Neg vs. Texas BK

Wake rd 8

Judge: Klante

1NC

China currency PTX

China aid tradeoff 

Yemen conditions CP

Coercion

Case (impact defense)

2NC

Politics

Case

1NR

CP

2NR

CP

Case

Neg vs. Texas GM

Wake rd 6

Judge: Meiches

1NC

T - "Support" is not DA

Chow K

EU CP + soft power NB (warming impact)

China currency politics

Case (realism good, predictions good, patriarchy not root cause of war)

2NC

T

Case

1NR

EU+NB

2NR

EU + NB

Case

Neg vs. Wayne St. ML

Wake rd 3

Judge: Tews

1NC

T – DA Means Elections

Neoliberalism K

EU CP

Conditions CP

China Currency DA

Case (internet assistance offense and defense)

2NC

Politics and case

1NR

Neoliberalism K

2NR

Neolib K

Neg vs. Cal BP

Wake rd 

Judge: Lotz

1NC

T - "Offer" is not an increase

Coercion

EU CP + soft power NB (warming impact)

China currency PTX

Case (impact defense)

2NC

Politics

Case

1NR

EU + NB

2NR

EU + NB

1NC

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Neoliberalism is a project of sacrificial genocide fostering a death drive of endless error replication that makes all atrocities inevitable

Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Dir of the Center for Social Studies at the Univ. of Coimbra, April, ‘3, BAD SUBJECTS, http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2003/63/santos.html, Issue #63, Accessed 8-24, 2005, JT

According to Franz Hinkelammert, the …… machine of horror and destruction.

The alternative is to vote negative as a rejection of the 1AC and its foundations in neoliberalism – critical examination is key to truly democratic politics

Giroux ‘6

(Henry A. Giroux, 11-2-06, Cultural Studies in Dark Times: Public Pedagogy and the Challenge of Neoliberalism, http://firgoa.usc.es/drupal/node/25904

As collective agents recede under ….. new site of politics, pedagogy, and resistance.

Text: The European Union  should

A. Solves 100% of case – institution building, rights, freedom of speech and elections

NEWS Press, April 28

(“Strengthening emerging democracies: concrete EU action,” April 28, 2011; Lexis)

The EU tries to …… with third countries.

The counterplan boosts EU leadership.
 Seilor, 5/15

(Julia, 5/15/11, “Arab Spring: what think tanks say,” , JMP)
 Restoring Europe’s credibility
 Scholars agree that …..support in helping its neighbors stabilize.

EU leadership key to preventing warming – ensures peace in the Middle East.

Ischinger 7

(Wolfgang, German ambassador to Britain, The Guardian, "Can the EU Fill Leadership Void Left by US?" March 22, http://www.china.org.cn/english/international/203945.htm)

In 1990, Charles Krauthammer published his famous essay ……, embrace a European willingness to lead, and welcome the European moment.

Warming causes Extinction

Tickell 08

(Oliver Tickell, British journalist, author and campaigner on health and environment issues, and author of the Kyoto2 climate initiative “On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction,” The Guardian, 8-11-08  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/11/climatechange)

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

USAID wildlife assistance to China on the chopping block now

AP 11/15

("Lawmakers criticize US aid to creditor China," 2011, http://www01.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/nov/15/us-us-china-aid/)

Lawmakers say it's …..would be used.

Foreign aid spending already passed, further cuts will likely come from aid to China

Mungcal 8/5

(2011, Ivey, Proposed US Foreign Spending Cuts: No Aid to China, Less Funds for World Bankhttp://www.devex.com/en/blogs/development-assistance-under-obama/proposed-us-foreign-spending-cuts-no-aid-to-china-less-funds-for-world-bank)

The debt ceiling law …..Malaria to stop providing grants to China.

Wildlife Protection key to maintain rich biodiversity

Nagle 09

[John Copeland, prof at Notre Dame Law School, “The Effectiveness of Biodiversity Law,” Spring, 24 J. Land Use & Envtl. Law 203]

China offers the best and the worst of biodiversity …… is valued at nearly five hundred billion dollars.69

Loss of biodiversity results in extinction and outweighs all other impacts

Wilson 1992

(Dr. Edward O.- Professor at Harvard and author of two Pulitzer Prize winning books, “The Diversity of Life”, 1992)

The worst thing that can …. descendants are least likely to forgive us.

Taxpayers have a moral right to their income which the aff plan violates –their evidence is biased towards expanded government.

Kuznicki 9 (Jason, facilitator of multiple Cato Institute international publishing projects, Research Fellow and Managing Editor at Cato Unbound [an intellectual think tank publication], prior Production Manager at the Congressional Research Service, Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University, Cato Journal, Book review of The Libertarian Illusion: Ideology, Public Policy, and the Assault on the Common Good, Spring/Summer 2009, Volume 29 Issue 2, http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=0de93721-30a4-4513-87f1-57bf16a8aa5e%40sessionmgr13&vid=2&hid=12, SP)

A taxpayer has a moral …. verge on those of criminal justice?

Infringements on liberty must be rejected at all costs or we forfeit to totalitarianism.

Petro, Toledo Law Review, 1974 (Sylvester, Spring, page 480)

However, one may still insist, echoing Ernest Hemingway - "I believe in only one thing: liberty."  And it is always well to bear in mind David Hume's observation: "It is seldom that liberty of any …..resisted with undying spirit.

Text: The United States federal government should provide ____________(insert plan mechanisms) if Saleh and the Yemen Arab Republic demonstrate progress towards inclusive national dialogue to resolve electoral and constitutional reform issues; subsequent _____ parts of the assistance should be provided upon evidence of progress to a negotiation. 

It solves the aff and stops civil war….

Porges 10 (“Saving Yemen”, Marisa, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, November 16, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67008/marisa-l-porges/saving-yemen?page=2)

Although the U.S. Congress allocated nearly .. neighbor to facilitate discussions

The affirmative takes the position of the Maoist—their veneration of the oppressed constructs an ideal subaltern with whom they can engage in paternalistic solidarity—this is virulent form of colonialism which turns the academy into a site for the consumption of Otherness for personal gain.

Chow 93

Rey Chow, Comparative Literature—Brown University, 1993 Writing Diaspora, p. 10-13

The Orientalist has a special sibling … our consciousnesses "raised."

This oppressive solidarity locks in cycles of exclusionary violence—making their impacts inevitable.  You should reject the affirmative because of their failure to question the indebtedness of their intellectual project to institutions mired in the very privilege they sanctimoniously criticize—your first obligation as an intellectual is to interrogate your own privilege and struggle against becoming the object and instrument of power.

Chow 93

Rey Chow, Comparative Literature—Brown University, 1993 Writing Diaspora, p. 16-17

Why are "tactics" useful at this moment? …. than in the academic sense?

Passage up the air – Republican unity key –Boehner key to convince

Sherman 2/5

(Jake, http://www.politico.com” Payroll tax cut splinters GOP /news/stories/0212/72482.html#ixzz1lynJ5RWU)

Should they extend the tax … is harder than it looks.”

New spending initiatives divide Republicans and undermine Boehner’s cred

Steinhauer 1/15

(Jennifer, “Boehner, split GOP begin a new session http://bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2012/01/15/boehner-split-gop-begin-new-session/lhIiimblGWwj52suus2syJ/story.html)

For Speaker John A. Boehner and … have more reasonable expectations now.’’

Payroll tax cuts are uniquely key right now—top economist backs us

Kowalski, Bloomberg, 2/7/12 Alex, “Zandi Says Failure to Extend Payroll Tax Cuts Would Reduce U.S. GDP in ’12,” http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-07/zandi-says-failure-to-extend-payroll-tax-cuts-would-reduce-u-s-gdp-in-12.html

Mark Zandi, chief economist at … to the still-tentative economy.”

Extinction

Kemp 10

Geoffrey Kemp, Director of Regional Strategic Programs at The Nixon Center, served in the White House under Ronald Reagan, special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the National Security Council Staff, Former Director, Middle East Arms Control Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2010, The East Moves West: India, China, and Asia’s Growing Presence in the Middle East, p. 233-4

The second scenario, called Mayhem … -thirds of the planet’s population.

A - State Department is increasing focus on Western Sahara Agreement – key to peace and solving terrorism in the Maghreb

Rubin 12/27 (2011, Jennifer, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/us-foreign-aid-done-right/2011/12/27/gIQAIGY2KP_blog.html, WASHINGTON POST, U.S. foreign aid done right)

As I have written before, the … to show some staying power.

B - Diplomatic resources are finite – pushing new democracy assistance initiatives forces a trade-off
 Kelemen 8-21-2011, NPR, Michele, A former NPR Moscow bureau chief. She worked eight years working for the Voice of America. Michele Kelemen now covers the State Department and Washington's diplomatic corps., Kelemen has been traveling with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from Asia to the Middle East and Europe, tracking the Obama administration's broad foreign policy agenda, Hillary Clinton: U.S. Diplomacy Is Stretched Thin, http://www.npr.org/people/2100727/michele-kelemenhttp://www.npr.org/2011/08/16/139678323/hillary-clinton-u-s-diplomacy-is-stretched-thin

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton … we intervene and what we do."

Failure to stop terrorism in the Maghreb ends in extinction

Alexander, 2010 (Director Maghreb & Sahel Terrorism: Addressing the Rising Threat from al-Qaeda & other Terrorists in North & West/Central Africa International Center for Terrorism Studies at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studieshttp://www.potomacinstitute.org/attachments/524_Maghreb%20Terrorism%20report.pdf, Yonah)

What is critical is the … forever alter our planet’s existence.

Focus on individual struggle trades off with class struggle, ultimately leaving us at the mercy of the system at large

Zavarzadeh 94

(Mas'ud, “The Stupidity that Consumption is Just as Productive as Production (Marx, Theories of Surplus-Value),” The Alternative Orange Vol. 4 No. 1, Fall/Winter 1994,http://www.etext.org/Politics/AlternativeOrange/4/v4n1_cpp.html)

Reading and writing as stories … in its most lucid moment.

That makes extinction inevitable

International Review ‘89

(The decomposition of capitalist society, 57:2 http://en.internationalism.org/node/3070)

Similarly, all the disasters that … monster that is decadent capitalism.

Our alternative is to reject the aff in favor of historical materialism

That’s the best methodology for fighting capital and is key to agency
 Holmstrom 97

(Nancy, Professor Emeritus Department of Philosophy at Rutgers, Renewing Historical Materialism, Solidarity, http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/2198)

Wood's interpretation of historical materialism … , structured processes with human agencies." (78) 

While Amanda and I can agree that revaluing democracy, moving away from an economy of speed, and viewing democracy itself as the biggest value are noble goals, we problematize the affirmative’s introduction of social media into the debate space. We affirm all of the 1AC minus the reading of the Twitter feed.

Social media is “clicketivism” – joining groups, and reading and making posts to appear engaged without actually helping revolutions

Morozov 11                                                       

[Evengy,  a visiting scholar at Stanford University and a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation. He is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy and Boston Review, The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, Public Affairs Press, 2011]

It’s not hard to guess … life in authoritarian states, requires.

A. Definitions

It’s means “… Of or belonging to it,” – OED 89

Democracy assistance is carried out by the Democracy and Governance program in USAID

National Research Council ’08

[Committee on Evaluation of USAID Democracy Assistance Programs, “Improving Democracy Assistance: Building Knowledge Through Evaluations and Research,” http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/files/dFNH0I/Improving_Democracy_Assistance__Final_report.pdf]

Over the past 25 years, the … in the U.S. Department of State.

B. Violation

FGC is specific to the USAID Global Health initiatives

USAID 10 (http://www.healthpolicyinitiative.com/Publications/Documents/1233_1_Mali_FGC_Final_Report_Final_FINAL_acc.pdf)

To contribute to the elimination … health issues for nearly a decade.

Global Health Bureau is considered a DIFFERENT FUNCTION than the Democracy and Governance Bureau – there is no overlap

USAID 2011 (http://www.usaid.gov/about_usaid/usaidorg.html, “About USAID”)

Bureaus

In Washington, USAID's major organization units are called bureaus. Each bureau houses the staffs responsible for major subdivisions of the agency's activities.

USAID has both geographic bureaus (which are responsible for the overall activities in the countries where we have programs) and functional bureaus (that conduct agency programs that are world-wide in nature or that cross geographic boundaries.) The agency's geographic bureaus are:

-           Sub-Saharan Africa (AFR) | Sharon Cromer, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator

-           Asia (A) | Nisha Desai Biswal, Assistant Administrator

-           Latin America & the Caribbean (LAC) | Mark Feierstein, Assistant Administrator

-           Europe and Eurasia (E&E) | Paige Alexander, Assistant Administrator

-           Middle East (ME) | Mara Rudman, Assistant Administrator

USAID's functional bureaus are:                         

-           Global … , Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator

-           Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade | Eric G. Postel, Assistant Administrator

-           Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance | … , Assistant Administrator

-           Bureau for Food Security (BFS) | Paul Weisenfeld, Assistant to the Administrator

 C.  Voting issue

1. Limits – they justify any affirmative that has the potential to improve democracy via heath or education or any humanitarian missions – this means they pick the disease of the week, the refugee of the week, or the educational subject of the week.

2. Ground – We cannot gain links to democratic change since they are able to effect one small subgroup

3. Predictable literature base – ALL of our evidence comes from the USAID – the term ITS in the resolution means we must increase democracy assistance as defined by the USFG

4. Extra topicality is a voting issue – it dejustifies the resolution by proving the resolution alone is insufficient to address the problem

Plan: the United States federal government should substantially increase its democracy assistance for Egypt by increasing its positive deviance approach for female genital circumcision abandonment pilot programs to long-term and full-scale implementation.

Terming the act as female genital “mutilation” ignores vital aspects of culture. Use of “circumcision” is preferred by coalitions which will distribute the aid, and is culturally sensitive.

Obiora 97

(L. Amede, an Igbo woman conducting research and teaching in the United States, “Colloquium: Bridging Society, Culture, and Law: The Issue of Female Circumsion: Bridges and Barricades: Rethinking Polemics and Intransigence in the Campaign Against Female Circumcision”, Winter 1997, http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=8f5447ec91aba237b4acb778363bb102&_docnum=10&wchp=dGLbVlb-zSkVA&_md5=22ea06e65468aa130812730ade4367c5, Accessed July 21, 2007) / peyton

The debate over the nomenclature … the respective forms of circumcision.