Tournament: Shirley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Emory Dean-Klarman | Judge: Hardy
Merely being reactive to US policy lets the war-mongers set the agenda and ingrains capitalism — our strategy must directly fight the state and capitalism, not merely get the government to change its policy.
Herod 1 (James, “A Stake, Not a Mistake: On Not Seeing the Enemy”, October, http://www.jamesherod.info/index.php?sec=paperandid=9andprint=yandPHPSESSID=4387a9147ad42723ea101944dd538914)
The 'peace now' protesters strike a similar stance.
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change its policies into those favored by progressives, not and survive as an imperial power that is. 

The impact scenarios of the 1AC is neoliberal capitalism’s attempt to ensure its perpetuation by securitizing a world system that it has made unstable
Stewart and Harding 99 (Kathleen, professor of Anthropology at UT Austin and Susan, professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz, “BAD ENDINGS: American Apocalypsis,” Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 28 (1999), pp. 285-310, JSTOR)
Rapid, large-scale technological and industrial developments and the
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achieved and miraculous new beginnings. 

Capitalism leads to extinction from nuclear war and environmental destruction
Foster 5 (John, Monthly Review, September, Vol 57, Iss 4 “Naked Imperialism”)
Capitalism by its very logic is a globally
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is potentially the most dangerous period in the history of imperialism.  

Our alternative is to refuse to participate in capitalism.
HEROD 2004 (James Herod, Getting Free, http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/Strate/GetFre/06.htm)
a strategy for destroying capitalism.
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Otherwise we are doomed to perpetual slavery and possibly even to extinction.   

Resisting this reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility.
Zizek and Daly 4 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16)
For Zizek it is imperative that we cut through this Gordian knot
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our forms of social existence are founded on exclusion on a global scale.

Tournament: Jvnovicenationals | Round: 2 | Opponent: James Madison Glomb-Panetti | Judge: Baker
Your appropriation of the Te through Hoff’s arguments ignore Cultural Chinese teachings. Hoff ignores traditional Taoism in an effort to have better book sales. This is just the beginning of Intellectual Colonialism.
Kirkland97 - THE TAOISM OF THE WESTERN IMAGINATION AND THE TAOISM OF CHINA: DE-COLONIALIZING THE EXOTIC TEACHINGS OF THE EAST Presented at the University of Tennessee 20 October 1997 Russell Kirkland University of Georgia
http://faculty.franklin.uga.edu/kirkland/sites/faculty.franklin.uga.edu.kirkland/files/TENN97.pdf
Russell Kirkland is a broadly trained scholar of religion and Asian studies.
He earned both his A.B. in Religious Studies and his A.
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Program, the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program, and the Native American Studies program
For instance, the late H. G. Creel imagined "true Taoism"
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fatuous fluff published by Benjamin Huff under the title, The Tao of Pooh

The method and authors that you use to spread the teachings of Taoism are inherently flawed- you spread just a shadow of true Taoism effectively turning your aff.
Kirkland97 - THE TAOISM OF THE WESTERN IMAGINATION AND THE TAOISM OF CHINA: DE-COLONIALIZING THE EXOTIC TEACHINGS OF THE EAST Presented at the University of Tennessee 20 October 1997 Russell Kirkland University of Georgia
http://faculty.franklin.uga.edu/kirkland/sites/faculty.franklin.uga.edu.kirkland/files/TENN97.pdf
Russell Kirkland is a broadly trained scholar of religion and Asian studies. He earned both his A.B. in Religious Studies and his A.M. in Asian History from Brown University in 1976. He later earned an M.A. in Religious Studies (1982) and his Ph.D. in Chinese language and literature from Indiana University (1986). He has taught Asian and Native American religions, and related subjects, at the University of Rochester, the University of Missouri, Oberlin College, Macalester College, and Stanford University. At UGA, Professor Kirkland’s regular courses cover Confucianism, Taoism, and Japanese Religions; from time to time he also teaches courses on Native American Religions, Buddhism in East Asia, and other topics. He serves on the faculty of the Asian Studies Program, the Medieval Studies Program, the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program, and the Native American Studies program

If Taoism has something to offer the modern world, it is not to be
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teach a sincere Westerner what it truly means to live a Taoist life.

The affirmative conception of Taoism is Orientalist – It is knowledge that produces the Orient and processes the secrets of the East in a way that can be interpreted by Western Observers.  This is intellectual Imperialism
Arif Dirlik, 1996, professor of history at Duke University. “Chinese History and the Question of Orientalism,” History and Theory 35:4.  jstor.
Orientalism . . . refers to several overlapping domains: first, the changing historical
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is integral to a modern Euro-American cultural consciousness (and unconscious).

Orientalism is Racist
Edward Said, University Professor, Columbia University. Orientalism, 1978, pg 202-4
I realize that such assumptions are not without their controversial side. Most of us
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weaker than the West, which elided the Orient’s difference with its weakness.

Tournament: Bulldogdebates | Round: 4 | Opponent: Wake Forest Clifford-Villa | Judge: Scott
Mid East scenario planning engineers specificity—it’s a perfect example of the reductionism we critique
Olsen, professor of national security affairs – Naval Postgraduate School, ‘2
(Edward, U.S. National Defense for the Twenty-First Century: The Grand Exit Strategy, p. 114-115)
As Ted Galen Carpenter suggested in 1992 during this formative phase of post-Cold
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affairs by adapting them to new circumstances for which they were not designed.

The linear thought constructed in the 1AC creates try or die logic that relies on a flawed security analysis that justified the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Kessler 8 (Oliver professor of Sociology at University of Bielefeld, “From Insecurity to Uncertainty: Risk and the Paradox of Security Politics” kjl)
The problem of the second method is that it is very difficult to "calculate
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prevail than in situations where security problems can be assessed with relative certainty.

Complexity theory through policy making is key to solve every impact
Tabara 11
(David. J. Global Systems Dynamics and Policy GSDP is an initiative to develop a research program for the study of global systems, complexity and sustainability in an ongoing dialogue with decision makers. GSDP operates as an open network evolving through workshops, working papers, publications, and open conferences. It aims at consolidating an international community of researchers engaged in dialogues with decision-makers. GSDP operate over a period of three years. GSPD work is broken down into seven work packages that operate in parallel, synchronized by annual conferences and interacting through meetings, documents, and intensive use of ICT. “An emerging research program for Global Systems Science” http://gsdp.eu/fileadmin/images/about/GSDP_1st-year-deliverables.pdf (5-1)/ /kjl)
In contrast to the conventional risk management approach and linear risk paradigm, the search
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heart of building the capacity to deal with whatever the future might bring.

The alternative is to reject linear thinking in complex adaptive systems - accepting uncertainty through complexity is key
Ryan 10 (Dr Alex Ryan is Assistant Professor of Complex Systems at the School of Advanced Military Studies, Command and General Staff College in the United States. He teaches effective thinking, complex systems and design within the Advanced Military Studies Program and the Advanced Operational Art Studies Fellowship. In nine years at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Alex Ryan was the Australian national lead for the TTCP Joint Systems Analysis Action Group on complex adaptive systems for defence, task manager for complex adaptive systems research, and managed support to operations for winning the adaptation battle. Alex Ryan has a PhD in complex systems design from the University of Adelaide. Australian Army Journal • Volume VI, Number 3 “The Foundation for an Adaptive Approach”kjl)
The paradox that confounded effects-based operations was that complexity increases the incidence of
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manages system-level trade-offs and exploits self-organisation and emergence

Linear construction ignores the complexity which taints predictions—the aff’s linear war-planning fails and causes escalating conflict
Jervis 97 (Robert, professor of international affairs – Columbia “Complex Systems: The Role of Interactions,” in Complexity, Global Politics, and National Security, eds. David S. Alberts and Thomas J. Czerwinski, National Defense University)
Because actions change the environment in which they operate, identical but later behavior does
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not been too many accidents because they are operated with such care.25

Tournament: Sunshine State Showdown | Round: 1 | Opponent: USF | Judge: Steinberg
1NC – Debt Ceiling

Debt Ceiling Will Pass, Republicans propose temporary measure to avoid financial catastrophe, still need democrats support
Drucker 10/12
“John Boehner shifts strategies on debt ceiling, government shutdown” - BY DAVID M. DRUCKER (David M. Drucker is senior Congressional correspondent for the Washington Examiner. He has previously reported for CQ Roll Call and the Los Angeles Daily News.) OCTOBER 11, 2013 AT 4:39 AM – Date Accessed 10/12/13 - http://washingtonexaminer.com/john-boehner-shifts-strategies-on-debt-ceiling-government-shutdown/article/2537129 - Washington Examiner VED
House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday shifted strategies in the twin fiscal battles with Democrats
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rubber stamp,” Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., said.

Obama will exhaust PC fighting restrictions
Walker 13 Richard, Richard Walker is the pen name of a former N.Y. news producer who now works as a political corrspondent for American FreePRess.com, "Obama Expands War Powers; Can Unleash Cyberwar Any Time", http://americanfreepress.net/?p=11966, August 02, 2013; DOA: 9-12-2013JCP

The very moment United States President Barack Obama authorized the “dropping” of an
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should concern his allies as much as the American people,” he warned.

PC Key and Obama THINKS its finite – unrelated fights spillover and prevent deal on debt ceiling causing economic collapse
Paletta, 13  (Damian, covers economic policy for The Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau. His areas of coverage include the federal budget, tax and spending policy, the White House, Treasury Department, and Congress, Wall Street Journal, 6/30, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323689204578569833242567970.html)

Epic fiasco. The immigration fight turns ugly, poisoning the well for any compromise
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, and frantic finger pointing ensues. Chance of this happening: 25
Negotiations over debt ceiling risks possible failure and causes massive drawn out fight and hostage taking – tanks economy
Chait, 7/12
Jonathan Chait, commentator and writer for New York magazine. He was previously a senior editor at The New Republic and a former assistant editor of The American Prospect. He also writes a periodic column in the Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, 7/12/13, http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/07/john-boehners-coming-sharknado.html

Meanwhile, the tornado is the debt ceiling. After the 2011 debacle, the
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wind, and he will reap the whirlwind — a whirlwind of sharks.

Diversionary theory supports this
Royal 10
Jedediah Royal, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, 2010, “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises,” in Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215
Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict
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such, the view presented here should be considered ancillary to those views.

Tournament: Jvnovicenationals | Round: 2 | Opponent: James Madison Glomb-Panetti | Judge: Baker
Counter-advocacy: Affirm the use of psilocybin, DMT, LSD, DXM, spiritual fasting, meditation and/or Ketamine to destroy the Ego. 

Net Benefit. Counter plan avoids the Intellectual Colonialism DA.

Tournament: tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: Georgia Shanker-Caplan | Judge: Miller
The representations are worse than warming itself – calling warming the biggest impact of our time creates a climate where we only demand immediate technical single issue solutions BEFORE any sort of long term change – alt comes first
Crist, prof. of Science and Technology in Society @ Virginia Tech, 2006
(Eileen, “Beyond the Climate Crisis: a Critique of Climate Change Discourse,” Telos 141, Winter, pg. 29-55, Online) 

While the dangers of climate change are real, I argue that there are even
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agonizes over what technological means can save it from impending tipping points.21
This, combined with their insistence on omnicidal doom and appeals to the government for salvation, only serves a larger project of green governmentality, which creates an eco-managerial regime to extend biopolitical and material control to the entire planet, causing the very same disturbances that are the root cause of ecological problems.

Lovbrand 06 (Eva, Phd Canidate in environmental science at Kalmar University, ?lanting Trees to Mitigate Climate Change: Contested Discourses of Ecological Modernization, Green Governmentality and Civic Environmentalism, Feb. 2006)

Alongside the market-oriented approach to environmental problem-solving proposed by ecological modernization
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reshaping the Earth into a planetary order of complex socio-technical systems.

Disorder and insecurity are inevitable. Attempting to control danger is the impetus for global destruction. Creates self-fulfilling prophecies.
Der Derian 98 (James, Professor of Political Science – University of Massachusetts, On Security, Ed. Lipschutz, p. 24-25)

No other concept in international relations packs the metaphysical punch, nor commands the disciplinary
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on the otherness of death, and identities calcifying into a fearful sameness. 

Vote Neg to reject the dominant framing of security. This critical praxis is a prerequisite to effective policy solutions
Bruce 96 (Robert, Associate Professor in Social Science – Curtin University and Graeme Cheeseman, Senior Lecturer – University of New South Wales, Discourses of Danger and Dread Frontiers, p. 5-9)

This goal is pursued in ways which are still unconventional in the intellectual milieu of
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the policy debate the critics need to reframe the basic terms of reference. 

As communication scholars we have an obligation to fight the apocalyptic frame at every turn – ten years as the dominant frame for warming discussion has proved it is an utter failure
Foust and Murphy (Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Communication Studies at the University of Denver; doctoral student in the Department of Human Communication Studies at the University of Denver) 9
(Christina R. Foust and William O'Shannon Murphy, Revealing and Reframing Apocalyptic Tragedy in Global Warming Discourse, Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, pages 151-167,Volume 3, Issue 2, 2009)
In conclusion, an apocalyptic structure permeates the global warming narrative in the American elite
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change narrative from an apocalyptic tragedy to a more comic telos for humanity.

Tournament: Sunshine State Showdown | Round: 1 | Opponent: USF | Judge: Steinberg
1NC – Security K 

The Alarmist Rhetoric Policymakers Use with Cyber Threats Re-entrench War and creates endless threats in need of securitization.
Watkins 11
 “Loving the Cyber Bomb? The Dangers of Threat Inflation in Cybersecurity Policy” by Jerry Brito and Tate Watkins. (Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason University. J.D., George Mason University School of Law, 2005; B.A., Political Science, Florida International University, 1999 Research Associate, Mercatus Center at George Mason University. M.A., Economics, Clemson University, 2008; B.A., Economics, Clemson University, 2007.) Harvard National Security Journal VED
Cybersecurity is an important policy issue, but the alarmist rhetoric coming out of Washington
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that we have to learn to stop worrying and love the cyber bomb.

Disorder and insecurity are inevitable. Attempting to control danger is the impetus for global destruction. Creates self-fulfilling prophecies.
Der Derian 98 (James, Professor of Political Science – University of Massachusetts, On Security, Ed. Lipschutz, p. 24-25)

No other concept in international relations packs the metaphysical punch, nor commands the disciplinary
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on the otherness of death, and identities calcifying into a fearful sameness. 

Vote Neg to reject the dominant framing of security. This critical praxis is a prerequisite to effective policy solutions
Bruce 96 (Robert, Associate Professor in Social Science – Curtin University and Graeme Cheeseman, Senior Lecturer – University of New South Wales, Discourses of Danger and Dread Frontiers, p. 5-9)

This goal is pursued in ways which are still unconventional in the intellectual milieu of
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the policy debate the critics need to reframe the basic terms of reference.

Tournament: tournament | Round: 4 | Opponent: Georgia State Nails-Stewart | Judge: Ridley
PMCs aren’t armed forces
Cameron, 2006
(Lindsey, Doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Law at the University of Geneva. She is a research and teaching assistant at the University of Geneva and the University Centre for International Humanitarian Law. September 2006, http://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/other/irrc_863_cameron.pdf p. 11 Accessed: 2/3/14 rjs)
The first means by which PMC employees may qualify as combatants – which corresponds inversely
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that private military companies are nonetheless members of a state’s armed forces.42

Violation- aff only restricts introduction of PMC’s into hostilities, not US armed forces. 

Vote Neg -
Ground
Limits
Prefer international definitions 

Voter for fairness and education
Independently, they’re extra topical

Tournament: Sunshine State Showdown | Round: 3 | Opponent: UCF | Judge:
1NC – T: Restrictions

Interpretation – Plan must restrict the ability of the president to engage in offensive cyber operations.

Restrictions limit the ability of the agent
Gerald N. Hill and Kathleen T. Hill – 2005, the Free Dictionary, http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Restrictions
restriction n. any limitation on activity, by statute, regulation or contract provision. In multi-unit real estate developments, condominium and cooperative housing projects, managed by homeowners' associations or similar organizations are usually required by state law to impose restrictions on use. Thus, the restrictions are part of the "covenants, conditions and restrictions," intended to enhance the use of common facilities and property, recorded and incorporated into the title of each owner.
“on” indicates the object affected by the action
American Heritage Dictionary – 2k, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ON, 2000

on  (n, ôn)¶ prep.¶ 1.¶ a. Used to indicate
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. At the expense of; compliments of: drinks on the house.

The agent of the Resolution is the declaratory war powers of the “President”
Violation – The aff places a condition  - Having to go get prior notification is not a restriction, it’s just a hassle.
Vote Neg
Predictable Limits – Official regulations and statutes provide a predictable and stable list of restrictions– including affs that reduce hassles instead of legal restrictions explodes the topic.  Makes it impossible to predict affs because no one knows just how much “red tape” will qualify as a “restriction” – it’s too subjective.
Ground – There is a huge distinction between making something more efficient and legalizing a previously prohibited activity – qualitative improvements like the aff make all our links non unique and produce such small affs that no DA would link.

Tournament: Sunshine State Showdown | Round: 1 | Opponent: USF | Judge: Steinberg
1NC – T: Statutory Restrictions

Interpretation: Statutory restrictions are controls or limits imposed by the legislative body
Blacks Online Legal Dictionary 13
(2nd Edition, http://thelawdictionary.org/statutory-restriction/)
Statutory Restriction- Limits or controls that have been place on activities by its ruling legislation.
The aff doesn’t defend which branch actually enacts the plan 

Which means if they can claim the executive does the plan- that’s not a statutory restriction- 

Pref our interp
Key to aff predictability which is the best internal link to both fairness and education
Their interp destroys the most critical neg CP- debates over executive self-restraint are a core controversy of the topic means. 

Or the plan passes through both the executive and legislative branches means their extra topical which is a VI for the reasons listed above
On this topic, specifying your agent is important- we should pay attention to who has authority and where it is vested- its necessary for CP competition- if we PICed out of the executive branch they could clarify in the 2ac that USFG means the executive puts out an executive order which isn’t topical

Tournament: tournament | Round: 4 | Opponent: Georgia State Nails-Stewart | Judge: Ridley
TPA will pass but it will be tough
Reuters, 2-12
(“Second top Democrat opposes U.S. fast-track trade bill.” February 12, 2014. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/13/us-trade-pelosi-idUSBREA1B2E520140213 Accessed: 2/16/14 RJS)
But others note negotiations started on both the TPP and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment
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Congress in 2011, though the agreement with South Korea was partly amended. 

Obama is pushing and his push is key
The Hill 1/21
(“Obama: Give me fast track trade”, http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/195858-white-house-works-to-convince-dems-to-give-obama-fast-track-on-trade Accessed: 1/29/14)

The White House is making a major push to convince Congress to give the president
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White House carries the weight on this,” one senior House aide said.

Supreme court decisions are controversial and make Obama look weak. Obama will have to remedy them which costs pocap against a gridlocked legislature.
Sullivan 2013
(Why the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act decision puts Obama in a tough spot¶ By Sean Sullivan, Published: June 26 2013) AM
The disapproval was swift and unequivocal.¶ “I am deeply disappointed with the Supreme
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for but nonetheless may not get could have grown by one item Tuesday.¶ 

The plan causes an inter-branch fight – saps PC and derails his agenda
Kriner 10
Douglas Kriner, Assistant Profess of Political Science at Boston University, 2010, After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War, p. 67-69

Raising or Lowering Political Costs by Affecting Presidential Political Capital Shaping both real and anticipated
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to its costs than if Congress stood behind him in the international arena.

Bill Key to Trade
Watson 1/15
(William, trade policy analyst with Cato’s Herbert A Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies. His research focuses on U.S. trade remedy policies, disguised protectionism, and the institutional aspects of global trade liberalization, “What to Look for in the Upcoming Trade Policy Debate”, http://www.cato.org/blog/what-look-upcoming-trade-policy-debate Accessed: 1/29/14)

The most important piece of trade legislation Congress has dealt with in years was introduced
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included in the new bill are not as bad as I had feared.

Free trade prevents multiple scenarios for world war and WMD Terrorism
Panzner 2008
Michael, faculty at the New York Institute of Finance, 25-year veteran of the global stock, bond, and currency markets who has worked in New York and London for HSBC, Soros Funds, ABN Amro, Dresdner Bank, and JPMorgan Chase “Financial Armageddon: Protect Your Future from Economic Collapse,” pg. 136-138
Continuing calls for curbs on the flow of finance and trade will inspire the United
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between Muslims and Western societies as the beginnings of a new world war.

Tournament: Bulldogdebates | Round: 4 | Opponent: Wake Forest Clifford-Villa | Judge: Scott
Obama’s recent actions have strengthened Al Qaeda , Al-Qaeda is emerging now as one of the most powerful players
PAUL MIRENGOFF. Jan 5, 2014 (“SURPRISE: U.S. WEAKNESS STRENGTHENS AL QAEDA”. Power Line. Mirengoff graduated from Dartmouth College in 1971, and from Stanford Law School in 1974. He formerly practiced law in Washington D.C. as a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld.   http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/01/surpise-u-s-weakens-strengthens-al-qaeda.php Accessed: 1/17/2014 smc)
Remember when, during the Bush administration, the left and its MSM supporters insisted
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taken seriously demonstrates that America has lost both its nerve and its bearings.

Judicial review of detention crushes the war on terror
Wittes 2008 Benjamin Wittes is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. He co-founded and is the editor-in-chief of the Lawfare blog, which is devoted to sober and serious discussion of "Hard National Security Choices," and is a member of the Hoover Institution's Task Force on National Security and Law 2008 “LAW AND THE ¶ LONG WAR ¶ THE FUTURE OF JUSTICE ¶ IN THE AGE OF TERROR” Chapter 4 “The Necessity and ¶ Impossibility of Judicial ¶ Review” Penguin Press https://webspace.utexas.edu/rmc2289/National20Security20and20the20Courts/Law20and20the20Long20War2020Chapter204.pdf
A broad conception of judicial review in this conflict also suffers from an ¶ unrealistic
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combat operations. The public ¶ should find neither reaction an appealing prospect.

Civilian trials would send Al Qaeda fighters back to battle
Taylor 2009 Stuart S. Taylor, Jr. is an author and freelance journalist focusing on legal and policy issues, National Journal contributing editor, (occasionally) Stanford Law School lecturer and practicing lawyer, and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution January 30, 2009 National Journal “Obama's Dangerous Detainees” http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/or_20090117_2727.php
Indeed, the Pentagon said on January 13 that 18 of the approximately 500 Guantanamo
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Qaeda -- as prisoners of war, without criminal charge or criminal trial."

Terrorism results in extinction
Ayson 2010 (Robert Ayson, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington,“After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7, July,)
A terrorist nuclear attack, and even the use of nuclear weapons in response by
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for the terrorists. This might not help the chances of nuclear restraint.

Tournament: Jvnovicenationals | Round: 5 | Opponent: Liberty Murray-Bridwell | Judge: White
Ukraine crises about to explode and Relations on brink
Carter et al ’14, Chelsea J. Carter, Chelsea J. Ingrid Formanek and Diana Magnay, writers for CNN, http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/28/world/europe/ukraine-politics/

Tension dramatically mounted… Sergeyev said.

Obama and Putin talked over the phone on the Ukraine situation. Relations extremely tense.
Business Insider 3-1-14. http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-putin-phone-call-ukraine-russia-war-2014-3

President Barack Obama spoke… and economic isolation."

Obama Can’t appear weak against Putin over Ukraine
Daily Mirror 3/8
“Obama must learn from past to sort Ukraine crisis” Daily Mirror; Ireland Saturday Edition 1. Accessed 3/8/14 Lexis Nexis. AMon. 

Gone are the days… out of Ukraine.

Statutory restriction of War Powers makes Obama look weak sauce
Yoo 12—John, law prof @ UC Berkeley
Feb, http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/war_powers_belong_to_the_president

The framers realized… we make war.

Plan spills over to all Congressional decision-making
Paul 8—Christopher, RAND Graduate School
“US Presidential War Powers: Legacy Chains in Military Intervention Decisionmaking"rmm
Finegold and Skocpol… later in the article).

That causes Ukrainian conflict draws in other countries – leads to war
News.com 14, http://www.news.com.au/world/ukraine-on-brink-of-economic-collapse-as-fears-the-state-will-fragment-into-prowestern-and-russian-factions/story-fndir2ev-1226836647542

The warning comes… as we have to.”

And, Independently Strategic stability key to preventing US-Russia nuclear war
Frank Harvey International Journal March, 2003 SECTION: v.58(2) Spr'03; ISSN: 0020-7020 HEADLINE: The future of strategic stability and nuclear deterrence BYLINE: 2003 pg. l/n

“Strategic stability is….reason to launch first.

Tournament: Sunshine State Showdown | Round: 1 | Opponent: USF | Judge: Steinberg
1NC - Warfighting DA 

Executive war power high now
Posner 13
(Eric Posner,  a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, is a co-author of The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic and Climate Change Justice…. 9/3/2013… “Obama only making his war powers mightier”… Slate online… http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2013/09/obama_going_to_congress_on_syria_he_s_actually_strengthening_the_war_powers.html... 10/10/13… RTV)

President Obama’s surprise announcement that he will ask Congress for approval of a military attack
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and avoid it when he knows that it will stand in his way.
Statutory restriction of Presidential War Powers makes warfighting impossible
Yoo 12 – prof of law @ UC Berkeley
(John, War Powers Belong to the President, ABA Journal February 2012 Issue, http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/war_powers_belong_to_the_president) we do not endorse the ableist language used in this card, but have left it in to preserve the author’s intent. we apologize for the author’s inappropriate use of the word “paralyze”
The framers realized the obvious. Foreign affairs are unpredictable and involve the highest of
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time to introduce sweeping, untested changes in the way we make war.

Strong executive key to solve climate change-lack of congressional action prevents solvency in the squo and executive negotiating power key to check  environmental and economic collapse
Wold 2012
Chris Wold, Professor of Law and Director, International Environmental Law Project
(IELP), 2012, Lewis and Clark Law School, 2012, CASE WESTERN RESERVE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW•VOL. 45•2012, uwyoamp

In 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama wrote, “As the world’s largest
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economic crisis that lies ahead if we fail to take more aggressive action.

Studies show warming is human caused and will cause extinction
Ahmed 2010
(Nafeez Ahmed, Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development, professor of International Relations and globalization at Brunel University and the University of Sussex, Spring/Summer 2010, “Globalizing Insecurity: The Convergence of Interdependent Ecological, Energy, and Economic Crises,” Spotlight on Security, Volume 5, Issue 2, online)
Perhaps the most notorious indicator is anthropogenic global warming. The landmark 2007 Fourth Assessment
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– a situation endangering the survival of all life on earth.xi

Tournament: Sunshine State Showdown | Round: 1 | Opponent: USF | Judge: Steinberg
1NC – XO CP
Text:  The President will issue an executive order requiring a substantially increase in restrictions on offensive cyber operations by developing policy and oversight for their implementation and use that includes increased transparency and confidence-building measures as well as restrictions on the use of automated response systems and the performance of inherently governmental activities by privately contracted individuals or firms in related operations.
Executive orders are fast and build political capital
Krause and Cohen 97 George + David, Professors of Political Science @ South Carolina, “Presidential Use of Executive Orders” American Politics Quarterly, Vol 25 No 4, October 1997, Sage Journals Online
The aim of this study is to answer the question: What causes presidents to
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understanding of the presidency and the powers that are inherent in that office.
Solves the Aff – Executive orders create are better suited for addressing cyber operations
Brecher 12 “Cyberattacks and the Covert Action Statute: Toward a Domestic Legal Framework for Offensive Cyberoperations” by Aaron P. Brecher (J.D. Candidate, May 2013, University of Michigan Law School), December 2012 – Michigan Law Review NNF
This Part argues that the federal government should adopt the presumption that cyber-attacks
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without unduly restricting the executive’s choice to use military authorities in appropriate circumstances.

Tournament: Jvnovicenationals | Round: 5 | Opponent: Liberty Murray-Bridwell | Judge: White
Z-DAY IS COMING, AND THE GOVERNMENT IS PREPARED.
ASTWOOD '09 Jesse Astwood, The Truth Behind The Coming Zombie Apocalypse, 2/23/09, http://media.www.brooklynexcelsior.com/media/storage/paper901/news/2009/02/23/Columns/The-Truth.Behind.The.Coming.Zombie.Apocalypse-3644087.shtml
The big wigs know that Z-Day is fast approaching (sometime in 2012
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us. As for the government, let's take it one step further.

Link - DHS is prepping for Zombie Apocalypse – Drones are Key
Future Pundit 2013.  http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/008973.html March 3. FuturePundit
Future technological trends and their likely effects on human society, politics and evolution. “US DHS Prepares For Zombie Apocalypse?”
A US Department of Homeland Security 1.6 billion round ammo purchase signals that
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Skynet UAVs that all set to go Terminator when Skynet develops AI capabilities.
Zombie attacks have the greatest probability and quickest time-frame for extinction.
Robert J. Smith? (Department of Mathematics and Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa) et al, Philip Munz (School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University), Ioan Hudea (School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University), Joe Imad (Department of Mathematics, University of Ottawa). “When Zombies Attack! Mathematical Modeling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection.” Infectious Disease Modeling Research Progress. 2009.

An outbreak of zombies infecting humans is likely to be
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quickly, or else we are all in a great deal of trouble.