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    • 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




10/26/11
  • Neolib

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

    • 1NC

       

      [link]

       

      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 Hinkelammertthe …… 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.

       




11/21/11
  • EU

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

    • 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.




11/21/11
  • Trade Off

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

    • 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.




11/21/11
  • Coercion K

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


    • 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.




11/21/11
  • Yemen Conditions CP

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


    • 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




11/21/11
  • Chow K

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

    • 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?

       




11/21/11
  • PTC Politics DA Texas

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

    • 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.

       




02/15/12
  • Maghreb Trade Off DA

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

    • 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.




02/15/12
  • Cap K

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

    • 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) 




02/15/12
  • Twitter PIC

    • Tournament: Texas | Round: 1 | Opponent: Vermont | Judge:

    • 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.




02/15/12
  • T - FGM isn't DA

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

    • 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




02/15/12
  • Mutilation PIC

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

    • 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.




02/15/12

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