MThe reality of ____ has been eclipsed by its simulation – their single-view narrative has been distorted by its passage into hyper-reality.

Logan, 11 (Malcolm, 2/27/11, Hyperrealism and the Philosophy of Jean Baudrillard, http://fillmyemptyblogspace.com/2011/02/27/hyperrealism-and-the-philosophy-of-jean-baudrillard/)

Imagine a city that grows so … a moment, before we become seduced.

By populating the space of _______ with images of catastrophe, they create a market to buy and sell suffering and destruction.

Shapiro, 11 – an interdisciplinary thinker who studied science-technology at MIT and philosophy-history-literature at Cornell University (Alan N., 8/25/11, Jean Baudrillard and Doomsday: On Louis Arnoux’s “Catastrophe Warning” Discourse, http://www.alan-shapiro.com/baudrillard-and-doomsday-on-louis-arnoux%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Ccatastrophe-warning%E2%80%9D-discourse/)

In the second essay of The Illusion of the … to alcohol or drugs.

The escalation of this market to apocalyptic stakes levels the stakes of our lives – the catastrophe comes to operate as the logic the whole world

Baudrillard, 94 (Jean Baudrillard 1994 Simulacra and Simulation p. 32-39)

The apotheosis of simulation: the … as the referential of cruelty).

The process of contesting and debating within the logic of status quo politics feeds back into the replication of hegemonic control – thus, our alternative is the lack of an alternative – we are the sublime disconnection, not the planned escape.

Baudrillard, 94 (Jean, Simulacra and Simulation, p. 84-86)                                                                                  

With one caution.  We are face to face … meaning and of speech.

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The Aff is confused – ________ exists – however, what the aff is describing is not __________ – the 1ac writes a map with no reference.

Estrin, ’10 (Marc, 7/29/11, The Genius of Jean Baudrillard, http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/marc-estrin-genius-of-jean-baudrillard.html)

On the first page of Simulations, … nothing to do with the logic of facts... (31)

The strategy of the aff is fundamentally dissuasive – placing the plan/advocacy as the next step in the story pushes _____ into hyper-reality.

Baudrillard, ’92 (Jean, Pataphysics of Year 2000, [online])                                                                                                                   

 Outside of this gravitational pull … under the microscope or into the stereophony of information.

They built Disney World – the map the 1ac wrote is meant for nothing more than intellectual tourism – this writes a script for _______ and annihilates [it’s?] uniqueness and singularity.

Baudrillard, ’01 (Jean, Dust Breeding, http://www.egs.edu/faculty/jean-baudrillard/articles/dust-breeding/)

Destiny – modern man is left with an endless experimentation of himself

Our reality has become … reality what was only found in dreams."

Their desire to isolate and expel […] (whatever undesirable values the aff isolates) feeds into a virulent form of opposition that produces a self-defeating violence – the system of values the 1ac maps will annihilate its own subjects – the only alternative is the destiny of mystery.

Baudrillard, ‘08 (Jean Baudrillard, Present Considerations: The uncertainty of all value systems, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol5_1/v5-1-article2-petit.html) – Ellipses to correct a typo

Baudrillard: It's a diagnosis. Our … speaks to anyone any more. 

COUNTERPLAN TEXT: The United States Federal Government should ask the government of Qatar to [do the plan], offering to provide necessary advice and expertise to support Qatar’s efforts.

Working through Qatar captures the benefits of US leadership but avoids perception of US spending and meddling

Mainen 8/16/2011 – Matthew, policy analyst at the Institute for Gulf Affairs (Comment on his own article, Saudi's Dangerous Role in Syria, Mainen Middle East Analysis, http://mainen.blogspot.com/, MCL)

The U.S. should provide … while avoiding "direct" involvement is obvious.

The US needs to persuade Qatar to mediate Yemeni conflicts – empirically they are willing to provide assistance

Hedberg, 10 – Lt Col, US Navy, paper submitted in fulfillment of a MASTER OF ARTS IN SECURITY STUDIES (MIDDLE EAST, SOUTH ASIA, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA) at the Naval Postgraduate School (Nicholas, “THE EXPLOITATION OF A WEAK STATE: AL-QAEDA IN THE ARABIAN PENINSULA IN YEMEN,” June, http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA524655&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf)

Yemen has spent a tremendous amount of … and combating the threat of AQAP.

The European Union should propose to the United States Federal Government a higher-level transatlantic forum for coordinating policies on Middle East and North African reform, modeled on the U.S.-E.U. strategic dialogue on Asia established in 2005.  The European Union should inform the United States Federal Government of its intention to take a lead donor role on [the plan].  The European Union should  [do the plan].  The European Union should offer to include on the forum agenda a joint diplomatic statement of high level transatlantic support for the European initiative.

Solves the case better and boosts EU soft power and the US-EU strategic partnership – the perm derails it

Youngs, ‘4 - Richard Youngs is senior researcher at the Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE) in Madrid, and lecturer at the University of Warwick in the UK. He previously worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and coordinated an EU funded research project on democracy in the Middle East, within which he established a network of experts from the Middle East and compiled a series of policy recommendations for the European Commission. Youngs has also acted as consultant to the FCO, DFID and a number of European research institute, the Foreign Policy Center, “Trans-Atlantic Cooperation on Middle East Reform: A European Mis-judgment?,” http://fpc.org.uk/fsblob/352.pdf

Europeans risk becoming so fixated with … broadening of ongoing EU programmes.

The CP triggers U.S. support---and the precise mechanism of high-level dialogue driven by the EU is key to integrated international response to the Arab Spring and EU leadership

Silvestri, 11 - Stefano Silvestri 11, president of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, an Italian think-tank, founded by Altiero Spinelli in 1965, does research in the fields of foreign policy, political economy and international security, May 9 2011, “A European Strategy for Democracy, Development and Security for the Mediterranean,” online:http://www.iai.it/pdf/DocIAI/iaiwp1110.pdf

The crisis of the Arab regimes … at the local level if the larger context is not overlooked.

Counterplan alone key to MENA political change, US cred, EU soft power and overall US EU strategic partnership – but plan and perm destroy this

Youngs, ‘4 - Richard Youngs is senior researcher at the Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE) in Madrid, and lecturer at the University of Warwick in the UK. He previously worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and coordinated an EU funded research project on democracy in the Middle East, within which he established a network of experts from the Middle East and compiled a series of policy recommendations for the European Commission. Youngs has also acted as consultant to the FCO, DFID and a number of European research institute, the Foreign Policy Center, “Trans-Atlantic Cooperation on Middle East Reform: A European Mis-judgment?,” http://fpc.org.uk/fsblob/352.pdf) GMEI = Greater Middle East Initiative

If this would be good both for Europe … democracy promotion.

Enhanced Cooperation key to Strategic Partnership – Turns Case and accesses every global impact

Stivachtis 10 – Director of International Studies Program @ Virginia Polytechnic Institute  [Dr. Yannis. A. Stivachtis (Professor of Poli Sci @ Virginia Polytechnic Institute & Ph.D. in Politics & International Relations from Lancaster University), THE IMPERATIVE FOR TRANSATLANTIC COOPERATION,” The Research Institute for European and American Studies, 2010,  pg. http://www.rieas.gr/research-areas/global-issues/transatlantic-studies/78.html]

There is no doubt that US-European … perceived by publics on both sides of the Atlantic.

US-Russian relations are stable now – plan reverse

Dergham 11 – Columnist and Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, Al Hayat (Raghida, “The Arab Awakening Embarrasses the World,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raghida-dergham/the-arab-awakening-embarr_b_875469.html)

There is a de facto consensus between … on the international arena.

Extinction

Nixon Center 03 (“Advancing American Interests and the U.S.-Russian Relationship: INTERIM REPORT,” SEPTEMBER 2K3 HTTP://WWW.NIXONCENTER.ORG/PUBLICATIONS/MONOGRAPHS/FR.HTM) // WLT

The proper starting point in thinking about … Moscow as a potential source of political support

Their understanding of zones of stability and instability to secure masks the violence that exists throughout society

Morrissey 11. John Morrissey, professor of geography at the National University of Ireland, Antipode Vol. 43 No. 2 2011 ISSN 0066-4812, pg. 435–470

Collusion between “knowledge” … tools available today.45

Their geographic script for security legitimates infinite warfare

Gregory 11 (Derek, prof geography @ U british Colombia “The everywhere War” The Geographical Journal, july 2011,)

For many, particularly in … features of a distinctly if not uniquely American way of war.

Our alternative is to decode Egypt and the world from the intellectual mapping of the 1ac – affirming the creative potential of liberated understanding of the world can reconceptualize the flaws of the status quo.

Biehl and Locke, ‘10 – *João Biehl, Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University; **Peter Locke, Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton’s Center for Health (Deleuze and the Anthropology of Becoming, Current Anthropology, Vol. 51, No. 3, June 2010, JSTOR)

According to Deleuze, desire—via the … and raise calls for new ethics and politics. Ethnography matters.

Resisting the mode of securitized control is a way of activating new creative energies in politics

Conley, ‘06 (Verena Andermatt; prof Comp Lit @ Harvard; “Borderlines”; Deleuze and the Contemporary World p. 99)

In addition to this novel way of … smooth spaces where desire can circulate freely.

Creativity is a pre-condition for the reinvention of interactions – this confronts and alters the dogmatic conflicts of the status quo.

Thistlewood, ‘02 (David, “HERBERT READ”, PROSPECTS: the quarterly review of comparative education (Paris, UNESCO: International Bureau of Education), vol. 24, no.1/2, 1994, p. 375–90)

By this means Read constructed a … of a common destiny (Read, 1948. p. 15).