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| College Prep | 2 | Archbishop Mitty AB | Vishal Sivamani |
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| College Prep | 3 | Newman Smith VY | David Dosch |
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| College Prep | 5 | Loveless Academic Magnet Program RR | Parth Shah |
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| Damus | 2 | Harvard - Westlake MT | Madeleine Conrad-Mogin |
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| Damus | 3 | Peninsula EL | Louisa Melcher |
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| Damus | 5 | Brentwood SH | Claudia Ribera |
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| Harvard - Westlake | 2 | Isidore Newman EE | Ari Davidson |
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| Harvard - Westlake | 3 | Marlborough FL | Vikren Abhyankar |
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| Heart of Texas | 5 | Marlborough WR | Ari Davidson |
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| Heart of Texas | 1 | Strake Jesuit JK | John Sims |
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| Heart of Texas | 3 | Dwight-Englewood EK | Danielle Dosch |
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| Mid America Cup | 2 | San Mateo YR | Spencer Orlowski |
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| Mid America Cup | 5 | Millard North JS | Delon Fuller |
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| Mid America Cup | 4 | Lake Highland Prep PS | TJ Maher |
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| UK Season Opener | 1 | Mercer Island KS | Bennett Dombcik |
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| UK Season Opener | 3 | Pittsburgh Central Catholic EF | Saianurag Karavadi |
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| UK Season Opener | 6 | Milpitas AK | Amelia Ritenour |
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| College Prep | 2 | Opponent: Archbishop Mitty AB | Judge: Vishal Sivamani 1AC - Public trust doctrine |
| College Prep | 3 | Opponent: Newman Smith VY | Judge: David Dosch 1AC - space tourism |
| College Prep | 5 | Opponent: Loveless Academic Magnet Program RR | Judge: Parth Shah 1AC - climate uv and framing |
| Damus | 2 | Opponent: Harvard - Westlake MT | Judge: Madeleine Conrad-Mogin 1AC - us cap |
| Damus | 3 | Opponent: Peninsula EL | Judge: Louisa Melcher 1AC - public health workers |
| Damus | 5 | Opponent: Brentwood SH | Judge: Claudia Ribera 1AC - justice fw whole rez |
| Harvard - Westlake | 2 | Opponent: Isidore Newman EE | Judge: Ari Davidson 1AC - PTD - space col and debris |
| Harvard - Westlake | 3 | Opponent: Marlborough FL | Judge: Vikren Abhyankar 1AC - debris colonialism |
| Heart of Texas | 5 | Opponent: Marlborough WR | Judge: Ari Davidson 1AC - soft left covid framing underview |
| Heart of Texas | 1 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit JK | Judge: John Sims 1AC - kant and some covid stuff |
| Heart of Texas | 3 | Opponent: Dwight-Englewood EK | Judge: Danielle Dosch 1AC - trips |
| Mid America Cup | 2 | Opponent: San Mateo YR | Judge: Spencer Orlowski 1AC - evergreening |
| Mid America Cup | 5 | Opponent: Millard North JS | Judge: Delon Fuller 1AC - opioids |
| Mid America Cup | 4 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep PS | Judge: TJ Maher 1AC - 1ar theory truth testing framing life saving medicines plan |
| UK Season Opener | 1 | Opponent: Mercer Island KS | Judge: Bennett Dombcik 1AC-Covid structural violence fw |
| UK Season Opener | 3 | Opponent: Pittsburgh Central Catholic EF | Judge: Saianurag Karavadi 1AC-whole rez |
| UK Season Opener | 6 | Opponent: Milpitas AK | Judge: Amelia Ritenour 1AC-global north and south health inequality whole res |
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Cites
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JF - bizcon daTournament: College Prep | Round: 2 | Opponent: Archbishop Mitty AB | Judge: Vishal Sivamani Unpredictable shifts ruin biz con AND overall growthSarah Chaney Cambon 21, Reporter on The Wall Street Journal's Economics Team, BA in Business Journalism from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, "Capital-Spending Surge Further Lifts Economic Recovery", Wall Street Journal, 6/27/2021, https://www.wsj.com/articles/capital-spending-surge-further-lifts-economic-recovery-11624798800 AND to follow and will be able to plan around that," he said. Decline cascades—-nuclear warDr. Mathew Maavak 21, PhD in Risk Foresight from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, External Researcher (PLATBIDAFO) at the Kazimieras Simonavicius University, Expert and Regular Commentator on Risk-Related Geostrategic Issues at the Russian International Affairs Council, "Horizon 2030: Will Emerging Risks Unravel Our Global Systems?", Salus Journal – The Australian Journal for Law Enforcement, Security and Intelligence Professionals, Volume 9, Number 1, p. 2-8 AND in the Middle East. Soleimani was simply a cog who got replaced. | 1/15/22 |
JF - climate adv cpTournament: College Prep | Round: 5 | Opponent: Loveless Academic Magnet Program RR | Judge: Parth Shah cpThe United States should fund aquaponics greenhouse complexes to house air emissions from fossil fuel production sites. CP solves—greenhouse infrastructure prevents atmospheric warming and air pollution.Adams 13. (Mike Adams, the "Health Ranger," is an outspoken consumer health advocate, award-winning investigative journalist, internet activist and science lab director. CO2 myth busted: Why we need more carbon dioxide to grow food and forests. March 31, 2013. http://www.naturalnews.com/039720'carbon'dioxide'myths'plant'nutrition.html~~#) AND abundant in terms of plant life, forests, trees and food crops. Fossil fuel energy is key to production of food, decreased dependence on climate, and innovation. Decrease is extinction.Goklany 12. (Dr. Indur M. Goklany, PhD MSU, is a science and technology policy analyst for the United States Department of the Interior, where he holds the position of Assistant Director of Programs, Science and Technology Policy. Humanity Unbound How Fossil Fuels Saved Humanity from Nature and Nature from Humanity. Policy Analysis, No. 715. December 20, 2012) AND numbers, well-being, and living standards have never been higher. Food shortages are coming and cause extinction.FDI 12, Future Directions International, a Research institute providing strategic analysis of Australia’s global interests; citing Lindsay Falvery, PhD in Agricultural Science and former Professor at the University of Melbourne’s Institute of Land and Environment, "Food and Water Insecurity: International Conflict Triggers and Potential Conflict Points," http://www.futuredirections.org.au/workshop-papers/537-international-conflict-triggers-and-potential-conflict-points-resulting-from-food-and-water-insecurity.html AND all identify famine as a potential trigger for conflicts and possibly even nuclear war Water scarcity is coming and causes extinction.Barlow 8 (National chairperson of The Council of Canadians. Co-founder of the Blue Planet Project. Chairs the board of Washington-based Food and Water Watch and is also an executive member of the San Francisco–based International Forum on Globalization and a Councillor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council. She is the recipient of eight honorary doctorates. Served as Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the United Nations General Assembly Maude, The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water, 25 February 2008, http://www.fpif.org/articles/the'global'water'crisis'and'the'coming'battle'for'the'right'to'water) AND leading to a rise in illegal, and unpopular, migration to India. Econ solves warming—neg feedback loops.Goklany 11. (Dr. Indur M. Goklany, PhD MSU, is a science and technology policy analyst for the United States Department of the Interior, where he holds the position of Assistant Director of Programs, Science and Technology Policy. Misled on Climate Change: How the UN IPCC (and others) Exaggerate the Impacts of Global Warming. December 2011. http://reason.org/files/how'ipcc'misleads'on'climate'change'impacts.pdf) Partly due to increases in net primary productivity because of CO2 fertilization, the AND and life expectancy improve most rapidly with economic development at its lowest levels. | 1/15/22 |
JF - debris adv cpTournament: Harvard - Westlake | Round: 3 | Opponent: Marlborough FL | Judge: Vikren Abhyankar 1NC – CPSpacefaring Nations should:increase funding for space-situational awareness technology, andintegrate Battle Management Command, Control, and Communications, tactical intelligence, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems,warn all states about known impending collisions on their space assetsdevelop satellites with automated collision avoidance systems.Planks 1 and 2 solves collisions, assures allies, and avoids key sharing key secretsHitchens and Johnson-Freese 16 (Theresa Hitchens and Joan Johnson-Freese. Johnson-Freese is a professor of national security affairs at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Theresa Hitchens is a Senior Research Scholar at the University of Maryland’s Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM), and former Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). "Toward a New National Security Space Strategy Time for a Strategic Rebalancing," Atlantic Council Strategy Papers, No. 5, 2016, https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/images/publications/AC'StrategyPapers'No5'Space'WEB1.pdf) AND lead on developing a workable space-traffic management regime underpinned by SSA. Plank 3 solves miscalcGreen 14 (Brian D. Green, "Space Situational Awareness Data Sharing: Safety Tool or Security Threat?" A thesis submitted to McGill University in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of MASTER OF LAWS, December 2014, http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/webclient/StreamGate?folder'id=0anddvs=1569190779049~~368) AND show good faith in a way that could keep international tensions from escalating. | 1/15/22 |
JF - innovation daTournament: Harvard - Westlake | Round: 3 | Opponent: Marlborough FL | Judge: Vikren Abhyankar 1NCStrong commercial space catalyzes tech innovation – progress at the margins and spinoff tech change global information networksJoshua Hampson 2017, Security Studies Fellow at the Niskanen Center, 1-25-2017, "The Future of Space Commercialization", Niskanen Center, https://republicans-science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/TheFutureofSpaceCommercializationFinal.pdf AND to global networks, and new opportunities could lead to wider economic growth. Tech innovation solves every existential threat – cumulative extinction events outweigh the affDylan Matthews 18. Co-founder of Vox, citing Nick Beckstead @ Rutgers University. 10-26-2018. "How to help people millions of years from now." Vox. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/10/26/18023366/far-future-effective-altruism-existential-risk-doing-good AND far future, then effective altruism just becomes plain ol’ do-goodery.* | 1/15/22 |
JF - nasa daTournament: College Prep | Round: 2 | Opponent: Archbishop Mitty AB | Judge: Vishal Sivamani NASA is preserving resources by leveraging private partnershipsMiriam Kramer 21, author of Space, "NASA's plans for the future hinge on the success of private companies," Axios, 12-7-2021, https://www.axios.com/nasa-private-spaceflight-plans-5a5710e6-5223-4da3-8c5d-5a712e1d862e.html AND of commercial space companies to start designing and building privately operated space stations. Plan forces spending trade-offs that crush effective Earth sciences —- risks catastrophic climate changeHaymet 7 (Tony, Director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography – University of California, San Diego, Mark Abbott, Dean of the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Science – Oregon State University, and Jim Luyten, Acting Director – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, "The Planet NASA Needs to Explore", Washington Post, 5-10, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/09/AR2007050902451.html) AND afford to be so starry-eyed that we overlook our own planet. Warming is inevitable but adjusting government policy can address the worst effects – specifically, for sea level rise. US responses are modeled globally.Economist 17, "How government policy exacerbates hurricanes like Harvey," Economist, https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21727898-if-global-warming-were-not-enough-threat-poor-planning-and-unwise-subsidies-make-floods AND later, they will wake up to a Hurricane Harvey of their own. The impact’s global warEric Holthaus 15, editor at rollingstone magazine citing James Hansen, former NASA climatologist, "The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Here," Rolling Stone, accessed 10-23-2016, http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-point-of-no-return-climate-change-nightmares-are-already-here-20150805 AND economic collapse might make the planet ungovernable, threatening the fabric of civilization." | 1/15/22 |
JF - oceans daTournament: Harvard - Westlake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Isidore Newman EE | Judge: Ari Davidson NC – DAThe plan upends local control over ocean zoning—national interests expedite offshore renewables, local opposition prevents itGanong 11, (J.D. Candidate at William and Mary Law School, The Slippery Shelf: Ceding the Public Trust to Administrative Ambivalence in Offshore Development, scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1535andcontext=wmelpr) AND broader concerns, like a national interest in encouraging renewable energy generation.157 Local PTD obstructs offshore wind now – increasing federal power over-rides this because of vast energy benefits – OSW undermines ocean biodiversityGanong 11, (J.D. Candidate at William and Mary Law School, The Slippery Shelf: Ceding the Public Trust to Administrative Ambivalence in Offshore Development, scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1535andcontext=wmelpr) AND manage off shore development.179 How to do this raises another discussion. Their solvency author explicitly flags oceans as an area where the doctrine would be appliedBabcock 19 ~H., general counsel to the National Audubon Society from 1987-91 and as deputy general counsel and Director of Audubon’s Public Lands and Water Program from 1981-87. Previously, she was a partner with Blum, Nash and Railsback, where she focused on energy and environmental issues, and an associate at LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby and MacRae where she represented utilities in the nuclear licensing process. From 1977-79, she served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy and Minerals in the U.S. Department of the Interior. Professor Babcock has taught environmental and natural resources law as a visiting professor at Pace University Law School and as an adjunct at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Catholic University, and Antioch law schools. Professor Babcock was a member of the Standing Committee on Environmental Law of the American Bar Association 2019. THE PUBLIC TRUST DOCTRINE, OUTER SPACE, AND THE GLOBAL COMMONS: TIME TO CALL HOME ET. ~online~ Lawreview.syr.edu. p. 234-35 Available at: https://lawreview.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/H-Babcock-Article-Final-Document-v2.pdf~~#page=67~~ AND reaches of outer space"—space is simply too vast and unlimited.355 New turbines lead to invasive species – collapse global biodiversityLanghamer 12 – Research Professor @ Norwegian University of Science and Technology AND which could facilitate the establishment of the new taxa in the recipient region. BioD loss causes extinction and turns everythingTorres 16 (Phil, founder of the X-Risks Institute, an affiliate scholar at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and the author of The End: What Science and Religion Tell Us About the Apocalypse, "Biodiversity loss: An existential risk comparable to climate change," Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 4/11, http://thebulletin.org/biodiversity-loss-existential-risk-comparable-climate-change9329) AND as one of the most significant contemporary risks to human prosperity and survival. | 1/15/22 |
JF - politicsTournament: Harvard - Westlake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Isidore Newman EE | Judge: Ari Davidson NC – DAAppropriations pass now but floor time and bipartisanship are keyBolton 1/13 ~Alexander, staff reporter for The Hill, "Negotiators report progress toward 2022 spending deal" https://thehill.com/policy/finance/589599-negotiators-report-progress-on-reaching-2022-spending-deal~~ AND feels more hopeful after the meeting, she said "I’m hopeful always." Large President-led national space policies incite immense partisan backlash that spills over to kill the entire political agendaDreier 16 ~Casey Dreier, Chief Advocate and Senior Space Policy Adviser for The Planetary Society, April 13, 2016. "Does Presidential Intervention Undermine Consensus for NASA?" https://www.planetary.org/blogs/casey-dreier/2016/0413-does-a-strong-president-help-or-hurt-consensus-on-NASA.html~~** AND Congress that induce the types of partisanship we so dearly need to avoid. Yearlong CR ruins UAVs for decades—that undermines strategic competitionWynne 1/14 ~Brian Wynne, Federal Aviation Administration’s Drone Advisory Committee and Management Advisory Council, "A yearlong continuing resolution will hinder unmanned systems integration", 1/14/22, https://www.defensenews.com/opinion/commentary/2022/01/14/a-yearlong-continuing-resolution-will-hinder-unmanned-systems-integration/~~ AND looking for assertive congressional leadership — now is the time to step up. That causes nuclear war with Russia and chinaKroenig and Gopalaswamy 18, *Associate Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University and Deputy Director for Strategy in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. Director of the South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council. He holds a PhD in mechanical engineering with a specialization in numerical acoustics from Trinity College, Dublin. (Matthew and Bharath, 11-12-2018, "Will disruptive technology cause nuclear war?", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, https://thebulletin.org/2018/11/will-disruptive-technology-cause-nuclear-war/) AND second-strike capabilities, but to preserve prevailing power balances more broadly. | 1/15/22 |
JF - space dominance daTournament: College Prep | Round: 3 | Opponent: Newman Smith VY | Judge: David Dosch Space Dominance DA—-1NCUS wins space race now due to private competition – its key to space dominance and militarization is good – the plan nukes the US’s silver bullet against Chinese aggressionWeichert 21 – former Congressional staff member who holds a Master of Arts in Statecraft and National Security Affairs from the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. He is the founder of The Weichert Report: An Online Journal of Geopolitics ~Brandon, "The Future of Space Exploration Depends on the Private Sector," 7/5/2021, https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/07/the-future-of-space-exploration-depends-on-the-private-sector/~~#slide-1~~ AND America’s dynamic start-ups win that race, not China’s state capitalism. And, space dominance key to global peace – nuclear and conventional deterrence is collapsing, which will provoke civilization-ending revisionist aggression from Russia and ChinaDr. Robert Zubrin 19, Masters in Aeronautics and Astronautics and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Washington, President of Pioneer Energy, Founder and President of the Mars Society, Senior Fellow with the Center for Security Policy, The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility, p. Google Books AND of the other, we would be the overwhelming loser by the exchange. Space dominance solves hegemony – deterrence strategies, even rudimentary ones, are perceived as weakness and causes aggressionWeichert 17 (Brandon J. Weichert. Brandon J. Weichert is a former Congressional staff member who holds a Master of Arts in Statecraft and National Security Affairs from the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. He is the founder of The Weichert Report: An Online Journal of Geopolitics, "The High Ground: The Case for U.S. Space Dominance," Orbis, Vol 61, Issue 2, 2017, pp 227 – 237, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0030438717300108) AND example, the overwhelming American presence in space presumably would dissuade potential attackers. US hegemony prevents great-power conflicts that escalates to nuclear warBrands and Edel 19 (Hal Brands and Charles Edel. Hal Brands is the Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs in the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Charles Edel is a senior fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and previously served on the U.S. Secretary of State’s policy planning staff, "Rediscovering Tragedy. In The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order; Chapter 6: The Darkening Horizon," Yale University Press, pp 128-131 http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvbnm3r9.11) AND . It tells us there may be still-greater traumas to come. | 1/15/22 |
JF - t - appropriationTournament: College Prep | Round: 3 | Opponent: Newman Smith VY | Judge: David Dosch 1NC"Appropriation of outer space" is exclusive and permanentTIMOTHY JUSTIN TRAPP, JD Candidate @ UIUC Law, ’13 quoting Smith 92, TAKING UP SPACE BY ANY OTHER MEANS: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE NONAPPROPRIATION ARTICLE OF THE OUTER SPACE TREATY UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW ~Vol. 2013 No. 4~ AND the Bogotá Declaration were trying to accomplish, albeit through different means.219 Violation: the non-Appropriation principle does not apply to resource extraction. International consensus and rejection of the Moon Treaty support the distinction between sovereign ownership and resource extraction - private rocket launches is not a type of appropriationWrench 19 ~John, JD Candidate at Case Western, BA from Pace University~ "Non-Appropriation, No Problem: The Outer Space Treaty Is Ready for Asteroid Mining," Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Vol. 51 Issue 1, https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2546andcontext=jil, 2019 RE AND of property rights in resources extracted from that land, is nothing new. Prefer:1~ Precision—analogous treaties proveWrench 19 ~John, JD Candidate at Case Western, BA from Pace University~ "Non-Appropriation, No Problem: The Outer Space Treaty Is Ready for Asteroid Mining," Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Vol. 51 Issue 1, https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2546andcontext=jil, 2019 RE AND in extracted resources despite being restricted from claiming sovereignty over the underlying land. Consensus of the literature votes neg—means our interp is most predictableTronchetti 10 ~Fabio, Co-Director of the Institute of Space Law and Strategy and as a Zhuoyue Associate Professor at Beihang University, PhD in International Space Law from Leiden University~ "The Moon Agreement in the 21st Century: Addressing its Potential Role in the Era of Commercial Exploitation of the Natural Resources of the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies," Journal of Space Law, Vol. 36 No. 2, Winter 2010, https://airandspace.confit.dev/pdfs/jsl-36-2.pdf RE AND .30 This paper shares the opinion of the second group of authors. 2~ limits and ground: expanding the topic beyond appropriation allows for affs about any miniscule use of space resources – which they don’t even defend- which decimates links to generics which are based on property rights in space and results in a litany of small affirmatives that cause a race to the margins | 1/15/22 |
ND - climate politicsTournament: Damus | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard - Westlake MT | Judge: Madeleine Conrad-Mogin NC – ClimateBoth pills pass now and solve the climate – full-court PC press ensures Manchinema get on board, but new fights complicate the processMascaro 11/4 ~Lisa, Congressional reporter for the Los Angeles Times "Biden's big bill on brink of House votes, but fighting drags"https://www.startribune.com/bidens-big-bill-on-brink-of-house-votes-but-fighting-drags/600112896/~~ AND Biden's bill but championed the slimmer infrastructure package that had stalled amid deliberations. Manchin and Sinema hate the plan – they’re anti-labor because of lobbies, and don’t care about their constituenciesHarold 21 ~Zack, staf reporter for The Guardian, "US minimum wage activists face their toughest foe: Democrat Joe Manchin" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/22/us-15-dollar-minimum-wage-joe-manchin-west-virginia~~ AND want the minimum wage increase to be part of the Covid relief package. Passage allows an unprecedented investment in combatting climate changeMorton 10/28 ~Joseph Morton, "Democrats tout climate spending in reconciliation", 10/28/21, https://www.rollcall.com/2021/10/28/framework-includes-clean-energy-tax-credits-omits-methane-fee/~~ AND this is just one admittedly very big piece of the overall policy puzzle." It causes extinction.Dunlop 17. (Ian Dunlop chaired the Australian Coal Association in 1987-88, chaired the Australian Greenhouse Office Experts Group on Emissions Trading from 1998-2000 and was CEO of the Australian Institute of Company Directors from 1997-2001. He has a particular interest in the interaction of corporate governance, corporate responsibility and sustainability. An engineer by qualification, he holds an MA (Mechanical Sciences) degree from the University of Cambridge, he is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and the Energy Institute (UK), and a Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME (USA). He also chairs the Australian National Wildlife Collection Foundation. David Spratt is a Research Director for Breakthrough and co-author of Climate Code Red: The case for emergency action (Scribe 2008). His recent reports include Recount: It’s time to "Do the math" again; Climate Reality Check and Antarctic Tipping Points for a Multi-metre Sea-level Rise. A Failure of Imagination on Climate Risks. July 26, 2017. www.resilience.org/stories/2017-07-26/a-failure-of-imagination-on-climate-risks/) AND Prof. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber replied in two words: "Human civilisation". | 11/6/21 |
ND - econ daTournament: Damus | Round: 3 | Opponent: Peninsula EL | Judge: Louisa Melcher NC – Econ DABusiness recovery is strong. Business confidence is high.Halloran ’9-14 ~Michael; 2021; M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University, former aerospace research engineer, Equity Strategist; Janney, "Despite Potential Headwinds, Key Labor Market Indicators Bode Well for the Economy," https://www.janney.com/latest-articles-commentary/all-insights/insights/2021/09/14/despite-potential-headwinds-key-labor-market-indicators-bode-well-for-the-economy~~ AND supports profit growth and last week’s news from the labor market remains encouraging. Unions devastate growth and worsen inequality – gains for workers shift costs to other parts of the economyEpstein 20 ~Richard A. Epstein Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow @ the Hoover Institution. "The Decline Of Unions Is Good News." https://www.hoover.org/research/decline-unions-good-news~~ AND more than shrink overall wealth by directing social resources to less productive ends. Recessions cause global crises – ensuring continued growth is keyBaird ’20 ~Zoe; October 2020; C.E.O. and President of the Markle Foundation, Member of the Aspen Strategy Group and former Trustee at the Council on Foreign Relations, J.D. and A.B. from the University of California at Berkeley; Domestic and International (Dis)order: A Strategic Response, "Equitable Economic Recovery is a National Security Imperative," Ch. 13~ AND energy and biosciences that will shape the international economy for decades to come. | 11/6/21 |
ND - military cpTournament: Damus | Round: 5 | Opponent: Brentwood SH | Judge: Claudia Ribera 1NC – CPCP: A just government should recognize an unconditional right for non-military workers to strike.Armed forces can’t strike nowLII 6 ~Cornell Legal Information Institute, 2006, "10 U.S. Code § 976," Cornell Legal Information Institute, https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/976~~/Kankee AND to promote the readiness of the armed forces to defend the United States." Military unions wreck civilian military relations and US hegemony – extinctionCaforio 18 ~Giuseppe Caforio, Brigadier General with degrees in law, political science, and strategic studies (FYI, the author died ~2015, but this was republished in 2018 in an anthology book), 5-20-2018, "Unionisation of the Military: Representation of the Interests of Military Personnel," SpringerLink, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-71602-2'19~~/Kankee AND Austria and Sweden. ANALYSIS OF HISTORICAL EXPERIENCES THROUGH THE THOUGHT OF VARIOUS AUTHORS Doesn’t violate their FW – all of their ev is in the context of resisting business power – that doesn’t apply to military workers who don’t work for business | 11/7/21 |
ND - nebel tTournament: Damus | Round: 3 | Opponent: Peninsula EL | Judge: Louisa Melcher Interpretation: workers is a generic bare plural. The aff may not defend that a just government ought to recognize the unconditional right of a specific type of workers to strike.Nebel 19 Jake Nebel ~Jake Nebel is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California and executive director of Victory Briefs.~ , 8-12-2019, "Genericity on the Standardized Tests Resolution," Briefly, https://www.vbriefly.com/2019/08/12/genericity-on-the-standardized-tests-resolution/ SM AND -value meaning and standard expectations about what LD resolutions tend to mean. Rules readings are always generalized – specific instances are not consistent. lCohen 01Ariel Cohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), "On the Generic Use of Indefinite Singulars," Journal of Semantics 18:3, 2001 https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/188590876.pdf** AND , it suddenly changes¶ direction, for example to avoid hitting something. That outweighs—only our evidence speaks to how indefinite singulars are interpreted in the context of normative statements like the resolution. This means throw out aff counter-interpretations that are purely descriptiveViolation—they specified health care workersVote neg:1~ Precision –any deviation justifies the aff arbitrarily jettisoning words in the resolution at their whim which decks negative ground and preparation because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution.2~ Limits—specifying a just government offers huge explosion in the topic since they get permutations of hundreds of types of workers in the world depending on their definition of "workers".Topicality is a voting issue that should be evaluated through competing interpretations – it tells the negative what they do and do not have to prepare forNo RVIs—it’s your burden to be topical. | 11/6/21 |
ND - trade daTournament: Damus | Round: 3 | Opponent: Peninsula EL | Judge: Louisa Melcher NC – Trade DAUnions cause protectionism – that slows growth and causes tariffsEpstein 16 ~Richard A. Epstein Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow @ the Hoover Institution. "The Rise of American Protectionism." https://www.hoover.org/research/rise-american-protectionism~~ AND rate of return on investment further, which will necessarily compound the problem. New trade conflicts cause global war and undermine cooperation on collective action problemsDr. Michael F. Oppenheimer 21, Clinical Professor at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University, Senior Consulting Fellow for Scenario Planning at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Former Executive Vice President at The Futures Group, Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, The Foreign Policy Roundtable at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, and The American Council on Germany, "The Turbulent Future of International Relations", in The Future of Global Affairs: Managing Discontinuity, Disruption and Destruction, Ed. Ankersen and Sidhu, p. 23-30 AND up of US tariffs on Chinese imports, most recently on consumer goods: | 11/6/21 |
ND - wage cpTournament: Damus | Round: 3 | Opponent: Peninsula EL | Judge: Louisa Melcher cpCP Text: A just government ought to raise the minimum wage of healthcare workers, address volatility in their scheduling, and ensure they have access to hazard pay and paid sick leave.McDermott and Goger 20 Janie Mcdermott and Annelies Goger, 12-2-2020, "The health care workforce needs higher wages and better opportunities," Brookings, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2020/12/02/the-heath-care-workforce-needs-higher-wages-and-better-opportunities/ AND hazard pay, and paid sick leave for the duration of the pandemic. | 11/6/21 |
SO - Innovation DATournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 1 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit JK | Judge: John Sims NC – InnovationPharmaceutical innovation is accelerating now – new medicines are substantially better than existing treatments.Wills, MBA, and Lipkus, PhD, 20 – Todd J. Wills ~Managing Director @ Chemical Abstracts Service, MBA from THE Ohio State University~ and Alan H. Lipkus ~Senior Data Analyst @ Chemical Abstracts Service, PhD Physical Chemistry from the University of Rochester~, "Structural Approach to Assessing the Innovativeness of New Drugs Finds Accelerating Rate of Innovation," ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, Vol. 11, 2020, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.0c00319 C.VC AND never been used as the basis for a molecule) to further explore. The biopharmaceutical industry is uniquely reliant on IP protections – undermining them would kill innovation by making an already expensive process completely unfeasible.Kristina M. Lybecker, PhD, 17 ~PhD Economics, Associate Professor of Economics @ Colorado College~, "Intellectual Property Rights Protection and the Biopharmaceutical Industry: How Canada Measures Up," Fraser Institute, January 2017, https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/intellectual-property-rights-protection-and-the20biopharmaceutical-industry.pdf C.VC AND shaping the biopharmaceutical industry, its profitability, productivity, and innovative future. Pharmaceutical innovation is key to protecting against future pandemics, bioterrorism, and antibiotic resistance.Marjanovic and Fejiao ‘20 Marjanovic, Sonja, and Carolina Feijao. Sonja Marjanovic, Ph.D., Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Carolina Feijao, Ph.D. in biochemistry, University of Cambridge; M.Sc. in quantitive biology, Imperial College London; B.Sc. in biology, University of Lisbon. "Pharmaceutical Innovation for Infectious Disease Management: From Troubleshooting to Sustainable Models of Engagement." (2020). ~Quality Control~ | 11/6/21 |
SO - Manufacturing cpTournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 3 | Opponent: Dwight-Englewood EK | Judge: Danielle Dosch Manufacturing cpThe United States federal government should commit to purchasing sufficient doses of COVID-19 vaccines to meet global demand and establish public-private partnerships to expand global vaccine manufacturing capacity.Buying and exporting vaccines solves while avoiding the china DA.Gianna Gancia 21, (IT, ID) is a member of Parliament’s Development Committee, "Why waiving patents on vaccines is not a good idea," Parliament Magazine, 5-14-2021, https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/why-waiving-patents-on-vaccines-is-not-a-good-idea AND good and humanitarian, without contributing in any way to actually helping them. | 11/7/21 |
SO - T reduceTournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 3 | Opponent: Dwight-Englewood EK | Judge: Danielle Dosch T reduceInterp: Reduce means permanent reductionReynolds 59 – Judge (In the Matter of Doris A. Montesani, Petitioner, v. Arthur Levitt, as Comptroller of the State of New York, et al., Respondents ~NO NUMBER IN ORIGINAL~ Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, Third Department 9 A.D.2d 51; 189 N.Y.S.2d 695; 1959 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 7391 August 13, 1959, lexis) AND or degrade. The word "reduce" seems adequately to indicate permanency. Violation – the plan grants a trips waiver, it doesn’t eliminate intellectual property protections for medicines. Also, it is only for novel pandemics which can allow for more IP protections and does not lower IPStandards – Limits – infinite conditions, new laws, and waivers could be placed on the plan – kills predictability and decks a stable nexus of IPR researchGround – adding to the squo allows them to be shifty about what the plan does and get out of generic das and cp – magnified by not specing what the waiver is going to do in the context of the aff or at all in the 1ac allows the 1AR to recharacterize, which functionally makes the aff conditional | 11/7/21 |
SO - china daTournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 3 | Opponent: Dwight-Englewood EK | Judge: Danielle Dosch China DAChina is using vaccine diplomacy to cement global leadership – the plan reverses thisPurvaja Modak 21, FDI Associate, "China’s Vaccine Diplomacy, the "Health Silk Road" and a Global Pledge," Future Directions International, 7-15-2021, https://www.futuredirections.org.au/publication/chinas-vaccine-diplomacy-the-health-silk-road-and-a-global-pledge/ AND than 350 million doses’ of vaccines to the international community by that date. That’s necessary to solve a litany of global problems.Shen Yamei 18, Deputy Director and Associate Research Fellow of Department for American Studies, China Institute of International Studies, 1-9-2018, "Probing into the "Chinese Solution" for the Transformation of Global Governance," CAIFC, http://www.caifc.org.cn/en/content.aspx?id=4491 AND , refugees, climate change and public hygiene by debt forgiveness and assistance. ExtinctionRobert Bailey 18, Vision of Earth contributor and computer science masters, 9-5-2018, "Why do we need global governance?," Vision of Earth, https://www.visionofearth.org/social-change/global-governance/ AND The next step is to determine how effective global governance can be achieved. | 11/7/21 |
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