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Obama’s push will persuade GOP fence-sitters

Nakamura 2/7 (David, "Immigration advocates push Republicans to support path to citizenship", http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/immigration-advocates-push-republicans-to-support-path-to-citizenship/2013/02/07/04459f88-714d-11e2-8b8d-e0b59a1b8e2a_print.html-http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/immigration-advocates-push-republicans-to-support-path-to-citizenship/2013/02/07/04459f88-714d-11e2-8b8d-e0b59a1b8e2a_print.html, CMR)

Immigration advocates, backed by the White House, have begun a nationwide lobbying campaign
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that public pressure could be particularly effective at exposing divisions within the GOP.

Plan causes backlash

NRDC 2011 ~National Resources Defense Council, 12/19/2011, "Arctic Wildlife Refuge: Why Trash an American Treasure for a Tiny Percentage of Our Oil Needs?" http://www.nrdc.org/land/wilderness/arctic.asp~~
Congress has received hundreds of thousands of emails, faxes and phone calls from citizens
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drill in the refuge would result in lower gas prices for American consumers.

Presidential PC is key

Elise Foley, 1/15/2013 (staff writer, "Obama Gears Up For Immigration Reform Push In Second Term," http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/15/obama-immigration-reform_n_2463388.html-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/15/obama-immigration-reform_n_2463388.html, Accessed 1/23/2013, rwg)
Now there’s the question of how Obama gets there. While confrontation might work with
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the White House has learned, won’t be enough to win over Republicans.

Immigration reform key to a sustainable food supply %26 checking high food prices:

Rubenstein, 2009 (Georgia staff writer, "Sustainable Food Requires Sustainable Immigration Reform," http://www.themix.coop/?q=node/850-http://www.themix.coop/?q=node/850, Accessed 1/24/2013, BlackMagic)
I’ve been a Land Stewardship Project (LSP) member for several years because I
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a move in the opposite direction of a local, sustainable food system.

Food price increases threaten 1.1 billion people

Power, 1996 staff, Tampa Tribune, January 20, 1996, Lexis
"Even if they are merely blips, higher international prices can hurt poor countries that import a significant portion of their food," he said. "Rising prices can also quickly put food out of reach of the 1.1 billion people in the developing world who live on a dollar a day or less."  He also said many people in low-income countries already spend more than half of their income on food.

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First, the aff inhibits freedom by supporting a technological and economic system that denies individuals the ability to go through the power process with real goals.
Kaczynski in 1995
(Theodore, former assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan, Industrial Society and its Future, http://www.42inc.com/~estephen/manifesto/unabe2.html)
94. By "freedom" we mean the opportunity to go through the power
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oversocialized leftist pays a heavy psychological price for his high level of socialization. 

And, the aff is a leftist project that suffers from oversocialization. The drive to restore ethics and morality in society maintains the industrial-technological system and produces guilt and defeatism.
Kaczynski in 1995
(Theodore, former assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan, Industrial Society and its Future, http://www.42inc.com/~estephen/manifesto/unabe2.html)
24. Psychologists use the term "socialization" to designate the process by which
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how to make love, how to raise our kids and so forth. 

And, guilt expresses a hatred of this world that allows for a secret instinct of annihilation
Nietzsche,  1872 (Friedrich, philosopher, “The Birth of Tragedy” Online, MB)
Already in the preface addressed to Richard Wagner, art, and not morality,
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in the name of a Greek god: I called it Dionysian. — 

And, the industrial-technological system will guarantee the enslavement and eventual extinction of all living organisms.
Kaczynski in 1995
(Theodore, former assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan, Industrial Society and its Future, http://www.42inc.com/~estephen/manifesto/unabe2.html)
171. But suppose now that industrial society does survive the next several decade and
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would be better to dump the whole stinking system and take the consequences. 

The alternative is to destroy the industrial-technological system.
Only a revolutionary strategy against modern technology can break down the system. Any perm would compromise the revolution by enabling technological solutions to other problems.
Kaczynski in 1995
(Theodore, former assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan, Industrial Society and its Future, http://www.42inc.com/~estephen/manifesto/unabe2.html)
180. The technophiles are taking us all on an utterly reckless ride into the
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not going to give good results, then those recommendations should be discarded. 

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Energy production is profane.  Rather than be made an intimate religious experience, energy and its expenditure have been put to work through a mechanized process of utility that renders intimacy impossible.  The raw passion of life is turned into a standing reserve, a thing among other things, which enables its destruction.

Stoekl in 2007
(Allan, professor of French and comparative literature at Penn State University, “Bataille’s Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability”, p. 55-57, rcheek)

The answer, I think, is to be found in the nature of the
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which the person has been transformed in and through death, have disappeared.

We must restore expenditure to the realm of the sacred.  This operates in opposition to a restricted economy based on the tenets of utility and calculations that deprive humanity of its sovereignty.  Such an economy reduces energy to a thing so as to exercise dominion.  This denial of the animality of existence separates humanity from itself and makes life a profane denial  of itself.

Biles in 2011
(Jeremy, PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School, “The Remains of God: Bataille/Sacrifice/Community”, Culture, Theory and Critique, 2011, 52(2–3), 127–144, rcheek)

All such expenditures – useless, diverted from any utilitarian ends –¶ obviously ‘go
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when it lives in immanence’, or continuity (Hollier 1998: 65).

This mortal anxiety establishes an ascetic hatred of the world that denies life.  The only escape is through a chaotic embrace of life.

Turlani in 2003
(Aydan, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty of Letters and Sciences
Istanbul Technical University, “Nietzsche and the Later Wittgenstein: An Offense to the Quest for Another World”, The Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 26 (2003), 55-63)

The craving for absolutely general specifications results in doing metaphysics. Unlike Wittgenstein, Nietzsche
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the way out of the fly-bottle" (PI §309).
The alternative is to sacrifice the 1AC.
Politics operates from a standpoint of reason.  This profane world of utility denies the possibility of intimate expenditure.  We must sacrifice the God of reason to restore sovereignty. In being destroyed, we render the 1AC useless, which frees us from servility to instrumental utility.

Biles in 2011
(Jeremy, PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School, “The Remains of God: Bataille/Sacrifice/Community”, Culture, Theory and Critique, 2011, 52(2–3), 127–144, rcheek)

The anxious desire for durability corresponds to a demeaning substantialisation¶ of the sacred.
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undergoes a fleeting experience of dissolution¶ in the realm of the sacred.

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Text: the United States congress should convene a conference committee on substantially reducing production restrictions on federal lands in the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf for conventional gas. The United States Federal Government should implement the recommendations of the conference committee.
CP makes the aff bipartisan and solves party backlash
Brady 2009 A Party in the Conference Room:¶ Partisan Politics and the Modern Conference Committee, Michael Chapman Brady Department of Political Science¶ Duke University, , http://goo.gl/aBWaJ, ITPirate
Congressional conference committees lie at the heart of the legislative process.¶ Though utilized in
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still is little¶ empirical evidence connecting parties to the politics within conference.

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Postmodern strategies fail in the context of Native American identity

Gorelova, 2009 (Olena, “Postmodernism, native American literature, and Issues of sovereignty.” http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/gorelova/GorelovaO0509.pdf, online, MB)

Postmodernism is all about bringing margins into the play and rejecting grand narratives. Michael
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perspective as well as five hundred years of colonization that is still ongoing.

Decolonization of Indigenous lands must be our first priority, the impact is ongoing genocide, assimilation and annihilation of indigenous peoples and culture. Addressing this struggle is necessary to solve heterosexism, classism, racism, sexism and militarism, all of these oppressions rely on the and stolen occupied lands that the United States is founded on. 

Churchill 96 (Ward, Prof. of Ethnic Studies @ U. of Colorado, Boulder BA and MA in Communications from Sangamon State, “From a Native Son”,mb)

I’ll debunk some of this nonsense in a moment, but first I want to
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, sexist, classist, homophobic, militaristic order on non-Indians.
Our alternative is to give back the land
Decolonization must be our ethically first priority, any form of liberation that perpetuates the occupation of Indigenous territory is only colonialism in another form. The demand to end the occupation of First American lands is a necessary prerequisite to solving other forms of oppression and any form of positive social change

Churchill 96 (Ward, Prof. of Ethnic Studies @ U. of Colorado, Boulder BA and MA in Communications from Sangamon State, “From a Native Son”,mb)

The question which inevitably arises with regard to indigenous land claims, especially in the
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“impossible realism,” isn’t it time we all worked on attaining it?

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Republicans willing to deal on debt ceiling now

The Washington Times, February 7, 2013 Panic rises as sequesters grow near;
Defense cuts biggest point of contention, p. 1

Deadline legislating is once again the talk of Washington, with all sides now demanding
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defense cuts and replace them with savings from attrition in the federal workforce. 

Picking nuclear to win insures a fight
NELSON and NORTHEY 12 9-24 EandE reporters Gabriel Nelson and Hannah Northey, NUCLEAR ENERGY: DOE funding for small reactors languishes as parties clash on debt, http://www.eenews.net/public/Greenwire/2012/09/24/3?page_type=print

That the grants haven't been given out during a taut campaign season, even as
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can't stand here and tell you that I know how to do that."

Sequestration increases HIV—harms people of color

amFAR 2012 amfAR is an organization that plays a catalytic role in accelerating the pace of HIV/AIDS research and achieving real breakthroughs – "Sequestration Will Cut %24659 Million from Domestic HIV/AIDS and Viral Hepatitis Programs" November 8th http://www.amfar.org/Articles/In_The_Community/2012/Sequestration_Will_Cut_%24659_Million_from_Domestic_HIV/AIDS_and_Viral_Hepatitis_Programs//BlackMagic

“Sequestration will undermine everything we’ve done to accomplish the National HIV/AIDS
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” concluded Kali Lindsey, Director of Legislative and Public Affairs at NMAC.

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Plan: The United States federal government should reduce restrictions on the mining of Thorium and the creation of Thorium LFTR and give the thorium bank the authority to develop uses and markets for thorium energy.
All the private sector needs is for Congress to authorize a thorium bank to allow for the development of thorium for energy, financial incentives are unnecessary

Halper, 2012 Mark, Smart Planet Contributing Editor and Forbes writer, “Join the Thorium Bank” Smart Planet, http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/solve-the-energy-and-rare-earth-crisis-join-the-thorium-bank/17845, V. Guevara

Picking winners and losers through governmental financial incentives is counter-productive and undercuts gains in efficiency and productivity which takes out solvency. Only the free market can solve.

Carden, professor of economics at Rhodes College, and Hammock, Nashville-based economist, 10 Art and Mike, Nuclear Energy Should Be Subsidized?, June, http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/it-just-aint-so/nuclear-energy-should-be-subsidized/

We must reject any invasion of freedom, it gives value to life and is a d-rule

Petro in 74  (Sylvester Petro, professor of law at Wake Forest, Spring 1974, Toledo Law Review, p. 480)

Even if they get their Hayward evidence that’s just a reason they don’t link to the freedom netbenefit but they still link to spending.  

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First, marginality and criticism are defenses of the center. The moment they identified their position they became a function of the apparatus, which turns the aff. Resistance is not impossible, but to be effective it cannot be located within the position. 

Mann in 1996
(Paul, Professor of English @ Pomona College, “The Nine Grounds of Intellectual Warfare”, PMC 6.2, pMUSE-rkc)

Without exception, all positions are oriented toward the institutional apparatus. Marginality here is
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not an exception. Effective resistance must be located in other tactical forms.
And, taking an entrenched position guarantees defeat. 

Mann in 1996
(Paul, Professor of English @ Pomona College, “The Nine Grounds of Intellectual Warfare”, PMC 6.2, pMUSE-rkc)

The standpoint, identification with and defense of one's own thought, the demand that
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studies will be used to suggest strategic figures outside the position's fortified walls.
Instead, vote neg to vote aff. To be effective, we should affirm ideas without attachment, means only a negative ballot solves.

Mann in 1996
(Paul, Professor of English @ Pomona College, “The Nine Grounds of Intellectual Warfare”, PMC 6.2, pMUSE-rkc)

I will return to the precisely oxymoronic, self-canceling figure of secrecy in
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of the never fully addressed logistical-economic order of one's own thought.