Tournament: UTD | Round: 7 | Opponent: Kansas BM | Judge: Tews
AUMF strong now- Congress supports a broad interpretation
Brooks, 13 -- Georgetown University law professor
Rosa, New America Foundation Schwartz senior fellow, served as a counselor to the U.S. defense undersecretary for policy from 2009 to 2011 and previously served as a senior advisor at the U.S. State Department, "Mission Creep in the War on Terror," Foreign Policy, 3-14-13, www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/03/14/mission_creep_in_the_war_on_terror, accessed 8-24-13, mss

"When you're not near the girl you love, love the girl you're near
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in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, which used virtually identical language.

The plan limits AUMF by constraining it with international limitations- the court ruling against Al-Bihani increased AUMF by saying AUMF power super-ceded international rules
Dehn 10
 Major John C. Dehn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law, US Military Academy, West Point, NY. He currently teaches International Law and Constitutional and Military Law. He is writing in his personal capacity and his views do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Defense, the US Army, or the US Military Academy. The Relevance of International Law to (the Substantive and Procedural Rules of) Preventive Detention in Armed Conflict – A Rejoinder to Al-Bihanihttp://opiniojuris.org/2010/01/29/the-relevance-of-international-law-to-the-substantive-and-procedural-rules-of-preventive-detention-in-armed-conflict-E28093-a-rejoinder-to-al-bihani/
 

The post-Boumediene habeas litigation has raised concerns regarding whether the courts are equipped
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) expressly outlining executive detention authority in this or any other armed conflict.
Decreasing AUMF authorizations snowballs- causes judicial rollback of the AUMF
Barnes, 12 -- J.D. Candidate, Boston University School of Law
Beau, “Reauthorizing the ‘War on Terror’: The Legal and Policy Implications of the AUMF’s Coming Obsolescence,” Military Law Review, Vol 211, 2012, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2150874, accessed 8-21-13, mss

The scope of the AUMF is also important for any future judicial opinion that might
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its precise scope, authorization, and continuing vitality matter a great deal.
That shifts US doctrine to international self-defense- expanded jus ad bellum collapses global firebreak on use-of-force --- causes global hotspots that go to war
Barnes, 12 -- J.D. Candidate, Boston University School of Law
Beau, “Reauthorizing the ‘War on Terror’: The Legal and Policy Implications of the AUMF’s Coming Obsolescence,” Military Law Review, Vol 211, 2012, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2150874, accessed 9-19-13, mss

In a world without a valid AUMF, the United States could base its continued
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to kill people anywhere, anytime, the result would be chaos.”148

Tournament: Weber RR | Round: 3 | Opponent: Weber AH | Judge: Dunn
The 1AC is a paradigmatic example of humanist cultural criticism – this perpetuates speciesism and dooms them to failure
Deckha 6 – Maneesha, UC Hastings College of the Law
http://www.animallaw.info/articles/arus17hstwlj1.htm
Cultural critics have painstakingly demonstrated the social constructedness of sexual, gender, and racial
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on the continued merit of a property status of non-human animals.

Speciesism makes possible “systematic beastilization,” which justifies non-criminal putting to death of the Other – this is the root cause of all oppression
Rossini 6 – Manuela, Postdoctoral Fellow at Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
Sept, “To the Dogs: Companion speciesism and the new feminist materialism,” Kritikos, Volume 3, http://intertheory.org/Rossinicn
What is equally sobering, however, is the fact that the most radical metaposthumanists
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means limited to its overwhelmingly direct and disproportionate effects on animals.26

The alternative is to vote negative to reject speciesism by critically reorienting ourselves against the 1AC. Our creation of a space for reflection is a key step in ending non-human oppression.
Williams 8 – Nancy, Philosopher at Wofford College
“Affected Ignorance and Animal Suffering” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics (2008) 21:371-384
Epistemological and moral tensions such as these, however, can be the impetus for
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be fully informed about modern factory farming practices (and subsequent animal suffering).

Tournament: Weber RR | Round: 5 | Opponent: UNT MQ | Judge: Pointer
Nuclear power is a strategic attempt to prop up the civilization mentality
Lundberg 11 Jan, writer for Culture Change. The end of nuclear and its timing. March 12th, 2011. Accessed October 19, 2012
Three days before the Fukushima nuclear power explosion, I made this comment on a
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, allows us to realistically imagine turning around human-caused global warming.

Only an eco-revolution can prevent extinction. Growth is unsustainable and is destroying the environment – our alternative motivates existing social movements to topple the existing order – this isn’t crazy, credible climate scientists are increasingly supporting this position.
Naomi Klein, 10/29/2013, New Statesman, (Klein is the author of “The Shock Doctrine”), “How sciene is telling us all to revolt,” http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/science-says-revolt

In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made
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way to live on this planet that is distinctly less fked.

Tournament: UTD | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge:
Text: The President of the United States should direct that U.S. drone strikes be conducted as D.O.D. Title 10 operations.
Executive consolidation of drone strike authority within the D.O.D. increases Congressional oversight and transparency while establishing a strong international precedent
Micah Zenko, April 2013, (Douglass Dillon Fellow), Council on Foreign Relations, "Transferring CIA drone strikes to the Pentagon," http://www.cfr.org/drones/transferring-cia-drone-strikes-pentagon/p30434

In 2004, the 9/11 Commission recommended that the "lead responsibility for
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Obama administration claims can have a normative influence on how others use drones.

Tournament: UTD | Round: Doubles | Opponent: KU KS | Judge: Bonnet, Ermo, Scott
The naturalized expectation of masculine international relations has rendered the feminist perspective useless—The manner in which policy is constructed outside of the feminist consideration allows policymakers to escape responsibility for their actions-Enloe 89
 Cynthia H. Enloe, feminist writer and professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Clark University, MA and Ph.D. in Political Science at Cal Berekeley, “Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics,” 1989, p. 3-4 KR
Conventionally both masculinity and femininity have been treated as ‘natural’, not created.
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even a token consideration of women’s experiences and feminist understandings of those experiences.

Masculine views of IR exclude other possible solutions, that makes warfare and policy failure inevitable—Iraq proves—Lieberfeld 5 Daniel, Associate Professor of Social and Political Policy @ Duquesne University, PhD in IR from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, “THEORIES OF CONFLICT AND THE IRAQ WAR”, International Journal of Peace Studies, Volume 10, Number 2, Autumn/Winter 2005, http://www.gmu.edu/programs/icar/ijps/vol10_2/wLieberfeld10n2IJPS.pdf

Some observers have also located motives for the invasion decision in Bush’s relationship with
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promote a U.S. invasion that served their own political agendas.

The alternative is to vote negative. Overcoming shallow male-constructed visions of IR requires ontological revisionism—policy debate is a critical arena
Youngs, Professor of Digital Economy and Academic Director of the Institute of Advanced Broadcasting at the University of Wales 04 (Gillian, “Feminist International Relations: A Contradiction in Terms? Or: Why Women and Gender Are Essential to Understanding the World 'We' Live in”, International Affairs 80:1, 1/04, JSTOR)
In closing it is usually necessary to go back to the beginning. I want
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at this point and will have to  be worked for on both sides.

Tournament: UTD | Round: 6 | Opponent: Texas HM | Judge: Tomik
Their appeal to the memory of 911 undermines critical debate and constructs that day as a symbolic truth that defines identity.  This instills faith in the state as the ultimate guaranteer of security.  The alternative is to forget 911
Maja Zehfuss ‘3, dept of politics and international studies at Univ. of Warwick, “Forget September 11,”  Third World Quarterly, 24:3, JT
Bush recommended the following in his address to the joint session of congress and the
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events of September 11, but to the role of citizens in politics.
This attitude is justified by the supposed enormity and exceptionality of the events of September
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, about how to address our inevitable vulnerability and our responsibility towards others.
While I would normally exhort people to remember events, to hear different stories about
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idea than forgetting ourselves in the name of the memory of the dead.

This forgetting is an active process that opens up new possibilities for understanding and alternatives to the security dilemma that guarantees violence and insecurity
Roland Bleiker, ’97, Ph.D., Australian National University Political Sciences/Faculties, Canberra, “Forget IR Theory,” Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1997), pp. 57-85, JT
The task, then, becomes one of turning forgetting from a selective, arbitrary
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from Milan Kundera's reversed perspective, "remembering is a form of forgetting

Tournament: UTD | Round: 7 | Opponent: Kansas BM | Judge: Tews
Text: The United States federal government should establish a "Green Bank." The bank will receive an initial $10 billion in investment capital, with additional capital provided up to $50 billion over five years. The bank will be governed by a board of directors of relevant Cabinet members and industry experts appointed by the president with staggered terms. The bank will provide loans to clean energy and energy-efficiency technology projects in the United States. The bank should prioritize projects that provide the fastest, cheapest, cleanest reduction in greenhouse gases and oil use. Projects should be selected on a competitive basis according to the amount of carbon-emissions reduction or avoidance can be achieved. All projects should meet strong underwriting standards and appropriate risk management metrics

A green bank is key to commercializing clean tech
John Podesta and Karen Kornbluh, 5/21/09, "The Green Bank," Center for American Progress, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/05/green_bank.html
The Green Bank’s mission should be to marshal a variety of well-established financial
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terms. This will give it both the flexibility and accountability it needs. 

Commercializing alternative energy tech is crucial to solve warming
Cohen et al. ‘9 (Innovation Policy for Climate Change A REPORT TO THE NATION Energy Innovation From the Bottom Up A JOINT PROJECT OF CSPO AND CATF Made Possible Through the Support of the National Commission on Energy Policy, a project of the Bipartisan Policy Center SEPTEMBER 2009
Reductions in carbon dioxide (CO2) and other green-house gases (GHGs
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nation-states. It is to this idea that we now turn.

Tournament: UTD | Round: 3 | Opponent:  | Judge:
Transition to multipolarity now
Brzezinski, Center for Strategic and International Studies Counselor and Trustee, Feist, CNN’s Washington Bureau Chief and Senior Vice President 12
(Zbigniew, Former White House National Security Adviser, Sam, March 29, 2012, Council of Foreign Relations, “A Conversation With Zbigniew Brzezinski,” http://www.cfr.org/us-strategy-and-politics/conversation-zbigniew-brzezinski/p27829, accessed 7/4/12, YGS)

QUESTIONER: Thank you very much. Dr. Brzezinski, I want to ask
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terms of whether we will or will not be able to do it. 

Prolonging transition risks global stability
Farley, University of Kentucky assistant professor of Diplomacy and International Commerce, 3-7-12
(Dr. Robert, World Politics Review, "Over the Horizon: The Future of American Hegemony," http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/11696/over-the-horizon-the-future-of-american-hegemony, accessed 7-6-12, CNM)

What are the dangers? Hegemony has never meant the ability to achieve any outcome
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globally acceptable “American Century,” while foolish policies can cut it short.

Heg makes war inevitable
Layne, Texas AandM University School of Government Chair in Intelligence and National Security, 6
(Christopher, The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “The Unipolar Illusion Revisited The Coming of the United States' Unipolar Moment,” 2006, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/international_security/v031/31.2layne.html, Accessed: 7/5/12, MLF)

If the United States fails to adopt an offshore balancing strategy based on multipolarity and
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systems. Unilateral offshore balancing, indeed, is America's next grand strategy.

Heg is unsustainable – impossible to maintain a relative power advantage
Barry Posen, Jan/Feb 2013, Foreign Affairs, (Posen is a Prof of Poli Sci at MIT), "Pull back: the case for a less activist foreign policy," 92.1, Proquest

The United States emerged from the Cold War as the single most powerful state in
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energy resources to export, and it still produces some impressive weapons systems.

Maintaining heg even just to shape the new multipolar system causes backlash and war – only a complete transition away solves
Layne, Texas AandM University Bush School of Government and Public Services international affairs professor, 6
(Christopher, Associate Professor in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas AandM University, 2006 “The Peace of Illusions” p 158, Accessed 6/27/12, THW)

At the same time, it doubtless is true that it will take some time
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The United States can do this by adopting an offshore balancing grand strategy.

Counterbalancing is comparatively more peaceful than primacy  
Layne 7
Foreign Policy Analyst for NATO/Western Europe, August – September 2007 “AMERICA‘S MIDDLE EAST GRAND STRATEGY AFTER IRAQ: THE MOMENT FOR OFFSHORE BALANCING HAS ARRIVED” Prepared for the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/1/0/9/7/pages210973/p210973-1.php
Primacy’s Realist critics have outlined an alternative grand strategy that has gained increasing support among
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in large swaths of the globe, including Europe and the Middle East.

Lack of a counterbalance leads to hegemonic wars—hegemony doesn’t deter—decline would solve
Montiero 12/29 Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University 2k11, Nuno, Why we (keep) fighting http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/12/29/why_we_keep_fighting
Because threats are not the problem. Backed by the mightiest military in history,
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surprise. It follows from the ¶ unparalleled power of the United States.

Tournament: UNT | Round: 2 | Opponent:  | Judge:
The aff’s attempts to reformulate identity fail to address the root cause of capitalism and instead serve to depoliticize the economy
Zizek 99
(Slavoj Zizek, The Ticklish Subject pp 343-44)
The big news of today's post-political age of the 'end of ideology' is
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directly causes this disintegration: far from being confronted with the abyss of the

Capitalism makes social exclusion on a global scale inevitable – any attempt to address antagonism fails without challenging economic exploitation
Zizek and Daly 2k4 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16)
For Zizek it is imperative that we cut through this Gordian knot of postmodern protocol and recognize that
our ethico-political responsibility is to confront the constitutive violence of today’s global capitalism
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abject Other to that of a ‘glitch’ in an otherwise sound matrix. 

Capitalism’s drive for material makes crisis and extinction inevitable
Meszaros, prof Philosophy and Political Theory, 95
Istvan Meszaros, 1995, Professor at University of Sussex, England, “Beyond Capital: Toward a Theory of Transition”
With regard to its innermost determination the capital system is expansion oriented and accumulation-
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desideratum of 'self-regulation' - even by the system's most uncritical defenders.

Our alternative is historical materialism. The role of the ballot is to align yourself with the class struggle. This intellectual strategy of centering class at the core of the conversation is the best method to understand and confront oppression.
Palmer '96 - Canada Research Chair in Canadian Labour History and Canadian Studies @ Trent University (Bryan D., "Old Positions/New Necessities: History, Class, and Marxist Metanarrative," in "In Defense of History," Ed. by E. Meiskins Wood and John Foster, p.65-72, RG)

In the words of David Harvey: Postmodernism has us accepting the reifications and partitionings
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"Those who cannot defend old positions will never conquer new ones."

Tournament: UNT | Round: 5 | Opponent:  | Judge:
The advancement of animal rights and the criticism of anthropocentricism are both tools for the expansion of totalitarianism and destruction of capitalism
JR Nyquist, 10/24/2011, Financial Sense Online "Totalitarian Methods," http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/jr-nyquist/2011/10/24/totalitarian-methods

The pioneers of totalitarianism, Lenin and Hitler, both denounced the capitalism system as
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in this formula a nation finds no real solution to its economic problems.

Their criticism is a form of asymmetrical warfare that seeks to undermine and collapse the United States.
J.R. Nyquist, 8/28/09, Financial Sense, "The Sequence," http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2009/0828.html
In advance of any military campaign relying on tank divisions and nuclear rocket regiments,
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best. Here is the beginning of what I call "the sequence." 

The collapse of the U.S. flips back your impacts. War and terrorism would proliferate and extinction would be insured.
J.R. Nyquist, 5/27/2005, "Why the Bad Guys are Bad," http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2005/0527.html
The politics of Hitler made a subtle and calculated use of envy. The same
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civilization finds itself utterly defenseless against a dark power that cannot be deterred. 

Our alternative is to reject communism. The role of the ballot is to endorse a commitment to individual freedom. This act is a prerequisite to challenge collectivism.
Richard M. Elbeling, Ludwig von Mises Prof. Econ. – Hillsdale College, President of Foundation for Economic Education, "Freedom's Greatest Challenge", June, 1990, http://www.fff.org/freedom/0690b.asp
The friends of liberty face two hurdles in winning the case for freedom in contemporary
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(and not merely tinkered with), is too important not to try.

Tournament: UTD | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge:
Drones are a minor symptom of US militarism- the aff’s myopic focus solves nothing but obscures the bigger picture and enables militarism- results in endless war and violence
Trombly, 12 – Caerus Analytics, LLC National Security/International Affairs analyst
Daniel, "Drones are a symptom, not a cause," 5-23-12, slouchingcolumbia.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/drones-are-a-symptom-not-a-cause/, accessed 9-2-13, mss

Drones have yet to be used in a situation where a pilot of a manned
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proponents alike shifts debate obscures what’s really allowing policymakers to conduct today’s wars.

Vote neg to reorient security logic away from the precarity of preemption that seeks security from imminent catastrophe. Our criticism repoliticizes security politics to reverse the violence enacted through sovereign power in the present to secure the future.  We can reclaim security to avoid error replication
Liam P.D. Stockdale, ‘11, Ph.D. candidate in International Relations, Department of Political Science, McMaster University, “Thinking Through Pre-emptive Security: Catastrophe, Imagination, Temporality, Affect, Presented at the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, 16-18 May, 2011, http://www.academia.edu/487332/Thinking_Through_Pre-emptive_Security_Catastrophe_Imagination_Temporality_Affect, ACC. 8-26-2013, JT
In this paper, I have been primarily concerned with developing conceptual arguments with the
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foundation for rolling back some of the more pernicious practices that characterize it.

Tournament: UTD | Round: 6 | Opponent: Texas HM | Judge: Tomik
Sex offender and child pornographer detention is indefinite
Liliana Segura, ’10, an independent journalist and editor with a focus on social justice, prisons and harsh sentencing, “Supreme Court Says Feds Can Detain Sex Offenders Indefinitely: Why That's Dangerous,” http://www.alternet.org/story/146946/supreme_court_says_feds_ can_detain_sex_offenders_indefinitely3A_why_that27s_dangerous, ACC. 10-28-2013
U.S. v. Comstock
Blandly known as Section 4248, the legal provision upheld by the court this week
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that some 2,700 state prisoners were being held in civil commitment.

We have an ethical responsibility to put children first by protecting them from dangerous sex offenders with high risk of recidivism
Ronken and Johnston, ‘8   Carol Ronken, Research and Policy Manager, Bravehearts Inc. and Hetty Johnston, Executive Director and Founder, Bravehearts Inc., “Balancing Rights: Arguments for indefinite detention of dangerous sex offenders,” Presented at the Sentencing Conference (February 2008), National Judicial College of Australia/ ANU College of Law, http://njca.anu.edu.au/Professional20Development/programs20by20year/2008/ Sentencing20Conference202008/papers/Ronken20Johnson.pdf, ACC. 10-28-2013, JT
In recognition that there are offenders, such as Fraser, who either cannot or
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children from offenders known to be a risk must be our first priority.

Tournament: Weber RR | Round: 2 | Opponent: MSU BS | Judge: J Cheek
The United States Federal Government should require Congressional authorization prior to initiating offensive use of conventional force. The President of the United States should execute a disarming nuclear strike on the Chinese nuclear arsenal.

Senkaku flare ups ensure a war in the near future – it is only a question of who preempts first
Brandon Smith, 12/11/2013, Alt Market, “Is War with china inevitable?” http://www.alt-market.com/articles/1866-is-war-with-china-inevitable

Every terrible war has a trigger point, an event that history books later claim
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. The point is nothing good could come from the escalation over Senkaku.

Senkaku conflict escalates to nuclear war
John Blaxland 13, Senior Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, the Australian National University, and Rikki Kersten, Professor of modern Japanese political history in the School of International, Political and Strategic Studies at the College of Asia and the Pacific, the Australian National University, 2/13/13, “Escalating territorial tension in East Asia echoes Europe’s descent into world war,” http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2013/02/13/escalating-territorial-tension-in-east-asia-echoes-europes-descent-into-world-war/
The recent activation of Chinese weapons radars aimed at Japanese military platforms around the Senkaku
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that the outcome of wars is rarely as proponents conceived at the outset.

China alerting missiles in a crisis causes rapid US preemptive strike
Lieber and Press 7 - Keir A. Lieber, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, and Daryl G. Press, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, Winter 2007, “U.S. Nuclear Primacy and the Future of the Chinese Deterrent,” China Security, Issue No. 5, online: http://www.wsichina.org/cs5_5.pdf
Ironically, one of the clearest explanations for how the United States may use nuclear
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and react inside of the lengthy launch cycle time of Chinese forces.”24

U.S. first-strike is key to prevent or limit the damage of U.S.-China nuclear war
Lieber and Press 7 – Keir Lieber, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, and Daryl Press, Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, July/August 2007, “Superiority Complex,” The Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200707/china-nukes
From a military perspective, this modernization has paid off: A U.S. nuclear first strike could quickly destroy China’s strategic nuclear arsenal. Whether launched in peacetime or during a crisis, a preemptive strike would likely leave China with no means of nuclear retaliation against American territory. And given the trends in both arsenals, China may live under the shadow of U.S. nuclear primacy for years to come.
This assessment is based on unclassified information, standard targeting principles, and formulas that
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silos. Chinese leaders would have little or no warning of the attack.
During the Cold War, U.S. submarines posed little danger to China’s
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is virtually assured (the likelihood is calculated as greater than 99 percent).
In reality, American planners could not assume such near-perfect results. Some
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in American counterforce capabilities since the end of the Cold War is staggering.)
Beyond bolstering the ability to conduct a first strike, the improvements to U.
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, can be more discriminating, if planners want to minimize civilian casualties.
A second key decision for war planners is whether to set the weapon to detonate
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falls to earth in the hours after the blast, spreading lethal radiation.
Airbursts create smaller zones of extremely high overpressure, but they also generate very little
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and over a very wide area, greatly reducing the harm to civilians.
In the past, a nuclear attack on China’s arsenal would have had horrific humanitarian
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have contemplated such a strike, but only in the most dire circumstances.
But things are changing radically. Improved accuracy now allows war planners to target hardened
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generation of GPS satellites—with higher-powered signals to complicate jamming.
The payoff for equipping cruise missiles (or nuclear bombs) with GPS is clear
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, allies, or territory might be more inclined to choose preemptive action.
Strategic Implications of the Nuclear Imbalance
The most plausible flash point for a serious U.S.-China conflict is
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solution (for example, a return to Taiwan’s pre-declaration status).
By putting its nuclear forces on alert, however, China’s leaders would compel a
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warhead), or to strike the Chinese missiles before they could be launched.
How do America’s growing counterforce capabilities affect this scenario? First, American nuclear primacy
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—the leaders may conclude that war is a no-win proposition.
Second, if a war over Taiwan started anyway, U.S. nuclear primacy might help contain the fighting at the conventional level. Early in the crisis, Washington could quietly convey to Beijing that the United States would act decisively if China put its vulnerable nuclear arsenal on alert.
Finally, if China threatened to launch nuclear attacks against America’s allies, its territory
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he or she would reap the benefits of the past decade’s counterforce upgrades.

Tournament: UTD | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge:
Interpretation:  Restrictions are prohibitions on authority
Jean Schiedler-Brown 12, Attorney, Jean Schiedler-Brown and Associates, Appellant Brief of Randall Kinchloe v. States Dept of Health, Washington,  The Court of Appeals of the State of Washington, Division 1, http://www.courts.wa.gov/content/Briefs/A01/68642920Appellant20Randall20Kincheloe27s.pdf
3. The ordinary definition of the term "restrictions" also does not include
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some supervision conditions, but he did not agree to restrict his license.

This means prohibition of an entire topic list area
Corpus Juris Secundum 31
Volume 54, p. 735
RESTRICT:  To confine…restrain without bounds.

Tournament: UTD | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge:
Momentum ensures the Senate will pass an unemployment extension – that is key to getting the House on board
Greg Sargent, 1/3/2014, Washington Post, “Unemployment insurance extension hangs in the balance,” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/01/03/unemployment-insurance-extension-hangs-in-the-balance/

Next week, as early as Monday, Senate Democrats will move to vote on
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attach the extension to spending bills that will be negotiated later this month.

The plan causes an inter-branch fight and saps Obama’s credibility with Congress
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.

Failure to extend jobless benefits knocks the economy back into a recession
Vicki Needham, 1/3/2014, The Hill, “House Democrats make renewal of jobless benefits a top priority,” http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/economy/194392-house-democrats-make-jobless-benefits-renewal-a-top-priority

But two prominent economists pushed back on that conclusion, arguing that the program is
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conditions is fiscally irresponsible because it will cost taxpayers more down the road.

Economic decline causes nuclear war
Cesare Merlini 11, nonresident senior fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Italian Institute for International Affairs, May 2011, “A Post-Secular World?”, Survival, Vol. 53, No. 2
Two neatly opposed scenarios for the future of the world order illustrate the range of
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theocratic absolutes, competing or converging with secular absolutes such as unbridled nationalism.