27
Kristin, Reporter and Author, "House group "very close" to putting forward immigration package", http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/03/27/house-group-very-close-to-putting-forward-immigration-package/ Martin 3/28
Gary, Reporter, CT Post, "Immigration reform gaining support in Congress", http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Immigration-reform-gaining-support-in-Congress-4393187.php
WASHINGTON — A Republican Party in desperate search for relevance to Latino voters. An
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a few near-death experiences along the way," said Frank Sharry, Holman 3/21
Kwame, "Progress on Immigration Reform Leaves Rep. Gutierrez Elated and Wary" ~http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/03/progress-on-immigration-reform-leaves-leading-advocate-elated-wary.html~~ mtc
This week, the Republican National Committee, Sen. Rand Paul, R-
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congressional recess. Legislation could arrive on the president’s desk before summer’s end. Nocera 3/24
Kate, Politico, "Chuck Schumer optimistic on immigration," http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/chuck-schumer-immigration-89263.html
Despite leaving Washington without a final deal on immigration reform, Sen. Chuck Schumer
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D-N.J.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) Business Insider 3/22
"A Huge Fight Between Big Business And Big Labor Is Threatening To Derail Immigration Reform" ~http://www.businessinsider.com/unions-business-immigration-reform-2013-3~~ mtc
.¶ Underscoring the increased intensity of talks is the surprising progress lawmakers have made in
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— or risk being saddled with the blame if reform dies again.¶Thumpers Reuters 3/28
Staff Writer, Reporter, "Organized labor says closer to deal on immigration reform", http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/28/usa-immigration-wages-idUSL2N0CK1VX20130328
(Reuters) - U.S. labor unions said on Thursday they were
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the flow of workers based on those factors, the labor group said. Washington Post 3/23
"White House’s outreach is yielding modest benefits, lawmakers say" ~http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-houses-outreach-is-yielding-modest-benefits-lawmakers-say/2013/03/23/676dad42-924c-11e2-bdea-e32ad90da239_story.html~~ mtc
Two weeks after launching a high-profile charm offensive targeting Capitol Hill, President
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the most part, these conversations are taking place outside congressional leadership circles. Gun control and budget doesn’t cause fights – 1nc hersh – more evBarrett 3/20
Paul, sistant managing editor and senior writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, is author, most recently, of GLOCK: The Rise of America’s Gun. , "Five Hard Realities for Gun-Control Proponents," 3/20/13 www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-20/five-hard-realities-for-gun-control-proponents
5. The upshot: When the Senate reassembles, Reid will permit floor debate
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the background-check provision will get deferred. Over to the House. Davis 3-22
Susan and Jackie Kucinich, "Congress turns to domestic policy after budget battles," USA Today, http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/03/21/budget-congress-recess-immigration-guns/2006219/
A brief reprieve in the fiscal battles between President Obama and a divided Congress will
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likely to unveil a framework for comprehensive immigration changes in April as well. Harder 2/6
Amy, "In Washington, Energy and Climate Issues Get Shoved in the Closet" ~http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/power-play/in-washington-energy-and-climate-issues-get-shoved-in-the-closet-20130206~~ mtc Hirsch, 2/7
Michael Hirsch, National Journal, "There’s No Such Thing as Political Capital" 2013, http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/there-s-no-such-thing-as-political-capital-20130207 Hesson 3/27
Ted, 3 Reasons Why an Immigration Reform Timeline Matters, 3/27/13, http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Politics/reasons-immigration-reform-timeline-matters/story?id=18822563~~%23.UVWlUVuc5B9
The November presidential election — where Obama housed Romney among Latinos, taking 71 percent
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this, but the calculus of the members may start to get obscured." CSM 3/14
David Grant, Reporter, "CPAC surprise: optimism about immigration reform", http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2013/0314/CPAC-surprise-optimism-about-immigration-reform
A top Republican pollster and a key House conservative on the immigration-reform debate
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"It’s kind of a perfect storm of opinion-shifting since November." Domestic oil and gas are highly partisan and unpopularStricherz 6/24
Mark, Reporter, The Colorado Observer, "House Approves Gardner Energy Bill Despite Obama Opposition", http://thecoloradoobserver.com/2012/06/house-approves-gardner-energy-bill-despite-obama-opposition/
WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives approved legislation Thursday that seeks to boost domestic oil
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air safety. The statement added that President Obama would veto the bill. Kemp 2/6
John, Reuters analyst, Murkowski’s energy report shows scope for compromise: Kemp, 2/6/13, http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/06/column-kemp-us-energyreport-idUSL5N0B67QI20130206
Ultras in his own party will urge the president to seize this moment to cement
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will only encourage the president’s opponents to block other parts of his agenda. ====Causes fights====
Geman and Colman 11/12
"Overnight energy: Congress returns to battles over wind, oil tax breaks," 11/12/12 thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/267415-overnight-energy-congress-returns-to-battles-over-wind-oil-tax-breaks
Oil industry ramps up tax credit defense ¶ The American Petroleum Institute (API)
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out before lawmakers dig into broad tax reform expected to begin in 2013. Hirsh 2/7
Michael, chief correspondent, There’s No Such Thing as Political Capital, 2/7/13, http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/there-s-no-such-thing-as-political-capital-20130207
But the abrupt emergence of the immigration and gun-control issues illustrates how suddenly
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change positions to get on the winning side. It’s a bandwagon effect." Sink 3/26
Justin, Reporter, The Hill, "After taking hit in the polls, Obama pivots back to immigration reform", http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/290249-after-taking-hit-in-the-polls-obama-pivots-back-to-immigration
The White House hopes to bolster President Obama’s political standing by shifting attention from the
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bad blood among the House GOP that direct presidential involvement drives away support." Brune, 1/21
Newsday, Tom Brune, "Inaugural address aims to set a tone for future" January 21, 2013, lexis
With strong public approval ratings and political capital from his recent election, Obama has
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his dealings with congressional Republicans, said GOP strategist Michael Dawidziak of Bohemia. Gibbs, 2009
Christine Gibbs, Illinois Wesleyan University, "Presidential Success in Congress: Factors that Determine the President’s Ability to Influcence Congressional Voting" google
It has been found by some that popularity has no significant impact on l egislative
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a marginal effect" (Bond, Fleisher and Wood 2003,95). Hennessey 3/26
Kathleen, Reporter, LA Times, "Act on immigration, Obama urges;
At a ceremony for new citizens, he prods a Senate group to finish a reform bill.", Lexis
In January, Obama threatened to send his own bill to Congress if the group
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path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, his key requirement for any bill. Disp X2 Juliano, March 20
Nick Juliano, E%26E reporter, "White House opposition to drilling dims prospects for energy trust" 2013, http://eenews.net/public/EEDaily/2013/03/20/1
The proposal already was facing resistance in Congress — especially among House Republicans — and
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it, they’re going to have to cross one of those two bridges." Jenkins, March 19
Jesse Jenkins is a Featured Writer and Digital Community Strategist at TheEnergyCollective.com, "How Serious Are President Obama and Congressional Republicans About an Energy Security Trust Fund?" 2013, http://theenergycollective.com/jessejenkins/200436/how-serious-are-president-obama-and-congressional-republicans-about-energy-secur
With that in mind, the thing that worries me about President Obama’s proposed Energy Security Trust as it is difficult to tell how serious he and his administration are about this concept — or how likely this proposal is to work its way through a politically charged Congress. Empirically nominations don’t hurt Obama/presidents
Attacks backfire for GOP
(Keep this card as generic AT X nomination thumps – empirically nominations cannot diminish PC)
Hutchinson 12/4
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. He is a frequent political commentator on MSNBC and a weekly co-host of the Al Sharpton Show on American Urban Radio Network. He is the author of How Obama Governed: The Year of Crisis and Challenge. He is an associate editor of New America Media. He is the host of the weekly Hutchinson Report on KPFK-Radio and the Pacifica Network.
"Rice Nomination Fight Won’t Drain President Obama’s Political Capital"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchinson/rice-nomination-fight-obama_b_2229435.html
It won’t hurt him. All presidents from time to time face some backlash from
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the GOP’s fulminations about her, will drain any of Obama’s political capital. Klein 3-22
Ezra, "Wonkbook: A gun control deal is in trouble," http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/22/wonkbook-a-gun-control-deal-is-in-trouble/
Schumer says Senate is nearly ready for immigration reform. "A key member of
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measures." David Nakamura and Rosalind S. Helderman in The Washington Post. ====Immigration top of agenda and will pass====
USA Today 3/22
Susan Davis and Jackie Kucinich, USA Today, "Congress turns to domestic policy after budget battles," 3/22/13 www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/03/21/budget-congress-recess-immigration-guns/2006219/
Both chambers have made more progress toward consensus on immigration. The Senate is likely
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, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights of Los Angeles. Strauss 3/14
Daniel, Reporter, The Hill, "Obama calls support for immigration reform good for GOP, lawmakers say", http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/288115-gop-lawmakers-obama-said-supporting-immigration-reform-will-help-gop
During the meeting with the House Republican caucus, Obama told lawmakers present that passing
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month window for getting "anything really substantive done" on immigration reform. Barshefsky et al. 8
Charlene Barshefsky and James T. Hill, Chairs and Shannon K. O’Neil, Project Director. "U.S.-Latin America
Relations: A New Direction for a New Reality". Council On Foreign Relations. Independent Task Force Report No. 60. 2008. Online.
Finally, U.S. immigration policy affects Mexico more than any other country
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States, and encouragement of legal circular migration, especially for agricultural workers. Dresser ’9
Denise Dresser, LA Times, a contributing writer to Opinion, is a columnist for the newspaper Reforma, "Reality check for U.S.-Mexico relations," January 15, 2009, http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jan/15/opinion/oe-dresser15
On Monday, President-elect Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon engaged in
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executions" is evidence of a firm hand, not an ineffectual one. Debusmann 9 – senior World Affairs columnist
Bernd, "Among top U.S. fears: A failed Mexican state" New York Times, January 9 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/world/americas/09iht-letter.1.19217792.html-http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/world/americas/09iht-letter.1.19217792.html
What do Pakistan and Mexico have in common? They figure in the nightmares of
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demand an American response based on the serious implications for homeland security alone." |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: TowsonJR | Judge: Ignatieff 4—Prof of Human Rights @ Harvard
Michael, Lesser Evils p. 20-1
As for moral perfectionism, this would be the doctrine that a liberal state should
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, and thus respect for one right might lead us to betray another. Talisse 5—Professor of Philosophy @Vandy
Robert, Philosophy %26 Social Criticism, Deliberativist responses to activist challenges, 31(4) p. 429-431
The argument thus far might appear to turn exclusively upon different conceptions of what reasonableness
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of justice. Insofar as the activist denies this, he is unreasonable. And effective deliberative discourse is the lynchpin to solving all existential problemsChristian O. Lundberg 10 Professor of Communications @ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Tradition of Debate in North Carolina" in Navigating Opportunity: Policy Debate in the 21st Century By Allan D. Louden, p311
The second major problem with the critique that identifies a naivety in articulating debate and
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with the existential challenges to democracy ~in an~ increasingly complex world. Morson 4
http://www.flt.uae.ac.ma/elhirech/baktine/0521831059.pdf~~%23page=331-http://www.flt.uae.ac.ma/elhirech/baktine/0521831059.pdf
Northwestern Professor, Prof. Morson’s work ranges over a variety of areas: literary theory (especially narrative); the history of ideas, both Russian and European; a variety of literary genres (especially satire, utopia, and the novel); and his favorite writers — Chekhov, Gogol, and, above all, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. He is especially interested in the relation of literature to philosophy.
A belief in truly dialogic ideological becoming would lead to schools that were quite different
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most important thing. What we must do is keep the conversation going. shutting down deliberation devolves into totalitarianism and reinscribes oppressionMorson 4
http://www.flt.uae.ac.ma/elhirech/baktine/0521831059.pdf~~%23page=331
Northwestern Professor, Prof. Morson’s work ranges over a variety of areas: literary theory (especially narrative); the history of ideas, both Russian and European; a variety of literary genres (especially satire, utopia, and the novel); and his favorite writers — Chekhov, Gogol, and, above all, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. He is especially interested in the relation of literature to philosophy. Bakhtin viewed the whole process of "ideological" (in the sense of ideas
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proceed in much the same way, in an ongoing spiral of intolerance.
And, lack of clash turns the case- without deliberative engagement of debate, hierarchical dominance and exclusion are more likelyTonn 5—Prof of Communication @ Maryland
Mari Boor, Taking Conversation, Dialogue, and Therapy Public, Rhetoric %26 Public Affairs 8.3 (2005) 405-430, muse
This widespread recognition that access to public deliberative processes and the ballot is a baseline
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therapeutic conversation and dialogue jeopardizes the very pulse and lifeblood of democracy itself. Turn—you exclude the neg and choosing the CONTENT for debate doesn’t create exclusionGert Biesta et al 9, professor of Education and Director of Research at the School of Education, University of Stirling, Susan Verducci , Assistant Professor at the Humanities Department at San José State University, and Michael S. Katz, professor of philosophy and education at San Jose State, Education, Democracy and the Moral Life, 2009, p. 105-107
This example not only shows why the issue of inclusion is so prominent in the
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is to be done remains central" (ibid., p.168). Webb 06
Rebecca K. Webb, Ph.D. College of San Mateo Radical Pedagogy (2006) From Romantic Humanist to Postmodern Pedagogy: How the Alien Becomes Normative in Contemporary Education http://radicalpedagogy.icaap.org/content/issue8_2/webb.html-http://radicalpedagogy.icaap.org/content/issue8_2/webb.html
The problem with the transference of a critical theory has received much necessary critical examination
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is studied, the design of assignments or the assessment of student work. |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: TowsonJR | Judge: THE AFFIRMATIVE IS A FUNDAMENTAL MISREADING OF POLITICS AND THE REPRODUCTION OF SOCIAL RELATIONS. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS THE ’BIOPOLITICAL STATE’ THAT SEEKS TO MANAGE AND CONTROL POPULATIONS FOR THE SAKE OF POWER. THE STATE AND CAPITAL MOVE HAND IN GLOVE—ONE CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT THE OTHER. ONLY A TOTAL DISTANCE FROM THE MODERN STATE CAN ALLOW FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF CAPITAL. OTHERWISE WHAT IS PUSHED OUT THE DOOR ONLY COMES BACK IN THROUGH THE WINDOWMeszaros 95
~Istavan, Prof. Emeritus at Sussex, Beyond Capital: Towards a Theory of Transition~P. 65
The modern state as the comprehensive political command structure of capital — is both the
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faithful to the Marxian concern with the ’withering away’ of the state. gimenez 2001
~Martha, Prof. Of Sociology at CU Boulder, "Marxism and Class, Gender and Race", Race Gender and Class, Vol. 8, p. online~
There are many competing theories of race, gender, class, American society,
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what happens in social interactions grounded in "intersectionality" is class power. Cloud in ’01
Dana. Laboring under the sign of the new. Management Communication Quarterly, Nov.
Robert McChesney (1996) aptly summarized¶ the problem:¶ The socialist political project
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¶ workers greater control over their compensation for and conditions¶ of work. RACE AND CLASS ARE DIALECTICALLY CONJOINED IN THE REPRODUCTION OF CAPITALIST RELATIONS—CAPITALISM RACIALIZES SUBJECTS TO ENTRENCH COMPETITION AND DESTROY UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS AS WELL AS SUSTAINS WHITE RACISM AS A METHOD OF PAPERING OVER CONTRADICTIONS. ALL OF THIS IS USED TO MAINTAIN THE SYSTEM OF CAPITAL ACCUMULATIONsan juan 2003
~E., Fulbright Lecturer at Univ of Leuven, "Marxism and the Race/Class Problematic: A Re-Articulation", p. online~
It seems obvious that racism cannot be dissolved by instances of status mobility when sociohistorical
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capitalism based on historically changing structures and retooled practices of domination and subordination. Nagda 6 – Professor @ U of Washington
Biren Ramesh, "Breaking Barriers, Crossing Borders, Building Bridges: Communication Processes in Intergroup Dialogues," Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 62, No. 3, 2006, pp. 553—576
The existing research in intergroup contact and education has focused primarily on pedagogical and psychological
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sustained intergroup encounters (Werkmeister-Rozas, 2003; Yeakley,¶ 1998). Speaking ACROSS diversity is vital. The retrenchment of opacity prevents reflective understanding that is necessary for intergroup solidarityNagda 6 – Professor @ U of Washington
Biren Ramesh, "Breaking Barriers, Crossing Borders, Building Bridges: Communication Processes in Intergroup Dialogues," Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 62, No. 3, 2006, pp. 553—576
Dialogues across differences have become an important intergroup relations¶ intervention (Stephan %26 Stephan
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relationships and fostering greater justice (Z´u˜niga et al.,¶ 2002). Nagda 6 – Professor @ U of Washington
Biren Ramesh, "Breaking Barriers, Crossing Borders, Building Bridges: Communication Processes in Intergroup Dialogues," Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 62, No. 3, 2006, pp. 553—576
Elucidating the four communication processes furthers our understanding of¶ the complexity of intergroup dialogue
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joint¶ agency to support, challenge, and engage with each other. THE DETERMINISM OF CAPITAL IS RESPONSIBLE FOR INSTRUMENTALIZATION—THIS MOBILIZES AND ALLOWS FOR THE 1AC’S SCENARIOSdyer-witherford 99
~Nick, Prof at U. of Western Ontario, Cyber Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism ~
For capitalism, the use of machines as organs of "will over nature"
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degree to which this project of mastery has backfired is all too obvious. Vote Negative to validate and adopt the method of structural/historical criticism that is the 1NC.METHOD IS THE FOREMOST POLITICAL QUESTION BECAUSE ONE MUST UNDERSTAND THE EXISTING SOCIAL TOTALITY BEFORE ONE CAN ACT—GROUNDING THE SITES OF POLITICAL CONTESTATION OUTSIDE OF LABOR HUMANIZE CAPITAL AND PREVENT A TRANSITIONtumino 2001
~Stephen, Prof English at Pitt, ""What is Orthodox Marxism and Why it Matters Now More than Ever", Red Critique, p. online~
Any effective political theory will have to do at least two things: it will
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determinism of corporate theory ("knowledge work") that masquerades as social theory. Meszaros 95
~Istavan, Prof. Emeritus at Sussex, Beyond Capital: Towards a Theory of Transition~p. 738
Thus the role of labour’s extra-parliamentary movement is twofold. On the one
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a vital precondition for countering the massive extra-parliamentary power of capital. C) YOU CANNOT PERMUTE A METHOD—IT STRIPS OUT ALL OF THE CONCEPTUAL THEORY THAT ALLOWS US TO BOTH UNDERSTAND THE WORLD AND TO CREATE A PRAXIS TO END OPPRESSION.tumino 2001
~Stephen, Prof English at Pitt, ""What is Orthodox Marxism and Why it Matters Now More than Ever", Red Critique, p. online~
Orthodox Marxism has become a test-case of the "radical" today.
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the exploitation of labor under capitalism giving it an acceptable "human face." a) REGENERATION——CAPITALISM CANNOT BE PARTICULARIZED INTO IT’S INSTRUMENTS BECAUSE IT’S LIKE TRYING TO CHOP OFF THE HEADS OF A HYDRA WITHOUT ATTACKING THE BODY—THEY’LL MERELY REGROW IN FAR MORE TERRIBLE PERSONIFICATIONSkovel 2002
~Joel, Prof at Bard, Enemy of Nature, Zed Books~p. 142-3
The value-term that subsumes everything into the spell of capital sets going a
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field into zones of greater concentration, expanded profitability — and greater ecodestruction. Nagda 6 – Professor @ U of Washington
Biren Ramesh, "Breaking Barriers, Crossing Borders, Building Bridges: Communication Processes in Intergroup Dialogues," Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 62, No. 3, 2006, pp. 553—576
Together, the dialogic and criticality dimensions in intergroup dialogue necessitate a focus on alliances
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in the actions and what is the impact of actions on the collaborators. |
| 03/31/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Having the court rules does is not a restriction, it mandates future compliance by other branches – a consensus of court rulings prove this legal distinctionTreanor and Sperling 93
William and Gene, Prof Law @ Fordham, Deputy Assistant to President for Economic Policy, Columbia LR, Dec
Unlike the Supreme Court, several state courts have explicitly addressed the revival issue.
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a statute did not revive does not offer a convincing rationale for nonrevival. |
| 03/31/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Energy production is the activity or providing power- construction and manufacturing are distinct.Caricom, 2004
Caribbean Community and Common Market) Environmental Report "Environment in Figures" caricomstats.org/Files/Publications/Environment2004/Chp11-Waste.pdf
Sector Classifications:
-Agriculture and Forestry comprise the activities of growing crops, raising animals, harvesting timber, and harvesting other plants and animals from a farm or their natural habitats.
-Mining and quarrying include the extraction of minerals occurring naturally as solids (coal and ores), liquids (petroleum) or gases (natural gas). Extraction can be achieved by underground or surface mining or well operation.
-Manufacturing comprises units engaged in the physical or chemical transformation of materials, substances, or components into new products. The materials, substances, or components transformed are raw materials that are products of agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining or quarrying, as well as products of other manufacturing activities.
-Energy production includes electricity, gas, steam and hot water supply, which cover the activity of providing electric power, natural gas, and steam supply through a permanent infrastructure (network) of lines, mains and pipes.
-Construction includes general construction and special trade construction for buildings and civil engineering, building installation and building completion. It includes new work, repair, additions and alterations, the erection of prefabricated buildings or structures on the site and also construction of a temporary nature.
*hyphens added for clarity in separation Doering 12
Kent Otho Doering ¶ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/02/ralls-corp-sues-obama_n_1932786.html
This has something to do with national security, not a ruling for or against
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a Chinese conglomerate. (That was in the news a while back.)) Doub, 76
Energy Regulation: A Quagmire for Energy Policy Annual Review of Energy Vol. 1
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. He was born September 3, 1931, in Cumberland, Md.)
FERS began with the recognition that federal energy policy must result from concerted efforts in
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agencies. Unfortunately, this example is the rule rather than the exception. McKie, 84
Professor James W. McKie, distinguished member of the economics department at The University of Texas at Austin for many years ¶ McKie, J W ¶ Annual Review of Environment and Resource , Volume 9 (1)¶ Annual Reviews – Nov 1, 1984
THE MULTIPLE PURPOSES OF ENERGY REGULATION AND PROMOTION Federal energy policy since World War II
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if not obscure, and the results have often been confusing or disappointing |
| 03/31/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Donnelly 3/27
Kristin, Reporter and Author, "House group "very close" to putting forward immigration package", http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/03/27/house-group-very-close-to-putting-forward-immigration-package/
A House bipartisan group working on a comprehensive immigration bill is "very close"
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and this is the best opportunity we’ve had in generations," Yarmuth said. Harder 2/6
Amy, "In Washington, Energy and Climate Issues Get Shoved in the Closet" ~http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/power-play/in-washington-energy-and-climate-issues-get-shoved-in-the-closet-20130206~~ mtc
A week later, one senator, Republican Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, was standing
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panel, to move through Congress smaller bits of energy and environmental policy. Hirsch, 2/7
Michael Hirsch, National Journal, "There’s No Such Thing as Political Capital" 2013, http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/there-s-no-such-thing-as-political-capital-20130207
But the abrupt emergence of the immigration and gun-control issues illustrates how suddenly
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but to move. It’s your choice.¶ The future is wide open. ====CIR key to destroy Skolkovo====
Aervitz 10
~Irina Aervitz – writer for the Moscow News, "Yes to Silicon Valley – but whose?," 07/06/2010, http://www.mn.ru/comments/20100607/187864167.html~~
As more countries turn to innovation and technology to boost growth and competitiveness, President
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American investor, get on a plane and start living the American dream. ====Prevents Russian Bulava missiles ====
GMNR 9 – Translated Russian Military Journal
(Global Military: Global Military News and Report, November 4, 2009 http://www.global-military.com/u-s-media-said-the-latest-russian-submarine-launched-missile-is-a-waste-can-not-be-successfully-developed.html-http://www.global-military.com/u-s-media-said-the-latest-russian-submarine-launched-missile-is-a-waste-can-not-be-successfully-developed.html) U.S. Global strategic networks November 4, published an article entitled "
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the "Bulava" missile production to another for better weapons factories recommendations. ====Bulavas are key to Russia’s attempts to reestablish strategic deterrence – causes miscalculated nuclear war and extinction====
Engdahl 7
(F. William Engdahl, contributor to the Centre for Research on Globalization, February 20, 2007, "Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: Or, what happens when Cowboys don’t shoot straight like they used to… ," online: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=vaandaid=4873-http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=vaandaid=4873)
In December 2006, Putin told Russian journalists that deployment of the new Russian mobile
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irradiate the planet and, perhaps, end human civilization in the process.¶ |
| 03/31/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Carroll 09
Carroll-Emory International Law Review-09 (James, COMMENT: BACK TO THE FUTURE: REDEFINING THE FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND NATIONAL SECURITY ACT’S CONCEPTION OF NATIONAL SECURITY, 23 Emory Int’l L. Rev. 167)
Exon-Florio should be amended to more narrowly define national security.¶ The open
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waste resources analyzing nearly every transaction¶ involving a foreign governmental takeover.226 Fix %26 Randazzo 10
Michael P. Fix and Kirk A. Randazzo¶ Department of Political Science, University of South Carolina¶ Judicial Deference and¶ National Security: Applications¶ of the Political Question and¶ Act of State Doctrines¶ http://people.cas.sc.edu/randazzo/fix_randazzo_2010_dem_and_sec.pdf
This article examines the history of federal court adjudication of national¶ security issues to
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national¶ security, thereby promoting a continued deference to the executive branch. McConnell 2-26-13
Bill McConnell, Washington bureau chief,¶ Judge tosses out Chinese effort to overturn Obama on Ralls¶ http://www.thedeal.com/content/regulatory/judge-tosses-out-chinese-effort-to-overturn-obama-on-ralls.php~~%23ixzz2P7Fvm242
Ralls Corp., the Chinese wind turbine manufacturer barred by President Obama from building wind
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assess the president’s findings on the merits, and that it cannot do." Violating deference on national security questions destroys U.S. policy effectiveness and hegemonyWilkinson ’96
J. Harvie Wilkinson in 1996 (Fourth Circuit Judge, "Thomasson v. Perry," http://www.ncgala.org/cases/thomasson.htm)
The deference mandated by the Constitution has extended to a variety of challenges to Congressional
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military context, such divisiveness could constitute an independent threat to national security. Barnett 11
(Thomas P.M., Former Senior Strategic Researcher and Professor in the Warfare Analysis %26 Research Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College American military geostrategist and Chief Analyst at Wikistrat., worked as the Assistant for Strategic Futures in the Office of Force Transformation in the Department of Defense, "The New Rules: Leadership Fatigue Puts U.S., and Globalization, at Crossroads," March 7 http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/8099/the-new-rules-leadership-fatigue-puts-u-s-and-globalization-at-crossroads-http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/8099/the-new-rules-leadership-fatigue-puts-u-s-and-globalization-at-crossroads)
It is worth first examining the larger picture: We live in a time of
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the 20th century, setting the stage for the Pacific Century now unfolding. |
| 03/31/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: James Andrew Lewis – senior fellow and director of the Technology and Public Policy Program @ CSIS - March 2010, The Electrical Grid as a Target for Cyber Attack, http://csis.org/files/publication/100322_ElectricalGridAsATargetforCyberAttack.pdf
This conclusion is different from the strategic consequences on a cyber attack on the power
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economic performance. Is there any cyber attack that could match the hurricane?
The United States is a very large collection of targets with many different pieces making
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in aerial bombing: impressive damage is quickly rectified by a determined opponent. Holt, Specialist in Energy Policy, CRS, 2012
~[6/20/12, Mark, Specialist in Energy Policy at the Congressional Research Service, "Nuclear Energy Policy," RL33558, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33558.pdf-http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33558.pdf~] The Fukushima accident has raised particular policy questions for the United States because, unlike
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not issue new licenses or permits until the revised regulations were in place. Makhijani, president of IEER, 2011
~[7/21/11, Arjun, president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, electrical and nuclear engineer with 37 years of experience, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists round table discussion, "Is nuclear energy different than other energy sources?," "The Fukushima tragedy demonstrates that nuclear energy doesn’t make sense," http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/roundtables/nuclear-energy-different-other-energy-sources~~]
Meltdown rates and bureaucracy. Those who promote nuclear power have hidden behind two related
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— though the official numbers are now in the realm of statistical fiction. Hanemann, Research Director @ Rhodium Group, 12
10-5, Thilo, Research Director at the Rhodium Group, an economic research firm based in New York, and Daniel Rosen is China Practice Leader at Rhodium and a visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. "Guest Post: Ralls vs. CFIUS: What Are the Implications for Chinese Investment?" http://blogs.cfr.org/renewing-america/2012/10/05/ralls-vs-cfius-what-are-the-implications-for-chinese-investment/
Last week President Obama issued an Executive Order requiring Chinese-controlled Ralls Corporation to
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time diligently screen investments for security threats, including commercial and political espionage. Rosen 12 – China Business Review
July-September, Daniel H., "The Rise in Chinese Overseas Investment and What It Means for American Businesses," https://www.chinabusinessreview.com/public/1207/rosen.html
The most significant hurdles for Chinese firms looking to expand their footprint in the United
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firms that have been operating in overseas markets for more than a decade. |
| 03/31/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Jervis 11 – Professor of Political Science @ Columbia
Robert, Professor in the Department of Political Science and School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, December 2011, "Force in Our Times," Survival, Vol. 25, No. 4, p. 403-425
Even if war is still seen as evil, the security community could be dissolved
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times bring about greater economic conflict, it will not make war thinkable. Empirical studies show no causal relationship between economic decline and warMiller 1 – prof of economics
Morris Miller 2001, Professor of Economics, Poverty: A Cause of War?, http://archive.peacemagazine.org/v17n1p08.htm
Library shelves are heavy with studies focused on the correlates and causes of war.
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by increasing repression (thereby using one form of violence to abort another)." Boehmer 7 – associate prof of poly sci @ UT-El Paso
Charles Boehmer, Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science @ University of Texas at El Paso. "The Effects of Economic Crisis, Domestic Discord, and State Efficacy on the Decision to Initiate Interstate Conflict". Politics and Policy. Volume 35, Issue 4, Pages 774-809. Wiley InterScience. December 7, 2007.
I have theorized in this study that economic growth should be positively related to militarized
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appear secure, meaning they face manageable levels of internal protest and rebellion. Boehmer 7 – associate prof of poly sci @ UT-El Paso
Charles Boehmer, Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science @ University of Texas at El Paso. "The Effects of Economic Crisis, Domestic Discord, and State Efficacy on the Decision to Initiate Interstate Conflict". Politics and Policy. Volume 35, Issue 4, Pages 774-809. Wiley InterScience. December 7, 2007.
Scholars such as MacFie (1938) and Blainey (1988) have nevertheless questioned
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robust cross-national explanations and tests of economic growth and interstate conflict. |
| 03/31/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: No motivation, no access and vaccines check the impactClark ’8 – Emeritus Professor in Immunology at UCLA
William R. Clark, emeritus professor in Immunology at UCLA. Bracing for Armageddon?: The Science and Politics of Bioterrorism in America, 2008, pg. 183
In the end, what may well stop groups like Al-Qaeda from using
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for Al-Qaeda and its ilk may be a non-starter. Britt ’1
Robert Roy Britt, Senior Space Writer/Space.com. "Survival of the Elitist: Bioterrorism May Spur Space Colonies". October 30 2001. http://www.space4peace.org/articles/moving.htm Many scientists argue that there is no need to worry about the mortality of civilization right now. Eric Croddy is an expert on chemical and biological weapons at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Croddy said the threat of a virus wiping out the entire human species is simply not real. Even the most horrific virus outbreak in history, the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic that killed between 20 million and 40 million people, including hundreds of thousands in the United States, eventually stopped. Experts say new strains of the influenza virus emerge every few decades and catch the human immune system unprepared, but prevention measures and ever-evolving medical treatments overcome the outbreaks. "I’d be much more concerned about an asteroid hitting the planet," Croddy said.Nuclear Mueller ’11
John Mueller is Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University. He is the author of Atomic Obsession. "The truth about al Qaeda". August 5, 2011. CNN’s Global Public Square. http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/05/the-truth-about-al-qaeda/
The chief lesson of 9/11 should have been that small bands of terrorists
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It seems wildly unlikely that al Qaeda is remotely ready to go nuclear. Mueller ’10
John Mueller, professor of political science at Ohio State University. "Calming Our Nuclear Jitters". Issues in Science and Technology. 1/1/2010. Vol.26,Iss.2;p.58-66. Academic Search Premiere.
In contrast to these predictions, terrorist groups seem to have exhibited only limited desire
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have every incentive to cover their trail, beginning with eliminating their confederates."
AT: Retal Bleek ’6
Philipp. doctoral candidate in international relations at Georgetown University. Would ’Deterrence of Negligence’ Reduce the Risk of Catastrophic Terrorism?. August 2006. Online.
But it is not so clear that a devastating military response is so likely in
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those behind the attacks responsible and to ensure that further attacks were prevented. New analysis proves Americans do not have a high psychological fear and believe we can handle terrorism pragmatically – won’t call for outlash.Shambaugh et al. ’10
George Shambaugh, School of Foreign Service and Department of Government, Georgetown University;
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33, Issue 1 January 2010 , pages 55 – 91. InformaWorld. The American policy landscape during the George W. Bush administration was shaped by a series of traumatic events that confronted the nation and people of the United States. These included the terrorist attacks of 9/11 in 2001, the anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001, military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the threat of flu pandemic in 2005 and 2006 (and again in 2009), the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, and the financial collapse of 2008. The results of the 2008 presidential election appear to be a rejection of the Bush administration’s major policy responses to these events, but the variation in type and level of public support among different groups suggests a much more varied and dynamic portrait of America in turbulent times. How have different sectors of the American public interpreted and responded to these traumatic events? How do the perceptions of the American public—whether they are relatively uniform or widely divergent—affect the level of support for policies of the president and trust in the information provided by the government? How do they affect the public’s willingness to tolerate civil, financial, and human costs in challenging these threats? Acts of terrorism are often intended to instill fear and anxiety in people well beyond those directly targeted in specific incidents.1 This raises the question of the extent to which the threat of terrorism permeates society. The authors’ multi-year panel study of American adults suggests that perceptions of threats posed by terrorism, environmental disasters, and economic collapse vary significantly across different groups in society based on their psychological, social, political, and personal characteristics. These factors also affect the nature, duration, and intensity of the political response to such events. For example, even seven years after the events of 11 September 2001, people with higher levels of post-traumatic stress symptomatology related to 9/11 have significantly different interpretations of the threat of terrorism and the appropriate policy responses to it than others. Partisanship also has a strong and significant effect over time, while the impact of other factors—such as gender, race, religion, education, military service, and region of habitation—vary over time and across different issues. The portrait of America during the George W. Bush administration that emerges from this study is in many ways at odds with familiar claims advanced by government officials, journalists, and pundits. The study did not find a people cowed by terrorism, afraid of the outside world, or pessimistic about the future. Americans today are pragmatic about threats such as terrorism, war fighting, and climate change, but some are unhappy with government responses to events such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, and suspicious of information provided by government officials and journalists. They know these are real threats that will plague the nation in the years ahead, but they are less worried about the impacts these phenomena will have on their personal lives, and optimistic that the new security challenges can be managed. |
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2NC overview Cooper 12
Obama Orders Chinese Company to End Investment at Sites Near Drone Base¶ ¶ By HELENE COOPER¶ ¶ Published: September 28, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/us/politics/chinese-company-ordered-to-give-up-stake-in-wind-farms-near-navy-base.html
Tim Xia, the counsel for Ralls, said in a statement: "We regret President Obama’s order today prohibiting a jobs-creating wind farm project in Oregon. The project poses no national security threat whatsoever, and the president’s order offers no explanation otherwise. The president’s order is without justification, as scores of other wind turbines already operate in the area where Ralls’s project is located." Younglai 12
Rachelle Younglai- reporting for Reuters¶ WASHINGTON | Fri Sep 28, 2012¶ http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/28/us-usa-china-turbines-idUSBRE88R19220120928
Only one of the four wind farms was in restricted airspace and CFIUS never came up with a plan that would require the company to only divest interests in that particular project, the sources said.¶ In addition, the sources said there are other wind farms in the same area that are also operated by foreigners, albeit one company is from Denmark and the other from Germany. Marquardt 12
PAUL MARQUARDT is a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen %26 Hamilton LLP.¶
The Answer Is Blowing in the Wind: Chinese Lawsuit¶ Highlights Expanding CFIUS Authority http://www.cgsh.com/files/Publication/1210da79-de2d-49c5-8464-9711666fdcd0/Presentation/PublicationAttachment/8e52c4ca-b9cb-4408-a208-9932109c9b19/mergers_acquisitions_and_corporate_governance_report_december_2012.pdf
¶ In the Ralls case, it is clear from documents filed with the¶
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litigation that other Ralls wind farms located elsewhere were¶ not challenged.5 2NC Framing Arrington, 2009
Rebecca, UVA Today, "Study Finds That Students Benefit From Depth, Rather Than Breadth, in High School Science Courses" March 4
A recent study reports that high school students who study fewer science topics, but
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twice as much as those in courses that touched on every major topic.
2NC AT Plan Says Topical Reduction Cooper 12
Obama Orders Chinese Company to End Investment at Sites Near Drone Base¶ ¶ By HELENE COOPER¶ ¶ Published: September 28, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/us/politics/chinese-company-ordered-to-give-up-stake-in-wind-farms-near-navy-base.html
Tim Xia, the counsel for Ralls, said in a statement: "We regret President Obama’s order today prohibiting a jobs-creating wind farm project in Oregon. The project poses no national security threat whatsoever, and the president’s order offers no explanation otherwise. The president’s order is without justification, as scores of other wind turbines already operate in the area where Ralls’s project is located." courts can’t rule on something if there is no jursidction
Lee, 1992
Evan Tsen Lee, Associate Professor, University of California, Hastings College of the Law, Harvard Law Review, January, lexis
ONE of the major impediments to the judicial protection of collective rights 1 is the
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entitlements to important collective rights fail before courts can give them full consideration. *their plaintiff was constructing a farm, but they weren’t producing energy—that means they didn’t have a stake in production—only in investment
*they are admitting they are not producing anything—they said "hey, were weren’t even producing wind energy"
Clement et al-Ralls Complaint-’12
AMENDED COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF ’12
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/RallsFiledAmendedComplaint.pdf
61. At the time Ralls purchased the Project Companies from Terna, the companies’
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with the Project Companies; they were essentially "greenfield" development projects. if you rule on something that the courts don’t have jurisdiction over, there is not binding effect
Lee, 1992
Evan Tsen Lee, Associate Professor, University of California, Hastings College of the Law, Harvard Law Review, January, lexis
Doubtless some will point to Supreme Court opinions characterizing decisions in moot cases as advisory
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would pose no independent constitutional obstacle to deciding moot cases on the merits. West’s Encyclopedia of American Law, 2008
West’s Encyclopedia of American Law, edition 2. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved, http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Advisory+Opinion
Federal courts will not issue advisory opinions. This rule, based on the constitutional
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In any event, the opinions are not binding authority in future cases. A2 we meet statutory restriction Federal Register, 2008
Part II ¶ Department of the ¶ Treasury ¶ Office of Investment Security ¶ 31 CFR Part 800 ¶ Regulations Pertaining to Mergers, ¶ Acquisitions, and Takeovers by Foreign ¶ Persons; Final Rule¶ Federal Register/ Vol. 73, No. 226 / Friday, November 21, 2008 / Rules and Regulations
Section-by-Section Analysis ¶ Section 800.101—Scope ¶ Section
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the Committee has reviewed and that ¶ have presented national security ¶ considerations. The statutory restriction is on foreign control and is "solely for investment purposes"- even if investment and production can overlap, the statute’s clarity makes it easy to draw the line.Greguras, 2013
Greguras-KLgates LLP-3/1/13 What Chinese Cleantech Companies Need to Know about CFIUS Review in 2013 klgates.com/files/Publication/0f625ea6-f867-4aad-9915-acc67e789c40/Presentation/PublicationAttachment/1fb6f0da-9bcd-4776-9aa6-8f88476219f1/Corporate_Alert_03012013.pdf
Covered Transactions ¶ In general, any acquisition by a "foreign person" of
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¶ party had previously obtained CFIUS clearance for its prior controlling investment. ¶ A2 plan removes restrictions (Clement) The statute says it relates to (not on) infrastructure and technology- it has been interpreted as energy production ASSETS.aff says the statute includes infrastructure, the and energy production assets
so the actual statute doesn’t include that
Greguras, 2013
Greguras-KLgates LLP-3/1/13 What Chinese Cleantech Companies Need to Know about CFIUS Review in 2013 klgates.com/files/Publication/0f625ea6-f867-4aad-9915-acc67e789c40/Presentation/PublicationAttachment/1fb6f0da-9bcd-4776-9aa6-8f88476219f1/Corporate_Alert_03012013.pdf
The third question is very open-ended and subject to the changing political climate
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as the ¶ industry of the transaction, but also the ownership background. They generously interpreted their evidence- Ralls acquired assets, agreements, and approvals, but no production concern.*it prevents certain people from building there
*plaintif would have to at least have started producing to prove the restriction was on that
Clement et al-Ralls Complaint-’12
AMENDED COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF ’12
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/RallsFiledAmendedComplaint.pdf
61. At the time Ralls purchased the Project Companies from Terna, the companies’
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with the Project Companies; they were essentially "greenfield" development projects. 2NC interp/violation Daily Journal of Commerce, 2012
(Portland, OR) 12/19/12 December 19, 2012 Wednesday SECTION: COMMENTARY LENGTH: 932 words HEADLINE: Commentary: Butter Creek wind energy projects BYLINE: Jeanne Chamberlain BODY:
The court battles continue concerning development of the Butter Creek wind farm projects in Morrow County. The unusual case stems from President Obama’s Sept. 28 order requiring that Ralls Corp., owned by two Chinese nationals, divest its ownership in the projects. This is the first time in several decades that a president has used his authority to block such an investment. Daily Journal of Commerce, 2012
(Portland, OR) 12/19/12 December 19, 2012 Wednesday SECTION: COMMENTARY LENGTH: 932 words HEADLINE: Commentary: Butter Creek wind energy projects BYLINE: Jeanne Chamberlain BODY:
On Sept. 12, Ralls filed suit, arguing that the orders issued by
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Ralls has said it will appeal, and the court battles will continue. Fulcrum, 2013
Fulcrum Exploration, Glossary, fulcrumexploration.com/pages/index.php?page_name=Glossary
Divestiture - Removal of utility functions from one another by selling-off or in some other way changing the ownership of the related assets. For example, this is most commonly associated with generation assets that are ’spun-off,’ so these assets are no longer associated with the shareholders that own the transmission and distribution (T%26D) assets. The White House 9-28-12
ORDER¶ - - - - - - -¶ REGARDING THE ACQUISITION OF FOUR U.S. WIND FARM PROJECT COMPANIES BY RALLS CORPORATION¶ By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (section 721), 50 U.S.C. App. 2170, http://www.volokh.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Presidents-CFIUS-Order-9-28-12.pdf
Sec. 2. Actions Ordered and Authorized. On the basis of the findings
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and can demonstrate a willingness and ability to support compliance with this order.
AT C/I Anell, 1989
Chairman, WTO panel¶ "To examine, in the light of the relevant GATT provisions, the matter referred to the¶ CONTRACTING PARTIES by the United States in document L/6445 and to make such findings as will¶ assist the CONTRACTING PARTIES in making the recommendations or in giving the rulings provided¶ for in Article XXIII:2." 3. On 3 April 1989, the Council was informed that agreement had been reached on¶ the following composition of the Panel (C/164): Composition Chairman: Mr. Lars E.R. Anell Members: Mr.¶ Hugh W. Bartlett Mrs. Carmen Luz Guarda CANADA - IMPORT RESTRICTIONS ON ICE CREAM AND¶ YOGHURT Report of the Panel adopted at the Forty-fifth Session of the CONTRACTING PARTIES on 5¶ December 1989 (L/6568 - 36S/68)¶ http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/88icecrm.pdf
The United States argued that Canada had failed to demonstrate that it effectively restricted domestic
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to what the situation would be in the absence of all government measures. 2NC prohibit Epstein 12
Dan, "When foreign investment and national security collide," http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-a-budget/269403-when-foreign-investment-and-national-security-collide
CFIUS, like any taxpayer-funded institution under our constitution, has limited powers. CFIUS may only review certain "covered transactions" that could result in foreign control of a person engaged in interstate commerce in the United States. It may not bar a covered transaction from taking place, it may not arbitrarily or capriciously make decisions without supporting evidence, and it may not engage in the unconstitutional deprivation of property without due process. Yu 12 – Columbia Business Law Review
Christopher, "Wind Farms and the CFIUS: Protectionism?," http://cblr.columbia.edu/archives/12360
The CFIUS review process typically works as follows: First, foreign companies seeking acquisitions
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prohibited, the President has another 15 days to make a final decision. Yu 12 – Columbia Business Law Review
Christopher, "Wind Farms and the CFIUS: Protectionism?," http://cblr.columbia.edu/archives/12360
Only a few potential investments go through the formal 45-day investigation process and
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clearance. If modification is unviable, parties often drop the deal altogether. Sullivan 9 – JD @ Harvard
Matthew, "Mining for Meaning: Assessing CFIUS’s Rejection of the Firstgold Acquisition," http://bjil.typepad.com/Sullivan_vol.4%20(1).pdf
This period of quiet met its first significant challenge in December 2009, when ¶
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and other nearby military ¶ installations—CFIUS had refused to approve the deal |
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AT Perm Muchnicki 85
E. Dennis Muchnicki (argued), Asst. Atty. Gen., Environmental Law Section, Karen A. Kolmacic, Columbus, Ohio, for plaintiff-appellant. 766 F.2d 228¶ 15 Envtl. L. Rep. 20,693¶ The STATE OF OHIO, ex rel., Anthony J. CELEBREZZE, Jr.,¶ Attorney General, Plaintiff-Appellant,¶ v.¶ UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION and the Materials¶ Transportation Bureau, Defendants-Appellees. http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/case.html?id=974618
The judicial power of federal courts in Article III of the Constitution extends only to
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.S. at 153, 90 S.Ct. at 830. Linder in 6
DOUG LINDER – PROF OF LAW UMKC 2006
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/caseorcontroversy.htm-http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/caseorcontroversy.htm
The case-or-controversy limitation on the judicial power also generally prevents a federal court from deciding a question that once affected the rights of litigants, but no longer does. Moot, and therefore non-justiciable, cases include challenges to convictions after the convicted defendant has died, challenges to the legality of a war that has ended, and challenges to restrictions placed on a business that has since closed.
Yes Spillover Calabresi 95
Steven G., Associate Professor, Law, Northwestern University, "Some Normative Arguments for the Unitary Executive," ARKANSAS LAW REVIEW v. 48, 1995, p. 65-66. AT Terrorist Decisions Scheppele 09
KIM LANE SCHEPPELE* is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs in the Woodrow¶ Wilson School and University Center for Human Values; Director of the Program in Law¶ and Public Affairs, Princeton University http://www.bu.edu/law/central/jd/organizations/journals/bulr/documents/SCHEPPELE.pdf
¶ The case for self-regarding courts can be made even more strongly,
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can then rightly say¶ that they are doing what the law requires. Scheppele 09
KIM LANE SCHEPPELE* is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs in the Woodrow¶ Wilson School and University Center for Human Values; Director of the Program in Law¶ and Public Affairs, Princeton University http://www.bu.edu/law/central/jd/organizations/journals/bulr/documents/SCHEPPELE.pdf
But, I will argue, deference is still alive and well. We are
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the litigation takes. This is the new face of judicial¶ deference.¶
Links Yu 12
Wind Farms and the CFIUS: Protectionism?¶ Tuesday, November 6th, 2012 at 8:31 am, by Christopher Yu Columbia Business Law Review¶ http://cblr.columbia.edu/archives/12360
Later, the CFIUS expressed concerns over the location of the Ralls wind farms,
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for foreign companies seeking to invest in assets geographically near sensitive defense installments. Uniqueness Fix %26 Randazzo 10
Michael P. Fix and Kirk A. Randazzo¶ Department of Political Science, University of South Carolina¶ Judicial Deference and¶ National Security: Applications¶ of the Political Question and¶ Act of State Doctrines¶ http://people.cas.sc.edu/randazzo/fix_randazzo_2010_dem_and_sec.pdf-http://people.cas.sc.edu/randazzo/fix_randazzo_2010_dem_and_sec.pdf
This article briefly examines the history of federal court adjudication of national security¶ issues
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¶ national security, thereby promoting a continued deference to the executive branch.
AT Defense Cuts Kill heg The U.S. could cut defense spending dramatically and still preserve its lead.Altman and Haas 10—CEO of Evercore Partners, President of CFR
Roger C Altman, December, Chair and CEO of Evercore Partners. He was U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary in 1993-94, and Richard N Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department in 2001-3. "American Profligacy and American Power: The Consequences of Fiscal Irresponsibility". Foreign Affairs. New York: Nov/Dec 2010. Vol. 89, Iss. 6; pg. 25. Proquest.
The good news is that total defense spending could be reduced by five percent or
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across different congressional districts) will allow the reductions to be done correctly.
Russian Econ Collapse Claims of Russian economic decline and disintegration are all conspiratorial and hypeClover ’9
Charles Clover, "Conspiracy theorists thrive on Russia anxiety", 3/8/2009 Financial Times, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a9596ed4-0c14-11de-b87d-0000779fd2ac.html?ftcamp=rss%26nclick_check=1
"The transition of the ~economic~ crisis into the political arena has already
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, former deputy energy minister and a leader of the opposition group Solidarnost. Aris ’11
Ben Aris, 10-17-2011, "Crisis looms, but Russia well prepared," http://rbth.ru/articles/2011/10/17/crisis_looms_but_russia_well_prepared_13580.html
But if the shock does come, Russia is better prepared than it was in
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gets into trouble, as it can all be done "in house." Alexandrova 11-7
Lyudmila Alexandrova, 11-7-2012, Russian economy already in crisis, http://indrus.in/articles/2012/11/06/russian_economy_already_in_crisis_18885.html
The latest developments in the Russian economy make it unmistakably evident that the crisis is
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on shrinking foreign demand and on harsher monetary, credit and budgetary policies. Business Recorder 11-8
Business Recorder, 11-8-2012, Russia, eastern Europe hit by eurozone woes: EBRD, http://www.brecorder.com/market-data/stocks-a-bonds/0/1256306/
Central and East European countries face a "substantial economic slow-down" this
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- from 4.6 per cent in 2011, said the report. Halligan 8/25
Liam, The Telegraphy of London, "Russia joins the ’global club’ as economy slows," 8/25/12 www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/liamhalligan/9499282/Russia-joins-the-global-club-as-economy-slows.html-http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/liamhalligan/9499282/Russia-joins-the-global-club-as-economy-slows.html AD 8/26/12
One of the very few pieces of good news in terms of the global
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grown like Topsy and is now three times bigger than its commodity sector. |
