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  • Internet CP

    • Tournament: Bing | Round: 4 | Opponent: Vermont DN | Judge: Vik Keenan


    • Text: The United States Federal Government should provide “shadow” internet suitcase devices to topic countries.

      No internet in Arab Spring countries - Syrian internet cutoffs proves

      Browning, June 3, 2011 – Jonathan, For Bloomberg Businessweek ( Syrian Internet Networks Shut Down as Protests Intensify, June 3, 2011, http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-06-03/syrian-internet-networks-shut-down-as-protests-intensify.html)

      June 3 (Bloomberg)  About two
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      are arms and ammunition confiscated from opposition groups.

      DOS has internet in a suitcase - Afghanistan proves we can deploy it well

      Glanz and Markoff June 12, 2011 – James, Afghanistan expert and Baghdad bureau chief for NYT, John,  journalist best known for his work at The New York Times, and a book and series of articles about the 1990s pursuit and capture of computer hacker Kevin Mitnick. ( U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors, June 12, 2011, NYT, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/world/12internet.html? pagewanted=4&_r=1&hp)

      The Obama administration is leading a global effort
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      , to their governments and to the world.”
      And the net benefit 

      Their  advocacy cedes the political realm to the hard right – guarantees exacerbation of global problems and turns the K.
      Boggs, Professor of Social Sciences and Film Studies at National University, Los Angeles, 2000, The End of Politics, p. 250-251
      But it is a very deceptive and misleading
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      antirationalism of Oakeshott’s Burkean muddling-though theories.

      This inevitably results in extinction.
      Boggs, Professor of Social Sciences and Film Studies at National University, Los Angeles, 2000, The End of Politics, p. 244-245
      The disintegration of political life in late-
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      will deci¬sively shape the future of human societies.



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  • T - Social Media

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    • Interpretation: democracy assistance is one or more of the follow – elections and political processes, rule of law, civil society, and governance.

      Azpuru et al. 8 [Dinorah Azpuru , Steven E. Finkel , Aníbal Pérez-Liñán , Mitchell A. Seligson Journal of Democracy 19.2 (2008) 150-159 “What has the United States Been Doing? “Dinorah Azpuru is assistant professor of political science at Wichita State University and member of the Advisory Group of the AmericasBarometer at Vanderbilt University. Steven E. Finkel is Daniel H. Wallace Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh and professor of applied methods at the Hertie School of Governance (Berlin). Aníbal Pérez-Liñán is associate professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh. Mitchell A. Seligson is Centennial Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University and director of the AmericasBarometer.]
      It is often said that Western donors are
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      Rule of Law, Civil Society, and Governance
      Violation: Democracy assistance is not the development of social media that effectually increases democracy. It is assistance with the direct and explicit intent to enhance democracy.
      Lappin 10 [Richard, “What we talk about when we talk about democracy assistance: the problem of post conflict approaches,” Central European Journal of International & Security Studies, Vol. 4 Iss. 1. Richard Lappin has participated in over a dozen democracy assistance missions with the UN, EU, OSCE/ODIHR and Carter Center. He has recently completed assignments in Sierra Leone, Lebanon and Hungary, Currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Leuven, Belgium]

      On the positive side, there is the
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      , security guarantees, or economic and trade benefits

      Predictable Limits: Developmental interpretations of democracy assistance justifies programs that are tangentially related to democracy, making an infinite amount of affs possible or ridiculously minute and arbitrary affirmatives like assassinating Saleh topical.
      Carothers 9 [Thomas, January 2009, “Democracy Assistance: Political vs. Developmental” in the Journal of Democracy, Vol. 20, Num. 1, vice-president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the author or editor of many books on democracy promotion, including most recently “Confronting the Weakest Link: Aiding Political Parties in New Democracies” (2006).]

      It is true, as some skeptics contend
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      but one based more on hope than experience.



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  • Network Politics Case Cards

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    • Network politics exacerbates power imbalances which are unpredictable and dangerous – democracy is the necessary political and social reform necessary for the alt to garner solvency and avert their impacts
      Farrell 8/15/11
      (Henry; Associate prof political science George Washington University; Drezner vs. Slaughter; http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2011/08/15/drezner-vs-slaughter/)

      Just because the world has become more networked
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      that networked politics itself is unlikely to achieve.

      Pepsi challenge: name three significant issues altered by network politics.
      Drezner 8/13/11
      (Daniel – Professor Intl Politics Tufts University; “Yes, Anne-Marie, there is a subtle realist”; http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/08/13/yes_anne_marie_there_is_such_a_thing_as_as_subtle_realist?showcomments=yes)
      Slaughter can and will point to Very Important
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       on which their impact will be negligible.  

      Networks react randomly you can’t influence them for good or ill.
      Farrell 8/15/11
      (Henry; Associate prof political science George Washington University; Drezner vs. Slaughter; http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2011/08/15/drezner-vs-slaughter/)

      I think there is. Rather than seeing
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      cross-national forms of communication and interaction.



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  • Cap

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    • Attempts to achieve actual democracy simply engage in a totalitarian catastrophe 

      Zizek, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1999
      (Slavoj, The Ticklish Subject, page 232-233, ) 

      It is crucial to perceive the link between
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      /or 'nonexistent' in its space becomes visible).
      Democracy is based on an elitist notion of value
      Zizek in 2005
      (Slavoj, Objet a as Inherent Limit to Capitalism, The Symptom Volume 6, spring, http://www.lacan.com/zizmultitude.htm []) 

      There is a whole series of concrete questions
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      in the strict dialectical sense of the term. 



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  • Death Drive

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    • The fantasy that we are the omniscient masters who can conquer and defeat the violence that permeates our internal order plagues the affirmatives attempt at progress. The ideology of capitalist rationality structure this fundamental fantasy to overcome the psychic death drive. Only confrontation with this desire can radically break from the psychic cycle of violence. 

      Zizek, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1999
      (Slavoj, The Ticklish Subject, page 293- 297, ) 

      The lesson of drive is that we are
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      painful experience of repeatedly missing one’s goal. 65
      The ideology of the 1AC fills the void of the death drive with a fantasy of truth and goodness, we must instead authentically confront the psychic death drive 

      Zizek, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1999
      (Slavoj, The Ticklish Subject, page 160-161, ) 

      In Lacanese, the subject prior to subjectivization
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      rule of the Truth and/or Goodness. 

      Recognition of the death drive abolishes the source of totalitarian temptations – our attempt to articulate a new way of living is the only hope to break away from our violent international order. 

      Zizek, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1999
      (Slavoj, The Ticklish Subject, page 390-391, ) 

      On the other hand, against this stupid
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      totalitarian haven of closed order is profoundly misleading. 

      Desire shapes the operation of the social and the direction of their offense.  Linguistic articulation isn’t perfect, something is always left out of what is being described—this is called the Real.  Since the thing we desire is impossible in perfection, we are locked into a cycle of desire that endlessly tries to re-capture the lacking object of our desire.  

      Stavrakakis 99 (Yannis, Teaching Fellow at the Dept of Gov’t at Essex, Lacan and the Political, p 34shree)

      What should be stressed at this point
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      that’s exactly why we keep longing for it.

      Prefer our method—it’s historically accurate in the context of politics—analyzing the social without desire can’t account for ethical modes of violence

      McGowan ‘4 (Todd, Assoc Prof in Film Studies @ UVM, “The End of Dissatisfaction?” p 4-6shree)

      Psychoanalysis, however, calls into question the
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      , will necessarily be mediated by the present.



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  • Israel DA

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    • US-Isreali relations are stable now due to security commitments, but Netanyahu is on the fence.
      AFP 7/28
      (Agence France Press, “US voices commitment to Israel in defense talks”, accessed online p. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5geTNCvh7ob5Fjg1JK3gIkxvubSWg?docId=CNG.257ca886195e82c183202f64ad9ed6e5.1071)
      WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday reiterated
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      administration has sought progress in Middle East peace.

      History has established ideological barriers – Israel can never accept democratization of Arabic countries as anything *but* a threat to their security.
      Waxman ‘11
      (Dov, associate professor in political science at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York “Israel’s Demophobia”, Foreign Policy, Februrary 18, accessed online http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/02/18/israel_s_demophobia)
      Israeli antipathy towards Arab democracy is not just
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      Egypt now might well give them that chance. 

      That independently implicates and threatens US-Israeli relations.
      Byman ‘11
      (Daniel, Prof. in Security Studies @ Georgetown, Research Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy @ Brookings, “Israel’s Pessimistic View of the Arab Spring”, Washington Quarterly, Summer, Volume 34, Issue 3, accessed online p. http://www.twq.com/11summer/docs/11summer_Byman.pdf)
      These apocalyptic predictions and Israel’s doom-and
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      regional transformation is peaceful and that democratization succeeds.

      Stable US-Israel relations key to Middle East stability.
      Kramer ‘6
      (Dr. Martin, fellow at The Washington Institute and senior fellow at the Olin Institute @ Harvard, “The American Interest,” Fall 2006, http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC06.php?CID=980)
      My answer, to anticipate my conclusion,
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      of the grip of the West’s sworn enemies.
      These wars escalate globally – culminate in extinction.
      Moore ‘9
      (Carol, BA in Polisci @ Wane State, “Six Escalation Scenarios to Nuclear World War III, 16 February,http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/six-escalation-scenarios-to-nuclear-world-war-iii/)
      Israel is especially dangerous because its leaders and
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      Only a worldwide disarmament movement can stop it.



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  • Yemen Case vs Army CD

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    • Solvency & Child Soldiers

      1. US assistance is bad for Yemen stability
        Hill 08 (Ginny, Freelance journalist, Chatham House, “Yemen: Fear of Failure” January, http://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/papers/view/108925)
        Future stability depends on political and economic reforms
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        assassination of suspected terrorists have provoked violent retaliation. 

      2. The US pushing their model of government on Yemenis is the cause of Yemeni state collapse
      Milroy 10 (Anthony, Former advisor to Yemen’s agricultural Minister, “We Fuelled Yemen’s
      ‘Failure’”, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/21/yemen-poverty-terrorism-failure, 1/21)
      If Yemen is a failing state, western
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      means to limit their family size through birth control 

      And, 2 ALT CAUSES:
      a) Internal and international power struggles, and poor border security
      Boucek 9
      (Christopher Boucek; September 2009; “Yemen: Avoiding a Downward Spiral” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Middle East Program Number 102)

      The problems include international terrorism, violent extremism
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      international commerce and the flow of vital hydrocarbons.

      b) Economics and demographics

      Boucek 9
      (Christopher Boucek; September 2009; “Yemen: Avoiding a Downward Spiral” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Middle East Program Number 102)

      Interrelated economic, demographic, and domestic security
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      an increasingly active secessionist movement in the South.

      Wars don’t have single causes – consensus of experts
      Cashman 00
      Greg, Professor of Political Science at Salisbury State University “What Causes war?: An introduction to theories of international conflict” pg. 9
      Two warnings need to be issued at this
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      element of randomness or chance in their occurrence.

      Women

      Patriarchy is not the root cause of war.
      Martin 90
      Brian Martin. 1990.  (Professor of Social Sciences in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication at the University of Wollongong. “Uprooting War.” http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/90uw/uw10.html)
      While these connections between war and male domination
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      between patriarchy and other war-linked structures.

      Women’s rights reform cannot be achieved through democracy assistance, the two must be seen as independent entities
      Ottaway 4 (Marina, a senior associate in the Carnegie Endowment’s Democracy
      and Rule of Law Project, “Women’s Rights and Democracy in the Arab World”, Carnegie Papers, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/CarnegiePaper42.pdf) TM
      Support for women’s rights in the Arab world
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      automatically solve the problem of equality for women.



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  • Case vs Liberty BW Queer Aff

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    • The call for no future is premised on white colonialism and perpetuates sexual exceptionalism- Smith 10
      (Andrea, Smith teaches in media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances (2008) and Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (2005). She is also a cofounder of Incite! Women of Color Against Violence.,” Queer Theory and Native Studies: The Heteronormativity of Settler Colonialism,” GQL: Volume 16, Number 1-2, Muse, VR)
      In addition, while both "tradition"
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      it, or the Child can be both.

      Edelman groups too much under futurism- obscures alternate causalities and makes solving impossible- Power 9
      (Nina, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Roehampton University., “Non-Reproductive Futurism
      Rancière’s rational equality against Edelman’s body apolitic,” Borderlands E-journal, VOLUME 8 NUMBER 2, 2009, http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol8no2_2009/power_futurism.pdf , VR)
      But these economic contradictions complicate Edelman’s picture somewhat
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      be opposed by identity-shaking queer negativity.

      We must combine Queer Theory with specific institutional appeals to create social change and resistance against oppression
       Kirsch 00, professor of comparative studies at Florida Atlantic University
      Max, Queer Theory and Social Change, 2000, page 42 AJM  GoogleBooks

      Because much of Queer theory confuses personal action
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      . It must accommodate the individual in society.

      Queer theory fails to escape the heteronormative nation-state
      Smith 2010, teaches in media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside
      Andrea; teaches in media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside. Queer Theory and Native Studies 16.1-2 AJM
      The question arises, then, why is
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      as colonized peoples struggling against a settler state.

      Queer theory's focus on performance undermines efforts at material change and denies agency.
      Weedon, 1999
      Chris, (she's) the Chair of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University, Feminism, theory, and the politics of difference, p.123-124
      Butler's focus on gender as performance and citation
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      the same). (Hawthorne 1996: 496)



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  • Round Reports

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      Neg: Rochester BD
      Round # 5 Tournament: Shirley
      Vs Team: Liberty AH
      Judge: Cale Halley

       

       

      Off Case Args: Will K, Analysis K, Framework, Anthropocentrism

       

       

      Case Args: focus on whiteness bad

       

       

      Block Strategy: everything except framework and anthro

       

       

      2nr Strategy: Will K

       

       

      Neg: Rochester BD

       

      Round # 4 Tournament: Shirley
      Vs Team: USC PW
      Judge: Geoff Lundeen

       

       

      Off Case Args:

      T – Demo Assistance

      Cap

      Will K/Taoism

       

      Case Args:

       

      Impact Defense

      Virilio

      Internet = unpredictable

       

      Block Strategy:

       

      Cap

      Will

      2nr Strategy:

       

      Will

       

       

       

       

      Neg: Rochester BD

      Round: 1 shiorley

      Vs: Texas GM

      Judge: Shree Asware

       

      Off case args;
       Analyst K

      Will K

      T-Democ Assistance

       

      Case Args;
       DA hurts womens rights

      Patriarych defense

      Fem turns

       

      Block Strat:

      Analyst K, Case, Will K




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