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Comprehensive reform will pass because of Obama’s push – acting now is key because political leverage is finite

Jackson, 2-5-13 – David, “Obama backers: Immigration bill needs to move quickly,” USA Today, http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/02/05/obama-immigration-meeting-labor-ceos/1893071/

Backers of President Obama's immigration plan said Tuesday they need Congress to move quickly,

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term. "You risk more the longer you wait," Murguia said.

Comprehensive reform is key to the world economy – uniquely key to stabilize immigration cycles that make economic collapse inevitable.

Hinojosa-Ojeda 12

(Raúl, Founding Director of the North American Integration and Development Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, “The Economic Benefits of Comprehensive Immigration Reform” http:~/~/www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/2012/1/cj32n1-12.pdf#pdf#reform, JL)

The results of our modeling suggest that comprehensive immigration reform would increase U.S

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and trade policies affect differently skilled labor within a common comparative¶ framework.

Global economic crisis causes war—strong statistical support proves

Jedediah Royal, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, 2010, “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises,” Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215

Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict

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such, the view presented here should be considered ancillary to those views.

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Wind deployment slowing now – sales and construction at low point

Gray 12

(Tyson-Lord J., Ph.D candidate in Ethics and Society with a focus in Environmental Ethics, Vanderbilt University, “Beauty or Bane Advancing an Aesthetic Appreciation of Wind Turbine Farms, http://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=651)

In 2009, the American Wind Energy Association conducted a survey of small wind turbine

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a considerable decline from the more than 10,000 megawatts in 2009.

Wind turbines hurt military readiness and national security – causes blockage, clutter, and impairs weapon testing

Robyn 10 (Dorothy, Phd, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, “Impact of Wind Farms on Military Readiness, http:~/~/www.acq.osd.mil/ie/download/robyn_testimony_hascr_29jun10.pdf)

Wind turbines can interferewith the effectiveness of radar and other electromagnetic systemsthat are

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radars used to train pilots are degraded by wind turbine clutter and shadowing.

Military readiness sustains US leadership and deterrence

Spencer 2k (Jack, Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, http:~/~/www.heritage.org/Research/MissileDefense/cfm)

U.S. military readiness cannot be gauged by comparing America's armed forces with

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from acting aggressively in regions of vital national interest, thereby preserving peace.

Global nuclear war

Zalmay KHALILZAD RAND Corporation, 1995, Losing the Moment?, Washington Quarterly, Vol 18, No 2, p. 84

Finally, U.S. leadership would help preclude the rise of another hostile

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to global stability than a bipolar or a multipolar balance of power system. 

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The exclusion of females from energy policy making is part of the systematic marginalization of the feminine from the Political- only the alternative can reverse this process and empower women across a host of social platforms

Clancy and Feenstra, 06

(Joy and Marielle, Centre for Clean Tech and Enviro Policy Faculty of Managemnt and Governance at Univ. of Twente, Netherlands, How to Engender Energy Policy, http:~/~/www.energia.org/fileadmin/files/media/reports/DropBox/clancy_feenstra_pdf 8/28/12)

There are two major factors which influence the gender-blindness of energy policy:

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aware energy policy, will contribute to the wider goal of women’s empowerment.

Patriarchy makes the impacts of the 1ac inevitable- only the alternative’s divestment from masculine political thought can avert extinction of the human race

della-Madre 11

(Leslene, has a degree of phycology form the University of California, The Role Patriarchy Plays in Our Contemporary World Situation, No Date, (Date Accessed: July, 3, 2012), http:~/~/www.midwifingdeath.com/musings/patriarchy_in_our_html, LSV)

For the last 5000 years the global rule of men, or patriarchy, has

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do not, there is little hope for the survival of our species.

Reject the affirmative in order to decenter the “man” at the center of the affirmatives depiction of the Political – only the alternatives call for an ontological interruption to the gendered nature of the 1ac and can end the marginalization of gender from the Political

Youngs ‘4

(Gillian, Dr Gillian Youngs, the newly appointed University of Wales Alliance Research Chair, Prof. of Digital Economy and Academic Director of the Institute of Advanced Broadcasting (IAB), University of Wales, Newport, Feminist International Relations: a contradiction in terms? Or: why women and gender are essential to understanding the world ‘we’ live in*, International Affairs 80.1)

This discussion will demonstrate, in the ways outlined above, the depth and range

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power and influence in collective (most significantly state) and individual forms.