| 1 | 09/16/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Inherency: 1AC Obama’s current plans are bad—reverts to pre-Bush levels
Cole 12 (Benjamin, Director of Communications for IER, former policy adviser and investigative analyst for the Republican staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform under Chairman Darrell Issa, 5/8/12, "Obama’s Offshore Plan: One Giant Leap Backwards" Institute for Energy Research) http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2012/05/08/obamas-offshore-plan-one-giant-leap-backwards/ After oil prices reached new highs in 2008, the Bush administration and Congress moved
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a long time, additional costs can make marginal properties subeconomic.~[iii~] Drilling now but it’s not enough—OCS development is key
Medlock 08 (Kenneth, Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics, 7/10/08, "THE OCS LEASING MORATORIUM: WHICH WAY FORWARD?" James Baker Institute) http://www.bakerinstitute.org/opinions/the-ocs-leasing-moratorium-which-way-forward The MMS reports more than 4,000 active platforms in the OCS areas of
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unused leases, not realizing reserve appreciation and failing to identify drilling opportunities. Economy: 1AC Plan is key to economic growth—4 internal links: First, unemployment:
High unemployment is a national crisis—must boost job growth to fully recover
Morici 12 (Peter, economist and professor at the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, 8/3/12, "Unemployment Rises, Hundreds of Thousands Quit Looking" Fox) http://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/2012/08/03/unemployment-rises-hundreds-thousands-quit-looking/ The economy added 163,000 jobs in July. Although an improvement over the
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, the U.S. economy cannot grow and create enough jobs. OCS drilling would create millions of new jobs
Mason 09 (Joseph, Ph.D. in Finance, University of Illinois, February 2011, "The Economic Contribution of Increased Offshore Oil Exploration and Production to Regional and National Economies" American Energy Alliance) http://www.americanenergyalliance.org/images/aea_offshore_updated_final.pdf An economic expansion tied to increased OCS resource production would also create millions of new
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approximately 340,000 of which are secondary jobs outside the coastal regions. Drilling has a multiplier effect that will boost our economy significantly
Mason 09 (Joseph, Ph.D. in Finance, University of Illinois, February 2011, "The Economic Contribution of Increased Offshore Oil Exploration and Production to Regional and National Economies" American Energy Alliance) http://www.americanenergyalliance.org/images/aea_offshore_updated_final.pdf The broadest measure of the incremental effect of increased OCS oil and natural gas extraction
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billion per year, which amounts to just over two percent of GDP. Second, trade deficits:
Drilling would solve the trade deficit
Sanandaji 12 (Tino, Post-Doc at the University of Chicago and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Industrial Economics, 5/5/12, "Drill away the Trade Deficit") http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2012/05/debate-about-domestic-drilling-has.html The debate about domestic drilling has focused on the effect on the price of oil
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-proof way to reduce or even reverse the outward flow of capital. Trade deficit reduction is critical to sustained growth
Tonelson 11 (Alan, Research Fellow at the U.S. Business %26 Industry Educational Foundation, July 29, 2012, "Trade Deficit Reduction — America’s Only Way Out", http://americaneconomicalert.org/view_art.asp?Prod_ID=4658, 8/3/12, atl) This morning’s dismaying report from the government on gross domestic product confirms that economic growth
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high-unemployment mode for years. And that’s the most optimistic scenario. Third, price volatility:
Increasing domestic oil production mitigates the impact of price volatility
Weidenmier 10 (Mark, adjunct scholar at AEI, 4/1/10, "Drill, Baby, Drill" American Enterprise Institute) http://www.aei.org/article/energy-and-the-environment/conventional-energy/drill-baby-drill/ Increasing U.S. domestic petroleum will not likely lower world oil prices—
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by increasing the demand for goods and services in non-oil industries. Volatility kills the economy—undermines long-term planning, investment
Ward 09 (CNA Military Advisory Board, General Charles F. Ward, General, USAF (ret.), chair, POWERING AMERICA’S DEFENSE: ENERGY AND THE RISKS TO NATIONAL SECURITY, 5—09, p. 11-12. The volatile fossil fuel markets have a major impact on our national economy, which
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investments needed to develop and deploy new energy technologies and upgrade major infrastructure. Fourth, manufacturing:
US manufacturing sector is on the brink of irreversible decline
Kaushal et al 11 (Arvind, partner with Booz and Co, Thomas Mayor, senior executive advisor, Patricia Riedel, principal at Booz and Co. Fall 2011, "Manufacturing’s Wake-Up Call") http://booz.com/media/file/sb64-11306-Manufacturing~’s-Wake-Up-Call.pdf Both the optimists and the pessimists are partially correct. U.S. manufacturing
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S. manufacturing capabilities could then erode past the point of no return. Offshore drilling is key to boost the global competitiveness of the manufacturing sector
Ostermayer 11 (Jeff, senior media strategist for the National Association of Manufacturers, 8/5/11, "Offshore Drilling Critical to Manufacturing Growth" Shopfloor) http://www.shopfloor.org/tag/ocs Deepwater drilling provides a significant economic impact to the entire general economy as suppliers and
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is vital to our energy security and manufacturers’ global competiveness and job creation. Manufacturing is the biggest internal link to the economy
Cooper 08 (Horace Cooper, research fellow with the National Center for Public Policy Research, 2008 "Making It in America") http://www.aamfg.org/articles/making-it-america Why should those who support limited government and liberty care about what happens to manufacturing
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a cleaner environment. Letting this powerful engine slip away would be disastrous. US growth is key to global economic recovery
Caploe 09 (David, PhD in International political economy from Princeton, "Focus still on America to lead global recovery," The Straits Times, 8/2/12) IN THE aftermath of the G-20 summit, most observers seem to have
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foreseeable future, even though other countries must certainly help. This crisis began Global economic decline causes nuclear war
Ockham Research 08 (Ockham Research, Economic Distress and Geopolitical Risks by: Ockham Research, Ockham Research Staff November 18, 2008????Ockham Research Ockham Research is an independent research provider based in Atlanta, Georgia providing security analysis) The hardship and turmoil which impacted the world during the Great Depression provided fertile ground
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, with dangerous consequences for the U.S. and the world. Oil: 1AC Our energy policy is failing now—we’re increasingly dependent on foreign sources
Manjarres 09 (Javier, political writer, 9/22/9, "Offshore Drilling is an Essential Step Towards Energy Independence" Red County) http://www.redcounty.com/node/32160 To say that the national energy policy formulated by the United States Congress has been
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hostage to the whims of rogue regimes and the terrorists that they finance. Oil dependence undermines strategic US leadership
Electrification Coalition, ELECTRIFICATION ROADMAP: REVOLUTIONIZING TRANSPORTATION AND ACHIEVING ENERGY SECURITY, 11—09, p. 30. The importance of oil in the U.S. economy has given it a
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build international consensus on a wide range of foreign policy and humanitarian issues. Independently, the plan sends a signal of strength which is key to credibility
Manjarres 09 (Javier, political writer, 9/22/9, "Offshore Drilling is an Essential Step Towards Energy Independence" Red County) http://www.redcounty.com/node/32160 Modern oil extraction technology is safe and efficient, with enormous advances having been made
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inaction and obstruction on a matter of critical importance to our nation’s future. Failed leadership causes extinction—no alternative to hegemony
Brzezinski 12 Zbigniew K. Brzezinski (CSIS counselor and trustee and cochairs the CSIS Advisory Board, holds honorary degrees from Georgetown University, Williams College, Fordham University, College of the Holy Cross, Alliance College, the Catholic University of Lublin, Warsaw University, and Vilnius University. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards) February 2012 "After America" http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/03/after_america?page=0,0 For if America falters, the world is unlikely to be dominated by a single
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policy — or start bracing itself for a dangerous slide into global turmoil. Oil dependence kills U.S. leverage over Iran
Luft 05 – DR. GAL LUFT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR @ INSTITUTE FOR THE ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL SECURITY (IAGS), CO-CHAIR @ SET AMERICA FREE COALITION, "America’s oil dependence and its implications for U.S. Middle East policy," SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE ON NEAR EASTERN AND SOUTH ASIAN AFFAIRS, 10-20-05. http://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/LuftTestimony051020.pdf. LAP The growing economic power of OPEC producers enables them to resist U.S.
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and it must begin a bold process toward reducing its demand for oil. Iran is developing nuclear weapons—recent intelligence confirms
Jahn 12 (George, staff writer 9/11/12, "Diplomats say UN agency has new intelligence Iran worked on nuclear arms" Associated Press) http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Exclusive+Diplomats+agency+intelligence+Iran+worked+nuclear/7225282/story.html VIENNA - The U.N. atomic agency has received new and significant intelligence
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detail in November that Tehran is advancing its weapons research on multiple fronts. Iran prolif causes extinction
Rubin 9 – (Barry, Prof @ the Interdisciplinary Center, Director of the Global Research in International Affairs, Research Director of the IDC’s Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy, "What if Iran gets a working nuclear weapon? How Middle East crisis would hit U.S.," http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/03/09/2009-03-09_what_if_iran_gets_a_working_nuclear_weap.html) If and when Iran gets nuclear weapons it would set off a global nightmare.
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it’s so important to avoid Iran getting nuclear weapons in the first place. Nuclear Iran can’t be deterred—demographic decline means no rational self-interest
Goldman 11 – Interview between Front Page Magazine and David P. Goldman, "How Civilizations Die," FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE, 11-14-11. http://frontpagemag.com/2011/jamie-glazov/how-civilizations-die/. LAP Goldman: With a hard hand, in the case of Iran. The foreign
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stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, no matter how great the cost. Even if dependency cuts both ways, Middle East leaders think they have more leverage
Cohen 07 – Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts/Harvard, "The National Security Consequences of Oil Dependency", Heritage Foundation, 5/14/07, http://www.heritage.org/research/lecture/the-national-security-consequences-of-oil-dependency In his 2006 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush said
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to three months, which would have disastrous results for the global economy. Solvency: 1AC Plan: The United States federal government should substantially reduce restrictions on oil drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf. Lifting restrictions solves
Spakovsky and Loris 12 (Hans, Senior Legal Fellow / Manager, Civil Justice Reform Initiative, and Nicholas, Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow, 8/13/12, "Offshore Drilling: Increase Access, Reduce the Risk, and Stop Hurting American Companies" The Heritage Foundation) http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/08/offshore-drilling-increase-access-reduce-the-risk-and-stop-hurting-american-companies No New Access in the New OCS Plan The recent lease sale in the Central
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the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, and off Alaska’s coast. OCS drilling would provide significant growth to combat the recession
Mason 09 (Joseph, Ph.D. in Finance, University of Illinois, February 2011, "The Economic Contribution of Increased Offshore Oil Exploration and Production to Regional and National Economies" American Energy Alliance) http://www.americanenergyalliance.org/images/aea_offshore_updated_final.pdf This paper estimates the net local and national economic effects that can be expected from
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access to jobs and wages that can help them weather the current recession. |
| 2 | 10/05/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: 7 | Opponent: MSU HR | Judge: Heidt
Moratorium strengthens Brazilian oil giant Petrobras—gives them easier access and resources to expand
Bryce 10 (Robert, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, 8/25/10, “Robert Bryce: Drilling moratorium hurts U.S., helps Brazil” Washington Examiner) http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/36257#.UDLNh92PWSo That’s why Petrobras – arguably the ... understand the essentiality of offshore drilling. This year is key for Petrobras—expansion will allow them to lock in an upward trajectory of production
Parker 12 (Barry, industry analyst, 1/6/12, “Brazil will continue to dominate offshore” Lloyd’s List) http://www.conconnect.com/Workingpapers/lloydslist2012jan06energypage.pdf AS 2012 unfolds, Brazil will ... among the world’s top oil suppliers. Brazil’s economy is vulnerable to Dutch disease
Fox Business 11 (8/22/11, “Petrobras CFO: Brazil Close To Catching 'Dutch Disease' – Report” Dow Jones Newswire) http://m.foxbusiness.com/quickPage.html?page=32811andcontent=55435573andpageNum=-1 RIO DE JANEIRO -(Dow Jones ... % over the past two years. Dutch disease has pushed Brazil’s economy to the brink of recession
Daremblum 12 (Jaime, Director, Center for Latin American Studies Senior Fellow Hudson Institute, 8/10/12, “The China Temptation” The Hudson Institute) http://www.hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=publication_detailsandid=9187 In August 2011, as the ... persistent weaknesses have suddenly been magnified. Decreasing the rate of Petrobras’ expansion is the only way to curb Dutch disease
The Economist 11 (11/5/11, “Filling up the future”) http://www.economist.com/node/21536570 Tony Volpon of Nomura Securities, ... of the economy time to breathe. Continued economic growth is key to Brazil’s leadership and peacekeeping missions
Bozzo 11 (Albert, senior features editor, 4/25/11, “As Brazil's Economy Grows, So Does Its Geopolitical Ambition” CNBC) http://www.cnbc.com/id/42683728/As_Brazil_s_Economy_Grows_So_Does_Its_Geopolitical_Ambition China had the Olympic Games, ... official who specialized in Latin America. Peacekeeping solves nuclear war
Dean 95 - Jonathan Dean, Adviser on International Security Issues, Union of Concerned Scientists, and Former Ambassador, East-West Arms Control Negotiations, May 1995 (“A Stronger UN Strengthens America” – The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists) http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/1995/ma95/ma95.dean.html Experts throughout the world expect growing ... off an increasing number of conflicts. Brazilian leadership key to space
Veronese 12 (Keith, staff writer, 3/9/12, “Could Brazil be the next space superpower?” I09) http://io9.com/5891721/could-brazil-be-the-next-space-superpower The world's sixth largest economy is ... choice in the late 21st Century. Solves extinction
Carreau 02 (Mark, Winner – 2006 Space Communicator Award, MA in Journalism – Kansas State University, “Top Experts See Space Study As Key to Human Survival”, The Houston Chronicle, 10-19, Lexis) With Apollo astronaut John Young leading ... of our eggs in one basket." Brazilian economic strength is critical to overseas initiatives to eliminate AIDS
Bliss 10 (Katherine, director of the CSIS Project on Global Water Policy and deputy director and senior fellow with the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, November 2010, “Health Policies: Brazil's approach to global health within foreign policy and development cooperation initiatives” CSIS) http://csis.org/files/publication/101110_Bliss_KeyPlayers_WEB.pdf Brazil has long been an influential ... is politically palatable and economically feasible. AIDS causes extinction
Maithu 2k - Mutuma Mathiu, Africa News, 2k, July 15, 2000,
Every age has its killer. ... race was so hopelessly in jeopardy. Brazilian economic decline causes Latin American instability
Schulz 2k (Donald E. Schulz is Chairman of the Political Science Department at Cleveland State University and he was Research Professor of National Security Policy at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, “THE UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICA: SHAPING AN ELUSIVE FUTURE”, 3/00, http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:jxrChqjDPasJ:www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub31.pdf) What are the major threats confronting ... U.S. stock market. Latin American instability causes terrorism and a nuclear attack on US soil
Fleischman 10 (Luis is Senior Advisor for the Menges Hemispheric Security Project at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C. and an adjunct professor of Sociology and Political Science at Florida Atlantic University, Harriet Wilkes Honors College. “The Importance of Latin America to U.S. National Security Policy”, http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=11901) Naturally, where chaos exists, ... pursue the appropriate counter-measures. US would retaliate—causes extinction
Michael Hammerschlag, 11/23/2004. (Michael Hammerschlag—journalist who’s written for: Seattle Times; Providence Journal; Columbia Journalism Review; Hawaii Advertiser; Capital Times; Media Channel; and Moscow News; Tribune; Times; and The Guardian. He's been a TV reporter, foreign correspondent, and produced numerous documentaries) “COULD AMERICA GO BAD?” Michael Columnized at: Op-Ed News, USA Editorial, Tokyo Hello, North American Media, Chinese American News, South American Business Daily, Saudi Post, Hiroshima Post, Scoop, Liberia Sport, World Economist, Turkmen Post, Tunesia Cup, World News Network. This isn’t a remote possibility or ... and preserve the hopes of mankind. |
| 30 | 10/06/2012 | Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: Emporia CW | Judge: Whitmore
Warming: 1AC Warming is real and human caused – there are multiple factors proving this ONE, scientific consensus proves fossil fuel use drives warming
Richard Somerville, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Climate Scientist, PhD in Meteorology, 3/8/11, House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power Hearing; "Climate Science and EPA's Greenhouse Gas Regulations”, Congressional Testimony, lexis, mnrs The Working Group One (physical science) part of AR4 was written by 152
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a similar warming trend in the upper troposphere, consistent with model results. TWO, environmental signs prove fossil fuels are driving it, we’re approaching a tipping point
Richard Somerville, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Climate Scientist, PhD in Meteorology, 3/8/11, House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power Hearing; "Climate Science and EPA's Greenhouse Gas Regulations”, Congressional Testimony, lexis, mnrs According to The Copenhagen Diagnosis (Allison et al. 2009), the most significant
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could mean that some tipping points will be crossed before they are recognized. THREE, recent stastical models prove CO2 is entirely responsible
Richard A. Muller, professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former MacArthur Foundation fellow, 7/28/12, “The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic”, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/the-conversion-of-a-climate-change-skeptic.html, mnrs CALL me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate
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we demonstrate that none of these potentially troublesome effects unduly biased our conclusions. That risks massive feedback loops that causes the loss of all Earth life
Gwynne Dyer, “Rio+20: How Bad Could It Get?” Very, Very Bad,” HAMILTON SPECTATOR, 6—19—12, p. A19. The forthcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro (Rio+
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-dwelling species. This has happened many times in the Earth's history. Warming disproportionately affects developing countries
Carrington 11 – Head of the environment at The Guardian (Damian, “Map reveals stark divide in who caused climate change and who's being hit”, http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2011/oct/26/climate-change-developing-country-impacts-risk?CMP=twt_gu, October 26th, 2011, KTOP) When the world's nations convene in Durban in November in the latest attempt to inch
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storm events may well increase as climate changes takes hold," says Beldon. Warming disproportionately affects minorities – the US has an obligation to limit fossil fuel emissions
Rachel Baird, Media Officer, Minority Rights Group International, NGO with consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council, April 08, “The Impact of Climate Change on Minorities and Indigenous Peoples”, http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/ClimateChange/Submissions/Minority_Rights_Group_International.pdf, mnrs Climate change is just beginning to be articulated as a human rights issue – rather
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should take place, with a view to obtaining their consent and participation. Solvency: 1AC Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase financial incentives for decentralized and residential energy production of solar power.
The plan solves – increasing access for decentralized solar power is key to a renewable shift
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance 2K8 (John Farrell, Research Associate @ The Institute for Local Self-Reliance, “Concentrating Solar and Decentralized Power: Government Incentives Hinder Local Ownership,” May 2008, The New Rules Project, Online) Solar concentrators promise a new level of development for clean electric power in the United
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. Reaping these benefits means establishing fair policies for encouraging solar power development. Decentralized solar disrupts the fossil fuel industry control over energy
Hermann Scheer, member of the German Parliament and Alternative Nobel Prize winner, 2002, “The Solar Economy: Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future”, Earthscan, p. 87-89, mnrs The representatives of the fossil energy industry have been written out of the script for
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dependency and from the webs spun by the spiders of the fossil economy. The solar manufacturing process itself disrupts fossil fuel control – it provides a way to opt-out of the system
Hermann Scheer, member of the German Parliament and Alternative Nobel Prize winner, 2002, “The Solar Economy: Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future”, Earthscan, p. 84-86, mnrs The dynamics of the drive towards business concentration is thought to be the dominant force
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by the national grid, to the point at which it becomes superfluous. The solar production chain is clean and feasible
Hermann Scheer, member of the German Parliament and Alternative Nobel Prize winner, 2002, “The Solar Economy: Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future”, Earthscan, p. 74-75, mnrs In this case, the supply chain begins with the installed solar panel, which
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the detours via the transformers and hightension cabling necessary for fossil fuel energy. Solar power is sufficient to solve
Sarah Lozanavoa 08, MBA in Sustainable Management from the Presidio School of Management, Solar Thermal Electricity: Can It Replace Coal, Gas, and Oil? http://cleantechnica.com/2008/03/27/solar-thermal-electricity-can-it-replace-coal-gas-and-oil/ One of the most common arguments against large-scale use of renewable energy is
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to not just produce peak power, but also generate base load electricity. Using the state is key – anything else cedes to the fossil fuel industry
Hermann Scheer, member of the German Parliament and Alternative Nobel Prize winner, 2002, “The Solar Economy: Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future”, Earthscan, p. 250, mnrs Which initiatives are capable of side-stepping or overcoming existing structural obstacles in order
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will become indispensable – and then achievable – tomorrow or the day after. Political change is key to spark a transition
Hermann Scheer, member of the German Parliament and Alternative Nobel Prize winner, 2002, “The Solar Economy: Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future”, Earthscan, p. xv, mnrs History provides many examples of technological revolutions that have reshaped the world. None have
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behind. The same process can be seen today in the biotech industry. We have a good method and epistemology – science and empiricism are the only ways to solve multiple extinction threats
Coyne, 06 – Author and Writer for the Times (Jerry A., “A plea for empiricism”, FOLLIES OF THE WISE, Dissenting essays, 405pp. Emeryville, CA: Shoemaker and Hoard, 1 59376 101 5) Supernatural forces and events, essential aspects of most religions, play no role in
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politics and religion, we desperately need to heed Crews’s plea for empiricism. Reinjecting science into policymaking is key to check conservative takeover and climate denialism
Robin McKie, science editor, 2/18/12, “Attacks paid for by big business are 'driving science into a dark era'”, http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/feb/19/science-scepticism-usdomesticpolicy, mnrs Most scientists, on achieving high office, keep their public remarks to the bland
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they should be guided by lobbyists who appear driven by narrow ideological dogma. Rejecting science as subjective makes policy deliberation a political game of cooption
Banning, 9 – University of Colorado communication professor, PhD (Marlia Elisabeth, “When Poststructural Theory and Contemporary Politics Collide*The Vexed Case of Global Warming,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Vol. 6, No. 3, September 2009, pp. 285-304 While academic research practices and the knowledge these produce have not changed substantially60 in the
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political, ’’ the relations of power and antagonism that define public discourse. A renewables transition is key to solve warming
Jeremy Rifkin, adviser to the European Union for the past decade and is the principle architect of the European Union’s Third Industrial Revolution Plan, 2/14/12, “The third industrial revolution”, Making It, http://www.makingitmagazine.net/?p=4514, mnrs Our industrial civilization is at a crossroads. Oil and the other fossil fuel energies
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, govern society, educate our children, and engage in civic life. Renewables are key to any political transition
Jeremy Rifkin, adviser to the European Union for the past decade and is the principle architect of the European Union’s Third Industrial Revolution Plan, 2/14/12, “The third industrial revolution”, Making It, http://www.makingitmagazine.net/?p=4514, mnrs A new economic paradigm The creation of a renewable energy regime, loaded by buildings
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possibilities that lie ahead and muster the will to get there in time. Decisionmaking skills learned from debate over energy issues are key to actualizing political change
Hodson, professor of education – Ontario Institute for Studies @ University of Toronto, ‘10 (Derek, “Science Education as a Call to Action,” Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, Vol. 10, Issue 3, p. 197-206)
note: SSI = socioscientific issues The final (fourth) level of sophistication in this issues-based approach is
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justice are kept in the forefront of discussion during the establishment of policy. |
| 4 | 10/28/2012 | Tournament: Harvard | Round: 3 | Opponent: Gonzaga HN | Judge: N. Miller
Inherency: 1AC Obama’s current plans are bad—reverts to pre-Bush levels
Cole 12 (Benjamin, Director of Communications for IER, former policy adviser and investigative analyst for the Republican staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform under Chairman Darrell Issa, 5/8/12, “Obama’s Offshore Plan: One Giant Leap Backwards” Institute for Energy Research) http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2012/05/08/obamas-offshore-plan-one-giant-leap-backwards/ After oil prices reached new highs in 2008, the Bush administration and Congress moved
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a long time, additional costs can make marginal properties subeconomic.iii Drilling now but it’s not enough—OCS development is key
Medlock 08 (Kenneth, Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics, 7/10/08, “THE OCS LEASING MORATORIUM: WHICH WAY FORWARD?” James Baker Institute) http://www.bakerinstitute.org/opinions/the-ocs-leasing-moratorium-which-way-forward The MMS reports more than 4,000 active platforms in the OCS areas of
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unused leases, not realizing reserve appreciation and failing to identify drilling opportunities. Plan: The United States federal government should substantially reduce restrictions on oil drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf. Economy: 1AC Plan is key to economic growth—4 internal links: First, unemployment:
High unemployment is a national crisis—must boost job growth to fully recover
Morici 12 (Peter, economist and professor at the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, 8/3/12, “Unemployment Rises, Hundreds of Thousands Quit Looking” Fox) http://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/2012/08/03/unemployment-rises-hundreds-thousands-quit-looking/ The economy added 163,000 jobs in July. Although an improvement over the
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, the U.S. economy cannot grow and create enough jobs. OCS drilling would create millions of new jobs
Mason 09 (Joseph, Ph.D. in Finance, University of Illinois, February 2011, “The Economic Contribution of Increased Offshore Oil Exploration and Production to Regional and National Economies” American Energy Alliance) http://www.americanenergyalliance.org/images/aea_offshore_updated_final.pdf An economic expansion tied to increased OCS resource production would also create millions of new
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approximately 340,000 of which are secondary jobs outside the coastal regions. Drilling has a multiplier effect that will boost our economy significantly
Mason 09 (Joseph, Ph.D. in Finance, University of Illinois, February 2011, “The Economic Contribution of Increased Offshore Oil Exploration and Production to Regional and National Economies” American Energy Alliance) http://www.americanenergyalliance.org/images/aea_offshore_updated_final.pdf The broadest measure of the incremental effect of increased OCS oil and natural gas extraction
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billion per year, which amounts to just over two percent of GDP. Second, trade deficits:
Drilling would solve the trade deficit
Sanandaji 12 (Tino, Post-Doc at the University of Chicago and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Industrial Economics, 5/5/12, “Drill away the Trade Deficit”) http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2012/05/debate-about-domestic-drilling-has.html The debate about domestic drilling has focused on the effect on the price of oil
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-proof way to reduce or even reverse the outward flow of capital. Trade deficit reduction is critical to sustained growth
Tonelson 11 (Alan, Research Fellow at the U.S. Business and Industry Educational Foundation, July 29, 2012, “Trade Deficit Reduction -- America's Only Way Out”, http://americaneconomicalert.org/view_art.asp?Prod_ID=4658, 8/3/12, atl) This morning’s dismaying report from the government on gross domestic product confirms that economic growth
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high-unemployment mode for years. And that’s the most optimistic scenario. Third, price volatility:
It’s inevitable but increasing domestic oil production is key to mitigate the impact on the economy – the plan doesn’t have to solve overall prices
Weidenmier 10 (Mark, adjunct scholar at AEI, 4/1/10, “Drill, Baby, Drill” American Enterprise Institute) http://www.aei.org/article/energy-and-the-environment/conventional-energy/drill-baby-drill/ Increasing U.S. domestic petroleum will not likely lower world oil prices--
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by increasing the demand for goods and services in non-oil industries. Fourth, manufacturing:
US manufacturing sector is on the brink of irreversible decline
Kaushal et al 11 (Arvind, partner with Booz and Co, Thomas Mayor, senior executive advisor, Patricia Riedel, principal at Booz and Co. Fall 2011, “Manufacturing’s Wake-Up Call”) http://booz.com/media/file/sb64-11306-Manufacturing's-Wake-Up-Call.pdf Both the optimists and the pessimists are partially correct. U.S. manufacturing
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S. manufacturing capabilities could then erode past the point of no return. Offshore drilling is key to boost the global competitiveness of the manufacturing sector
Ostermayer 11 (Jeff, senior media strategist for the National Association of Manufacturers, 8/5/11, “Offshore Drilling Critical to Manufacturing Growth” Shopfloor) http://www.shopfloor.org/tag/ocs Deepwater drilling provides a significant economic impact to the entire general economy as suppliers and
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is vital to our energy security and manufacturers’ global competiveness and job creation. Manufacturing is key to the economy
Cooper 08 (Horace Cooper, research fellow with the National Center for Public Policy Research, 2008 “Making It in America”) http://www.aamfg.org/articles/making-it-america Why should those who support limited government and liberty care about what happens to manufacturing
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a cleaner environment. Letting this powerful engine slip away would be disastrous. No resiliency – we’ve pulled out all the stops – a collapse now triggers a double-dip collapse and depression
Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 8/10/11, “Recession 2.0 would hurt worse”, lexis, mnrs The risk of double dip recession is rising. And while economists disagree on just
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this new recession would likely have virtually no policy effort to counteract it. US growth is key to global economic recovery
Caploe 09 (David, PhD in International political economy from Princeton, “Focus still on America to lead global recovery,” The Straits Times, 8/2/12) IN THE aftermath of the G-20 summit, most observers seem to have
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foreseeable future, even though other countries must certainly help. This crisis began Economic decline causes war – studies prove
Royal, Department of Defense Cooperative threat reduction director, 2010 Jedediah, Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises, in Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, p.213-4 Second, on a dyadic level, Copeland's (1996, 2000) theory of
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not featured prominently in the economic-security debate and deserves more attention. Oil: 1AC Our energy policy is failing now—we’re increasingly dependent on foreign sources
Manjarres 09 (Javier, political writer, 9/22/9, “Offshore Drilling is an Essential Step Towards Energy Independence” Red County) http://www.redcounty.com/node/32160 To say that the national energy policy formulated by the United States Congress has been
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hostage to the whims of rogue regimes and the terrorists that they finance. Oil dependence undermines strategic US leadership
Electrification Coalition, ELECTRIFICATION ROADMAP: REVOLUTIONIZING TRANSPORTATION AND ACHIEVING ENERGY SECURITY, 11—09, p. 30. The importance of oil in the U.S. economy has given it a
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build international consensus on a wide range of foreign policy and humanitarian issues. Independently, the plan sends a signal of strength which is key to credibility
Manjarres 09 (Javier, political writer, 9/22/9, “Offshore Drilling is an Essential Step Towards Energy Independence” Red County) http://www.redcounty.com/node/32160 Modern oil extraction technology is safe and efficient, with enormous advances having been made
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inaction and obstruction on a matter of critical importance to our nation’s future. Failed leadership causes extinction—no alternative to hegemony
Brzezinski 12 Zbigniew K. Brzezinski (CSIS counselor and trustee and cochairs the CSIS Advisory Board, holds honorary degrees from Georgetown University, Williams College, Fordham University, College of the Holy Cross, Alliance College, the Catholic University of Lublin, Warsaw University, and Vilnius University. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards) February 2012 “After America” http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/03/after_america?page=0,0 For if America falters, the world is unlikely to be dominated by a single
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policy -- or start bracing itself for a dangerous slide into global turmoil. Oil dependence kills U.S. leverage over Iran
Luft 05 – DR. GAL LUFT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR @ INSTITUTE FOR THE ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL SECURITY (IAGS), CO-CHAIR @ SET AMERICA FREE COALITION, “America’s oil dependence and its implications for U.S. Middle East policy,” SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE ON NEAR EASTERN AND SOUTH ASIAN AFFAIRS, 10-20-05. http://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/LuftTestimony051020.pdf. LAP The growing economic power of OPEC producers enables them to resist U.S.
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and it must begin a bold process toward reducing its demand for oil. Iran is developing nuclear weapons—recent intelligence confirms
Jahn 12 (George, staff writer 9/11/12, “Diplomats say UN agency has new intelligence Iran worked on nuclear arms” Associated Press) http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Exclusive+Diplomats+agency+intelligence+Iran+worked+nuclear/7225282/story.html VIENNA - The U.N. atomic agency has received new and significant intelligence
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detail in November that Tehran is advancing its weapons research on multiple fronts. Iran prolif causes nuclear war
Kroenig 12 (Matthew, assistant professor of Government at Georgetown University and Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, January/February 2012, “Time to Attack Iran - Why a Strike Is the Least Bad Option” Foreign Affairs) http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/136917/matthew-kroenig/time-to-attack-iran Some states in the region are doubting U.S. resolve to stop the
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the two countries that could draw the United States in, as well. Nuclear Iran can’t be deterred—demographic decline means no rational self-interest
Goldman 11 – Interview between Front Page Magazine and David P. Goldman, “How Civilizations Die,” FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE, 11-14-11. http://frontpagemag.com/2011/jamie-glazov/how-civilizations-die/. LAP Goldman: With a hard hand, in the case of Iran. The foreign
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stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, no matter how great the cost. Even if dependency cuts both ways, Middle East leaders think they have more leverage
Cohen 07 – Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts/Harvard, “The National Security Consequences of Oil Dependency”, Heritage Foundation, 5/14/07, http://www.heritage.org/research/lecture/the-national-security-consequences-of-oil-dependency In his 2006 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush said
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to three months, which would have disastrous results for the global economy. Solvency: 1AC Lifting restrictions solves
Spakovsky and Loris 12 (Hans, Senior Legal Fellow / Manager, Civil Justice Reform Initiative, and Nicholas, Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow, 8/13/12, “Offshore Drilling: Increase Access, Reduce the Risk, and Stop Hurting American Companies” The Heritage Foundation) http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/08/offshore-drilling-increase-access-reduce-the-risk-and-stop-hurting-american-companies No New Access in the New OCS Plan The recent lease sale in the Central
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the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, and off Alaska’s coast. OCS drilling would provide significant growth to combat the recession
Mason 09 (Joseph, Ph.D. in Finance, University of Illinois, February 2011, “The Economic Contribution of Increased Offshore Oil Exploration and Production to Regional and National Economies” American Energy Alliance) http://www.americanenergyalliance.org/images/aea_offshore_updated_final.pdf This paper estimates the net local and national economic effects that can be expected from
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access to jobs and wages that can help them weather the current recession. Plan is key to increased production
Jennifer Dlouhy, Houston Chronicle, 10/17/12, “Obama v Romney: Who’s right on oil production?”, http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/10/obama-v-romney-who%E2%80%99s-right-on-oil-production/, mnrs During a tense exchange on energy policy in Tuesday’s presidential debate, Barack Obama insisted
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after offshore regulators imposed new drilling rules in the wake of the disaster. |
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Inherency: 1AC Obama’s current plans are bad—reverts to pre-Bush levels
Cole 12 (Benjamin, Director of Communications for IER, former policy adviser and investigative analyst for the Republican staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform under Chairman Darrell Issa, 5/8/12, “Obama’s Offshore Plan: One Giant Leap Backwards” Institute for Energy Research) http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2012/05/08/obamas-offshore-plan-one-giant-leap-backwards/ After oil prices reached new highs in 2008, the Bush administration and Congress moved
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a long time, additional costs can make marginal properties subeconomic.iii Drilling now but it’s not enough—OCS development is key
Medlock 08 (Kenneth, Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics, 7/10/08, “THE OCS LEASING MORATORIUM: WHICH WAY FORWARD?” James Baker Institute) http://www.bakerinstitute.org/opinions/the-ocs-leasing-moratorium-which-way-forward The MMS reports more than 4,000 active platforms in the OCS areas of
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unused leases, not realizing reserve appreciation and failing to identify drilling opportunities. Plan: The United States federal government should substantially reduce restrictions on oil drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf. Economy: 1AC Plan is key to economic growth—5 internal links: ONE, unemployment:
High unemployment is a national crisis—must boost job growth to fully recover
Morici 12 (Peter, economist and professor at the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, 8/3/12, “Unemployment Rises, Hundreds of Thousands Quit Looking” Fox) http://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/2012/08/03/unemployment-rises-hundreds-thousands-quit-looking/ The economy added 163,000 jobs in July. Although an improvement over the
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, the U.S. economy cannot grow and create enough jobs. OCS drilling would create millions of new jobs
Mason 09 (Joseph, Ph.D. in Finance, University of Illinois, February 2011, “The Economic Contribution of Increased Offshore Oil Exploration and Production to Regional and National Economies” American Energy Alliance) http://www.americanenergyalliance.org/images/aea_offshore_updated_final.pdf An economic expansion tied to increased OCS resource production would also create millions of new
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approximately 340,000 of which are secondary jobs outside the coastal regions. Drilling has a multiplier effect that will boost our economy significantly
Mason 09 (Joseph, Ph.D. in Finance, University of Illinois, February 2011, “The Economic Contribution of Increased Offshore Oil Exploration and Production to Regional and National Economies” American Energy Alliance) http://www.americanenergyalliance.org/images/aea_offshore_updated_final.pdf The broadest measure of the incremental effect of increased OCS oil and natural gas extraction
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billion per year, which amounts to just over two percent of GDP. Independently, unemployment causes protectionism
Bloomberg 09 (Patrick Rial, U.S. Debt Crisis May Cause ‘Fall of Rome’ Scenario, Duncan Says, Richard Duncan, author of “The Dollar Crisis.” http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchiveandsid=aJ6jnKWHrQgI) U.S. workers are now likely to face declining wages and that may
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protectionism will mean world trade will diminish and will overall reduce global prosperity.” That causes nuclear war
Panzner 08 (Michael J., Faculty – New York Institute of Finance, Financial Armageddon: Protect Your Future from Economic Collapse, p. 137-138) The rise in isolationism and protectionism will bring about ever more heated arguments and dangerous
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between Muslims and Western societies as the beginnings of a new world war. TWO, trade deficits:
Drilling would solve the trade deficit
Sanandaji 12 (Tino, Post-Doc at the University of Chicago and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Industrial Economics, 5/5/12, “Drill away the Trade Deficit”) http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2012/05/debate-about-domestic-drilling-has.html The debate about domestic drilling has focused on the effect on the price of oil
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-proof way to reduce or even reverse the outward flow of capital. Trade deficit reduction is critical to sustained growth
Tonelson 11 (Alan, Research Fellow at the U.S. Business and Industry Educational Foundation, July 29, 2012, “Trade Deficit Reduction -- America's Only Way Out”, http://americaneconomicalert.org/view_art.asp?Prod_ID=4658, 8/3/12, atl) This morning’s dismaying report from the government on gross domestic product confirms that economic growth
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high-unemployment mode for years. And that’s the most optimistic scenario. THREE, price volatility:
It’s inevitable but increasing domestic oil production is key to mitigate the impact on the economy – the plan doesn’t have to solve overall prices
Weidenmier 10 (Mark, adjunct scholar at AEI, 4/1/10, “Drill, Baby, Drill” American Enterprise Institute) http://www.aei.org/article/energy-and-the-environment/conventional-energy/drill-baby-drill/ Increasing U.S. domestic petroleum will not likely lower world oil prices--
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by increasing the demand for goods and services in non-oil industries. FOUR, manufacturing:
US manufacturing sector is on the brink of irreversible decline
Kaushal et al 11 (Arvind, partner with Booz and Co, Thomas Mayor, senior executive advisor, Patricia Riedel, principal at Booz and Co. Fall 2011, “Manufacturing’s Wake-Up Call”) http://booz.com/media/file/sb64-11306-Manufacturing's-Wake-Up-Call.pdf Both the optimists and the pessimists are partially correct. U.S. manufacturing
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S. manufacturing capabilities could then erode past the point of no return. Offshore drilling is key to boost the global competitiveness of the manufacturing sector
Ostermayer 11 (Jeff, senior media strategist for the National Association of Manufacturers, 8/5/11, “Offshore Drilling Critical to Manufacturing Growth” Shopfloor) http://www.shopfloor.org/tag/ocs Deepwater drilling provides a significant economic impact to the entire general economy as suppliers and
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is vital to our energy security and manufacturers’ global competiveness and job creation. Manufacturing is key to the economy
Cooper 08 (Horace Cooper, research fellow with the National Center for Public Policy Research, 2008 “Making It in America”) http://www.aamfg.org/articles/making-it-america Why should those who support limited government and liberty care about what happens to manufacturing
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a cleaner environment. Letting this powerful engine slip away would be disastrous. FINALLY, the impacts
No resiliency – we’ve pulled out all the stops – a collapse now triggers a double-dip collapse and depression
Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 8/10/11, “Recession 2.0 would hurt worse”, lexis, mnrs The risk of double dip recession is rising. And while economists disagree on just
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this new recession would likely have virtually no policy effort to counteract it. US growth is key to global economic recovery
Caploe 09 (David, PhD in International political economy from Princeton, “Focus still on America to lead global recovery,” The Straits Times, 8/2/12) IN THE aftermath of the G-20 summit, most observers seem to have
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foreseeable future, even though other countries must certainly help. This crisis began Economic decline causes war – studies prove
Royal, Department of Defense Cooperative threat reduction director, 2010 Jedediah, Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises, in Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, p.213-4 Second, on a dyadic level, Copeland's (1996, 2000) theory of
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not featured prominently in the economic-security debate and deserves more attention. Prolonged recession causes war – history proves – collapses the EU and WTO, causes nationalism and trade and resource wars
John B. Judis, senior editor of The New Republic and Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 8/8/11, “Liberals’ Strange Retreat on Government Spending”, http://www.tnr.com/article/john-judis/93287/obama-administration-economy-recession, mnrs The first consideration has to do with the sheer gravity of the situation. What
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ruckus that Tea Party and Republican opposition could create over the next year. EU is key to solve multiple scenarios for extinction
Brunton 01 (John, Deputy – Joint Committee on European Affairs, The Future of the European Union, 10, www.irlgov.ie/committees-02/c-europeanaffairs/future/page1.htm) As the Laeken Declaration put it, "Europe needs to shoulder its responsibilities in
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truly human, prevail over blind global forces that will otherwise overwhelm us. WTO solves great power wars and global stability—and there’s no alternative
Panitchpakdi 4 (Supachai Panitchpakdi, secretary-general of the UN Conference on Trade and Development, 2/26/2004, American Leadership and the World Trade Organization, http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/spsp_e/spsp22_e.htm The second point is that strengthening the world trading system is essential to America's wider
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constrained, not by multilateral rules, but by the absence of rules. Adv2 Plan jump-starts the chemical industry
Mason 09 (Joseph, Ph.D. in Finance, University of Illinois, February 2011, “The Economic Contribution of Increased Offshore Oil Exploration and Production to Regional and National Economies” American Energy Alliance) http://www.americanenergyalliance.org/images/aea_offshore_updated_final.pdf Figure 1 illustrates the percent of mortgages ninety or more days delinquent by county in
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used in rational decision making on the costs and benefits of OCS development. Chem industry solves multiple environmental scenarios for extinction
Baum 99 – Baum, Founder of Chemical and Engineering News Washington, 12-6-99 (Rudy, “MILLENNIUM SPECIAL REPORT,” CandEN Washington, Volume 77, Number 49, http://pubs.acs.org/cen/hotarticles/cenear/991206/7749spintro2.html) Computers and the Internet are clearly one of the driving forces shaping all aspects of
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mysteries and provide for humanity's basic and not-so-basic needs. Plan jump-starts the ship-building industry
Mason 09 (Joseph, Ph.D. in Finance, University of Illinois, February 2011, “The Economic Contribution of Increased Offshore Oil Exploration and Production to Regional and National Economies” American Energy Alliance) http://www.americanenergyalliance.org/images/aea_offshore_updated_final.pdf Onshore state and local economies benefit from the development of OCS resources by providing goods
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support other jobs and other industries (such as retail and hospitality establishments). Strong shipbuilding industry key to naval power
Alberto et al, 5 (Lieutenant Colonel Ronald P., U.S. Army, et al, faculty at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, “SHIPBUILDING”, The Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University, 2005, http://www.ndu.edu/icaf/programs/academic/industry/reports/2005/pdf/icaf-is-report-shipbuilding-2005.pdf, Deech) In conclusion, our study found that the tremendous advantage the US enjoys in naval
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skyrocket out of proportion to the value to the nation of the vessel. Great power war
Conway et al 7 James T., General, U.S. Marine Corps, Gary Roughead, Admiral, U.S. Navy, Thad W. Allen, Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, “A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower,” October, http://www.navy.mil/maritime/MaritimeStrategy.pdf Deter major power war. No other disruption is as potentially disastrous to global stability
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and sustain forces, sea control and power projection enable extended campaigns ashore. Plan jump-starts the steel industry
Mason 09 (Joseph, Ph.D. in Finance, University of Illinois, February 2011, “The Economic Contribution of Increased Offshore Oil Exploration and Production to Regional and National Economies” American Energy Alliance) http://www.americanenergyalliance.org/images/aea_offshore_updated_final.pdf Onshore state and local economies benefit from the development of OCS resources by providing goods
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support other jobs and other industries (such as retail and hospitality establishments). Weak steel industry collapses the airpower
Shaiken 02 (Harley, Professor of Global Economy – Cal-Berkeley, Detroit News, 3-22, http://www.detnews.com/2002/editorial/0203/25/a11-446451.htm) But because an advanced industrial economy needs a vibrant steel industry, not just a
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strategic industry unless we are thinking about aluminum aircraft carriers and mahogany tanks. Air power solves war and asteroids—the impact is extinction
Warden 97 (Col. John A Warden 111, USAF (ret.), president of Venturist, Inc., Airpower Confronts an Unstable World, Ed. Hallion, pp 239-240) Earlier in this chapter, we discussed reaction to natural disasters by air operations.
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will fade rapidly, and with it our best hope for the future. SOLVECNY Lifting restrictions solves
Spakovsky and Loris 12 (Hans, Senior Legal Fellow / Manager, Civil Justice Reform Initiative, and Nicholas, Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow, 8/13/12, “Offshore Drilling: Increase Access, Reduce the Risk, and Stop Hurting American Companies” The Heritage Foundation) http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/08/offshore-drilling-increase-access-reduce-the-risk-and-stop-hurting-american-companies No New Access in the New OCS Plan The recent lease sale in the Central
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the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, and off Alaska’s coast. OCS drilling would provide significant growth to combat the recession
Mason 09 (Joseph, Ph.D. in Finance, University of Illinois, February 2011, “The Economic Contribution of Increased Offshore Oil Exploration and Production to Regional and National Economies” American Energy Alliance) http://www.americanenergyalliance.org/images/aea_offshore_updated_final.pdf This paper estimates the net local and national economic effects that can be expected from
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access to jobs and wages that can help them weather the current recession. Plan is key to increased production
Jennifer Dlouhy, Houston Chronicle, 10/17/12, “Obama v Romney: Who’s right on oil production?”, http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/10/obama-v-romney-who%E2%80%99s-right-on-oil-production/, mnrs During a tense exchange on energy policy in Tuesday’s presidential debate, Barack Obama insisted
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after offshore regulators imposed new drilling rules in the wake of the disaster. |
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Solvency Plan: The United States federal government should substantially reduce restrictions on the production of crude oil on federal lands Massive oil development is happening now, which guts their DAs, but more drilling is necessary to move us past energy independence to energy abundance
Mills 12 (Mark, member of the advisory council of the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University and serves on the board of directors of the Marshall Institute, 7/9/12, “Could the United States Become the World’s Energy-Export Powerhouse?”) http://www.manhattan-institute.org/pdf/press_release_pgi_01.pdf Washington, DC: Technology is unleashing North America’s abundant energy resources. But rather
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” and unleash the domestic economic benefits of becoming a global energy leader. Sufficient resources exist—all we have to do is develop them
Mark P. Mills, adjunct fellow, Manhattan Institute, UNLEASHING THE NORTH AMERICAN ENERGY COLOSSUS: HYDROCARBONS CAN FUEL GROWTH AND PROSPERITY, 7—12, p. 5-7. Considering the lightning-rod role played by the availability and price of oil,
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unconventional formations where some of the richest untapped finds are in California.28 Significant oil production would come online quickly
IER 09 (2/11/09, “Offshore Energy Exploration: Myth vs. Fact” Institute for Energy Research) http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2009/02/11/offshore-energy-exploration-myth-vs-fact-2/ Further, while there may be areas along the Atlantic coast without the significant build
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, those resources could be available in a significantly shorter period of time. Economy Expanding oil production massively boosts the economy—creates millions of high-wage jobs and huge increases in revenue—oil is coming now but it’s not enough
Mark P. Mills, adjunct fellow, Manhattan Institute, UNLEASHING THE NORTH AMERICAN ENERGY COLOSSUS: HYDROCARBONS CAN FUEL GROWTH AND PROSPERITY, 7—12, p. 8-10. We are contemplating hundreds of billions of dollars of new output, three or four
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, with $5 trillion of that accruing to the U.S. Only growth in high-wage job sectors creates demand that can reverse the current trajectory
Appelbaum 12 (Eileen, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, 4/10/12, “Low-Wage Jobs to Blame for Slow Economic Recovery” US News) http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2012/04/10/job-polarization-not-to-blame-for-slow-economic-recovery Slower-than-expected employment growth in March 2012 has brought the halting pace
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expanding occupations limit gains in consumer spending and hamper more robust job growth. No resiliency – we’ve pulled out all the stops – a collapse now triggers a double-dip collapse and depression
Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 8/10/11, “Recession 2.0 would hurt worse”, lexis, mnrs The risk of double dip recession is rising. And while economists disagree on just
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this new recession would likely have virtually no policy effort to counteract it. US growth is key to global economic recovery
Caploe 09 (David, PhD in International political economy from Princeton, “Focus still on America to lead global recovery,” The Straits Times, 8/2/12) IN THE aftermath of the G-20 summit, most observers seem to have
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foreseeable future, even though other countries must certainly help. This crisis began Economic decline causes war – studies prove
Royal, Department of Defense Cooperative threat reduction director, 2010 Jedediah, Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises, in Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, p.213-4 Second, on a dyadic level, Copeland's (1996, 2000) theory of
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not featured prominently in the economic-security debate and deserves more attention. And those wars go nuclear
Kerpen ‘8 National Review Online, October 28, 2008 Phil Kerpen, policy director for Americans for Prosperity From Panic to Depression?, http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OWQ3ZGYzZTQyZGY4ZWFiZWUxNmYwZTJiNWVkMTIxMmU= It’s important that we avoid all these policy errors — not just for the sake
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breakdown of such extended duration would risk armed conflicts on an even greater scale Economic growth causes international cooperation which solves war
Mead 12 (Walter Russell, James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College, 7/18/12, “Energy Revolution 3: The New American Century” The American Interest) http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/07/18/energy-revolution-3-the-new-american-century/ Abundant energy will also promote global economic growth, an effect that strengthens and stabilizes
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build functioning international institutions when all parties are relatively optimistic about their prospects. China Tensions are at an all-time high over access to oil in the South China Sea—miscalculation and conflict are likely
Kleine-Ahlbrandt 12 (Stephanie, Beijing-based China and Northeast Asia project director for the International Crisis Group, 7/30/12, “High Stakes in the South China Sea” The Diplomat) http://thediplomat.com/flashpoints-blog/2012/07/30/high-stakes-in-the-south-china-sea/ Coverage of the South China Sea territorial dispute has tended to paint the story as
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Southeast Asian claimants can all too easily escalate the dispute to irreversible levels. Conflict over the South China Sea causes nuclear war—improved US-China relations over the area are necessary to avert a global catastrophe
Wittner 11 (Lawrence, Ph.D. in History from Columbia, award-winning foreign policy writer and author, 11/28/11, “COMMENTARY: Is a Nuclear War with China Possible?” Huntington News) http://www.huntingtonnews.net/14446 While nuclear weapons exist, there remains a danger that they will be used.
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that of the world, they should be working to encourage these policies. Plan solves US-China relations and prevents war—by increasing energy abundance worldwide, it eliminates the cause of conflict and reduces nationalism
Mead 12 (Walter Russell, James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College, 7/18/12, “Energy Revolution 3: The New American Century” The American Interest) http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/07/18/energy-revolution-3-the-new-american-century/ On the whole, a world of energy abundance should be particularly good for U
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will be much tougher than if it is simply a question of pride. Chavez Venezuela’s oil wealth and power in OPEC has allowed them to increase their influence and build anti-American alliances
Walser 09 (Ray, Senior Policy Analyst for Latin America in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, 2/19/09, “What to Do about Hugo Chávez: Venezuela's Challenge to Security in the Americas” Heritage Foundation) http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2009/02/what-to-do-about-hugo-chaacutevez-venezuelas-challenge-to-security-in-the-americas U.S. policymakers would undoubtedly pay less attention to Chávez and Venezuela were
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exploration, shipping, and refining to meet his long-term goals. Specifically, the Venezuela’s alliance with Iran will cause nuclear terrorist attacks on US soil and Venezuelan proliferation
Suchlicki 12 (Jaime Suchlicki is director of the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami, 8/6/12, “Iran’s Influence in Venezuela: Washington Should Worry” InterAmerican Security Watch) http://interamericansecuritywatch.com/irans-influence-in-venezuela-washington-should-worry/ The same week that President Obama downplayed the threat to U.S. security
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should increase our uneasiness about Chávez’s adventurism and Iranian motivations in Latin America. Nuclear terrorist attack on US soil causes nuclear war
Hanson 04(Victor Davis Hanson is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Private Papers -- Response to Readership -- June 20th http://victorhanson.com/articles/Private%20Papers/Question%20Log/June_20.html) Can Islam coexist with the West and its modernity or will events result in a
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because this time there is no real restraint on American counter-responses. Venezuelan proliferation causes a Latin American arms race
Garner 10(Calvin Garner Staff Editor at the International Affairs Review December 13, 2010, “Venezuela’s nuclear program – the alarmists are right” International Affairs Review) http://www.iar-gwu.org/node/240 A Venezuelan nuclear program is bad for global non-proliferation efforts. The civilian
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international success story of Latin America as a nuclear-weapons free zone. Latin American arms racing causes miscalc and nuclear war—draws in great powers
MIT 09 (Citing Licio da Silva, Astrophysicist at the ObservatorioNacional de Río de Janeiro- Brasil,“The ABC's of Nuclear Disarmament in Latin America” MIT) http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/political-science/17-951-nuclear-weapons-in-international-politics-past-present-and-future-spring-2009/projects/MIT17_951S09_abcs.pdf There are several resources that indicate that Latin American political scientists were worried about the
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a very hard time surviving if there existed no trust between the nations. Plan causes a massive flood of supply, lowering prices dramatically
Wolf 12 (Charles, Distinguished Corporate Chair in International Economics, RAND Corporation, Professor, Pardee Rand Graduate School, and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Summer 2012, “The Geopolitics of U.S. Energy Independence” The International Economy) http://www.international-economy.com/TIE_Su12_GeopoliticsEnergySymp.pdf For commodities that are homogeneous, as is the case for oiland gas, only
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not be implausible. OPEC’s break-up might well ensue as a byproduct |
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production in the context of oil means drilling – we meet
US EIA no dateGlossary, http://205.254.135.7/tools/glossary/index.cfm?id=A
Conventional oil and natural gas production: Crude oil and natural gas that is produced by a well drilled into a geologic formation in which the reservoir and fluid characteristics permit the oil and natural gas to readily flow to the wellbore. |
| 12 | 11/10/2012 | Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 2 | Opponent: Missouri State BR | Judge: Galloway
Drilling is key to solve seepage—that’s worse for the environment
Thornley 09 (Drew, independent public-policy analyst, adjunct professor of business law, and licensed attorney, “Energy and the Environment: Myths and Facts” Manhattan Institute) http://www.manhattan-institute.org/energymyths/myth8.htm For example, ocean floors naturally seep more oil into the ocean than do oil
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of life and no major oil spills attributed to either storm.”110 Drilling in the gulf and Arctic now
Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss, EarthTalk, 9/7/12, “Coming Soon: Oil Drilling on the Arctic Ocean's Outer Continental Shelf”, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=oil-drilling-outer-continental-shelfandpage=2, mnrs In November 2011 the Obama administration began lifting the moratorium on off-shore drilling
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worried about opening up the fragile Alaskan Arctic to off-shore rigs. |
| 13 | 11/10/2012 | Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 2 | Opponent: Missouri State BR | Judge: Galloway
Other imperial powers are worse—turns the alt Victor Davis Hanson 2, Ph. D. in Classics, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a Professor Emeritus at California University, Fresno, “A Funny Sort of Empire: Are Americans really so imperial?” National Review Online, November 27, 2002, http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson112702.html, It is popular now to talk of the American "empire." In Europe particularly
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to coax a reluctant populace, not constrain a blood-drunk rabble. Their anti-imperialist struggle props up dictators and obscures violence Fred Halliday (Middle East Report) 99 “The Middle East at the Millennial Turn” http://www.merip.org/mer/mer213/213_hallliday.html Recent developments in the Middle East and the onset of new global trends and uncertainties
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the hold of authoritarian regimes and oppressive social practices within the Middle East. No prior questions David Owen, Professor of Social and Political Philosophy and Deputy Director, Centre for Philosophy and Value, University of Southhampton, “Re-Orientating International Relations: On Pragmatism, Pluralism and Practical Reasoning” MILLENIUM: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, 2002, p. 655-7. Commenting on the ‘philosophical turn’ in IR, Wæver remarks that ‘a
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the first and second dangers, and so a potentially vicious circle arises. Withdrawal causes great power competition and war KHALILZAD (Rand Analyst, Envoy to Afghanistan) ‘95
Zalmay, “Losing the Moment”, Washington Quarterly, Spring, ln, wyo-tjc What might happen to the world if the United States turned inward? Without the
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nation in the world, including the United States, would be harmed. |
| 14 | 11/10/2012 | Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 2 | Opponent: Missouri State BR | Judge: Galloway
no Mideast escalation Fettweis 07 Asst Prof Poli Sci – Tulane, Asst Prof National Security Affairs – US Naval War College, (Christopher, “On the Consequences of Failure in Iraq,” Survival, Vol. 49, Iss. 4, December, p. 83 – 98) Without the US presence, a second argument goes, nothing would prevent Sunni–
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cooperation to address that common interest is far more likely than outright warfare. Multiple controversies trigger the link
Wasson 11/7 (Erik, “25 problems facing Obama, Congress”, http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/266667-25-problems-now-facing-obama-congress, ) A slew of thorny issues awaitsPresident Obama and Congress in the lame-duck session
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a technical oversight that could endanger vital information handed to the new regulator. Recession inevitable now EVEN WITH a deal--aff is only shot to save the economy
SEEKING ALPHA, "Even with a Fiscal Cliff Deal, Stocks and the U.S. Economy Will Unravel in 2013," 11--9--12, http://seekingalpha.com/article/995621-even-with-a-fiscal-cliff-deal-stocks-and-the-u-s-economy-will-unravel-in-2013, accessed 11-10-12. Ever since the Presidential election was decided, the focus on the "Fiscal Cliff
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slowdown as it recently reduced earnings guidance for the next couple of years. Compromise is only rhetoric—all attempts to come together are met with opposition
Ben Feller, 11/10 Associated Press White House Correspondent, Obama, Boehner signal willingness to compromise as fiscal cliff approaches, http://blog.al.com/wire/2012/11/obama_boehner_signal_willingne.html WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner are signaling they're open to
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framework, at least, is there for a broad deal on taxes.
oil lobbies,
they like the plan
Clifford Krauss, Houston, and Ashley Parker, Bettendorf, Iowa, 8/22/12, “Romney Energy Plan Would Expand Oil Drilling on U.S. Land and Offshore”, New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/us/politics/romney-tries-to-refocus-campaign-on-economy-and-obama-turns-to-education.html?_r=0, mnrs Nearly two-thirds of federal lands are currently off-limits to drilling and
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year moratorium on gulf drilling following the BP spill angered the oil industry. They control the agenda, takes out the link to the disad
Dan Froomkin, “How the Oil Lobby Greases Washington’s Wheels,” HUFFINGTON POST, 4-6-11, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/06/how-the-oil-lobby-greases_n_845720.html, accessed 6-2-12, 2AC = green With so much public opposition, why do subsidies remain? You might as well
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Action Fund, "that is a 20-to-1 payoff." Plan is an olive branch – gets support for other policies without backlash
Russell McLendon, mother nature network, 5/27/10, “Offshore drilling: Low bills vs. big spills”, http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/translating-uncle-sam/stories/offshore-drilling-low-bills-vs-big-spills, mnrs That pressure reached a critical mass in March, when President Obama announced plans to
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starting what is now being called the worst oil spill in American history. Gridlock It’s happening now – lack of compromise
Patricio Navia, Buenos Aires Herald, 10/2/12, “Will Obama’s 2nd term be better?”, http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/113098/will-obama's-2nd-term-be-better, mnrs Although the election will not be decided until polling booths close in battleground states on
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be totally absent in Washington during the first year of Obama’s second term. |
| 15 | 11/11/2012 | Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 3 | Opponent: Georgia CG | Judge: Strauss
Russia is tightening its grip on European energy markets through nationalization of oil production—this allows Russian expansionism to continue unabated
Katusa 12 (Marin, accomplished investment analyst, senior editor of Casey Energy Dividends, Casey Energy Confidential, and Casey Energy Report, 10/24/12, “Vladimir Putin: The New Global Shah of Oil” Casey Research) http://www.proactiveinvestors.com/columns/casey-research/2448/vladimir-putin-the-new-global-shah-of-oil-2448.html Exxon Mobil is no longer the world's number-one oil producer. As of
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. Same goes for Gazprom as a Goliath in the continent's gas scene. Russian expansionism causes escalating wars of aggression using weapons of mass destruction
Blank 9 – Dr. Stephen Blank is a Research Professor of National Security Affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, March 2009, “Russia And Arms Control: Are There Opportunities For The Obama Administration?” http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub908.pdf Proliferators or nuclear states like China and Russia can then deter regional or intercontinental attacks
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perhaps make wars of aggression on their neighbors or their own people.172 Russia will use nuclear weapons, even in regional conflicts
Weitz 11 (Richard, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Political-Military Analysis at Hudson Institute, November 2011, “Can We Manage a Declining Russia?” Hudson Institute) http://www.hudson.org/files/publications/CanWeManageDecliningRussiaWeitzNov2011.pdf The cornerstone of Russia's defense has been, and continues to be, nuclear weapons
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similar fears that Syria will become another element in NATO's moralistic foreign policy. Counteracting Russia’s energy leverage is the only way to curb their influence
Armstrong 09 (Bradley, Major, USAF, April 2009, “Confronting Russia, Again” Air University) http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA538883 Sun Tzu stated, “To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of
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Russian energy threat just as NATO formed to confront the Soviet military threat. Plan solves—energy abundance gives Europe alternative sources of oil
Schwark 12 (Sebastian, associate director of Hill-Knowlton strategies, communications Strategist, Energy Specialist, 8/13/12, “e-Ideas (1): Politics and Walter Russell Mead’s Looming Energy Revolution” The Energy Collective) http://theenergycollective.com/sebastian-schwark/102696/e-ideas-1-politics-and-walter-russell-mead-s-looming-energy-revolution The energy revolution will substantially shift the fundamentals of geopolitics by creating “winners and
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the world stage, because its resources are not as relevant any more. US energy abundance allows us to ship oil and technical expertise to Europe
Mahaffee 12 (Dan, Director of Policy and Board Relations, Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, Summer 2012, “The Geopolitics of U.S. Energy Independence” The International Economy) http://www.international-economy.com/TIE_Su12_GeopoliticsEnergySymp.pdf With the development of new U.S. energy exports, ourclose allies will
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today in our education system and science infrastructure may be the deciding factor. |
| 01/03/2013 | Tournament: USC | Round: 1 | Opponent: UNLV EJ | Judge: Albiniak
1AC – USC TERA Federal law requires the Secretary of Interior approve all Tribal Energy Resource Agreements for energy production leases on tribal lands
Elizabeth Ann Kronk, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, Spring 2012, “Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform”, Pace Environmental Law Review, lexis, acc 12/10/12 Recognizing the importance of energy development in Indian country, the need to promote such
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responsibility to tribes as related to TERAs. Specifically, the Act states: Secretarial approval creates environmental and economic restrictions which prevent energy production
Kathleen R. Unger, JD Candidate at Loyola Law School Los Angeles, Masters in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2009, “Change Is In The Wind: Self-Determination And Wind Power Through Tribal Energy Resource Agreements”, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, 43 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 329, lexis, acc 12/10/12 Secretarial approval, in turn, implicates the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
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streamline development by eliminating the federal approval requirement for resource development projects. n124 The current approval process fails and prevents sovereign control by the tribes which undermines economic opportunities
Judith V. Royster, Chapman Professor of Law and Co-Director, Native American Law Center at the University of Tulsa College of Law, March 2012, “Tribal Energy Development: Renewables and the Problem of the Current Statutory Structures”, Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 31 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 91, lexis, acc 12/10/12 The non-minerals statutes that might be used for renewable energy development share a
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a management team with a long-term stake in the community." n119 TERAs are key to allow new leasing structures that maintain tribal ownership
Judith V. Royster, Chapman Professor of Law and Co-Director, Native American Law Center at the University of Tulsa College of Law, March 2012, “Tribal Energy Development: Renewables and the Problem of the Current Statutory Structures”, Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 31 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 91, lexis, acc 12/10/12
Perhaps the solution is one nice neat statutory package that would authorize a tribe to
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n131 by mid-2011 no tribe had submitted a TERA application. n132 Tribal energy is key to economic development in Indian communities – this is key to reduce poverty through jobs and infrastructure
Elizabeth Ann Kronk, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, Spring 2012, “Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform”, Pace Environmental Law Review, lexis, acc 12/10/12 Energy development within Indian country may bring much-needed economic development and infrastructure to
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energy development in a sustainable manner, thereby reducing further environmental degradation. n117 Sovereign development of renewable energy is key to combat structural violence on native lands – this is key to challenge poverty and energy colonialism
Gough 9—Intertribal Council On Utility Policy; paper submitted by Honor the Earth, the Intertribal Council on Utility Policy, the Indigenous Environmental Network, and the International Indian Treaty Council (Bob, Energy Justice in Native America, A Policy Paper for Consideration by the Obama Administration and the 111th Congress, www.mynewsletterbuilder.com/email/newsletter/1409857447) A just nation-to-nation relationship means breaking the cycle of asking Native
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the future, providing a unique opportunity for stabilizing an energy intensive economy. Localized wind and solar offer an opportunity to move beyond conventional biopolitical models of development that exploit tribal culture and land and have resulted in systematic extermination
Powell 6—Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Appalachian State (Dana, Technologies of Existence: The indigenous environmental justice movement, www.cfeps.org/ss2008/ss08r/harcourt/harcourt3_powell.pdf) In her work with the indigenous movement in Ecuador, Catherine Walsh speaks of the
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a call for ‘environmental justice,’ implemented through specific material technologies. Solvency The United States federal government should end restrictions under Section 2604 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that require approval from the Secretary of the Interior for Tribal Energy Resource Agreements for the production of wind and/or solar energy Removing federal involvement in TERA approval is key
Elizabeth Ann Kronk, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, Spring 2012, “Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform”, Pace Environmental Law Review, lexis, acc 12/10/12 If Congress truly wishes the federal government to be free from liability with regard to
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the standard approach to development and a primary hindrance to reservation prosperity'." n149 Restrictions on TERAs undermine self-determination. Mandating environmental review prevents tribes from making decisions about energy production on their own lands
Elizabeth Ann Kronk, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, Spring 2012, “Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform”, Pace Environmental Law Review, lexis, acc 12/10/12
In addition to concerns related to the status of the federal trust relationship following passage
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for Indian energy development and urge the Committee to revisit this language. n83 Expanding tribal self-determination in energy production is key to projects on tribal lands
Kathleen R. Unger, JD Candidate at Loyola Law School Los Angeles, Masters in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2009, “Change Is In The Wind: Self-Determination And Wind Power Through Tribal Energy Resource Agreements”, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, 43 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 329, lexis, acc 12/10/12 To meet these goals, however, tribal resource development must also promote self-
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determination should be a central consideration in the development of tribal energy resources. It’s key to self determination – failure to reduce federal government involvement locks in dependence and prevents energy development
Elizabeth Ann Kronk, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, Spring 2012, “Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform”, Pace Environmental Law Review, lexis, acc 12/10/12 Furthermore, reduction of the federal government's role in energy development within Indian country correlates
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would see tribal nations "frozen in a perpetual state of tutelage." n155 Secretary approval process maintains federal government control over tribal land development – reforming is key – restricts production
Kathleen R. Unger, JD Candidate at Loyola Law School Los Angeles, Masters in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2009, “Change Is In The Wind: Self-Determination And Wind Power Through Tribal Energy Resource Agreements”, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, 43 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 329, lexis, acc 12/10/12 In addition to the specific weaknesses discussed above, the TERA framework is flawed more
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resource development without necessarily reducing it or shifting true control to tribes. n215 Any Secretary of Interior control is bad – they have a vested interest in not approving leases
Elizabeth Ann Kronk, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, Spring 2012, “Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform”, Pace Environmental Law Review, lexis, acc 12/10/12 Moreover, concerns regarding federal conflicts of interest exist within Indian country. "A
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to provide adequate oversight to effectively manage resource development in Indian country. n160 Prefer our impacts over one-shot scenarios – their impact calculus obscures ongoing violence
Nixon 10 (Rob, Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, pp 1-14) When Lawrence Summers, then president of the World Bank, advocated thai the bank
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how our rhetorical conventions for bracketing violence routinely ignore ongoing, belated casualties. Structural violence comes first – anything else renders its effect invisible
Biyanwila 8—University of Western Australia (Janaka, Re-empowering labour : Knowledge, ontology and counter-hegemony, http://www.tasa.org.au/uploads/2011/05/Biyanwila-Janaka-Session-59-PDF.pdf) An essential component of union power and issues of empowerment is the production of knowledge
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culture and in the structure, not only in the ‘human mind’”. They can’t win a war impact- shifts in attitudes prevent war
Christopher J Fettweis, National Security Decision Making Department, US Naval War College, December 06, “A Revolution in International Relation Theory: Or, What If Mueller Is Right?”, International Studies Review, Volume 8, Issue 4, Wiley, umn-rks The obsolescence-of-major-war argument is familiar enough to need little
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war has become, in Mueller's words, “sub-rationally unthinkable.”
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| 01/07/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
The United States federal government should end restrictions under Section 2604 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that require approval from the Secretary of the Interior for Tribal Energy Resource Agreements for the production of wind and/or solar power |
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Indian country is in the U.S.
US Code, 7-1-2008, § 1151. Indian country defined
Except as otherwise provided in sections 1154 and 1156 of this title 18 USCS
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been extinguished, including rights-of-way running through the same. United States includes all areas under U.S. jurisdiction
Rainey, 95 - US District Judge (John, DONALD RAY LOOPER, INDIVIDUALLY AND ON BEHALF OF HIS FIRM'S CLIENTS, Plaintiff, v. WILLIAM C. MORGAN, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE, AND ALL UNKNOWN INDIVIDUALS AND AGENCIES INVOLVED IN THE SEARCH OF A BRIEFCASE AT INTER-CONTINENTAL AIRPORT IN HOUSTON, TEXAS, Defendants.
1995 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10241, lexis) The term "United States" means the United States and all areas under the jurisdiction or authority thereof. Indian country is in the U.S.
William Bradford, Chiricahua Apache. Assistant Professor of Law, Indiana University, 2002-2003, American Indian Law Review More than half of the U.S. land mass was purchased at an
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by ongoing land seizures. Atkinson, supra note 54, at 381. ‘Substantially’ means a considerable in importance, value or extent
American Heritage DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: FOURTH EDITION, 2K. Available from the World Wide Web at: www.dictionary.com, accessed 3/31/06. 5. Considerable in importance, value, degree, amount, or extent: won by a substantial margin. |
| 01/07/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Ontological focus is bad—it’s subjective, non-falsifiable, and authoritarian
Graham, ‘99 Phil Graham, Graduate School of Management , University of Queensland, Heidegger’s Hippies: A dissenting voice on the “problem of the subject” in cyberspace, Identities in Action! 1999, http://www.philgraham.net/HH_conf.pdf Of course, “the problem of the subject” is not specific to the
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has become both lingua franca and world currency (Adorno 1964/19731973). No link—our aff doesn’t uniquely increase tech and a calculative mindset is inevitable Turn—their focus on ontology creates moral blindness to atrocities and tyranny.
Steven B. Smith, Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science and Master of Branford College, Yale University, READING LEO STRAUSS: POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY, JUDAISM, 2006, p. 130. At another point, Strauss suggests that not historicism as such, but Heidegger's virtually
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enables us to see the high price of Heidegger's forgetfulness of the political. Their commitment to a strong ontology causes authoritarian violence—turns the K
Howe 2006 (Louis E., associate professor in the Department of Political Science and Planning at the University of West Georgia, “Enchantment, Weak Ontologies, and Administrative Ethics,” Administration and Society, September, p.427-8) In this section, I will further explicate the notion of weak ontology. Although
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the term ontology itself with the term ontopolitcal interpretation (p. 1). Domination of nature does not equate to domination of humans
Hughes 89 (James – Assistant Director of Institutional Research and Planning, and Lecturer in Public Policy Studies, at Trinity College in Hartford; "Beyond Bookchinism: A Left Green Response," Socialist Review 89.3, http://www.changesurfer.com/Bud/Bookchin.html) SINCE CONSCIOUSNESS plays such a central role in Bookchin's ethics, this appears to be
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the reduction of the struggle against one to the struggle against the other. |
| 01/07/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
“Resolved” doesn’t lock the aff into “certainty”:
Merriam Webster ‘9 (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resolved) # Main Entry: 1re•solve # Pronunciation: \ri-ˈzälv, -ˈzȯlv also -ˈzäv or -ˈzȯv\ # Function: verb # Inflected Form(s): resolved; re•solv•ing 1 : to become separated into component parts; also : to become reduced by dissolving or analysis 2 : to form a resolution : determine 3 : consult, deliberate Neither does “should”
Encarta World English Dictionary 2005 (http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861735294) expressing conditions or consequences: used to express the conditionality of an occurrence and suggest it is not a given, or to indicate the consequence of something that might happen ( used in conditional clauses ) And resolved doesn’t mean immediate
Online Plain Text English Dictionary ‘9 (http://www.onelook.com/?other=web1913andw=Resolve) Resolve: “To form a purpose; to make a decision; especially, to determine after reflection; as, to resolve on a better course of life.” Trust doctrine kills self-d – plan is key to endorse self d
Kathleen R. Unger, JD Candidate at Loyola Law School Los Angeles, Masters in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2009, “Change Is In The Wind: Self-Determination And Wind Power Through Tribal Energy Resource Agreements”, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, 43 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 329, lexis, acc 12/10/12 The relationship between the doctrines of trust and self-determination is complex and in
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tribes' ability to hold the federal government responsible under its trust obligation. n83 |
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Won’t pass—GOP House obstructionism
Soto 1/4 (Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto, NBC Latino and MSNBC contributor, Senior Analyst for Latino Decisions and Fellow at the Center for Politics and Governance at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas http://nbclatino.com/2013/01/04/opinion-immigration-reform-will-not-be-easy-but-its-not-impossible/ Unlike in his first administration, the president seems to be on board and ready
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president from crossing off immigration reform from his 2013 to-do list. Debt ceiling thumps the disad.
Huffington Post, 1/4/13, Obama Second-Term Plans Threatened By Bruising Budget Fights, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/04/obama-second-term-plans_n_2411168.html After a brutal "fiscal cliff" battle, President Barack Obama's looming budget confrontation
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Immigration wont’ be first --- Gun control and debt ceiling will push immigration off the agenda --- history proves.
AZ Central, 1-5-2013, p. www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/20130103immigration-reform-at-crossroads.html Immigration reform jumped to the top of President Barack Obama’s second-term agenda after
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be able to debate a comprehensive immigration-reform bill,” he said. Hagel nomination drains Obama’s capital.
The Frontrunner, 12-28-2012
The Christian Science Monitor (12/28, 47K) says President Obama's "
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he needs for the bigger battle over the federal budget and deficit reduction." Science diplomacy fails and risks more conflict
Dickson ‘9 (David, Director SciDev.Net, news editor of Nature from 1993 to August 2001, and was the journal’s Washington correspondent from 1977 to 1982, The limits of science diplomacy, June 4, http://www.scidev.net/en/editorials/the-limits-of-science-diplomacy.html, ) Using science for diplomatic purposeshas obvious attractions and several benefits. But there are limits
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on oil consumption. A taste of reality may be no bad thing. |
| 02/09/2013 | Tournament: Northwestern | Round: 4 | Opponent: Louisville GH | Judge: Ewald
1AC – NU R4 Federal law requires Secretary of the Interior approval for energy production on tribal land
Elizabeth Ann Kronk, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, Spring 2012, “Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform”, Pace Environmental Law Review, lexis, acc 12/10/12 Recognizing the importance of energy development in Indian country, the need to promote such
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responsibility to tribes as related to TERAs. Specifically, the Act states: This creates restrictions that prevent energy production
Kathleen R. Unger, JD Candidate at Loyola Law School Los Angeles, Masters in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2009, “Change Is In The Wind: Self-Determination And Wind Power Through Tribal Energy Resource Agreements”, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, 43 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 329, lexis, acc 12/10/12 Secretarial approval, in turn, implicates the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
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streamline development by eliminating the federal approval requirement for resource development projects. n124 Tribal energy is key to economic development in Indian communities – this is key to reduce poverty through jobs and infrastructure
Elizabeth Ann Kronk, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, Spring 2012, “Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform”, Pace Environmental Law Review, lexis, acc 12/10/12 Energy development within Indian country may bring much-needed economic development and infrastructure to
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energy development in a sustainable manner, thereby reducing further environmental degradation. n117 Sovereign development of renewable energy is key to combat structural violence on native lands – this is key to challenge poverty and energy colonialism
Gough 9—Intertribal Council On Utility Policy; paper submitted by Honor the Earth, the Intertribal Council on Utility Policy, the Indigenous Environmental Network, and the International Indian Treaty Council (Bob, Energy Justice in Native America, A Policy Paper for Consideration by the Obama Administration and the 111th Congress, www.mynewsletterbuilder.com/email/newsletter/1409857447) A just nation-to-nation relationship means breaking the cycle of asking Native
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the future, providing a unique opportunity for stabilizing an energy intensive economy. Localized wind and solar offer an opportunity to move beyond conventional biopolitical models of development that exploit tribal culture and land and have resulted in systematic extermination
Powell 6—Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Appalachian State (Dana, Technologies of Existence: The indigenous environmental justice movement, www.cfeps.org/ss2008/ss08r/harcourt/harcourt3_powell.pdf) In her work with the indigenous movement in Ecuador, Catherine Walsh speaks of the
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a call for ‘environmental justice,’ implemented through specific material technologies. Our advocacy –
There should not be restrictions on the ability of first nations to produce wind and/or solar power Failure to reduce federal government involvement locks in dependence and prevents energy development
Elizabeth Ann Kronk, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, Spring 2012, “Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform”, Pace Environmental Law Review, lexis, acc 12/10/12 Furthermore, reduction of the federal government's role in energy development within Indian country correlates
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would see tribal nations "frozen in a perpetual state of tutelage." n155 Expanding tribal self-determination in energy production is key to projects on tribal lands
Kathleen R. Unger, JD Candidate at Loyola Law School Los Angeles, Masters in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2009, “Change Is In The Wind: Self-Determination And Wind Power Through Tribal Energy Resource Agreements”, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, 43 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 329, lexis, acc 12/10/12 To meet these goals, however, tribal resource development must also promote self-
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determination should be a central consideration in the development of tribal energy resources. Decentralized energy production is key to challenge dominant forms of energy production
Hermann Scheer, member of the German Parliament and Alternative Nobel Prize winner, 2002, “The Solar Economy: Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future”, Earthscan, p. 87-89, mnrs The representatives of the fossil energy industry have been written out of the script for
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dependency and from the webs spun by the spiders of the fossil economy. renewable energy allows for a democratic paradigm shift that preserves domestic communities
LaDuke 7—executive director of both Honor the Earth and White Earth Land Recovery Project (Winona, Local Energy, Local Power, www.community-wealth.org/_pdfs/articles-publications/municipal/article-laduke.pdf) “We believe the wind is wakan, a holy or great power,” explains
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Western Shoshone and Goshute communities. Native communities are ready for a change. |
| 02/19/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
1AC – CSUF Renewables Federal law requires Secretary of the Interior approval for the production of energy on what is defined as tribal lands
Elizabeth Ann Kronk, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, Spring 2012, “Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform”, Pace Environmental Law Review, lexis, acc 12/10/12 Recognizing the importance of energy development ... . Specifically, the Act states: This process of federal approval creates environmental and economic restrictions which prevent energy production by indigenous peoples
Kathleen R. Unger, JD Candidate at Loyola Law School Los Angeles, Masters in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2009, “Change Is In The Wind: Self-Determination And Wind Power Through Tribal Energy Resource Agreements”, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, 43 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 329, lexis, acc 12/10/12 Secretarial approval, in turn, ... requirement for resource development projects. n124 This process fails and prevents sovereign control by the tribes which undermines economic opportunities
Judith V. Royster, Chapman Professor of Law and Co-Director, Native American Law Center at the University of Tulsa College of Law, March 2012, “Tribal Energy Development: Renewables and the Problem of the Current Statutory Structures”, Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 31 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 91, lexis, acc 12/10/12 The non-minerals statutes that ... term stake in the community." n119 Energy development on these lands is key to economic development in Indian communities – this is key to address the systemic poverty that is occurring in these areas
Elizabeth Ann Kronk, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, Spring 2012, “Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform”, Pace Environmental Law Review, lexis, acc 12/10/12 Energy development within Indian country may ... thereby reducing further environmental degradation. n117 Sovereign development of renewable energy is key to combat structural violence on native lands – this is key to challenge poverty and energy colonialism
Gough 9—Intertribal Council On Utility Policy; paper submitted by Honor the Earth, the Intertribal Council on Utility Policy, the Indigenous Environmental Network, and the International Indian Treaty Council (Bob, Energy Justice in Native America, A Policy Paper for Consideration by the Obama Administration and the 111th Congress, www.mynewsletterbuilder.com/email/newsletter/1409857447) A just nation-to- ... for stabilizing an energy intensive economy. Localized wind and solar offer an opportunity to move beyond conventional biopolitical models of development that exploit tribal culture and land and have resulted in systematic extermination
Powell 6—Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Appalachian State (Dana, Technologies of Existence: The indigenous environmental justice movement, www.cfeps.org/ss2008/ss08r/harcourt/harcourt3_powell.pdf) In her work with the indigenous ... ’ implemented through specific material technologies. Solvency Removing federal involvement and approval is key
Elizabeth Ann Kronk, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, Spring 2012, “Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform”, Pace Environmental Law Review, lexis, acc 12/10/12 If Congress truly wishes the federal ... primary hindrance to reservation prosperity'." n149 Expanding tribal self-determination in energy production is key to projects on tribal lands
Kathleen R. Unger, JD Candidate at Loyola Law School Los Angeles, Masters in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2009, “Change Is In The Wind: Self-Determination And Wind Power Through Tribal Energy Resource Agreements”, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, 43 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 329, lexis, acc 12/10/12 To meet these goals, however ... the development of tribal energy resources. It’s key to self determination – failure to reduce federal government involvement locks in dependence and prevents energy development
Elizabeth Ann Kronk, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, Spring 2012, “Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform”, Pace Environmental Law Review, lexis, acc 12/10/12 Furthermore, reduction of the federal ... a perpetual state of tutelage." n155 Any Secretary of Interior control is bad – they have a vested interest in not approving leases
Elizabeth Ann Kronk, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, Spring 2012, “Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform”, Pace Environmental Law Review, lexis, acc 12/10/12 Moreover, concerns regarding federal conflicts ... resource development in Indian country. n160 The 1AC is a recognition of the colonial policies maintained in the status quo. Failure to acknowledge the oppression of indigenous peoples endangers the survival of the entire human species.
Friedberg 2K (Lilian, bilingual published author and political activist and doctoral candidate in Germanic Studies, The American Indian Quarterly,” Dare to Compare: Americanizing the Holocaust”, p. muse) Collective indifference to these conditions on ... demonically proclaimed as the new salvation." Obsession with short-time frame impacts obscures ongoing violence that doesn’t fit neatly within conventional temporal frames
Nixon 10 (Rob, Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, pp 1-14) When Lawrence Summers, then president ... routinely ignore ongoing, belated casualties. Structural violence comes first – anything else renders its effect invisible
Biyanwila 8—University of Western Australia (Janaka, Re-empowering labour : Knowledge, ontology and counter-hegemony, http://www.tasa.org.au/uploads/2011/05/Biyanwila-Janaka-Session-59-PDF.pdf) An essential component of union power ... only in the ‘human mind’”. |
| 03/03/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
1AC – Districts
TERA Federal law requires the Secretary of Interior approve all Tribal Energy Resource Agreements for energy production leases on tribal lands
Elizabeth Ann Kronk, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, Spring 2012, “Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform”, Pace Environmental Law Review, lexis, acc 12/10/12 Recognizing the importance of energy development ... . Specifically, the Act states: Secretarial approval creates environmental and economic restrictions which prevent energy production
Kathleen R. Unger, JD Candidate at Loyola Law School Los Angeles, Masters in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2009, “Change Is In The Wind: Self-Determination And Wind Power Through Tribal Energy Resource Agreements”, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, 43 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 329, lexis, acc 12/10/12 Secretarial approval, in turn, ... requirement for resource development projects. n124 The current approval process fails and prevents sovereign control by the tribes which undermines economic opportunities
Judith V. Royster, Chapman Professor of Law and Co-Director, Native American Law Center at the University of Tulsa College of Law, March 2012, “Tribal Energy Development: Renewables and the Problem of the Current Statutory Structures”, Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 31 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 91, lexis, acc 12/10/12 The non-minerals statutes that ... term stake in the community." n119 TERAs are key to allow new leasing structures that maintain tribal ownership
Judith V. Royster, Chapman Professor of Law and Co-Director, Native American Law Center at the University of Tulsa College of Law, March 2012, “Tribal Energy Development: Renewables and the Problem of the Current Statutory Structures”, Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 31 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 91, lexis, acc 12/10/12
Perhaps the solution is one nice ... had submitted a TERA application. n132 Tribal energy is key to economic development in Indian communities – this is key to reduce poverty through jobs and infrastructure
Elizabeth Ann Kronk, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, Spring 2012, “Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform”, Pace Environmental Law Review, lexis, acc 12/10/12 Energy development within Indian country may ... thereby reducing further environmental degradation. n117 Sovereign development of renewable energy is key to combat structural violence on native lands – this is key to challenge poverty and energy colonialism
Gough 9—Intertribal Council On Utility Policy; paper submitted by Honor the Earth, the Intertribal Council on Utility Policy, the Indigenous Environmental Network, and the International Indian Treaty Council (Bob, Energy Justice in Native America, A Policy Paper for Consideration by the Obama Administration and the 111th Congress, www.mynewsletterbuilder.com/email/newsletter/1409857447) A just nation-to- ... for stabilizing an energy intensive economy. Localized wind and solar offer an opportunity to move beyond conventional biopolitical models of development that exploit tribal culture and land and have resulted in systematic extermination
Powell 6—Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Appalachian State (Dana, Technologies of Existence: The indigenous environmental justice movement, www.cfeps.org/ss2008/ss08r/harcourt/harcourt3_powell.pdf) In her work with the indigenous ... ’ implemented through specific material technologies.
Solvency The United States federal government should end restrictions under Section 2604 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that require approval from the Secretary of the Interior for Tribal Energy Resource Agreements for the production of wind and/or solar power Removing federal involvement in TERA approval is key
Elizabeth Ann Kronk, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, Spring 2012, “Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform”, Pace Environmental Law Review, lexis, acc 12/10/12 If Congress truly wishes the federal ... primary hindrance to reservation prosperity'." n149 Restrictions on TERAs undermine self-determination. Mandating environmental review prevents tribes from making decisions about energy production on their own lands
Elizabeth Ann Kronk, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, Spring 2012, “Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform”, Pace Environmental Law Review, lexis, acc 12/10/12
In addition to concerns related to ... Committee to revisit this language. n83 Expanding tribal self-determination in energy production is key to projects on tribal lands
Kathleen R. Unger, JD Candidate at Loyola Law School Los Angeles, Masters in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2009, “Change Is In The Wind: Self-Determination And Wind Power Through Tribal Energy Resource Agreements”, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, 43 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 329, lexis, acc 12/10/12 To meet these goals, however ... the development of tribal energy resources. It’s key to self determination – failure to reduce federal government involvement locks in dependence and prevents energy development
Elizabeth Ann Kronk, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, Spring 2012, “Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform”, Pace Environmental Law Review, lexis, acc 12/10/12 Furthermore, reduction of the federal ... a perpetual state of tutelage." n155 Secretary approval process maintains federal government control over tribal land development – reforming is key – restricts production
Kathleen R. Unger, JD Candidate at Loyola Law School Los Angeles, Masters in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2009, “Change Is In The Wind: Self-Determination And Wind Power Through Tribal Energy Resource Agreements”, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, 43 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 329, lexis, acc 12/10/12 In addition to the specific weaknesses ... shifting true control to tribes. n215 Any Secretary of Interior control is bad – they have a vested interest in not approving leases
Elizabeth Ann Kronk, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, Spring 2012, “Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform”, Pace Environmental Law Review, lexis, acc 12/10/12 Moreover, concerns regarding federal conflicts ... resource development in Indian country. n160 Obsession with short-time frame impacts obscures ongoing violence that doesn’t fit neatly within conventional temporal frames
Nixon 10 (Rob, Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, pp 1-14) When Lawrence Summers, then president ... routinely ignore ongoing, belated casualties. Structural violence comes first – anything else renders its effect invisible
Biyanwila 8—University of Western Australia (Janaka, Re-empowering labour : Knowledge, ontology and counter-hegemony, http://www.tasa.org.au/uploads/2011/05/Biyanwila-Janaka-Session-59-PDF.pdf) An essential component of union power ... only in the ‘human mind’”. There's no scenario for conflicts
Cohen and Zenko 12—senior fellow at the New America Foundation where he helms the Privatization of Foreign Policy Initiative and an adjunct lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs—AND—worked for five years at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and at the Brookings Institution, Congressional Research Service, and State Department's Office of Policy Planning. (Michael and Micah, Clear and Present Safety, www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137279/micah-zenko-and-michael-a-cohen/clear-and-present-safety?page=show) Last August, the Republican presidential ... in national security discourse and policymaking. Multiple factors check war
Robb 12—Lieutenant, US Navy (Doug, Why the Age of Great Power War is Over, www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2012-05/now-hear-why-age-great-power-war-over) Whereas in years past, when ... counterproductive, archaic, and improbable. |
| 03/29/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Kansas CG | Judge:
1AC The United States federal government should substantially reduce restrictions on the production of crude oil by indigenous peoples in Indian Country The image of the Noble Savage arises from the colonial drive to order and make sense within Western frames by labeling indigenous peoples as connected to the environment. This representation is dehumanizing and fails to acknowledge Native ontologies
Shepard Krech III, PhD and Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Brown University, 1999, “The Ecological Indian: Myth and History”, W. W. Norton and Company, New York: London, acc. 2/15/13, p. 15-27 Even though an invention of Madison ... between Indians and the environment.50 The image of the ecologically noble savage damages both ecology and our relationship to indigenous peoples. This image uses flawed Western concepts of conservation and environmentalism to judge the “authenticity” of indigenous peoples by treating them as children of nature and undermining our understanding of the inconsistency and complexity of ecologies. An epistemological break is key to challenge these modernist notions that erase indigenous cultures
Paul Nadasdy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring 05, “Transcending the Debate over the Ecologically Noble Indian: Indigenous Peoples and Environmentalism”, Ethnohistory 52:2, acc. 2/19/13, p. 292-294 Critics of this view point out ... making power over local goose hunting. The idea of the “noble savage” places indigenous peoples as inferior, justifying the control and colonization of both indigenous peoples and the environment
Peter Jacques, Ph.D. University of Central Florida, et all, Sharon Ridgeway, Ph.D. Grinnell College and the University of Iowa, Richard Wiimer, Ph.D. Grinnell College, 2003, “Federal Indi Law and Environmental Policy: A Social Continuity of Violence”, Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation, Vol. 18, p. 223-250, Academia.edu, acc. 3/23/13 "The history of man's effort ... , as understood by discovery tenets. These racist representations are what allowed the dispossession of land
Peter Jacques, Ph.D. University of Central Florida, et all, Sharon Ridgeway, Ph.D. Grinnell College and the University of Iowa, Richard Wiimer, Ph.D. Grinnell College, 2003, “Federal Indi Law and Environmental Policy: A Social Continuity of Violence”, Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation, Vol. 18, p. 223-250, Academia.edu, acc. 3/23/13 Currently, federal Indian environmental policy ... in a state of nature.6 This type of thinking reifies colonialism
Robert McGhee, Curator of Western Arctic Archaeology at the Canadian Museum of Civilization American Antiquity 73(4) 2008. “ABORIGINALISM AND THE PROBLEMS OF INDIGENOUS ARCHAEOLOGY” http://www.unl.edu/rhames/courses/current/readings/McGheeAmAnt08.pdf
Amore important outcome of the legitimization ... Primitive or the Aboriginal is founded. We must begin by resisting these forms of colonialism – it’s reduces people to a lesser humanity that renders any violence possible
Rajaram 06 (Kumar, no shit, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary “Dystopic Geographies of Empire,” Alternatives 31, 475–506) It is important that bodies and ... and maintenance in the contemporary world. Dehumanization is the root of all evil – it is a precondition to any impact
Katheryn D. Katz, Professor of Law at Albany Law School of Union University, 1997, “Article: The Clonal Child: Procreative Liberty And Asexual Reproduction”, Albany Law Journal of Science and Technology, 8 Alb. L.J. Sci. and Tech. 1, gender modified, acc. 3/27/13 It is undeniable that throughout human ... of others. n92 *19 The prohibition on development of oil by indigenous peoples is part of this mentality of the “Ecological Indian” – one which denies agency to these peoples unless they fit within this stereotyped image
Shepard Krech III, PhD and Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Brown University, 1999, “The Ecological Indian: Myth and History”, W. W. Norton and Company, New York: London, acc. 2/15/13, p. 215-216 But what should be made of ... and their accusers have seldom met. These restrictions prevent Natives from developing oil –
John Kemp, Reuters market analyst, 2/5/13, “COLUMN-Tribes call for faster drilling on Indian lands: Kemp”, http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/column-tribes-call-for-faster-drilling-on-indian-lands-kemp, acc. 2/5/13
LONDON, Feb 5 (Reuters ... " Senate Hearing 112-628). Restrictions on oil drilling are founded in these images of the Noble Savage
David Deming, associate professor of arts and sciences at the University of Oklahoma, 2/14/12, “The Noble Savage”, http://lewrockwell.com/orig9/deming8.1.1.html, acc. 2/1/13
All of this would be of ... us back to the Stone Age. We don’t call for roleplaying or posit ourselves as the state. The 1AC is a productive and effective means of analysis that is necessary for change
Shulock 99 Nancy, PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC POLICY --- professor of Public Policy and Administration and director of the Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Policy (IHELP) at Sacramento State University, The Paradox of Policy Analysis: If It Is Not Used, Why Do We Produce So Much of It?, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 18, No. 2, 226–244 (1999) In my view, none of ... Policy analysis can supply the ideas. Obsession with short-time frame impacts obscures ongoing violence that doesn’t fit neatly within conventional temporal frames
Nixon 10 (Rob, Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, pp 1-14) When Lawrence Summers, then president ... routinely ignore ongoing, belated casualties. Structural violence comes first – anything else renders its effect invisible
Biyanwila 8—University of Western Australia (Janaka, Re-empowering labour : Knowledge, ontology and counter-hegemony, http://www.tasa.org.au/uploads/2011/05/Biyanwila-Janaka-Session-59-PDF.pdf) An essential component of union power ... only in the ‘human mind’”. Prioritize the ethics of the 1AC – the complex nature of the world means we can’t trust predictive claims
Emlian Kavalski, Professor of International Relations at the University of Alberta, “The Fifth Debate and the Emergence of Complex International Relations Theory: Notes on the Application of Complexity Theory to the Study of International Life,” Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Volume 20, Number 3, September, 2007, p. 449-551 Although such reflexivity animated the discussions ... Mathews et al 1999, 450). Their impact is hype
Cohen and Zenko 12—senior fellow at the New America Foundation where he helms the Privatization of Foreign Policy Initiative and an adjunct lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs—AND—worked for five years at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and at the Brookings Institution, Congressional Research Service, and State Department's Office of Policy Planning. (Michael and Micah, Clear and Present Safety, www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137279/micah-zenko-and-michael-a-cohen/clear-and-present-safety?page=show) Last August, the Republican presidential ... in national security discourse and policymaking. |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Kansas CG | Judge:
Their impact calculus renders life meaningless
Dillon ‘99 Political Theory, Another Justice – April 164-165 Quite the reverse. The subject was never a firm foundation for justice, much
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and without being capable of bringing an end to the requirement for decision. And, toleration of evil in the name of survival destroys the value to life
Callahan ‘73 Daniel J. Callahan, The Tyranny of Survival: And other pathologies of civilized life. Pg 91-93delo-uwyo That individuals, tribes, communities and nations have committed so much will, energy
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of survival at the cost of everything decent in man or outright extinction. |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Kansas CG | Judge:
decline Doesn’t cause war
Miller 2k – Professor of Management, Ottawa (Morris, Poverty As A Cause Of Wars?, http://www.pugwash.org/reports/pac/pac256/WG4draft1.htm, AG) Thus, these armed conflicts can hardly be said to be caused by poverty as
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by increasing repression (thereby using one form of violence to abort another. resilient
Globe and Mail 2010 (5/31/10, BRIAN MILNER, "While gloom says bear, TIGER points to bull", lexis, WEA) Even at the height of the remarkable rebound of 2009 that brought stocks back from
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The reality, and the data, is that things are looking better." Laundry list of thumpers
Ford, 3/28/13 John, Staff. PolicyMic.“Why Obama Signing Sequestration Into Law Was a Strategic Move” http://www.policymic.com/articles/31012/why-obama-signing-sequestration-into-law-was-a-strategic-move President Barack Obama finally signed the Sequester into law, locking the infamous spending cuts
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budget yet, and he's going to need allies for the next round. It’s unstoppable. Not even AFL-CIO can stop reform.
Brown, 3/27/13. “Immigration talks back on track, union says” CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN for POLITICO (White House Correspondent @Politico) http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/immigration-talks-back-on-track-union-says-89398.html On Friday evening, AFL-CIO officials said Senate Republicans had rejected their latest
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to be able to support the momentum behind this bill,” Avendaño said. PC fails
Jay Cost, "Obama the Bargainer; How to Lose Friends and Alienate Congress," WEEKLY STANDARD, 2--11--13, LN. All of these stories point in the same direction: This president does not have
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office, he still fails to grasp the essence of modern presidential power. Not intrinsic They control the agenda, takes out the link to the disad
Dan Froomkin, “How the Oil Lobby Greases Washington’s Wheels,” HUFFINGTON POST, 4-6-11, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/06/how-the-oil-lobby-greases_n_845720.html, accessed 6-2-12 With so much public opposition, why do subsidies remain? You might as well ask why there is no carbon tax, or why there was no significant reform legislation passed after the BP oil spill. The answer is that one of the many things the industry can do with its fat pocketbook is hire a veritable army of sharp lobbyists and back them up with big wads of cash § Marked 14:32 § in the form of campaign donations and spending
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$175 million -- or a 300 percent increase in just five years. No uq link--House Republicans are pushing for drilling on federal lands
Eilperin 3-28-13 (Juliet, staff writer, "House GOP energy plan: drill more, mine more" Washington Post) www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/03/28/house-gop-energy-plan-drill-more-mine-more/ House Republicans launched their “Idea Lab”Thursday, outlining their energy agenda for
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to take the full costs of their actions into account when adopting regulations. Immigration momentum only to do with gop agenda, not with obamas fw outlined in their 1nc ev
Hirsh 2/7 (Michael, “There’s No Such Thing as Political Capital”, http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/there-s-no-such-thing-as-political-capital-20130207, ) Meanwhile, the Republican members of the Senate’s so-called Gang of Eight are
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to do with Obama’s political capital or, indeed, Obama at all.¶ Dems will strong-arm immigration through Congress. Short-circuits debate.
York 3/28/2013 “Byron York: Democrats set to jam immigration reform through Senate” Washington Examiner. (Byron York, The Examiner's chief political correspondent) http://washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-democrats-set-to-jam-immigration-reform-through-senate/article/2525736 Byron York: Democrats set to jam immigration reform through Senate Given the enormity of
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there have been strong indications that that's exactly what Democrats intend to do. Uniqueness overwhelms link: congressional conflict will get resolved.
David Yonkman, 3/28/2013. “Sessions to Leahy: Don’t Rush Immigration Reform” Washington correspondent. Newsmax. http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/sessions-leahy-immigration-reform/2013/03/28/id/496793 With an influential group of eight senators nearing completion on a comprehensive immigration bill,
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and predicting Congress could pass historic legislation by the end of the summer. She’s part of the labor unions
Brown, 3/27/13. “Immigration talks back on track, union says” CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN for POLITICO (White House Correspondent @Politico) http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/immigration-talks-back-on-track-union-says-89398.html Ana Avendaño, immigration director for the AFL-CIO, said negotiations are continuing with a bipartisan group of senators and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on the outlines of a broad new visa program aimed at balancing the need for foreign workers in low-skilled jobs with the desires of American workers competing for those same jobs. |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 3 | Opponent: Kansas CG | Judge:
ONE, We meet – there are restrictions on production – that’s Kemp TWO, Counter interpretation – restriction is something that blocks usage of land
Berger 1 Justice Opinion, INDUSTRIAL RENTALS, INC., ISAAC BUDOVITCH and FLORENCE BUDOVITCH, Appellants Below, Appellants, v. NEW CASTLE COUNTY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT and NEW CASTLE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF LAND USE, Appellees Below, Appellees. No. 233, 2000SUPREME COURT OF DELAWARE776 A.2d 528; 2001 Del. LEXIS 300April 10, 2001, Submitted July 17, 2001, Decided lexis We disagree. Statutes must be read as a whole and all the words must
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projects should not have been included in the scope of the Budovitches' TIS. THREE, we meet – secretary approval is a statutory restriction that includes the possibility of complete prohibition
U.S. Code ‘5 25 U.S.C. § 3504 : US Code - Section 3504: Leases, business agreements, and rights-of-way involving energy development or transmission, 2005, An Indian tribe may grant a right-of-way over tribal land for
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Secretary determines to be in the best¶ interest of the Indian tribe;¶ BLM requirements are a restriction
Bruce M. Penderey, program director and a staff attorney with the Wyoming Outdoor Council, 2010, “BLM’s Retained Rights: How Requiring Environmental Protection Fulfills Oil And Gas Lease Obligations”, http://law.lclark.edu/live/files/5647, acc online There are approximately 39,000,000 acres of federal mineral estate in the
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assert them, and several policy changes that could accomplish this are suggested. We meet production – the restrictions are on a place Their Anell evidence about prohibitions on production is NOT APPLICABLE TO OUR SPECIFIC AFFs. It uses an example of Canadian regulations on milk production that allowed milk to still be produced in multiple forms, as long as market sharing quotas were met. Because the milk was still produced, the ruling was that this was a regulation and not a restriction. HOWEVER, when apllying this example to our case, it doesn’t make sense. The Natives CANNOT produce oil because of the approval process—means the distinction this evidence makes only risks flowing aff—we meet this interp—there IS net decrease of oil produced as a part of the approval process FOUR, we don’t explode limits – we only allow Affs that include the chance of total prohibition – we don’t allow all their regulations Affs FIVE, They kill the topic – there are no direct federal prohibitions on the use of wind or solar; only we can give meaning to every topic word; it’s key to set predictable limits SIX, They kill oil and gas restrictions affs - The Secretary of the Interior can grant leases ANYWHERE in the OCS which proves that approval is a restriction
U.S. Code ‘12 43 USC § 1337 - Leases, easements, and rights-of-way on the outer Continental Shelf, Last Updated 2012 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/43/1337 (a) Oil and gas leases; award to highest responsible qualified bidder;
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no such bidding system or modification shall have more than one bid variable. |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 3 | Opponent: Kansas CG | Judge:
ONE, We meet – there are restrictions on production – that’s Kemp TWO, Counter interpretation – restriction is something that blocks usage of land
Berger 1 Justice Opinion, INDUSTRIAL RENTALS, INC., ISAAC BUDOVITCH and FLORENCE BUDOVITCH, Appellants Below, Appellants, v. NEW CASTLE COUNTY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT and NEW CASTLE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF LAND USE, Appellees Below, Appellees. No. 233, 2000SUPREME COURT OF DELAWARE776 A.2d 528; 2001 Del. LEXIS 300April 10, 2001, Submitted July 17, 2001, Decided lexis We disagree. Statutes must be read as a whole and all the words must
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projects should not have been included in the scope of the Budovitches' TIS. THREE, we meet – secretary approval is a statutory restriction that includes the possibility of complete prohibition
U.S. Code ‘5 25 U.S.C. § 3504 : US Code - Section 3504: Leases, business agreements, and rights-of-way involving energy development or transmission, 2005, An Indian tribe may grant a right-of-way over tribal land for
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Secretary determines to be in the best¶ interest of the Indian tribe;¶ BLM requirements are a restriction
Bruce M. Penderey, program director and a staff attorney with the Wyoming Outdoor Council, 2010, “BLM’s Retained Rights: How Requiring Environmental Protection Fulfills Oil And Gas Lease Obligations”, http://law.lclark.edu/live/files/5647, acc online There are approximately 39,000,000 acres of federal mineral estate in the
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assert them, and several policy changes that could accomplish this are suggested. We meet production – the restrictions are on a place Their Anell evidence about prohibitions on production is NOT APPLICABLE TO OUR SPECIFIC AFFs. It uses an example of Canadian regulations on milk production that allowed milk to still be produced in multiple forms, as long as market sharing quotas were met. Because the milk was still produced, the ruling was that this was a regulation and not a restriction. HOWEVER, when apllying this example to our case, it doesn’t make sense. The Natives CANNOT produce oil because of the approval process—means the distinction this evidence makes only risks flowing aff—we meet this interp—there IS net decrease of oil produced as a part of the approval process FOUR, we don’t explode limits – we only allow Affs that include the chance of total prohibition – we don’t allow all their regulations Affs FIVE, They kill the topic – there are no direct federal prohibitions on the use of wind or solar; only we can give meaning to every topic word; it’s key to set predictable limits SIX, They kill oil and gas restrictions affs - The Secretary of the Interior can grant leases ANYWHERE in the OCS which proves that approval is a restriction
U.S. Code ‘12 43 USC § 1337 - Leases, easements, and rights-of-way on the outer Continental Shelf, Last Updated 2012 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/43/1337 (a) Oil and gas leases; award to highest responsible qualified bidder;
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no such bidding system or modification shall have more than one bid variable. |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 3 | Opponent: Kansas CG | Judge:
ONE, We meet – there are restrictions on production – that’s Kemp TWO, Counter interpretation – restriction is something that blocks usage of land
Berger 1 Justice Opinion, INDUSTRIAL RENTALS, INC., ISAAC BUDOVITCH and FLORENCE BUDOVITCH, Appellants Below, Appellants, v. NEW CASTLE COUNTY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT and NEW CASTLE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF LAND USE, Appellees Below, Appellees. No. 233, 2000SUPREME COURT OF DELAWARE776 A.2d 528; 2001 Del. LEXIS 300April 10, 2001, Submitted July 17, 2001, Decided lexis We disagree. Statutes must be read as a whole and all the words must
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projects should not have been included in the scope of the Budovitches' TIS. THREE, we meet – secretary approval is a statutory restriction that includes the possibility of complete prohibition
U.S. Code ‘5 25 U.S.C. § 3504 : US Code - Section 3504: Leases, business agreements, and rights-of-way involving energy development or transmission, 2005, An Indian tribe may grant a right-of-way over tribal land for
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Secretary determines to be in the best¶ interest of the Indian tribe;¶ BLM requirements are a restriction
Bruce M. Penderey, program director and a staff attorney with the Wyoming Outdoor Council, 2010, “BLM’s Retained Rights: How Requiring Environmental Protection Fulfills Oil And Gas Lease Obligations”, http://law.lclark.edu/live/files/5647, acc online There are approximately 39,000,000 acres of federal mineral estate in the
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assert them, and several policy changes that could accomplish this are suggested. We meet production – the restrictions are on a place Their Anell evidence about prohibitions on production is NOT APPLICABLE TO OUR SPECIFIC AFFs. It uses an example of Canadian regulations on milk production that allowed milk to still be produced in multiple forms, as long as market sharing quotas were met. Because the milk was still produced, the ruling was that this was a regulation and not a restriction. HOWEVER, when apllying this example to our case, it doesn’t make sense. The Natives CANNOT produce oil because of the approval process—means the distinction this evidence makes only risks flowing aff—we meet this interp—there IS net decrease of oil produced as a part of the approval process FOUR, we don’t explode limits – we only allow Affs that include the chance of total prohibition – we don’t allow all their regulations Affs FIVE, They kill the topic – there are no direct federal prohibitions on the use of wind or solar; only we can give meaning to every topic word; it’s key to set predictable limits SIX, They kill oil and gas restrictions affs - The Secretary of the Interior can grant leases ANYWHERE in the OCS which proves that approval is a restriction
U.S. Code ‘12 43 USC § 1337 - Leases, easements, and rights-of-way on the outer Continental Shelf, Last Updated 2012 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/43/1337 (a) Oil and gas leases; award to highest responsible qualified bidder;
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no such bidding system or modification shall have more than one bid variable. |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Kansas CG | Judge:
Perm do both Doesn’t solve – maintains flawed representations Links to net benefit The epistemology of the Aff comes first – voting Aff challenges Western frames of the environment as applied to indigenous peoples – this is a prior question to policy engagement Any counterplan that does not engage or challenge this dominant epistemology fails to solve Agent counterplans are a voter: FIRST, Aff ground – they moot the 1AC and prevent us from getting offense, makes it impossible for the Aff to win SECOND, topic specific education – it’s the only unique thing we can gain this year, process counterplans prevent policy specific discussion THIRD, no solvency advocate – they have no evidence that actually advocates the process of the counterplan in the context of our aff The CP would be send a massive signal of unpredictability to investors
Ford 5 Matthew Ford, Law Student at St John's University School of Law in New York. 9/15, “John Roberts, Stare Decisis, and the Return of Lochner: An Impetus to Jump-Start the Labor Movement.” Mr. Zine Magazine, A Project of the Monthly Review. http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/ford180905.html Our common law system is based largely on the idea of "stare decisis,"
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so forcefully that to even fathom overturning the ruling is to start trouble. Means it can’t solve
Koester and Weaver 10 Eric Koester and Bryn Weaver, “The Startup Visa-A White Paper”, Prepared for Submission to Congress, 8-18-2010 Procedures that yield uncertain or delayed results prevent investments. Investors in an early stage
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to proceed at a speed that meets the timing of the investment process. Perm do the counterplan—it’s justified Saying “Federal Government” doesn’t mean “all three branches” – any one body acts as it
Chicago 7 (University of Chicago Manual of Style, “Capitalization, Titles”, http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/CMS_FAQ/CapitalizationTitles/CapitalizationTitles30.html) Q. When I refer to the government of the United States in text,
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| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Kansas CG | Judge:
Perm do both Perm do the plan as a means of denying the legitimacy of the United States of America No specific internal link – their K just describes the world in the abstract – make them tie their link arguments to our plan, and how the AFF causes their impacts, not just how _ in theory might cause them Alt fails – no way it can overcome the magnitude of their link – they can’t tell you what it actually does to address Native oppression Permutation is key --- political struggle for land-return must work through colonial institutions – ALFRED is wrong
Corntassel 12—University of Victoria, Canada (Jeff, Re-envisioning resurgence: Indigenous pathways to decolonization and sustainable self-determination, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society 1;1:86-101) Being Indigenous today means struggling to reclaim and regenerate one’s relational, place-based
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resurgence means having the courage and imagination to envision life beyond the state. Condo – double turn The removal of the State would leave all Native American open to extermination by racist groups
Fire Rider 05 (Marty, “Why Churchill political agenda is wrong for Indians Tulsa”, Native American Times. Vol. XI, Iss. 13; pg. 8. 3/30/05) I think we can agree that Churchill's political philosophy is liberal socialism regarding foreign policy
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problems nearly as equal such as third world living conditions on many reservations. Denying the centrality of the state destroys all hope of changing it. We must analyze state policy in order to understand it and reorient it Krause and Williams, 1997 Prof. Political Sci. at Geneva Graduate Institute of Int’l Studies and Asst. Prof. Political Sci. at University of Southern Main Keith and Michael, Critical Security Studies, Pg, XV-XVI These (and other) critical perspectives have much to say to each other in
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, one must take seriously the prevailing claims about the nature of security.
Many of the chapters in this volume thus retain a concern with the centrality of
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of influencing what remains the most structurally capable actor in contemporary world politics. |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Iowa DH | Judge: It’s on the brink—multiple indicators – fiscal cliff, bad indicators, and lack of stimulus options
Hall 12/25 (Anthony, reporter, 12/25/12, “The Year in Review: 2012: The U.S. Economy -- deja vu all over again” United Press International) http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2012/12/25/The-Year-in-Review-2012-The-US-Economy-deja-vu-all-over-again/UPI-57181356433260/ For all intents and purposes, the U.S. economy was something of
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way to squeeze each new drop of stimulus out of its policy arsenal. US is key to the global economy
Arcega 12(Mil, reporter, 12/19/12, “US Economic Health Key to Global Growth in 2013” Voice of America) http://www.voanews.com/content/us-economic-health-key-to-global-growth-in-2013/1568204.html Given the inter-connected nature of commerce, a shock to the world's largest
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trimmed its global forecast in 2013, citing slower growth in emerging markets. The economy is not resilient —we’ve pulled out all the stops—recession now will trigger a depression
Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 8/10/11, “Recession 2.0 would hurt worse”, lexis, mnrs The risk of double dip recession is rising. And while economists disagree on just
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this new recession would likely have virtually no policy effort to counteract it. Economic decline causes war — studies prove
Royal, Department of Defense Cooperative threat reduction director, 2010 Jedediah, Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises, in Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, p.213-4 Second, on a dyadic level, Copeland's (1996, 2000) theory of
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not featured prominently in the economic-security debate and deserves more attention. And those wars go nuclear
Kerpen 8 National Review Online, October 28, 2008 Phil Kerpen, policy director for Americans for Prosperity From Panic to Depression?, http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OWQ3ZGYzZTQyZGY4ZWFiZWUxNmYwZTJiNWVkMTIxMmU= It’s important that we avoid all these policy errors — not just for the sake
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breakdown of such extended duration would risk armed conflicts on an even greater scale Economic growth causes international cooperation which solves war
Mead 12 (Walter Russell, James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College, 7/18/12, “Energy Revolution 3: The New American Century” The American Interest) http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/07/18/energy-revolution-3-the-new-american-century/ Abundant energy will also promote global economic growth, an effect that strengthens and stabilizes
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solutions and build functioning international institutions when all parties arerelativelyoptimistic about their prospects. Supreme Court decisions are modeled globally
Narasimhan 08 (Angela, PhD candidate in Political Science at Syracuse University, “Domestic Courts, Global Changes:International Influences on the Post-Cold War Supreme Court”The Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media Syracuse University) http://jpm.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/15_a.pdf This summer, five of the nine current Supreme Court justices spent time overseas teaching
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considered to be limited to that of an exporter, not an importer. Pakistan's judicial independence is threatened now
Shabbir Ahmad Khan, PhD Scholar, West Virginia University, "Judicial Independence," EXPRESS TRIBUNE, 12--24--12, http://tribune.com.pk/story/483823/judicial-independence/ As far as the decisional independence of a judge is concerned, the judiciary as
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total of nine decide by vote whether or not to hear a case. That threatens massive instability
Nasira Iqbal, retired justice, Lahore High Court, "Judicial Independence Abroad: The Struggle Continues," HUMAN RIGHTS v. 36, Winter 2009, www.americanbar.org/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/human_rights_vol36_2009/winter2009/judicial_independence_abroad.html Recent encroachments on independence. The defining moment in the Supreme Court’s move toward judicial
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an independent, impartial judiciary. The alternative is a descent into chaos. Pakistan instability risks nuclear war, causes Indo-Pak conflict and nuclear terrorism
Morgan, 10- former member of the British Labour Party Executive Committee. A political writer, his first book was "The Mind of a Terrorist Fundamentalist - the Cult of Al Qaeda." He is a journalist and columnist for http://www.thecheers.org/ magazine (Stephen, “Better Another Taliban Afghanistan, than a Taliban NUCLEAR,” 6/4, http://society.ezinemark.com/better-another-taliban-afghanistan-than-a-taliban-nuclear-pakistan-4d0ce18ba75.html) Strong centrifugal forces have always bedevilled the stability and unity of Pakistan, and,
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in a new Cold War with China and Russia pitted against the US. It draws in global powers
William Pitt, NYT best selling author on international affairs, "Unstable Pakistan Threatens the World," ARAB AMERICAN NEWS, 5--8--09, www.arabamericannews.com/news/index.php?mod=articleandcat=commentaryandarticle=2183 But a suicide bomber in Pakistan rammed a car packed with explosives into a jeep
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to be gravely serious about addressing the situation. So should we all. U.S. model is key
Center for Justice and Accountability et al., Brief filed in Odah v. United Sates, 2003 U.S. Briefs 334, 1--14--04, LN. Many of the newly independent governments that have proliferated over the past five decades have
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/11/03112003164239.asp (viewed Jan. 8, 2004). Strong judiciary key to stability, U.S. support key
Beth Maclin, "Pakistan Needs Strong Judiciary for Stability," Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, 7--2--08, http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/18457/pakistan_needs_strong_judiciary_for_stability.html The United States should change its tactics in Pakistan to win the battle against Al
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to the adversaries who promises a rough kind of justice,” he said. Current regulatory uncertainty is deterring new biotech research – protecting trade secrets is key
Richard A. Epstein, Professor, Law, University of Chicago and New York University, "The Constitutional Protection of Trade Secrets and Patents Under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation act of 2009," FOOD and DRUG LAW JOURNAL v. 66, 2011, p. 285+, LN. One simple instinct that drives FDA's practice of protecting trade secrets is that health regulation
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respect to trade secrets depend on shielding their content from third parties. n31 Protecting patents is key to innovation and investment – that’s key to biotech leadership
Andrew M. Grossman, senior legal policy analyst, "Promoting Innovation with Patent Reform: A Memo to President-elect Obama," Heritage Foundation, 1--16--09, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2009/01/promoting-innovation-with-patent-reform-a-memo-to-president-elect-obama Reject proposals that would undermine investment in innovative biologic drugs. Though not an issue
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unnecessary damage to America's economic leadership lies in discriminating carefully between the two. That solves biowarfare
Dr. Gregory Stock, Director, Program on Medicine, Technology, and Society, UCLA School of Medicine, "Cloning Research Commentary," 12--01, http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/archive/index.php/t-14865.html If human cloning is enough to bring down civilization, heaven help us, because
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basic biomedical research, because ultimately, it may be what saves us. Extinction
Richard Ochs, "Biological Weapons Must Be Abolished Immediately," 6--9--02,
http://www.freefromterror.net/other_articles/abolish.html) Of all the weapons of mass destruction, the genetically engineered biological weapons, many
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Can we imagine hundreds of such plagues? HUMAN EXTINCTION IS NOW POSSIBLE. Collapsing the distinction between physical and regulatory takings is key
Richard A. Epstein, Professor, Law, University of Chicago and New York University, "The Constitutional Protection of Trade Secrets and Patents Under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation act of 2009," FOOD and DRUG LAW JOURNAL v. 66, 2011, p. 285+, LN. The prior section gives rise to the important and difficult question whether the Biosimilars Act
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suffice in lieu of monetary compensation). Asymmetric incentives and new technology make biowarfare comparatively the biggest threat
Thomas Preston, Professor, International Relations, Department of Political Science, Washington State University, FROM LAMBS TO LIONS: FUTURE SECURITY RELATIONSHIPS IN A WORLD OF BIOLOGICAL AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS, 2009, p. 4-11. To understand the new security threat environment, it is necessary to view it not
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to our own personal or normative biases. Current takings law kills environmental protection efforts – expanding private land protections is key to effective conservation
Jonathan H. Adler, Professor, Law, Case Western Reserve University, "Money or Nothing: The Adverse Environmental Consequences of Uncompensated Land Use Controls," BOSTON COLLEGE LAW REVIEW v. 49, 3--08, p. 301-305. Private land is indispensable to environmental conservation. Most land--approximately two-thirds
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of the political incentives that further distort conservation policy on the margin. n29
Uncompensated takings encourage wetlands destruction
Jonathan H. Adler, Professor, Law, Case Western Reserve University, "Money or Nothing: The Adverse Environmental Consequences of Uncompensated Land Use Controls," BOSTON COLLEGE LAW REVIEW v. 49, 3--08, p. 313-314. Environmental land use regulations limit the use or development of private lands that provide valuable
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, and may even encourage land modifications that can destroy wetland characteristics. n74 Wetlands destruction causes extinction
Western Watersheds Project 10 (Western Watersheds Project, "Protecting Watersheds," 2010, www.westernwatersheds.org/issues/protecting-watersheds) Protecting Watersheds A watershed is land that contributes water to a stream, river,
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important than in the arid West which is literally running out of water. Although the formal moratorium has been lifted, restrictions on existing leases still exist
Flohr 12 (Spencer, Summer Associate at the IER, 7/3/12, “Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico: Regulation and its Discontents” Institute for Energy Research) http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2012/07/03/drilling-in-the-gulf-of-mexico-regulation-and-its-discontents/ Oil rigs are mobile devices, and rigs in U.S. waters can
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with more effectiveness and predictability to ensure continued oil production in the Gulf. ONE, the economy – increased drilling in the Gulf overcomes all other factors
Bonakdarpour et al 11 (Mohsen, Director, Consulting, Manufacturing and Services, IHS Global Insight, James Burkhard, Managing Director, Global Oil, IHS CERA, James Diffley, Chief US Regional Economist, IHS Global Insight, David Hobbs, Chief Energy Strategist, IHS CERA, Sang-Won Kim, Managing Director, Consulting, Energy and Natural Resources, IHS CERA, John W. Larson, Vice President, Consulting, Public Sector, IHS Global Insight, Michael N. Marinovic, Vice President, Consulting, Energy and Natural Resources, IHS CERA, Candida Scott, Senior Director, Cost and Technology Group, IHS CERA, Leta Smith, Director, Exploration and Production Trends, IHS CERA, August 2011, “Restarting “the Engine” — Securing American Jobs, Investment, and Energy Security” IHS Global Insight) http://www.gulfeconomicsurvival.org/phx-content/assets/files/GoM_Restarting_the_Engine.pdf The nation’s key economic indicators are flashing warning signs. Commodity prices have taken a
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the annual budgets of the Department of Agriculture or the Department of Energy. TWO, takings - Ruling oil restrictions as a regulatory takings is necessary to expand the scope of takings law
Edward W. Thrasher, "Cleaning Up the Muck: A Takings Analysis of te Moratorium on Deepwater Drilling Following the BP Oil Spill," BROOKLYN LAW REVIEW v. 77, Spring 2012, p. 1289-1290. Certainly, quick government action was required to stop and then clean up the leaking
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scenario where fairness and justice require a more liberal and inclusive takings analysis. Ruling on takings establishes a precedent
Edward W. Thrasher, "Cleaning Up the Muck: A Takings Analysis of te Moratorium on Deepwater Drilling Following the BP Oil Spill," BROOKLYN LAW REVIEW v. 77, Spring 2012, p. 1302-1303. The defendants' only response to the takings allegation was relegated to a footnote claiming that
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as an alternative means for protecting against overly broad and unfairly burdensome regulations. THREE, judicial independence – court action to check agency action is key
Molot 2K (Jonathan, Associate Professor, George Washington University Law School, “The Judicial Perspective in the Administrative State: Reconciling Modern Doctrines of Deference with the Judiciary's Structural Role” Stanford Law Review, Lexis) But if judicial deference to agency interpretations leads to more "legitimate" or "
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- political accountability - may also be the greatest shortcoming of judicial deference. |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Iowa DH | Judge:
ONE, We meet – new DOI regulations on oil production in the Gulf of Mexico restrict production by creating delays and confusion—that’s Flohr TWO, Counter-interpretation: restrictions are limitations on production
Texas Supreme Court ’10 CAUSE NO. 08-01-18,007-CV-A, Final Judgment, http://www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/ebriefs/12/12046401.pdf "Restriction" is defined
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LAW DICTIONARY 1054 (7th ed. 2000). On means in connection with
Dictionary.com 2012
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/on?s=t in connection, association, or cooperation with; as a part or element of: to serve on a jury. THREE, We meet the counter-interpretation: DOI regulations have limited the amount of oil produced in the Gulf—that’s Flohr FOUR, No limits distinction – they can’t meaningfully distinguish the scope of the topic when comparing the number of outright ban Affs to the number of Affs that restrict the use of property AND include chance of total prohibition. FIVE, They kill topic meaning – there are no direct federal prohibitions on the use of wind or solar; only we can give meaning to every topic word; it’s key to set predictable limits which control the internal link to ground and education, and there is no way to compare the impact of mooting “solar” and “wind” vs. mooting “regulations.” SIX, functional limits check – advantages and solvency advocates check explosion SEVEN, good is good enough – there’s no impact to adding one aff – if we don’t cause a limits explosion, there’s no impact to voting for topicality. There are an infinite number of things we could do to make debate easier, they have to prove that our interpretation makes it impossible to debate |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Iowa DH | Judge:
Economic benefits are immediate
Hastings 11 Doc, Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, "Forget 10 Years--Drilling ANWR Would Pay Off Right Away", November 3, www.usnews.com/debate-club/is-it-time-to-drill-in-the-arctic-refuge/forget-10-years--drilling-anwr-would-pay-off-right-away Critics argue that we shouldn't drill in ANWR because it will take 10 years for
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immediately, sending billions to the federal government and employing thousands of people. |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Iowa DH | Judge:
Perm do both Takings – the counterplan doesn’t create a precedent or change the judicial interpretation of regulatory vs physical takings – that’s key to solve – that’s Epstein Executive orders are not enforced and will get rolled back
Richard Wolf, citing Paul Light, professor of public service, “Obama Uses Executive Powers to Get Past Congress,” USA TODAY, 10—27—11, www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2011-10-26/obama-executive-orders/50942170/1, accessed 7-18-12. On all three initiatives, Obama used his executive authority rather than seeking legislation.
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New York University. "Generally speaking, it's more symbolic than substantive." Links to politics/elections
Risen 04 - Clay Risen, “The Power of the Pen,” AMERICAN PROSPECT, August 2004. Available from the World Wide Web at: http://www.prospect.org/web/printfriendly-view.ww?id=8140, accessed 5/5/06. Congress provides an additional, if somewhat less effective, check on executive orders.
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proposal--and it painted him indelibly as an anti-environmental president. |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Iowa DH | Judge:
Perm do both Supreme Court key to modeling
Anne Marie Slaughter, Professor of International and Comparative Law at Harvard, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, "The Real New World Order", Sept/Oct 1997, p. lexistjc National and international judges are networking, becoming increasingly aware of one another and of
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.S. officials determined to bring him to trial in the United States Can’t set a precedent
Hugh Baxter, Associate Professor at Boston University, JD at Stanford, PhD at Yale, 46 UCLA Law Review 343, 1998 The terms "overruling" and "underruling," sometimes used to include any lower
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Supreme Court would have in these matters the last and decisive word. 531 Supreme Court will reverse the counterplan
Ashutosh Bhagwat, Professor of Law at University of California, Hastings College of Law, JD from University of Chicago, 80 Boston University Law Review 967, 2000 The Khan litigation represents a relatively extreme version of an *970 increasingly common
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broader question of the role of the Supreme Court in the federal judiciary. State Courts won’t enforce the counterplan
Evan H. Caminker, Professor of Law at UCLA, “Why Must Inferior Courts Obey Superior Court Precedents,” 46 Stan. L. Rev. 817, 825, April 1994. The doctrine also applies to state and territorial courts. These courts are bound by
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including the court of appeals in whose geographical region the state court sits. Lower courts can’t solve—corner-cutting means no enforcement
Brannon P. Denningand Glenn H. Reynolds, Assistant Professor of Law at Southern Illinois University, Professor of Law at University of Tennessee, 55 Arkansas Law Review 1253, 2003 “RULINGS AND RESISTANCE: THE NEW COMMERCE CLAUSE JURISPRUDENCE ENCOUNTERS THE LOWER COURTS,” *1303 But if ideology is not the source of lower court resistance--or
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trivial cases" that federal judges complain clog their dockets. FN262 Lower court decisions cause public backlash and no enforcement
Carlos E. Gonzalez, Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law – Newark, 45 Santa Clara Law Review 223, 2005 *335 Most of the alternative systems, in contrast, would encourage
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forces courts into interpretive gamesmanship and leaves one wondering what really drives outcomes. |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Iowa DH | Judge:
No evidence the plan is a controversial ruling – all their evidence is about progressive rulings, which the Aff is not Multiple issues pound the link – A. Voting rights, healthcare, immigration, gay marriage
Richard Wolf, 1/18/2013 (staff writer, “Abortion: 40 years later,” http://www.thenews-messenger.com/article/20130119/NEWS01/301190002/Abortion-40-years-later, Accessed 2/17/2013)
While many state laws are entangled in state and federal courts, the Supreme Court
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, a law professor and court scholar at William and Mary Law School. B. Gene patents
Fuchs 11/30 (Erin, reporter, 11/30/12, “The Supreme Court Is Going To Decide If Biotech Companies Can 'Patent Nature'” Business Insider) http://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-court-gene-patent-case-2012-11 The U.S. Supreme Court decided in a closed-door meeting Friday
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reviewing that decision, the financial implications for biotech companies could be massive. Winners win
Law 09 (David, Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis, Georgetown Law Journal, March 2009, 97 Geo. L.J. 723; “A Theory of Judicial Power and Judicial Review,” Lexis, rwg) Part IV of this Article discusses a counterintuitive implication of a coordination-based account
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Brown v. Board of Education n27 and Cooper v. Aaron. n28 No link—no one pays attention to the court
Feldman 12 (Noah, professor of constitutional and international law at Harvard, “Supreme Court’s Super Mondays Don’t Serve Justice,” http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-17/supreme-court-s-super-mondays-don-t-serve-justice.html, Accessed 7/28/2012, rwg) The club of Supreme Court devotees (OK, junkies) likes to think of
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barely notices. This year will be the exception that proves the rule. No internal link—judges don’t consider capital when making decisions
Landau, JD Harvard and clerk to US CoA judge, 2005
(David Landau, JD Harvard Law, clerk to Honorable Sandra L. Lynch, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 2005, “THE TWO DISCOURSES IN COLOMBIAN CONSTITUTIONAL JURISPRUDENCE: A NEW APPROACH TO MODELING JUDICIAL BEHAVIOR IN LATIN AMERICA” 37 Geo. Wash. Int'l L. Rev. 687) Theoretically, attitudinalists could argue that judges rule in accordance with their own ideological preferences
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, what matters is the outcome, not the reasoning of the case. Capital doesn’t tradeoff between issues
Redish and Cisar91 prof law @ Northwestern and Law clerk to US Court of Appeals, 1991
(MARTIN H. REDISH, prof law and public policy @ Northwestern; ELIZABETH J. CISAR, Law Clerk to Chief Judge William Bauer, United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, Dec 1991, “CONSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVES: ARTICLE: "IF ANGELS WERE TO GOVERN" *: THE NEED FOR PRAGMATIC FORMALISM IN SEPARATION OF POWERS THEORY.”41 Duke L.J. 449) Choper's assumption that the judiciary's institutional capital is transferable from structural cases to individual rights
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somehow be affected by anything the Court says about wholly unrelated structural issues. |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Iowa DH | Judge:
Won’t pass, multiple issues thump
Alex Altman, "Four Hurdles that Could Block Immigration Reform," TIME, 3--20--13,
http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/20/four-hurdles-that-could-block-immigration-reform/ The next few months offer the best chance in a generation for the two parties
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is high. Each day, 1,400 undocumented immigrants are deported. Not top of docket, no pass, Obama's not pusing
Kathleeen Hennessey, "Obama Tries to Push Stalled Immigration Talks Forward," LOS ANGELES TIMES, 3--25--13, www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-obama-stalled-immigration-talks-20130325,0,7503326.story In January, Obama threatened to send his own bill to Congress if the group
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path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, the key requirement for any bill. Immigration reform won’t boost the economy
O’Brien 10 (Matt, staff writer, “Study: Immigration reform won't hurt, help economy” AZ Central) http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/04/06/20100406immigration-reform-study-impact-on-economy.html Legalizing millions of immigrants would have little impact on the economy, according to a
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Immigrant Survey that gathered information from a sample of new immigrants in 2003. No impact –
• it’s empirically denied,
• no internal link between population levels and their impacts,
• long timeframe means future policymakers solve,
• aff authors = hype
Teitelbaum et al. ‘4 – Senior Advisor to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Michael S, “Demography Is Not Destiny”, Sept/Oct, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/60104/michael-s-teitelbaum-jay-winter-and-phillip-longman/demography-is-not-destiny, “The Global Baby Bust," by Phillip Longman (May/June 2004),
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Demography matters-but not as much as pessimists such as Longman think. ONE, Case outweighs – TWO, The decision won’t be announced till spring, after the DA
SCOTUS 12 (Supreme Court of the United States, 7/25/2012“The Court and Its Procedures,”
http://www.supremecourt.gov/about/procedures.aspx, Accessed 7/25/2012, rwg) The Court maintains this schedule each Term until all cases ready for submission have been
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and applications, and must make preparations for cases scheduled for fall argument. THREE, Courts don’t link to politics:
A. Institutional and persuasive power
Pacelle 02 Richard L. Pacelle, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis, THE ROLE OF THE SUPREME COURT IN AMERICAN POLITICS, 2002, p. 102. The limitations on the Court are not as significant as they once seemed. They
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turn the focus to judicial capacity, the subject of the next chapter. FOUR, Expanding oil production is key to get GOP support for Obama’s agenda
David Grant, staff writer, 1/20/13, “Obama’s second term: Can he work with Congress? (+video)”, Christian Science Monitor, http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2013/0120/Obama-s-second-term-Can-he-work-with-Congress-video, acc. 1/25/13 And the president could perhaps turn down the bellicosity on the Hill by working with
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have plenty of GOP support – but that remains a large “if.” FIVE, lobbies, they like the plan
Clifford Krauss, Houston, and Ashley Parker, Bettendorf, Iowa, 8/22/12, “Romney Energy Plan Would Expand Oil Drilling on U.S. Land and Offshore”, New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/us/politics/romney-tries-to-refocus-campaign-on-economy-and-obama-turns-to-education.html?_r=0, mnrs Nearly two-thirds of federal lands are currently off-limits to drilling and
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year moratorium on gulf drilling following the BP spill angered the oil industry. They control the agenda, takes out the link to the disad
Dan Froomkin, “How the Oil Lobby Greases Washington’s Wheels,” HUFFINGTON POST, 4-6-11, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/06/how-the-oil-lobby-greases_n_845720.html, accessed 6-2-12 With so much public opposition, why do subsidies remain? You might as well
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$175 million -- or a 300 percent increase in just five years. SIX, plan is a win for Obama – he’s pushing it
David Jackson, "Obama Pledges to Expand Domestic Oil Production," USA TODAY, The Oval, 5--14--12, http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/05/obama-pledges-to-expand-domestic-oil-production/1#.T99F1rWXS5I, accessed 6-9-12. With rising gas prices posing a political threat to both parties as Memorial Day and
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oil production in America -- even as we increase safety and environmental standards." |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Iowa DG | Judge:
American soft power is unworkable – nations don’t believe in benevolent hegemonyenough to overwhelm their resentment and fear Christopher Layne (Associate Professor in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas AandM University) 2007 “American Empire: A Debate” p 68 Doubtless, American primacy has its dimension of benevolence, but a state as powerful
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others of its benevolence is limited by the very enormity of its power. |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Iowa DH | Judge:
Politicians can just say their hands are tied
Dallas Morning News 8/19/05
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/legislature/schoolfinance/stories/082005dntexsession.8bd31b4a.html That could foreshadow the court's response to a chief argument by state attorneys – that
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must be done, which allows politicians to say their hands are tied." The ruling will go unnoticed—no one pays attention
Gregory Caldeira, Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University, 1986 The American Political Science Review, Vol. 80, No. 4 (Dec., pp. 1209-1226; “Neither the Purse Nor the Sword: Dynamics of Public Confidence in the Supreme Court”; Jstor In previous work on support for institutions and leaders, scholars have demonstrated the crucial
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often enough to permit a precise reading on the influence of salient events. |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: The image of the Noble Savage arises from the colonial drive to order and make sense within Western frames by labeling indigenous peoples as connected to the environment. This representation is dehumanizing and fails to acknowledge Native ontologiesShepard Krech III, PhD and Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Brown University, 1999, "The Ecological Indian: Myth and History", W. W. Norton %26 Company, New York: London, acc. 2/15/13, p. 15-27 Even though an invention of Madison Avenue, the Crying Indian is an effective image
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fathom or confront the evidence for relationships between Indians and the environment.50 The image of the ecologically noble savage damages both ecology and our relationship to indigenous peoples. This image uses flawed Western concepts of conservation and environmentalism to judge the "authenticity" of indigenous peoples by treating them as children of nature and undermining our understanding of the inconsistency and complexity of ecologies. An epistemological break is key to challenge these modernist notions that erase indigenous culturesPaul Nadasdy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring 05, "Transcending the Debate over the Ecologically Noble Indian: Indigenous Peoples and Environmentalism", Ethnohistory 52:2, acc. 2/19/13, p. 292-294 Critics of this view point out that the image of the ecologically noble savage has
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Yup’ik goose hunters’ claims to decision-making power over local goose hunting. The idea of the "noble savage" places indigenous peoples as inferior, justifying the control and colonization of both indigenous peoples and the environmentPeter Jacques, Ph.D. University of Central Florida, et all, Sharon Ridgeway, Ph.D. Grinnell College and the University of Iowa, Richard Wiimer, Ph.D. Grinnell College, 2003, "Federal Indi Law and Environmental Policy: A Social Continuity of Violence", Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation, Vol. 18, p. 223-250, Academia.edu, acc. 3/23/13 "The history of man’s effort to subjugate nature is also the history of man’s
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of dividing resources for use via title, as understood by discovery tenets. These racist representations are what allowed the dispossession of landPeter Jacques, Ph.D. University of Central Florida, et all, Sharon Ridgeway, Ph.D. Grinnell College and the University of Iowa, Richard Wiimer, Ph.D. Grinnell College, 2003, "Federal Indi Law and Environmental Policy: A Social Continuity of Violence", Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation, Vol. 18, p. 223-250, Academia.edu, acc. 3/23/13 Currently, federal Indian environmental policy relies on the annulment of treaties that were made
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be outside the social contract, residing in a state of nature.6 Robert McGhee, Curator of Western Arctic Archaeology at the Canadian Museum of Civilization American Antiquity 73(4) 2008. "ABORIGINALISM AND THE PROBLEMS OF INDIGENOUS ARCHAEOLOGY" http://www.unl.edu/rhames/courses/current/readings/McGheeAmAnt08.pdf
Amore important outcome of the legitimization of Indigenous archaeology lies in its reinforcement of stereotypes
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societies on which the idea of the Primitive or the Aboriginal is founded. Santos ’03 ("Collective Suicide? Publicado na Folha de São Paulo em 28 de Março de 2003" http://www.ces.fe.uc.pt/opiniao/bss/072.php According to Franz Hinkelammert, the West has repeatedly been under the illusion that it
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machine of democracy and liberty turns into a machine of horror and destruction. Katheryn D. Katz, Professor of Law at Albany Law School of Union University, 1997, "Article: The Clonal Child: Procreative Liberty And Asexual Reproduction", Albany Law Journal of Science %26 Technology, 8 Alb. L.J. Sci. %26 Tech. 1, gender modified, acc. 3/27/13 It is undeniable that throughout human history dominant and oppressive groups have committed unspeakable wrongs
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justifying indifference to the poverty and misery of others. n92 ~*19~ Thus Shepard Krech III, PhD and Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Brown University, 1999, "The Ecological Indian: Myth and History", W. W. Norton %26 Company, New York: London, acc. 2/15/13, p. 215-216 But what should be made of the differences of opinion among the Navajo? Of
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, and held to standards that they and their accusers have seldom met. John Kemp, Reuters market analyst, 2/5/13, "COLUMN-Tribes call for faster drilling on Indian lands: Kemp", http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/column-tribes-call-for-faster-drilling-on-indian-lands-kemp, acc. 2/5/13
LONDON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Native American communities are often portrayed as
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2012 ("Energy Development in Indian Country" Senate Hearing 112-628). David Deming, associate professor of arts and sciences at the University of Oklahoma, 2/14/12, "The Noble Savage", http://lewrockwell.com/orig9/deming8.1.1.html, acc. 2/1/13
All of this would be of academic interest only, were it not the case
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exultation of the primitive can only lead us back to the Stone Age. We don’t call for roleplaying or posit ourselves as the state. The 1AC is a productive and effective means of analysis that is necessary for changeShulock 99 Nancy, PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC POLICY —- professor of Public Policy and Administration and director of the Institute for Higher Education Leadership %26 Policy (IHELP) at Sacramento State University, The Paradox of Policy Analysis: If It Is Not Used, Why Do We Produce So Much of It?, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 18, No. 2, 226–244 (1999) In my view, none of these radical changes is necessary. As interesting as
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, can reshape the policy landscape. Policy analysis can supply the ideas. Vine Deloria Jr., 1999, "For This Land", p. 102-106 Example after example could be cited, each testifying to the devastating effect of a
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to raise new issues that contain within themselves new ways of conceiving solutions. Nixon 10 (Rob, Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, pp 1-14) When Lawrence Summers, then president of the World Bank, advocated thai the bank
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how our rhetorical conventions for bracketing violence routinely ignore ongoing, belated casualties. Biyanwila 8—University of Western Australia (Janaka, Re-empowering labour : Knowledge, ontology and counter-hegemony, http://www.tasa.org.au/uploads/2011/05/Biyanwila-Janaka-Session-59-PDF.pdf) An essential component of union power and issues of empowerment is the production of knowledge
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culture and in the structure, not only in the ’human mind’". Emlian Kavalski, Professor of International Relations at the University of Alberta, "The Fifth Debate and the Emergence of Complex International Relations Theory: Notes on the Application of Complexity Theory to the Study of International Life," Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Volume 20, Number 3, September, 2007, p. 449-551 Although such reflexivity animated the discussions of the fourth debate in IR, it nevertheless
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is ~also~ logically impossible’ (Mathews et al 1999, 450). |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: A2 "Noble Savage Good" Ter Ellingson, anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnomusicology at the University of Washington, 2000, "The Myth of the Noble Savage", University of California Press, google books, p. 357 Even to a nonspecialist, it is clear that many of these issues are quite
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the established order he is trying to break. (1944: xiv) Word PIC 2AC Negative concern with the process of politics causes a disregard for the product and disrupts a focus on the ethical confrontation of violence.Van Oenen 06 (Gijs, senior lecturer in philosophy at Erasmus University, "A Machine That Would Go Of Itself: Interpassivity and Its Impact on Political Life" http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/tae/v009/9.2vanoenen.html) This metaphor signifies of course that the hierarchical relation between government and citizens is being
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process now mainly realizes, its main ’product’, is involvement with itself. Turn: Quibbling over undecidable language choices diverts use from real issues and blocks social change. Churchill – 96 ~Ward Churchill, Keetoowah Cherokee, 25+ year member
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nonsense, and on with the real work of effecting positive social change. Wendy Brown, Professor of Political Theory, UC Berkeley, POLITICS OUT OF HISTORY, 2001, p. 35. "speech codes kill critique," Henry Louis Gates remarked in a 1993 essay on
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what they once grasped as a contingent effect of historically specific social powers. Boggs ’97 (Carl, National University, Los Angeles, Theory and Society, "The great retreat: Decline of the public sphere in late twentieth-century America", December, Volume 26, Number 6, http://www.springerlink.com.proxy.library.emory.edu/content/m7254768m63h16r0/fulltext.pdf) In the meantime, the fate of the world hangs in the balance. The
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of those universal, collective interests that had vanished from civil society. 75 Butler 1997. (Judith, Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative, Routledge February, page 38~ This story underscores the limits and risks of resignification as a strategy of opposition.
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an originary subordination for another purpose, one whose future is partially open. Race-Oil K 2AC Makani Themba-Nixon, Executive Director, Praxis Project, "Changing the Rules: What Public Policy Means for Organizing," COLORLINES, v 3 n 2, July 31, 2000. "This is all about policy," a woman complained to me in a
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. Of course, policy work is just one tool in our box. Dr. Maulana Karenga, "Whiteness Studies: Deceptive or Welcome Discourse," Black Issues in Higher Education, v 16 n 6, May 13, 1999. A more effective approach to Whiteness studies is to integrate it into every discipline in
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prior rigorous and valuable scholarship and attention scholars of color have given them. Robyn Wiegman, Director of Women’s Studies Program, University of California, Irvine, "Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity," BOUNDARY 2, v 26 n 3, 1999, p. 115-50, Project Muse. Key to all three trajectories is Roediger’s groundbreaking 1991 study of the creation of the
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one that seeks to link their mutual, if contradictory, critical limits. |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: A2 Powell Paul Nadasdy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring 05, "Transcending the Debate over the Ecologically Noble Indian: Indigenous Peoples and Environmentalism", Ethnohistory 52:2, acc. 2/19/13, p. 314-315 As we have seen, most environmentalists who invoke the image of ecological nobility do
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judge them by their own entirely different assumptions and so find them wanting. A2 Exploitation Sheila Foster, Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law, July 1998, "Justice from the Ground Up: Distributive Inequities, Grassroots Resistance, and the Transformative Politics of the Environmental Justice Movement", California Law Review, 86 Calif. L. Rev. 775, lexis, acc. 3/25/13 ~*806~ Environmental racism manifests itself quite differently in the case of Native Americans
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to Indian people that we experience in many parts of this country." n130 Judith V. Royster, Chapman Professor of Law and Co-Director, Native American Law Center at the University of Tulsa College of Law, March 2012, "Tribal Energy Development: Renewables and the Problem of the Current Statutory Structures", Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 31 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 91, lexis, acc 12/10/12 But nearly twenty years have passed since the regulations were ~*136~ promulgated in
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it in the regulations strengthens the tribe’s role in the decision making process. Sheila Foster, Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law, July 1998, "Justice from the Ground Up: Distributive Inequities, Grassroots Resistance, and the Transformative Politics of the Environmental Justice Movement", California Law Review, 86 Calif. L. Rev. 775, lexis, acc. 3/25/13 For instance, consider Native Americans who in some instances have "chosen" to
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, have prudently rejected proposals for environmentally unsound sites on their reservations. n125 |
| 03/31/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
The United States federal government should substantially reduce restrictions on drilling for crude oil by Native Americans in the United States
The image of the Noble Savage arises from the colonial drive to order and make sense within Western frames by labeling indigenous peoples as connected to the environment. This representation is bad and fails to acknowledge Native ontologies
Shepard Krech III, PhD and Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Brown University, 1999, “The Ecological Indian: Myth and History”, W. W. Norton and Company, New York: London, acc. 2/15/13, p. 15-27 Even though an invention of Madison Avenue, the Crying Indian is an effective image
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fathom or confront the evidence for relationships between Indians and the environment.50 The image of the ecologically noble savage damages both ecology and our relationship to indigenous peoples. This image uses flawed Western concepts of conservation and environmentalism to judge the “authenticity” of indigenous peoples by treating them as children of nature and undermining our understanding of the inconsistency and complexity of ecologies. An epistemological break is key to challenge these modernist notions that erase indigenous cultures
Paul Nadasdy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring 05, “Transcending the Debate over the Ecologically Noble Indian: Indigenous Peoples and Environmentalism”, Ethnohistory 52:2, acc. 2/19/13, p. 292-294 Critics of this view point out that the image of the ecologically noble savage has
AND
Yup'ik goose hunters' claims to decision-making power over local goose hunting. The idea of the “noble savage” places indigenous peoples as inferior, justifying the control and colonization of both indigenous peoples and the environment
Peter Jacques, Ph.D. University of Central Florida, et all, Sharon Ridgeway, Ph.D. Grinnell College and the University of Iowa, Richard Wiimer, Ph.D. Grinnell College, 2003, “Federal Indi Law and Environmental Policy: A Social Continuity of Violence”, Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation, Vol. 18, p. 223-250, Academia.edu, acc. 3/23/13 "The history of man's effort to subjugate nature is also the history of man's
AND
of dividing resources for use via title, as understood by discovery tenets. These racist representations are what allowed the dispossession of land
Peter Jacques, Ph.D. University of Central Florida, et all, Sharon Ridgeway, Ph.D. Grinnell College and the University of Iowa, Richard Wiimer, Ph.D. Grinnell College, 2003, “Federal Indi Law and Environmental Policy: A Social Continuity of Violence”, Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation, Vol. 18, p. 223-250, Academia.edu, acc. 3/23/13 Currently, federal Indian environmental policy relies on the annulment of treaties that were made
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be outside the social contract, residing in a state of nature.6 These forms of colonialism justify the sacrifice Natives as a discardable populations
Santos ‘03 (“Collective Suicide? Publicado na Folha de São Paulo em 28 de Março de 2003” http://www.ces.fe.uc.pt/opiniao/bss/072.php According to Franz Hinkelammert, the West has repeatedly been under the illusion that it
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machine of democracy and liberty turns into a machine of horror and destruction. The prohibition on development of oil by indigenous peoples is part of this mentality of the “Ecological Indian” – one which denies agency to these peoples unless they fit within this stereotyped image
Shepard Krech III, PhD and Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Brown University, 1999, “The Ecological Indian: Myth and History”, W. W. Norton and Company, New York: London, acc. 2/15/13, p. 215-216 But what should be made of the differences of opinion among the Navajo? Of
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, and held to standards that they and their accusers have seldom met. These restrictions prevent Natives from developing oil –
John Kemp, Reuters market analyst, 2/5/13, “COLUMN-Tribes call for faster drilling on Indian lands: Kemp”, http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/column-tribes-call-for-faster-drilling-on-indian-lands-kemp, acc. 2/5/13
LONDON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Native American communities are often portrayed as
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2012 ("Energy Development in Indian Country" Senate Hearing 112-628). We don’t call for roleplaying or posit ourselves as the state. The 1AC is a productive and effective means of analysis that is necessary for change
Shulock 99 Nancy, PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC POLICY --- professor of Public Policy and Administration and director of the Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Policy (IHELP) at Sacramento State University, The Paradox of Policy Analysis: If It Is Not Used, Why Do We Produce So Much of It?, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 18, No. 2, 226–244 (1999) In my view, none of these radical changes is necessary. As interesting as
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, can reshape the policy landscape. Policy analysis can supply the ideas.
The world is uncertain – we must be open to new forms of knowledge. This is key to challenge the essentialist and colonialist forms of knowledge promoted by the status quo
Vine Deloria Jr., 1999, “For This Land”, p. 102-106 Example after example could be cited, each testifying to the devastating effect of a
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to raise new issues that contain within themselves new ways of conceiving solutions. Obsession with short-time frame impacts obscures ongoing violence that doesn’t fit neatly within conventional temporal frames
Nixon 10 (Rob, Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, pp 1-14) When Lawrence Summers, then president of the World Bank, advocated thai the bank
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how our rhetorical conventions for bracketing violence routinely ignore ongoing, belated casualties. Structural violence comes first – anything else renders its effect invisible
Biyanwila 8—University of Western Australia (Janaka, Re-empowering labour : Knowledge, ontology and counter-hegemony, http://www.tasa.org.au/uploads/2011/05/Biyanwila-Janaka-Session-59-PDF.pdf) An essential component of union power and issues of empowerment is the production of knowledge
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culture and in the structure, not only in the ‘human mind’”. Prioritize the ethics of the 1AC – the complex nature of the world means we can’t trust predictive claims
Emlian Kavalski, Professor of International Relations at the University of Alberta, “The Fifth Debate and the Emergence of Complex International Relations Theory: Notes on the Application of Complexity Theory to the Study of International Life,” Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Volume 20, Number 3, September, 2007, p. 449-551 Although such reflexivity animated the discussions of the fourth debate in IR, it nevertheless
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is also logically impossible’ (Mathews et al 1999, 450). Their impact is hype
Cohen and Zenko 12—senior fellow at the New America Foundation where he helms the Privatization of Foreign Policy Initiative and an adjunct lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs—AND—worked for five years at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and at the Brookings Institution, Congressional Research Service, and State Department's Office of Policy Planning. (Michael and Micah, Clear and Present Safety, www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137279/micah-zenko-and-michael-a-cohen/clear-and-present-safety?page=show) Last August, the Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney performed what has become a quadrennial
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result, they are given short shrift in national security discourse and policymaking. |
