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11/04/11
  • 2AC Liberty Round 1 vs. UMW CG

    • Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:

    • 2AC China Bashing

       

      China relations resilient and not zero sum

      Xinhuannet.com sept 9 (U.S.-China relationship is strong: U.S. Ambassador English.news.cnhttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tiZgphZK2EMJ:news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-09/09/c_131130845.htm+us+china+relations+strong&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a)

       

      U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke said Friday ………………… must achieve security and prosperity together," he said.

       

      No link- if it doesn’t unsettle Saudi Arabia or iran it doesn’t matter to them

      Pardo 2011 (Ramon Pacheco  writer for majalla.com The Dragon Eyes the Arab Spring China takes a wait and see policy on the Middle East Thursday 14 April 2011 http://www.al-majalla.com/en/ideas/article359548.ece)

       

      However, economic relations between China ………………. governments have in the Middle East and neighboring regions.

       

      Diplomacy breaking down causes Israel to strike iran

      RIA Novosti 2011 (, Russian news website http://www.news.az/articles/iran/43469 01 September 2011)
       
      "Iran's military, nuclear and ballistic [missile] ambitions

      And  ….. enrichment and ballistic missile development programs.

       

      Iran strike collapses China’s Economy and Regime Stability.
      Bill Bishop, 8/16/2010 [Forbes, “If Israel Attacks Iran, What About China?”, http://blogs.forbes.com/china/2010/08/16/if-israel-attacks-iran-what-about-china/]
       An attack on Iran would be …….and …
       China’s manufacturing and international trade depend.”

       

      No Asian War – regional stability checks

      Bitzinger and Desker 2008

      (Richard A., Senior fellow of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Barry Dean of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Relations, “Why East Asian War is Unlikely,” Survival, December 2008, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00396330802601883)

       

      The Asia-Pacific region can be regarded ………. while not inconceivable – is unlikely.

       

      No US-China war – regional stability

      Ackerman 5-10-11

      (Robert, quoting former admiral Timothy Keating, the official blog of the Armed Forces Communication and Electronics Association, 5/10/11, “War Between China, U.S. Not Likely,” http://www.afcea.org/signal/signalscape/index.php/2011/05/10/11510/)

       

      The United States and China are not likely to go to war ………….. process by remaining a powerful force in the region, he added

       

      Nonunique- Boehner can’t block bipartisan support for China.

      Galston, 10-6 (How Congress’s Showdown With China Puts Obama in a Serious Bind William Galston is a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and a contributing editor for The New Republic. William Galston October 6, 2011 http://www.tnr.com/article/environment-energy/95817/congress-showdown-china-US-relations-trade-war)

       

      And speaking of politics, ……………… discharge petition to override the Speaker’s wishes.

       

      Obama will veto china bill.

      Xiankui 10/10/11 (Chen, People’s Daily Online, http://english.people.com.cn/90780/7613292.html)

      Third, to fulfill the aforementioned goals……………… a "trap" for China to fall into.

       

      No Impact from trade bill

       Paul 10-13 [Scott N. Paul is the founding Executive Director of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, Chinese Currency Bill Won't Spark Trade War,http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/should-congress-interfere-with-chinas-currency-policies/chinese-currency-bill-wont-spark-trade-war]

       

      The consequences of China's currency policy ………….. compete on a more level playing field.

       

      China Bashing inevitable – WTO trade disputes
       Reuters 10-13 [Analysis: Obama to challenge China on trade as election nears http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/13/us-usa-china-trade-idUSTRE79C72820111013]

      The Obama administration, under fire ……………. ………ariety of high tech and clean energy goods, Bacchus said.

       

      Link Turn - Democracy Assistance has bipartisan support

      Democracy Digest 9-8-11 (Democracy Digest provides news, analysis and information on democracy assistance and related issues) “9/11 restored bipartisan consensus on strategic value of democracy assistance”, http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2011/09/911-restored-bipartisan-consensus-on-strategic-value-of-democracy-assistance/ accessed 11/2/11

       

      The terrorist attack of 9/11 changed America …………..division here at home is worthy of note.

       

      Link turn-pakistan proves boehner supports aid to terrorist hot spots

       

      ABCnews May 5th 2011 “Speaker Boehner Reaffirms Relationship with Pakistan, ‘No Doubt’ Bin Laden is Dead” http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/05/speaker-boehner-reaffirms-relationship-with-pakistan-no-doubt-bin-laden-is-dead/

                     

      In the wake of accusations by lawmakers that …………………….., but I think they've made a responsible decision, and I support it




11/04/11
  • Democracy Assistance K

    • Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:

    • The affirmative’s democracy assistance policy is rooted in a violent discourse of emancipation that frames the US as needing to save the barbaric populations of Egypt. This leads to framing of certain populations, like the Islamic other, as threats tied to a destructive politics of care.

      Teti, Lecturer in IR at the University of Aberdeen, 2007

      (Andrea, “Confessions of a Dangerous Paradigm: Democratisation, Transitology and Orientalism,” http://www.abdn.ac.uk/pir/notes07/Level5/PI5000/Teti%202007%20Confessions%20of%20a%20Dangerous%20Paradigm.pdf) JDB

       

      A crucial implication of......threat – both external and internal.

       


      The alternative is postcolonial critique – vote negative as an act of critiquing the discursive imperialism throughout the plan, advantages, and framing of democracy assistance – this is necessary to avoid trapping critique in an ivory tower

      Shome, Professor of Communication, 1996 (Raka, “Postcolonial Interventions in the Rhetorical Canon: An "Other" View,” Communication Theory, February, p. 50-52) PM

       

      Second, the postcolonial critique.......to engage in as well as contribute to.




11/07/11
  • EU CP

    • Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:

    • 2. CP solves best – EU has the infrastructure and better engagement policies

      Tocci and Cassarino 2011

      (Nathalie, Deputy Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome. Jean-Pierre Cassarino is parttime professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, and scientific advisor at the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome, “Rethinking the EU’s Mediterranean Policies Post-1/11,” http://www.iai.it/pdf/DocIAI/iaiwp1106.pdf) JDBThe Arab revolts do not ....... the civil societies of the neighbouring countries too.

       




11/07/11
  • China Bashing

    • Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:

    • Boehner blocking now

       

      Jonathan Bernstein October 21, 2011 (Private investor and trader for fifteen years, His writing on international energy markets has appeared in such venues as The New York Times and the Baltimore Sun. “China Trade Bill: We've Met The Enemy And He Is Us” http://seekingalpha.com/article/301255-china-trade-bill-we-ve-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-us)

       

      The China Trade Bill ....easily if it did. 

       

      Tea party hates the plan and loves the currency bill

       

      Harvey M. Sapolsky 2010 (Professor of Public Policy and Organization, Emeritus at MIT and was until recently the Director of the MIT Security Studies Program) “ The Tea Party’s Foreign Policy” http://www.e-ir.info/?author=647

       

      What then can be gleaned .... football that isn’t American.

       

      Moves to compromise with Obama on issues like the plan empirically force Bohner to the right on other issues to consolidate support for his speakership- like the currency bill

       

      Boston Globe July 28, 2011  “Boehner can’t please Tea Party, but bipartisan deal could work” http://articles.boston.com/2011-07-28/bostonglobe/29825554_1_tea-party-michele-bachmann-debt-ceiling/2

       

      In Boehner’s mind, his speakership .... that would be entirely self-inflicted

       

      Vote guarantees passage

       

      Washington Times  October 17th 2011 “Washington contemplates tougher China trade policy” http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/17/washington-contemplates-tougher-china-trade-policy/

       

      Of course, these are ....a bill if it got to his desk.

       

      New tariffs on Chinese goods trigger a trade war

       

      Forbes, 9-17, 10, http://blogs.forbes.com/gordonchang/2010/09/17/the-chinese-currency-weakens

       

      At the hearing, ... damage everybody.

       

       

      US-China trade war triggers a war

       

      Ben Landy, Ben Landy, Director of Research and Strategy at the Atlantic Media Company, publisher of the Atlantic Monthly, National Journal, and Government Executive magazines. Landy served in various research and project management positions at the Brookings Institution and Center for Strategic and International Studies, two leading public policy think tanks in Washington, D.C. Ben holds a bachelor of arts degree from Yale University. April 3, 2007, http://chinaredux.com/2007/04/03/protectionism-and-war/#comments

       

      The greatest threat ....military budgets and anti-satellite tests

       

      HOT WAR WITH CHINA ENSURES EXTINCTION
      (STRAIT TIMES, June 25, 2K, Pg. l/n)

      THE high-intensity scenario....
      destruction of civilization.

       




11/07/11
  • Imperialism K

    • Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:

    • 1NC – Shome K

      Democracy assistance is a discursive frame used to justify neoliberal imperialist intervention – turns the aff by preventing democratization and breeding resistance

      Sussman 2006

      Gerald, teaches Urban Studies and Communications at Portland State University, “The Myths of Democracy Assistance: U.S. Political Intervention in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe,” Monthly Review, 58:7, December, http://monthlyreview.org/2006/12/01/the-myths-of-democracy-assistance-u-s-political-intervention-in-post-soviet-eastern-europe) PM

       

      U.S. interventionism, and neocolonial hegemony.

       

      This political rationality creates cultural and racialized others, making annihilation inevitable

      Pinar Batur 7, PhD @ UT-Austin – Prof. of Sociology @ Vassar, “The Heart of Violence: Global Racism, War, and Genocide,” in Handbook of The Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations, eds. Vera and Feagin

       

      War and genocide and to its existence (Hunter 1991; Buchanan 2002).

       

      Vote negative to reject the affirmative’s call for increasing U.S. democracy assistance. We must critique the affirmative’s knowledge production which allows for the annihlation

      Shome, Professor of Communication, 1996 (Raka, “Postcolonial Interventions in the Rhetorical Canon: An "Other" View,” Communication Theory, February, p. 50-52) PM

       

      Second, the postcolonial critique.... in as well as contribute to.

       




02/15/12
  • XO CP

    • Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:

    • 1NC Shell 1/4

       

      Text: The President will issue an executive order requiring the specific action of the affirmative plan. 

       

      Observation 1: Competition

       

      The counterplan solves the entirety of the case while preserving presidential powers.

       

      Best policy option: if the negative can find a better competitive policy option, the aff should have to defend against it.  Aff plan choice provides a massive ground advantage and agent counterplans are key to stable neg ground on a broad domestic topic.

       

      Observation 2: AIDS

       

      Executive orders are key to maintaining and projecting Presidential Powers

      Mayer, 2001 (Kenneth R., Professor of political science at University of Wisconsin-Madison, With the Stroke of a Pen: Executive Orders and Presidential Power, Princeton University Press, p.28-29, 2001)

      This theoretical perspective and  over which they have no control.

       

      1NC Shell 2/4

       

      Presidential Power is essential to solving ethnic conflicts and AIDS.

      Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2000 ("The American Presidency: White House Power Growing." Atlanta Journal-Constitution (2000): B2. LexisNexis Academic. 23 Jan 2000.)

       

      As President Clinton prepares to deliver the and ... that elaborates on the theme.

       

      1NC Shell 3/4

       

      HIV has killed and threatens to kill millions

      UNAIDS, 2008 ("2008 Report on the global AIDS epidemic." 2008. Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS. <http://www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCentre/HIVData/GlobalReport/2008/>.) DTB

       

      HIV remains a global .... estimated 1.7 million (1.5million-2.3 million) in 2001.

       

       

      Observation 3: Solvency

       

      Executive orders allow the President to enact policy while avoiding the political process of legislation

      Cooper, 2002 (Phillip, Professor of Liberal Arts at University of Vermont,  By Order of the President: The Use and Abuse of Executive Direct Action, p. 58-59)

       

      Executive orders are often ..... provides for orders generated elsewhere.

       

      1NC Shell 4/4

       

      Executive Orders are essential to increasing and projecting Presidential power

      Garziano, 2001 (Todd F. Director of the Center for Legal Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation,   Texas Review of Law and Politics, Spring, lexis)

       

      A proper understanding.... 107th Congress.

       

       




02/15/12
  • T- Democracy Not the Primary Goal

    • Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:

    • DA means Democracy is Primary Goal

       

      A. Interpretation - Fostering democracy must be the primary focus of the plan

      Carothers 2000 (Thomas vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “Taking Stock of Democracy Assistance” American Democracy Promotion )

       

      The term ‘democracy assistance’ is sometimes used broadly to mean all aid to a government that is attempting to lead a  democratization process. For example, in some budget documents submitted to Congress, the Clinton administration  listed all aid to the former Soviet Union, whether focused on health, privatization, or banking regulation, as ‘democracy  building’ on the ground that all of the aid contributed to the overall post-Soviet project of transition toward democracy  and market economics. A more specific meaning of the term is intended here. Democracy aid is all aid for which the  primary purpose, not the secondary or indirect purpose, is to foster democracy in the recipient countryIt does not  therefore include economic and social aid programmes.  Democracy aid falls into three general categories.

       

      B. Violation - Fostering Democracy is a secondary purpose of the plan

       

      C. Standards

      1. Ground - The bulk of our offense stems from the idea that giving democracy assistance to the listed countries is a bad idea. Sidestepping this issue by drawing all their offense from elsewhere skews the debate in the affirmative’s favor.

       

      2. Topic Specific Education - The primary focus of the resolution is the question of whether or not democracy assistance is a good idea. Their interpretation shifts the focus of the debate.

       

      D. Topicality is a Voting Issue for fairness and education

       

       




02/15/12
  • 1NC vs. Syria Aff - Liberty FL

    • Tournament: West Virginia | Round: 4 | Opponent: Liberty FL | Judge: Mike Maffie

    • aspec

       

      A. Interpretation: The USFG is either the legislative, executive or judicial branch. The affirmative must specify this in the plan

       

      Dictionary of Politics 1973

      (p 509)

       

      The structure of the federal government, and of most inferior governments, is based on the doctrine of Separation of Powers; membership in any of the three co-ordinate branches of government – legislative, executive, judicial – is incompatible with membership in the other.

       

       

      B. Violation – The plan fails to specify what agent enacts the plan.

       

      C. Standards –

       

       

      Education – Failure to specify reduces depth of education by forcing debates about generic evidence

       

      Ground – Not specifying means we only get generic arguments and it allows them to rely on generic answers.

       

      Fairness – Specification is key to pre-round prep and 1NC strategy formulation.

       

       

      Topicality – Specification is critical to determining if AFFs are actually topical.

       

      D. This argument is a voting issue for the reasons stated above

       

       

      1NC – T – DA = Democracy is Primary Goal

       

      A. Interpretation - Fostering democracy must be the primary focus of the plan

      Carothers 2000 (Thomas vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “Taking Stock of Democracy Assistance” American Democracy Promotion )

       

      The term ‘democracy assistance’ is … into three general categories.

       

      B. Violation - Fostering Democracy is a secondary purpose of the plan

       

      C. Standards

      1. Ground - The bulk of our offense stems from the idea that giving democracy assistance to the listed countries is a bad idea. Sidestepping this issue by drawing all their offense from elsewhere skews the debate in the affirmative’s favor.

       

      2. Topic Specific Education - The primary focus of the resolution is the question of whether or not democracy assistance is a good idea. Their interpretation shifts the focus of the debate.

       

      D. Topicality is a Voting Issue for fairness and education

       

       

      XO CP

       

      Executive orders are key to maintaining and projecting Presidential Powers

      Mayer, 2001 (Kenneth R., Professor of political science at University of Wisconsin-Madison, With the Stroke of a Pen: Executive Orders and Presidential Power, Princeton University Press, p.28-29, 2001)

       

      This theoretical perspective offered by the … which they have no control.

       

       

      Politics

       

      Ex Im will pass- Obama PC is key, delay triggers all the impacts

       

      USA Today February 17th 2012 “Obama presses GOP on Ex-Im Bank reauthorization” http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/02/obama-presses-gop-on-ex-im-reauthorization/1#.T0GkdPEgd2B

       

      President Obama stepped up pressure on … week urging they reauthorize the bank

       

       

      EX-IM key to econ

      Jeff Ostermayer January 27th 2012 “Ex-Im Reauthorization Would be a Jobs Bill” http://shopfloor.org/2012/01/ex-im-reauthorization-would-be-a-jobs-bill/23795

       

      One of the big success stories … by our overseas competition.

       

      Economic decline causes war – multiple warrants and the best research flows aff.

      Royal, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, 2010

      (Jedediah, “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises,” in Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives, ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p.213-215) JDB

       

      Less intuitive is how periods of economic … considered ancillary to those views.

       

      Audacity of Nope 1NC

       

      What is world history but a minute in eternity?  The affirmative dresses themselves in the garb of sages and point to their achievements to raise themselves above nature without realizing that intellect is the ultimate form of deception.

      Kirkland 1 (Russell, prof of Asian religion @ UGA, “'Responsible Non-Action' in a Natural World: Perspectives from the Neiye, Zhuangzi, and Daode jing,” Daoism and Ecology, http://kirkland.myweb.uga.edu/rk/pdf/pubs/ECO.pdf //shree)

       

      In the Taoist classic Huai-nan-tzu, one finds …  accepting the new state of things.’

       

       

      The good traveler has no fixed plans.  The joy of life comes spontaneously in accepting things as they are—the 1AC’s social engineering destroys us spiritually.

      Slabbert 1, (Jos, Taoist teacher, “Tao Te Ching: How to Deal With Suffering,” http://www.taoism.net/theway/suffer.htm //shree, ev under erasure)

       

      If you open yourself to loss, you … with it, the more damage we will do.

       

       

      Vote negative to forgo the 1AC’s intent to effect desired ends.

      Kirkland 96 (Russel, prof of Asian religions at UGA, “The Book of the Way,” Great Literature of the Eastern World, http://kirkland.myweb.uga.edu/rk/pdf/pubs/DAODE.pdf //shree)

       

      Specifically, the Tao is humble, yielding, … thwart its unceasing operation.

       

       

      Stability Advantage

       

      ME Stability Advantage Frontline (1/1)

      (    )  No risk of Middle East war

      (A)  No Regional Spillover

      Maloney and Takeyh 7 – *senior fellow for Middle East Policy at the Saban Center for Middle East Studies at the Brookings Institution AND **senior fellow for Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (Susan and Ray, International Herald Tribune, 6/28, “Why the Iraq War Won't Engulf the Mideast”, http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2007/0628iraq_maloney.aspx)

       

      Yet, the Saudis, Iranians, Jordanians, … enveloping the entire Middle East.

       

      ME Stability Advantage—Renewables Turn 1NC (1/2)

       

      Middle east instability and war will force a political shift to renewable development

      Marvin Cetron (President of Forecasting International) and Owen Daniels (Former Senior Editor of Omni Magazine) 2007 “Worst-Case Scenario: the Middle East,” The Futurist

       

      That leaves the matter of … from the Middle East.

       

       

      Middle East instability directly causes transition to renewable energy

      Newt Gingrich (former Speaker of the House) July 24 2006 “Winning the Argument About the Third World War,” Eagle Publishing

       

      Moreover, I agree with you that … fact-finding mission in the Midwest.

      High oil prices cause renewable shift that solves climate change

      Steve Yetiv (professor of political science and international studies at Old Dominion University) February 6 2006

      “America benefits from high oil prices,” San Diego Union-Tribune,

      http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060206/news_mz1e6yetiv.html

       

      In particular, what can high oil prices do that … oil starts to dwindle in the future.

       

       

      Warming causes extinction

      Oliver Tickell (Climate Researcher) August 11 2008 “On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction”, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/11/climatechange)

       

      We need to get prepared for four …towards a similar hothouse Earth.

       

       

      Cred Advantage

       

      Impacts to hegemonic decline are myths – decline is good and causes retrenchment - solves great power wars, long term influence, and interventionism

      MacDonald and Parent 11

      (Paul K. MacDonald is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Williams College. Joseph M. Parent is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami, Graceful Decline? The Surprising Success of Great Power Retrenchment,” International Security 35:4, Spring 2011, accessed 1-9-12) JDB

       

      Other observers advocate retrenchment … retrench recovered their relative position.

       

       

      Hegemony is unsustainable – challengers, overstretch, and domestic financial concerns

      Layne 10

      (Christopher Layne, Professor and Robert M. Gates Chair in National Security at Texas A&M's George H.W. Bush School of Government & Public Service. "Graceful decline: the end of Pax Americana". The American Conservative. May 2010. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7060/is_5_9/ai_n54223596/) AK

       

      China's economy has been growing … afflicted with hegemony fatigue.

       




03/03/12
  • Audacity of Nope K

    • Tournament: WVU | Round: 4 | Opponent: Liberty FL | Judge: Mike Maffie

    • Audacity of Nope 1NC

       

      What is world history but a minute in eternity?  The affirmative dresses themselves in the garb of sages and point to their achievements to raise themselves above nature without realizing that intellect is the ultimate form of deception.

      Kirkland 1 (Russell, prof of Asian religion @ UGA, “'Responsible Non-Action' in a Natural World: Perspectives from the Neiye, Zhuangzi, and Daode jing,” Daoism and Ecology, http://kirkland.myweb.uga.edu/rk/pdf/pubs/ECO.pdf //shree)

       

      In the Taoist classic Huai-nan-tzu, one finds …  accepting the new state of things.’

       

       

      The good traveler has no fixed plans.  The joy of life comes spontaneously in accepting things as they are—the 1AC’s social engineering destroys us spiritually.

      Slabbert 1, (Jos, Taoist teacher, “Tao Te Ching: How to Deal With Suffering,” http://www.taoism.net/theway/suffer.htm //shree, ev under erasure)

       

      If you open yourself to loss, you … with it, the more damage we will do.

       

       

      Vote negative to forgo the 1AC’s intent to effect desired ends.

      Kirkland 96 (Russel, prof of Asian religions at UGA, “The Book of the Way,” Great Literature of the Eastern World, http://kirkland.myweb.uga.edu/rk/pdf/pubs/DAODE.pdf //shree)

       

      Specifically, the Tao is humble, yielding, … thwart its unceasing operation.




03/03/12
  • 2NC - Audacity of Nope K

    • Tournament: West Virginia | Round: 4 | Opponent: Liberty FL | Judge: Mike Maffie

    • B)  Prior question—neglecting the discussion of the K leads to error replication in policies
       Slabbert 1 (Jos, Taoist teacher, “Tao Te Ching: How to Deal With Suffering,” http://www.taoism.net/theway/suffer.htm //shree)

       

      Most forms of our suffering are … unnecessary forms of suffering will cease.

       

      perm has no net benefit- Political discourses are oversaturated with meanings and can’t have a particular trajectory in the present hyper-pluralist stasis

      Baudrillard 81 (Jean, The Tupac Shakur of Academia, Simulacra and Simulation, p. 16-17 //shree)

       

      Watergate was thus nothing but a lure … all discourses without them wanting it to.

       

       

      death cult da-The 1AC participates in an anemic politics of modern death worship that renders death on an every-day level socially useless and demands technologically orchestrated spectacles of mass death to satisfy our collective desire for mourning.   
      Baudrillard 93  (The Tupac Shakur of Academia, symbolic exchange and death.  p 164-5//shree, gendered language in erasure)

       

      Why is it that today there are no … always been something else altogether.

       

      (B)  Turn—for every force there’s a counterforce—method-based politics backfire and are the source of endless suffering because they attempt to thwart the unceasing current of the Tao—that’s Slabbert.  When we solve problems, those problems are merely displaced to another subsystem.

      Lumley 98 (founder of Petrotechnical Open Systems Corporation, http://www.goodshare.org/progress.htm //shree)

       

      What we are currently experiencing is a another subsection or another decklevel.

       

       

      (C)  Root Cause is spiritual—ego and attachment underlie their call to action and create the harms they confront
       Slabbert 1 (Jos, Taoist teacher, “Tao Te Ching: How to Deal With Suffering,” http://www.taoism.net/theway/suffer.htm //shree, gendered language modified and under erasure)

       

      All-encompassing Suffering is an all-encompassing … way of acceptance and detachment.

       

      Death is the Birth of Potentiality.  Death is inevitable—choosing to accept this eventuality affirms the freedom of different forms of becoming and arrangements of matter

      Faulkner 8 (Joanne, ARC Research Fellow, School of History and Philosophy @ the University of New South Wales, 2008, “The Innocence of Victimhood Versus the Innocence of Becoming,” Muse )

       

      Most significantly, for the purposes … must have felt like flying.” 33

       

       

      (B)  Quantum Physics—Consciousness won’t end even if we’re disembodied
       Lanza 10 (Robert, one of the leading scientists in the world, Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology, and professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. "Does Death Exist?: Life Is Forever, Says Theory." January 4. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/does-death-exist-life-is_b_410306.html)

       

      In the cartoon, Bugs Bunny swallows … experience them piece by piece.


       (C)  Die Another Day—empirical studies conclude that reincarnation is real—means death isn’t an impact

      Semikiw 2 (Dr. Walter, MD, Occupational Medicine specialist, “Evidence of Reincarnation and the Creation of a New World”, Awareness Magazine, Jan/Feb//shree)

       

      Ian Stevenson, MD, is the Carlson Professor of … and again, I would wake up crying...

       

       

      View criticisms of reincarnation with skepticism—they’re based on an internal desire to maintain the purity of a “self” that is artificially constructed by human chauvinism.

      Chopra 6 (Deepak, Renowned Dr/ PhD of religion and spiritual studies, “Your First Kiss Lives On,” The renowned doctor talks about what happens after death and why everything--even your first kiss--has an afterlife, December 2006, http://www.beliefnet.com/Holistic-Living/2006/11/Deepak-Chopra-Your-First-Kiss-Lives-On.aspx?p=1//shree)

       

      What do you think the world would be … rainbow or as the rain or as a stream.

       




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