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Mil Tax Politics

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• The Mill Tax will pass, Obama is key, and it’s critical to the economy
  CNN 10-10 (http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/10/opinion/avlon-reid-millionaire-tax/index.html)
  The average big-business
   it's not class warfare as much as a call for additional sacrifice from those who can most afford it to help get our country moving again. 

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  Sustained recession causes extinction
  Austin 9 [Michael, Resident Scholar – American Enterprise Institute, and Desmond Lachman, Resident Fellow – American Enterprise Institute, Forbes, 3-6,http://www.aei.org/article/100187]  
  What do these trends mean explosions that coalesce into a big bang. 

  
  
  

Capitalism Kritik

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• Appeals to democracy attempt to smooth over the divisions that make universal politics possible this makes criticisms of the economy prerequisites to meaningful democracy
  Dean 7 Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges Jodi Democracy and Other Neo-Liberal Fantasies p 76 -77
  Despite democracy's inability to
   dynamic, responsive, left politics.3

  The fantasy produced by the ideology of capital neutralizes the economy which fails to address the Real and instead pursues meaningless economic reform. Their impact is a symptom of the ideology we criticize – the negative comes first  
  McMillan 8 PhD student at Massey University New Zeeland  Chris International Journal of Zizek Studies 2.1 http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/ijzs/article/view/91/157
  Ideological fantasy reproduces
  not considered a condition of the market, but rather something external to be fixed; a solution-in-coming. 

  Democracy has been hi-jacked by neo-liberalism – the 1AC forces liberal democracy to take a back seat to privatization and economic rationality  
  Brown 3 professor of political theory at Berkeley,Wendy, Theory and Event 7:1 project muse   
  Nor is liberal democracy simply a
  in rubble, chaos, and terror occasioned by the combination of ongoing military skirmishes and armed local gangs.

  The ultimate ethico-political question is what strategies best uphold subjectivation and freedom – this act is the baseline for this ethical strategy
  Vighi & Feldner 10 Cardiff University UK, Fabio & Heiko International Journal of Zizek Studies 4.1 http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/ijzs/article/view/239/325
  Let us recall that the process of
  can drive be connected to a specific political project that actualises our lost causes? 

  Global capitalism threatens survival – its is not a question of just the state corporations manipulate and control the market and our ecological well-being
  Zizek 99 Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, Slavoj, The Ticklish Subject, page 350-351
  This already brings us to
  more depoliticized. 34

  Demand for urgency is a product of hypocritical outrage meant to extend the privilege of global capitalism – our alternative is to do nothing in the face of the affirmative  
  Zizek 8 Slavoj Violence p 6-8
  Let’s think about the fake sense
   learn” what causes this violence.

  
  
  

UN CP

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• The United Nations should [implement the plan] using a political economy approach & UN special envoy.

   

  The CP solves & avoids all case turn contingencies

   

  Hill 11 (Ginny, Chatham House, May, http://webarchive.ssrc.org/pdfs/Ginny_Hill-The-UN-Role-in-Yemen%E2%80%99s-Political-Transition_May-2011.pdf)

  The OGC is

  contributing to emergency planning.

   

  Yemeni actors will say yes

   

  Hill 11 (Ginny, Chatham House, May, http://webarchive.ssrc.org/pdfs/Ginny_Hill-The-UN-Role-in-Yemen%E2%80%99s-Political-Transition_May-2011.pdf)

  The appointment of a

  for an effective external interlocutor.   

  
  
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Spending DA

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• Spending cuts are the new SQ – Tough deals were just passed

   

  Reuters 11-1 (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/01/usa-congress-spending-idUSN1E7A00W620111101)

  The U.S. government

  reflect that new austerity.

   

  The new vote is more than political posturing – It establishes a critical process that the aff upsets – The plan alters on-board priorities, pushing the House to accelerate Senate cuts – The agreement locks in SQ spending policies critical to a tenuous agreement

   

  The Atlantic 11-1 (http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/11/senates-spending-freeze-thawed-182-billion-bill/44416/)

  So is today's vote more

  Republicans have indicated they will oppose any spending measures that don’t cut government even more," The Post says.

   

  Kills prolif programs

   

  Rogin 11-1 (Josh, sr. analyst-Foreign Policy, http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/11/01/arms_control_groups_appeal_to_obama_for_help_with_congress)

  "We strongly urge you to make

   and materials around the world," the arms control leaders wrote.

   

  Proliferation leads to miscalculation and escalating conflict, ends in nuclear wars

   Evans & Kawaguchi 9 Gareth Professorial fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences @ University of Melbourne, Yoriko Co-chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, 12/15, “Eliminating Nuclear Threats: A Practical Agenda for Global Policymakers,” http://www.icnnd.org/ reference/reports/ent/ downloads.html

  Ensuring that no new s

  cross-cutting sources of conflict.

  
  
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Canada CP

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• Text: The government of Canada should <insert plan text>.

   

  Counterplan solves the case better and bolsters waning Canadian soft power.

  Sands & Majumdar ‘9 [Christopher (Senior Fellow for the Hudson Institute) & Shuvaloy (Resident Program Director for International Republican Institute), Jun 16, “Going Global with Peace, Order and Good Government,” http://www.c2cjournal.ca/blog-articles/view/going-global-with-peace-order-and-good-government/]

  "Canada has a ...for their children."

  Canadian soft power through democracy assistance prevents Quebec secession.

  Choudhry ‘7 [Sujit, faculty of law and department of political science at University of Toronto, September, “Does the world need more Canada? The politics of the Canadian model in constitutional politics and political theory,” International Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 5, No. 4]

  "Two important questions...value that work."

  Impact is nuclear miscalculation.

  Lamont ’94 [Lansing, President of the American Trust for the British Library, Breakup, p. 327-9]

  "That prospect, however...that self- destruct."

  
  
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