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We begin this discussion the way it should end not with a question of whether or not the US should make any action regarding it’s domestic energy policy but a demand, an insatiable, unsatisfiable demand one that robs humanity of its corporeal integrity. An ensemble of questions that problematizes the ethicality of the world itself. A demand to repair the flesh of the black and the return the land to the native

Wilderson, Associate Professor of African-American Studies at UC Irvine, 2010

(Frank B., Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, “Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms,” Pages 1-2. pdf, Written in 2010, Accessed 08-08-2012, AJH)

The current political discourse is centered on an ensemble of questions that are fixated on social conflicts through experience as opposed to the grammar of suffering that undergirds the United States and its foundational antagonisms. Continuation of the current discourse only mystifies the paradigmatic relation of the Slave and the ‘Savage’ and their respective demands in the name of “social stability.”

Wilderson, Associate Professor of African-American Studies at UC Irvine, 2010

(Frank B., Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, “Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms,” Pages 6-7. pdf, Written in 2010, Accessed 08-08-2012, AJH)

Blackness and Redness exist in a state of perpetual violence through a life constituted by disorientation as opposed to contingently interrupted by it. This is the structural position of being the Slave and Savage position external to the realm of the Settler/Master; violence as paradigmatic necessity subsumes cognitive maps and conceptual frameworks both systemically and epistemic contexts

Wilderson, Associate Professor of African-American Studies at UC Irvine, 2011

(Frank B. , Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, “The Vengeance of Vertigo: Aphasia and Abjection in the Political Trials of Black Insurgents,” pdf, http:~/~/www.yorku.ca/intent/issue5/articles/pdfs/pdf,  Pages, 2-6, Written in Winter 2011, Accessed 08-08-2012, AJH)

The alternative is an unflinching paradigmatic analysis that calls for the end of America. If we win the question of how the US has ethically distanced itself from Black and Red bodies then the round becomes a question of how we orient our intellectual discourse; the alternative calls for a revolutionary zeitgeist aimed at the overthrow of the political-project that is America.

Wilderson, Associate Professor of African-American Studies at UC Irvine, 2010

(Frank B., Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, “Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms,” Pages 2-4. pdf, Written in 2010, Accessed 08-08-2012, AJH)

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Engaging political questions corrupts our relationship to god

Copeland, University of Miami School of Law associate professor, 9

(Charlton C., "God-Talk in the Age of Obama: Theology and Religious Political Engagement," Denver University Law Review, 86 Denv. U.L. Rev. 663, 2009, l/n, accessed 1-27-12, mss)

The rejection of the social order …complete separation of the two realms.

Your ultimate concern ought to be how to be properly related to God- it’s the only worthwhile source of value

Craig, Talbot School of Theology philosophy research professor, 4

(Dr. William Lane, Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Birmingham (England), Th.D. under from the University of Munich, "Does God Exist?" 2004, delveintojesus.com/Articles/64/Does-God-Exist.aspx, accessed 11-20-11, mss)

C. S. Lewis once remarked that … despair over hope, meaningfulness and happiness.

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AND- If the Christian world-view is right, the role of the ballot is to endorse the course of action that best brings you in line with God- it’s a prior question metaphysically, ethically and epistemologically

Nash, former Western Kentucky University philosophy professor and department head, 88

(Ronald, WKU professor and department head for 27 years, Faith and Reason, 1988, pg 24-8, mss)

Within the noetic structures … One's axioms determine one's theorems.13

AND- The threshold shouldn’t be arbitrarily high- if the evidence that God exists is even marginally better, you should vote neg- even if it isn’t certain

Nash, former Western Kentucky University philosophy professor and department head, 88

(Ronald, WKU professor and department head for 27 years, Faith and Reason, 1988, pg 113-6, mss)

HOW HIGH SHOULD OUR STANDARDS BE?

… must simply pass judgment.

Attempts to better the world in any way entangle you in Earthly matters- distances you from God

Knott, New Life Bible Chapel missionary church planter and writer, 1

(Carl, “The Christian and Politics,” 2001, http://www.nlbchapel.org/politics.htm, accessed 1-31-12, mss)

Human Responsibility  “What … because they know they cannot produce any!

There’s a direct tradeoff between trying to make the world better and advancing a Christian worldview- withdrawing from politics is the only solution

Hauerwas, Duke University theological ethics professor, 81

(Stanley, Duke University Gilbert T. Rowe professor of theological ethics, A Community of Character, 1981, pg 73-4, accessed 2-8-12, mss)

It is my contention, however, that … which we may find ourselves.

We must reject all political involvement- its entanglement and distance from God

Taylor, SAU educational philosophy and research professor, 8

(John Wesley, PhD, Southern Adventist University School of Education and Psychology dean, “Politics—To Engage or Not to Engage? Seeking a Biblical Perspective” Journal of the Adventist Theological Society, 19/1-2 (2008): 175–208, http://www.atsjats.org/publication_file.php?pub_id=343andjournal=1andtype=doc, accessed 1-29-12, mss)

Rejection—Christ  Against  Politics. … on earth as it is in heaven.” 15

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CP Text: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase commercial loan guarantees to develop and deploy Lead Fast Reactors for the purpose of energy production in the United States.

The AFFs IFRs are sodium cooled

McFarlane, Associate Laboratory Director, 2002

(Harold, at Idaho National Laboratory, “Proliferation Resistance Assessment Of The Integral Fast Reactor”, Accessed 10-3-12, http:~/~/www.ipd.anl.gov/anlpubs/2002/07/43534.pdf) NJR

The Integral Fast Reactor (… a weapons-suitable product.

That risks leaks and accidents

Barton, Energy Collective writer, 08

(Charles, Author of the Nuclear Green Revolution 3-27, “Liquid Sodium Reactors”, Accessed 10-3-12, http:~/~/energyfromthorium.com/2008/03/http://energyfromthorium.com/2008/03/) NJR

Weinberg did not comment … makes for a catastrophic accident.

Extinction

Mcpherson, Professor of natural resources and the environment, 11

(Guy, at the University of Arizona, 11-9, “Three paths to near-term human extinction”, Accessed 10-3-12, http:~/~/transitionvoice.com/2011/11/three-paths-to-near-term-human-extinction/http://transitionvoice.com/2011/11/three-paths-to-near-term-human-extinction/) NJR

Safely shuttering a … to keep consuming the planet.

Lead-cooled fast reactors solve

Tucek et al, European Commission Institute for Energy, 5

(Kamil, , Johan Carlsson, Hartmut Wider, “Comparison Of Sodium And Lead-Cooled Fast Reactors Regarding Severe Safety And Economical Issues”, Accessed 10-3-12, http:~/~/www.ecolo.org/documents/documents_in_english/pdf) NJR

The tight pin lattice …using a supercritical CO2 Brayton cycle.