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| Berkeley | 1 | St Francis MR | Rajvee Patel |
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| Berkeley | 6 | Eden Prairie AG | Asher Towner |
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| CPS | 2 | Diamond Bar NC | Naomi Alan |
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| CPS | 3 | Immaculate Heart RR | Parth Shah |
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| CPS | 6 | Perry JA | Joanne Park |
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| Greenhill | 1 | Bronx Science RP | Sai Karavadi |
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| Greenhill | 4 | Southlake Carroll SD | Felicity Park |
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| Greenhill | 5 | Immaculate Heart JL | Tarun Ratnasabapathy |
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| Harvard Westlake | 4 | Diamond Bar NC | Samantha McLoughlin |
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| Harvard Westlake | 6 | Immaculate Heart RR | Tej Gedela |
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| Harvard Westlake | 1 | Harvard Westlake NL | Gordon Krauss |
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| Heart of Texas | 3 | Westlake MR | Jonathan Hsu |
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| Heart of Texas | 1 | Westwood AR | Kristiana Baez |
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| Heart of Texas | 6 | Denton Guyer SB | Gerard Grigsby |
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| Nano Nagle | 1 | Monta Vista KR | David Dosch |
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| Nano Nagle | 3 | Saratoga AG | Samantha McLoughlin |
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| Nano Nagle | 5 | Ayala AM | Felicity Park |
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| Palm Classic | 2 | Catonsville AT | Heather Nagle |
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| Palm Classic | 6 | Immaculate Heart BC | Daniel Luo |
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| Apple Valley | 1 | Opponent: Harrison MB | Judge: Claudia Ribera 1AC - Sex Workers |
| Apple Valley | 4 | Opponent: Scarsdale JT | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin 1AC - Kant |
| Apple Valley | 6 | Opponent: Strath Haven AM | Judge: Victor Chen 1AC - US |
| Apple Valley | Doubles | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SD | Judge: Panel 1AC - Teachers |
| Apple Valley | Octas | Opponent: Saratoga AG | Judge: Panel 1AC - US AG |
| Apple Valley | Triples | Opponent: Scarsdale DH | Judge: Panel 1AC - Virtue Ethics |
| Berkeley | 1 | Opponent: St Francis MR | Judge: Rajvee Patel 1AC - Lay |
| Berkeley | 6 | Opponent: Eden Prairie AG | Judge: Asher Towner 1AC - US |
| CPS | 2 | Opponent: Diamond Bar NC | Judge: Naomi Alan 1AC - PTD |
| CPS | 3 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: Parth Shah 1AC - China |
| CPS | 6 | Opponent: Perry JA | Judge: Joanne Park 1AC - AstroModernity |
| CPS | Octas | Opponent: Proof DR | Judge: Panel 1AC - PTD |
| Contact Info | 1 | Opponent: Contact | Judge: Info Contact info |
| Greenhill | 1 | Opponent: Bronx Science RP | Judge: Sai Karavadi 1AC - Kant |
| Greenhill | 4 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SD | Judge: Felicity Park 1AC - Cannabis |
| Greenhill | 5 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Tarun Ratnasabapathy 1AC - CRISPR |
| Greenhill | Doubles | Opponent: Memorial SC | Judge: Panel 1AC - Evergreening |
| Harvard Westlake | 4 | Opponent: Diamond Bar NC | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin 1AC - PTD |
| Harvard Westlake | 6 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: Tej Gedela 1AC - China |
| Harvard Westlake | 1 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake NL | Judge: Gordon Krauss 1AC - Capitalism |
| Heart of Texas | 3 | Opponent: Westlake MR | Judge: Jonathan Hsu 1AC - Evergreening |
| Heart of Texas | 1 | Opponent: Westwood AR | Judge: Kristiana Baez 1AC - Biocolonialism |
| Heart of Texas | 6 | Opponent: Denton Guyer SB | Judge: Gerard Grigsby 1AC - COVID |
| Heart of Texas | Doubles | Opponent: Greenhill NT | Judge: Panel 1AC - Data Exclusivity |
| Nano Nagle | 1 | Opponent: Monta Vista KR | Judge: David Dosch 1AC - COVID |
| Nano Nagle | 3 | Opponent: Saratoga AG | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin 1AC - Insulin |
| Nano Nagle | 5 | Opponent: Ayala AM | Judge: Felicity Park 1AC - Evergreening |
| Nano Nagle | Doubles | Opponent: NVHS DN | Judge: Panel 1AC - Pettit |
| Nano Nagle | Octas | Opponent: Mission SS | Judge: Panel 1AC - Hormone Therapy |
| Palm Classic | 2 | Opponent: Catonsville AT | Judge: Heather Nagle 1AC - Megaconstellations |
| Palm Classic | 6 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart BC | Judge: Daniel Luo 1AC - Ukraine |
| Palm Classic | 4 | Opponent: Saratoga YKa | Judge: Felicity Park 1AC - Whole Res |
| Palm Classic | Octas | Opponent: Sidwell SW | Judge: Panel 1AC - The Voice of Woman |
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0 - Contact InfoTournament: Contact Info | Round: 1 | Opponent: Contact | Judge: Info Send me an email for disclosure or any generic questions about my life that I'd be happy to answer. Cards read in a debate should be open-sourced pretty quickly. I read cards from databases that not everyone has access to – if you want the full-text of an article I read, just send me an email. | 9/18/21 |
JANFEB - CP - Asteroid Mining PICTournament: CPS | Round: 6 | Opponent: Perry JA | Judge: Joanne Park CP: With the exception of asteroid mining, the appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust by the hold.Hold them to their deliberate choice to defend the resolution – anything else is severance, which makes clash and being neg impossible, preventing education and fairness.Asteroid mining is affordable, cheap, and coming soonHlimi 14 ~Tina Hlimi, Canadian lawyer with a Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Environmental Sciences from McGill University, 2014, "THE NEXT FRONTIER: AN OVERVIEW OF THE LEGAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS OF NEAR-EARTH ASTEROID MINING," ANNALS OF AIR AND SPACE LAW, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract'id=2546924~~/Kankee AND liability and environmental law. IV. THE GENERAL LEGAL ATMOSPHERE AND NEA MINING Non appropriation regulations wreck legal certainty required for investor confidence in asteroid miningCampo 21 ~Jose A. Martin del Campo, J.D. Candidate at Texas AandM University School of Law, 3-23-2021, "Finders K Finders Keepers: Who Has Say Over Private Property in Space," Texas AandM Journal of Property Law, https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1155andcontext=journal-of-property-law~~/Kankee AND of property rights. II. LEGAL PRINCIPLES INFLUENCING THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPACE LAW Asteroid mining solves climate change, resource shortages, and environmental degradationHlimi 14 ~Tina Hlimi, Canadian lawyer with a Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Environmental Sciences from McGill University, 2014, "THE NEXT FRONTIER: AN OVERVIEW OF THE LEGAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS OF NEAR-EARTH ASTEROID MINING," ANNALS OF AIR AND SPACE LAW, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract'id=2546924~~/Kankee AND and population growth. B. THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF NEAR EARTH ASTEROID MINING Warming causes extinction, escalatory conflicts, and mass sufferingMelton 19 ~Michelle Melton is a 3L at Harvard Law School. Before law school, she was an associate fellow in the Energy and National Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where she focused on climate policy. Climate Change and National Security, Part II: How Big a Threat is the Climate? January 7, 2019. https://www.lawfareblog.com/climate-change-and-national-security-part-ii-how-big-threat-climate~~ AND undo the changes to environmental systems and the human societies dependent upon them. | 12/19/21 |
JANFEB - CP - Asteroid Mining PIC v2Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake NL | Judge: Gordon Krauss CP: The appropriation of outer space by private entities except for asteroid mining is unjustCommercial mining solves extinction from terror, war, and disease.Pelton 17—(Director Emeritus of the Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute at George Washington University, PHD in IR from Georgetown).. Pelton, Joseph N. 2017. The New Gold Rush: The Riches of Space Beckon! Springer. Accessed 8/30/19. AND global space agreements, are part of this new pathway to the future. | 1/16/22 |
JANFEB - CP - Asteroid Mining PIC v3Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 6 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: Tej Gedela CP Text: The People’s Republic of China shouldend all private appropriation of outer space except for Asteroid Mining.de-militarize its civilian, military, and commercial space industry.dismantle and remove ASAT weapons.dismantle the People’s Liberation Army.end China-Russian cooperation in Outer Space.ban cooperation attempts with Russia on military mattersThe Counterplan solves the Case – gets rid of space militarizationChina’s Asteroid Mining efforts are light-years ahead of everyone else – now is key for Asteroid Mining. Successful Mining solves Warming through Green Transition.Cohen 21 Ariel Cohen 10-26-2021 "China’s Space Mining Industry Is Prepping For Launch – But What About The US?" https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2021/10/26/chinas-space-mining-industry-is-prepping-for-launch—but-what-about-the-us/?sh=6b8bea862ae0 (I am a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Founding Principal of International Market Analysis, a Washington, D.C.-based global risk advisory boutique.)Elmer AND – are no doubt a driving factor of China’s ever increasing space ambitions. Warming causes ExtinctionKareiva 18, Peter, and Valerie Carranza. "Existential risk due to ecosystem collapse: Nature strikes back." Futures 102 (2018): 39-50. (Ph.D. in ecology and applied mathematics from Cornell University, director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, Pritzker Distinguished Professor in Environment and Sustainability at UCLA)Re-cut by Elmer AND complete scientific understanding when it comes to positive feedback loops and climate change. | 1/16/22 |
JANFEB - CP - Debris RemovalTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Catonsville AT | Judge: Heather Nagle Counterplan: States should establish a multilateral treaty to:Remove the most volatile and largest Debris pieces from the most congested orbitsMandate UN guidelines on space debris mitigationCollaborate on techniques to track and display the location of objects in real time and AI to automate debris-avoidance maneuvers- Indefinitely stall deployment of low earth orbit ASAT’s.That solves satellites, miscalculation and debris collisionsNEB 21 ~(Nature Editorial Board, peer-reviewed, comprises experimental scientists and data-standards experts from across different fields of science) "The world must cooperate to avoid a catastrophic space collision," Nature, 8/11/2021~ JL AND avoidance manoeuvres, could bolster any global effort to monitor and regulate space. | 2/13/22 |
JANFEB - CP - UkraineTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 6 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart BC | Judge: Daniel Luo CP: Ukraine ought to:End exports of space technology to the Democratic People’s Republic of KoreaBan private space companies from accepting Chinese investmentMove all nuclear reactors offline, dismantle nuclear reactors, and entomb them in concrete deep undergroundPlank 1 solves advantage 1 – they said NoKo ballistic missile capabilities are dependent on the Ukrainian space industry but we end supplyPlanks 2 and 3 solve advantage 2 – Ukraine not taking Chinese investment means no US alienation which preserves Biden’s support AND lack of nuclear reactors takes out the terminal impact | 2/13/22 |
JANFEB - DA - AfricaTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Catonsville AT | Judge: Heather Nagle Megaconstellations are uniquely key for the African industry due to cheaper launch and production costs – that solves Earth Observation, internet, national security, and spills over to enrich the economySamanga 21 Ruvimbo Samanga, Zimbabwean scholar and lawyer working with the Space Law and Policy, holds a BA Law (cum laude), an LLB and an LLM in International Trade and Investment Law from the University of Pretoria. "Why Africa Should Expand its Mega-Satellite Constellation Capacity." Space Legal Issues, 3 May. 2021, www.spacelegalissues.com/why-africa-should-expand-its-mega-satellite-constellation-capacity. AND towards increase of space and satellite capacity in an affordable and beneficial manner. Earth Science Observation Satellites uniquely solve a host of environmental threats – pollution, climate change, biodiversity, deforestation, soil erosionUstin and Middleton 20 Ustin, S.L. ~John Muir Institute of the Environment, University of California, Davis~ , Middleton, E.M ~NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (Emerita)~. Current and near-term advances in Earth observation for ecological applications. Ecol Process 10, 1 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13717-020-00255-4 AND conditions have developed from past environmental drivers in order to predict future conditions. Warming causes extinctionDavid Spratt 19, Research Director for Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration, Ian Dunlop, member of the Club of Rome, formerly an international oil, gas and coal industry executive, chairman of the Australian Coal Association, May 2019, "Existential climate-related security risk: A scenario approach," https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/148cb0'b2c0c79dc4344b279bcf2365336ff23b.pdf AND the "fat-tail" outcomes, as illustrated in Figure 1. | 2/13/22 |
JANFEB - DA - AppropriationsTournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake NL | Judge: Gordon Krauss Appropriations 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. | 1/16/22 |
JANFEB - DA - ArtemisTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 6 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart BC | Judge: Daniel Luo The aff contradicts the Artemis Accords by banning mining and lunar property – decks relations with the USNelson 20 "The Artemis Accords and the Future of International Space Law" Jack Wright Nelson ~Jack Wright Nelson is a Research Associate at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore and a Member of the International Institute of Space Law. The author is grateful to the Faculty's Centre for Banking and Finance Law for supporting his ongoing research.~, December 10, 2020 https://www.asil.org/insights/volume/24/issue/31/artemis-accords-and-future-international-space-law SM AND , and there shall be free access to all areas of celestial bodies. US-Ukraine Relations solves Baltics War.Pifer 17 Steven Pifer 4-12-2017 "Why should the United States be interested in Ukraine?" https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2017/04/12/why-should-the-united-states-be-interested-in-ukraine/ (Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Center on the United States and Europe, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative)Elmer AND very good reasons why the United States should take an interest in Ukraine. Baltic conflict goes nuclearKofman ’16 ~Michael; May 12; Analyst at CNA Corporation and fellow at the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute, M.A. in International Security from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University; War On The Rocks, "Fixing NATO Deterrence in the East Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love NATO’s Crushing Defeat by Russia," https://warontherocks.com/2016/05/fixing-nato-deterrence-in-the-east-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-natos-crushing-defeat-by-russia/; RP~ AND . That means a force posture oriented toward strategic flexibility, not entrenchment. | 2/13/22 |
JANFEB - DA - BRITournament: Palm Classic | Round: 6 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart BC | Judge: Daniel Luo Ukraine-China relations motivated by space cooperation – the Aff makes that impossible – that spills-over into other aspects of the relationship.Ma and Soroka 20 Ma, B., and L. Soroka. "The Cooperation between China and Ukraine in Space Exploration: Genesis and Development. Advanced Space Law, 5, 58-70." (2020). (Ph.D. in Law, Professor, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology)Elmer AND , "innocide" instead of innovation (Driga, 2017: 61). That cements the BRI – Ukraine is a critical partner in Europe for China Trade.Zeneli and Haluhan 19 Valbona Zeneli and Nataliia Haluhan 10-4-2019 "Why China is Setting its Sights on Ukraine" https://thediplomat.com/2019/10/why-china-is-setting-its-sights-on-ukraine/ (Dr. Valbona Zeneli is the Chair of the Strategic Initiatives Department at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. Ms. Nataliia Haluhan is the Chief Consultant, National Institute for Strategic Studies (Ukraine). She is a former Marshall Center scholar.)Elmer AND by Beijing to increase trade and economic relations with Central and Eastern Europe. Solves Central Asian and South Asia War.Muhammad et Al 19, Imraz, Arif Khan, and Saif ul Islam. "China Pakistan Economic Corridor: Peace, Prosperity and Conflict Resolution in the Region." (Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Buner)Elmer AND peace and stability in the region and secure the CPEC from insecurity.15 South Asia War goes Nuclear and causes Extinction.Menon 19 Prakash Menon, The nuclear cloud hanging over the human race, Nov 15, 2019, ~PhD from Madras University for his thesis "Limited War and Nuclear Deterrence in the Indo-Pak context"~ https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/the-nuclear-cloud-hanging-over-the-human-race/cid/1719608~~# SM AND for its incredibility and the utter stupidity of the use of nuclear weapons. | 2/13/22 |
JANFEB - DA - BizConTournament: CPS | Round: 2 | Opponent: Diamond Bar NC | Judge: Naomi Alan Global economic growth is accelerating nowCaroline Miranda 21, Consultant for the International Finance Corporation at the World Bank Group, Fernando Blanco, Principal Economist for Europe and Central Asia of the IFC, and Tatiana Nenova, IFC ECA/LAC Regional Economics Manager, Country Economics (CELCE), "An Uneven Global Economic Recovery in 2021 Promises to Invert a Longstanding Principle of Success and Failure", World Bank Blogs, 5/7/2021, https://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/uneven-global-economic-recovery-2021-promises-invert-longstanding-principle-success AND often leads to the excessive destruction of capital, even under normal circumstances. 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. | 12/18/21 |
JANFEB - DA - China TechTournament: Berkeley | Round: 6 | Opponent: Eden Prairie AG | Judge: Asher Towner Bipartisan anti-china momentum ensures COMPETES passes now and maintains tech leadership, but its narrowSayers and Kanapathy 2/15 ~ Eric Sayers, a senior vice president at Beacon Global Strategies, and Ivan, a vice president at Beacon Global Strategies, both guest contributors for Foreign Policy magazine "America is Showering China with New Restrctions" https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/15/us-china-economic-financial-decoupling-controls-restrictions-sanctions/~~ AND , there are five policy areas where further action appears imminent this year. Space policy causes immense partisan backlash that wrecks the delicate balanceDreier 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. The bill is uniquely key to solve Chinese and Russian tech supremacySeattle 2/16 ~Seattle Times, leading newspaper serving the greater Seattle area. "Congress must unite behind China competitiveness bill" https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2022/02/16/opinion/congress-must-unite-behind-china-competitiveness-bill/~~ AND Ukraine and Taiwan. It also underlines the need for Congress to act. Chinese tech leadership causes nuke warKroenig 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. | 2/20/22 |
JANFEB - DA - Chinese EconomyTournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 6 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: Tej Gedela China’s economy is on the brink.Lopez 21 Linette Lopez 10-24-2021 "If China's economy keeps stumbling, it won't just take down Beijing - the whoel world will collapse with it" https://archive.md/M4qjY~~#selection-2241.0-2250.1 (Linette is the senior finance correspondent at Business Insider, writing a combination of opinions and analysis. She joined BI in the summer of 2011 after graduating from Columbia University's School of Journalism.)Elmer AND economy from one driven by state investments to one sustained by consumer spending. Robust Chinese Space Industry key to Economic rejuvenation.Goswami 19 Namrata Goswami 2019 "What China Wants in Outer Space" https://www.thecairoreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/cr33-global-forum.pdf (Dr. Namrata Goswami is an independent scholar on space policy, great power politics, and ethnic conflicts. She was subject matter expert in international affairs with the Futures Laboratory, Alabama, U.S., and guest lecturer, India Today Class, Emory University. After earning her Ph.D. in international relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, she worked as research fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. She has been a visiting fellow at Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway; La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia; and University of Heidelberg, Germany.)Elmer AND Luxembourg have already passed legislation enabling private companies to begin exploration and operations. Chinese Economic Decline spills-over globally.Rogoff 18 Kennetth Rogoff 11-7-2018 "The Global Impact of a Chinese Recession" https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/global-impact-of-chinese-recession-by-kenneth-rogoff-2018-11?barrier=accesspaylog (Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University and recipient of the 2011 Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics, was the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund from 2001 to 2003.)Elmer AND likely to discover that China’s economy matters even more than most people thought. Decline cascades – nuclear warMaavak 21 – Mathew Maavak, 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. | 1/16/22 |
JANFEB - DA - CoupTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 6 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart BC | Judge: Daniel Luo North Korean nuclear proliferation is key to broader economic movements to modernize the economy – the plan means more conservative policyEleanor 18 Eleanor M. Albert is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the George Washington University. Her research interests include Chinese foreign and domestic policy, the evolving nature of Chinese power, and how the country exerts its influence and builds relationships. "North Korea’s Power Structure." Council on Foreign Relations, 19 July. 2018, www.cfr.org/backgrounder/north-koreas-power-structure. AND to meet his goal of making North Korea a strong and prosperous nation. Failed economic modernization leads to state collapse – the elites partner with the military, and economic missteps become more likely when the economy faltersPagano and Kuznar 18 Pagano, S. J. and Kuznar, L. A. (2018). Dr. Sabrina Pagano is the Global Practice Leader for DignityTRAC® and a Principal Research Scientist at NSI/NBI. Dr. Kuznar specializes in the ecological and economic features of traditional pastoral societies.Assessment of Pathways to Collapse in the DPRK: NSI Pathways™ Report. Arlington, VA: Strategic MulM-layer Assessment (SMA). Note – Nouveau Riche refers to "newly rich", people in the DPRK who have recently acquired increased economic status AND robustness of key buffers, such as the state's ability to suppress dissent. Extinction through loose CBRNS and great power war – it’s higher magnitude than a North Korean lash outKazianis 17 Kazianis, Harry J. Harry J. Kazianis is director of Korean Studies at the Center for the National Interest. He also serves as executive editor of its publishing arm, The National Interest. "Why the sudden collapse of North Korea would be hell on Earth." The Week, 22 Mar. 2017, theweek.com/articles/681846/why-sudden-collapse-north-korea-hell-earth. AND reason for the Trump administration to act cautiously in the months to come. | 2/13/22 |
JANFEB - DA - InnovationTournament: CPS | Round: 2 | Opponent: Diamond Bar NC | Judge: Naomi Alan Commercial space sectors are promoting innovation nowBrian Weeden 15, technical adviser for the Secure World Foundation, 10-5-2015, "Op-ed," SpaceNews, https://spacenews.com/op-ed-american-leadership-in-space-2-0/ AND sustainable, reliable and predictable space environment that allows private investment to flourish. Strong 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. | 12/18/21 |
JANFEB - DA - Innovation v2Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake NL | Judge: Gordon Krauss Strong 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.* | 1/16/22 |
JANFEB - DA - Innovation v3Tournament: Berkeley | Round: 6 | Opponent: Eden Prairie AG | Judge: Asher Towner Strong 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. Commercial space is key to tourism—-that solves aerospace competitiveness.Olena Suschenko 18. (Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor Faculty of International Economic Relations, Department of Tourism Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics "ECONOMICS OF AEROSPACE TOURISM: PECULIARITIES AND PROSPECTS OF MARKETING FOR POTENTIAL SPACE TOURISM COMPANIES." http://www.visnyk-econom.uzhnu.uz.ua/archive/20'3'2018ua/19.pdf/ AND services. A range of government policies should be revised to reflect this. US aerospace decline causes global nuclear warPfaltzgraff 10 – Robert L, Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Security Studies at. The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and President of the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, et al., Final Report of the IFPA-Fletcher Conference on National Security Strategy and Policy, "Air, Space, and Cyberspace Power in the 21st-Century", p. xiii-9 AND that airpower would play in U.S. strategy and crisis management. | 2/20/22 |
JANFEB - DA - InternetTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Catonsville AT | Judge: Heather Nagle Terrestrial Internet Cables are vulnerable now – risks access.Griffiths 19 James Griffiths 7-26-2019 "The global internet is powered by vast undersea cables. But they’re vulnerable." https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/25/asia/internet-undersea-cables-intl-hnk/index.html (CNN Analyst)ELmer AND . "You’d be focusing on the hardest aspect of disrupting a network." Mega-constellations provide fast, affordable internet that bridges digital divide – independently, competition lowers prices across the board.Novo 21 Paula Novo 3-31-2021 "Will Starlink Change the Internet?' https://www.highspeedoptions.com/resources/insights/will-starlink-change-the-internet (With over four years of broadband experience, Paula Novo is the Site Editor and Senior Writer for HighSpeedOptions. She has helped develop the criterion by which HighSpeedOptions reviews and recommends internet service providers, striving to simplify and guide the user’s decision toward the best communications services. Paula also leads HighSpeedOptions coverage of the digital divide, ISP reviews, and broadband policy.)Elmer AND Starlink has the potential to help offset poverty where many governments have failed. Internet solves extinctionEagleman 10 ~David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine, where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action and the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law and author of Sum (Canongate). Nov. 9, 2010, " Six ways the internet will save civilization," AND to suggest that the net may just be the technology that saves us. | 2/13/22 |
JANFEB - DA - NASATournament: CPS | Round: 2 | Opponent: Diamond Bar NC | Judge: Naomi Alan 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 war and extinctionEric 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." | 12/18/21 |
JANFEB - DA - NASA v2Tournament: CPS | Round: Octas | Opponent: Proof DR | Judge: Panel 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 |
JANFEB - DA - Ocean ZoningTournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 4 | Opponent: Diamond Bar NC | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin The 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. | 1/16/22 |
JANFEB - DA - Russian EconomyTournament: CPS | Round: Octas | Opponent: Proof DR | Judge: Panel Reforms spurred by popular backlash are critical to Russian growth and coming now, but the plan stops them by giving Putin a foreign policy win that secures legitimacyAndrew Wood 19, Associate Fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Program of Chatham House, Former British Ambassador to Belgrade and Moscow, "Putinist Rule Minus Putin?", The American Interest, 7/29/2019, https://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/07/29/putinist-rule-minus-putin/ AND still there as a general assumption, but not as an immediate aspiration. The plan masks the need for economic modernizationNicole J. Jackson 19, Associate Professor in International Studies, Specializing in Russian and Eurasian Politics and Security Studies at the School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, PhD from the London School of Economics, Outer Space in Russia’s Security Strategy, Chapter19, Routledge Handbook of Russian Security, Reviewed and Edited by Roger E. Kanet, Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami, Taylor and Francis AND domestic and international legitimacy on Russia’s aspiration to be a ‘great power’. ExtinctionBruce Blair 19, Co-founder of Global Zero, nuclear security expert and a research scholar at the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, with; Clifford Gaddy; 2019, "Russia’s Aging War Machine," https://www.globalzero.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/BB'Russias-Aging-War-Machine'1999.pdf AND —as have the cost and effort needed to stabilize and transform Russia. | 1/15/22 |
JANFEB - DA - Russian LegitimacyTournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake NL | Judge: Gordon Krauss Russia’s international ambitions are low now due to space sector failures.AFP 19 (Agence France-Presse - international news agency headquartered in Paris, "Moscow, we have a problem: theft plagues Russia’s space sector," 5-28-2019, https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3012088/moscow-we-have-problem-theft-plagues-russias-space) AND power, especially in the context of increased tensions with the United States. Space cooperation with the U.S. boosts Russia’s diplomatic leverage and international prestigeJuul 19 (Peter - senior policy analyst at the Center for American Progress, "Trump’s Space Force Gets the Final Frontier All Wrong," 3/20/19, https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/20/trumps-space-force-gets-the-final-frontier-all-wrong/) AND United States to give Russia or China this sort of standing by association. Increased international prestige lays the foundation for Russian territorial expansion and foreign policy aggressionGurganus 19 (Julia - nonresident scholar with the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Eugene Rumer - senior fellow and the director of Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia Program, "Russia’s Global Ambitions in Perspective," 2/20/19, https://carnegieendowment.org/2019/02/20/russia-s-global-ambitions-in-perspective-pub-78067) AND tools has long been a feature of Russian domestic politics and foreign policy. Russian territorial expansion causes nuclear war with the U.S. and NATOO’Hanlon 19 (Michael – PhD from Princeton in Public and International Affairs and currently a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, "The Senkaku Paradox: Risking Great Power War Over Small Stakes," p. 34-37, 4/30/19, Dartmouth Libraries) AND all bets are off as to where and how the conflict would end. | 1/16/22 |
JANFEB - DA - Russian Legitimacy v2Tournament: Berkeley | Round: 6 | Opponent: Eden Prairie AG | Judge: Asher Towner We stopped appeasing Russia – they’ll pocket concessions from coop and increase aggression – tensions aren’t the result of understandings but hardened differencesHaddad and Polakova 18 ~Benjamin Haddad Director, Future Europe Initiative - Atlantic Council. Alina Polyakova Director, Project on Global Democracy and Emerging Technology Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe. Don’t rehabilitate Obama on Russia. March 5, 2018. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/03/05/dont-rehabilitate-obama-on-russia/~~ AND If he wanted a pliant ally in America, he has abjectly failed. Russia space coop legitimatizes aspirations for international prestige and gives them leverage against the US – specifically validates the Ukraine invasionJuul 19 ~Peter Juul is a senior policy analyst at the Center for American Progress. "Trump’s Space Force Gets the Final Frontier All Wrong." https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/20/trumps-space-force-gets-the-final-frontier-all-wrong/~~ AND United States to give Russia or China this sort of standing by association. Appeasing Russia shreds the NPT and causes Ukraine nuke prolif – extinctionUmland 17 ~Andreas Umland is a German political scientist, historian and Russian interpreter, specializing in contemporary Russian and Ukrainian history. He is a Member of the Institute for Central and East European Studies at the Catholic University, and a senior research fellow at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation in Kyiv. The Price of Appeasing Russian Adventurism. January 16, 2017. https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/67692~~ AND acquiescence to Russia’s annexation of Crimea for the international order would be grave. | 2/20/22 |
JANFEB - DA - Xi LegitimacyTournament: CPS | Round: 3 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: Parth Shah Xi’s regime is stable now, but its success depends on strong growth and private sector development.Mitter and Johnson 21 ~Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, Rana Mitter is a professor of the history and politics of modern China at Oxford. Elsbeth Johnson, formerly the strategy director for Prudential PLC’s Asian business, is a senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and the founder of SystemShift, a consulting firm. May-June 2021, "What the West Gets Wrong About China," Harvard Business Review, https://hbr.org/2021/05/what-the-west-gets-wrong-about-china accessed 12/14/21~ Adam AND University thanks to social mobility and the party’s significant investment in scientific research. China’s "space dream" is key to Xi credibility – plan is a flip flop that undermines legitimacyKharpal 21 – senior technology correspondent based in Guangzhou, China at CNBC ~Arjun, "China once said it couldn’t put a potato in space. Now it’s eyeing Mars," 6/30/2021, https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/30/china-space-goals-ccp-100th-anniversary.html~~ AND international prestige, domestic legitimacy and international influence," Mosteshar and Beischl said. Shifts in regime perception threatens CCP’s legitimacy from nationalist hardlinersWeiss 19 Jessica Weiss 1-29-2019 "Authoritarian Audiences, Rhetoric, and Propaganda in International Crises: Evidence from China" http://www.jessicachenweiss.com/uploads/3/0/6/3/30636001/19-01-24-elite-statements-isq-ca.pdf (Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University)Elmer AND to it more directly than even the U.S. government."11 Xi will launch diversionary war to domestic backlash – escalates in multiple hotspotsNorris 17, William J. Geostrategic Implications of China’s Twin Economic Challenges. CFR Discussion Paper, 2017. (Associate professor of Chinese foreign and security policy at Texas AandM University’s Bush School of Government and Public Service)Elmer AND resource is directed shifts away from industrial and export production toward domestic consumption. | 12/18/21 |
JANFEB - DA - Xi NationalismTournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 6 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: Tej Gedela Xi’s regime is stable now, but its success depends on strong growth and private sector development.Mitter and Johnson 21 ~Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, Rana Mitter is a professor of the history and politics of modern China at Oxford. Elsbeth Johnson, formerly the strategy director for Prudential PLC’s Asian business, is a senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and the founder of SystemShift, a consulting firm. May-June 2021, "What the West Gets Wrong About China," Harvard Business Review, https://hbr.org/2021/05/what-the-west-gets-wrong-about-china accessed 12/14/21~ Adam AND University thanks to social mobility and the party’s significant investment in scientific research. Shifts in regime perception threatens CCP’s legitimacy from nationalist hardlinersWeiss 19 Jessica Weiss 1-29-2019 "Authoritarian Audiences, Rhetoric, and Propaganda in International Crises: Evidence from China" http://www.jessicachenweiss.com/uploads/3/0/6/3/30636001/19-01-24-elite-statements-isq-ca.pdf (Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University)Elmer AND to it more directly than even the U.S. government."11 Xi will launch diversionary war to domestic backlash – escalates in multiple hotspotsNorris 17, William J. Geostrategic Implications of China’s Twin Economic Challenges. CFR Discussion Paper, 2017. (Associate professor of Chinese foreign and security policy at Texas AandM University’s Bush School of Government and Public Service)Elmer AND resource is directed shifts away from industrial and export production toward domestic consumption. US–China war goes nuclear – crisis mis-management ensures conventional escalation - extinctionKulacki 20 ~Dr. Gregory Kulacki focuses on cross-cultural communication between the United States and China on nuclear and space arms control and is the China Project Manager for the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, 2020. Would China Use Nuclear Weapons First In A War With The United States?, Thediplomat.com, https://thediplomat.com/2020/04/would-china-use-nuclear-weapons-first-in-a-war-with-the-united-states/~~ srey AND a military crisis, but it would make one far less likely.s | 1/16/22 |
JANFEB - K - Atlantic CentrismTournament: CPS | Round: 6 | Opponent: Perry JA | Judge: Joanne Park The AC centers the "Atlantic" slave trade reproducing the hegemony of western history- we need de-Atlanticized models of slaveryZeleza, PhD, 10 AND the intellectual products of the world's largest academic system by producing mimic histories. This is a question of methodology- their middle passage model reinscribes a Eurocentric "tyranny of the atlantic"Allen, PhD, 14 AND significant and hitherto unappreciated role in this global migrant labor system’s early development. The alternative is a global systems paradigm instead of an Atlantic-centric slavery paradigm. The AC imposes rigid, analytical blinders that prevent generating a fuller understanding of African diasporaAllen, PhD, 14 AND the legacy of which continues to resonate in our own day and age. | 12/19/21 |
JANFEB - K - Settler ColonialismTournament: CPS | Round: 3 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: Parth Shah Settler colonialism is the permeating structure of the nation-state which requires the elimination of indigenous life and land via the occupation of settlers. The appropriation of land turns Natives into ghosts and chattel slaves into excess labor.Tuck and Yang 12 (Eve Tuck, Unangax, State University of New York at New Paltz K. Wayne Yang University of California, San Diego, Decolonization is not a metaphor, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society Vol. 1, No. 1, 2012, pp. 1-40, JKS) AND p. 36). Settler colonialism and its decolonization implicates and unsettles everyone. The 1AC’s understanding of "space" replicates a Western theorization of place as neutral space, which relegates indigenous peoples to colonial authority by creating "cultural blanks" to be filled in by peaceful settlementBarker and Pickerill 12 (Adam J Barker, and Jenny Pickerill, Department of Geography @ Univ of Leicester. "Radicalizing Relationships To and Through Shared Geographies: Why Anarchists Need to Understand Indigenous Connections to Lands and Place" Antipode. AND being in the sense described by Alfred and Corntassel— for erasure. Extinction impacts are fabricated by the settler death drive - settlers have a psychological investment in imagining the end of the world to create a sense of white vulnerability at the expense of enacting decolonization.Dalley 16 AND effects that shape much of the contemporary literature emerging from white colonial settings. Thus, the only alternative is decolonization.Tuck and Yang 12 AND . Decolonization is not an "and". It is an elsewhere. The role of the ballot is to center indigenous scholarship and resistance— Any ethical commitment requires that the aff place themselves in the center of Native scholarship and demands.Carlson 16 AND I believe our contributions to settler colonial studies are even more deeply problematic. | 12/18/21 |
JANFEB - K - Settler Colonialism v2Tournament: Palm Classic | Round: Octas | Opponent: Sidwell SW | Judge: Panel Settler colonialism is the permeating structure of the nation-state which requires the elimination of indigenous life and land via the occupation of settlers. The appropriation of land turns Natives into ghosts and chattel slaves into excess labor.Tuck and Yang 12 (Eve Tuck, Unangax, State University of New York at New Paltz K. Wayne Yang University of California, San Diego, Decolonization is not a metaphor, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society Vol. 1, No. 1, 2012, pp. 1-40, JKS) AND p. 36). Settler colonialism and its decolonization implicates and unsettles everyone. Feminist strategizing is parasitic on Indian land and strengthens settler colonial relations – only a decolonization first strategy can liberate oppressive structuresGrande 4 (Sandy, Associate Professor of Education at Connecticut College, Ph.D., Kent State University, Fellow in the Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy, member of the EPA’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council’s Indigenous People’s Work Group, "Red Pedagogy", pg. 148-150) AND asking them to participate as¶ "equals" in their own colonization. Their defense of Haraway’s conception of cyborg reflects a universalizing Western mythologization of neutrality and identity that props up colonizationSchueller 05 ~Malini Johar. "Analogy and (white) feminist theory: Thinking race and the color of the cyborg body." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 31.1 (2005): 63-92.~ AND in the category of feminist science fiction) not a woman of color? The conception of identity outline by Haraway and is a line of flight moves through the graveyard of the Native – the de-territorialization of the human wanders haunted by ghosts which scream in terror demand an outright refusal of the 1ACKing 17. Tiffany King is an Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the Georgia State University ~"Humans Involved: Lurking in the Lines of Posthumanist Flight," 2017, Critical Ethnic Studies~vikas AND venture down it? What could one possibly repair or salvage of it?" This assumes the best version of their argument – even if the conception of "Human" is elastic the clearing of indigenous land is pre-figured by structural oppositionKing 17 (Tiffany Lethabo King, Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State, PhD in American Studies from the University of Maryland at College Park, Spring 2017, "Humans Involved: Lurking in the Lines of Posthumanist Flight," Critical Ethnic Studies Volume 3 Number 1, footnote 43 included in curly braces, modified) gz AND as a subject) must still render them as an outside to something. Thus, the only alternative is decolonization.Tuck and Yang 12 AND . Decolonization is not an "and". It is an elsewhere. The role of the ballot is to center indigenous scholarship and resistance— Any ethical commitment requires that the aff place themselves in the center of Native scholarship and demands.Carlson 16 AND I believe our contributions to settler colonial studies are even more deeply problematic. | 2/14/22 |
JANFEB - NC - LayTournament: Berkeley | Round: 1 | Opponent: St Francis MR | Judge: Rajvee Patel FrameworkI negate the resolution, Resolved: The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust.I value justice, due to its use in the resolution. The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing.Only the consequences of any action should be analyzed because first, only they are measurable and verifiable, and second, only consequences have an intrinsic impact on others such as harm or death.When evaluating consequences, we should prioritize high magnitude impacts since they cause more suffering and violence. AND imagine in the current time period - and so well worth taking seriously. C1: InnovationContention 1 is innovation.Strong commercial space catalyzes tech innovation – research and development for private appropriation is keyJoshua 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. Private space endeavors are fueling innovationAlexandro Pando 17, data-informed multinational serial entrepreneur and innovator who assists and creates companies worldwide., 10-30-2017, "Space Industry Booms Thanks To Investors," Forbes, https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2017/10/30/space-industry-booms-thanks-to-investors/~~#525058d355d3 AND preservation of the human race, space travel is worth all the hype. Tech innovation is crucial and solves impending threats, which outweigh the affirmative’s impactsDylan 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.* C2: RussiaContention 2 is Russian Aggression.Russia’s international ambitions are low now due to space sector failures.AFP 19 (Agence France-Presse - international news agency headquartered in Paris, "Moscow, we have a problem: theft plagues Russia’s space sector," 5-28-2019, https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3012088/moscow-we-have-problem-theft-plagues-russias-space) AND power, especially in the context of increased tensions with the United States. Space cooperation with the U.S. boosts Russia’s diplomatic leverage and international prestigeJuul 19 (Peter - senior policy analyst at the Center for American Progress, "Trump’s Space Force Gets the Final Frontier All Wrong," 3/20/19, https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/20/trumps-space-force-gets-the-final-frontier-all-wrong/) AND United States to give Russia or China this sort of standing by association. Increased international prestige lays the foundation for Russian territorial expansion and foreign policy aggressionGurganus 19 (Julia - nonresident scholar with the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Eugene Rumer - senior fellow and the director of Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia Program, "Russia’s Global Ambitions in Perspective," 2/20/19, https://carnegieendowment.org/2019/02/20/russia-s-global-ambitions-in-perspective-pub-78067) AND tools has long been a feature of Russian domestic politics and foreign policy. Russian territorial expansion causes conflict with the US and NATOO’Hanlon 19 (Michael – PhD from Princeton in Public and International Affairs and currently a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, "The Senkaku Paradox: Risking Great Power War Over Small Stakes," p. 34-37, 4/30/19, Dartmouth Libraries) AND all bets are off as to where and how the conflict would end. | 2/19/22 |
JANFEB - NC - Log ConTournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 6 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: Tej Gedela Permissibility and presumption negate – a. the resolution indicates the affirmative is proactive, and permissibility would deny the existence of an obligation b. Statements are more often false than true because any part can be false. This means you negate if there is no offense because the resolution is probably false.The neg burden is to prove that the aff won’t logically happen in the status quo, and the aff burden is to prove that it will.Top of Form Prefer for debatability – a) it focuses debates on empirics about squo trends rather than irresolvable abstract principles that’ve been argued for years b~ moral framework debate is impossible.Joyce 02 Joyce, Richard. Myth of Morality. Port Chester, NY, AND count as evidence that would sway the debate one way or the other. The resolution is incoherent-1~ appropriation means:Dictionary.com n.d. — (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/appropriation, HKR-AS) 2~ space means:Merriam Webster n.d. — (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/space, HKR-AS) 3~ private means:Merriam Webster n.d. – (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/private, HKR-AS) 4~ Zeno’s Paradox – to go anywhere, you must go halfway first, and then you must go half of the remaining distance, and half of the remaining distance, and so forth to infinity – thus, motion is impossible because it necessitates traversing an infinite number of spaces in a finite amount of time. If movement is impossible, banning LAWs isn’t a logical consequence of the rez. | 1/16/22 |
JANFEB - T - Actor SpecTournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake NL | Judge: Gordon Krauss 1NC – TTheir failure to specify an agent is a voting issue – makes mechanism counterplans and agent-based disads impossible – it’s a voter for fairness because the 1AR can spike out of DAs and CPs, which kills clash and nuance. Means stick them with governments implementing the plan – that’s normal means since it’s what the literature assumes and what most disad links are about | 1/16/22 |
JANFEB - T - ImplementTournament: CPS | Round: 6 | Opponent: Perry JA | Judge: Joanne Park Interpretation - the affirmative may not claim offense from anything other than the instrumental implementation of a policy stating that outer space appropriation by private entities is unjust."Resolved" means enactment of a law.Words and Phrases 64 Words and Phrases Permanent Edition (Multi-volume set of judicial definitions). "Resolved". 1964. AND ," which is defined by Bouvier as meaning "to establish by law". Definition of "outer space"Vereshchetin 06 ~Vladlen, former Member of the ICJ, Chairman of the International Law Commission, and Professor of International Law~ "Outer Space," Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, https://spacelaw.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user'upload/p'spacelaw/EPIL'Outer'Space.pdf, 2006 RE AND force 10 October 1967~ 610 UNTS 205) (‘Outer Space Treaty’). "Appropriation" refers to the taking of property for exclusive and permanent useGorove 69 ~Stephen, Chairman of the Graduate Program of the School of Law and Professor of Law, Ole Miss~ "Interpreting Article II of the Outer Space Treaty", Fordham Law Review, Vol. 37 Issue 3, https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1966andcontext=flr, 1969 RE AND with intention of keeping for one's own exclusive use would amount to appropriation. Violation – they defendAt best they’re Extra-T, which is a voter for Limits since they can add any amount of infinite planks to the aff to solve for all neg arguments, or Effects-T which is worse, since any small aff can spill up to the res.Topical version of the aff: defend a ban of outer space appropriation by private entities using a framework of limiting antiblack expansion into space. by Disads to the TVA just prove there is neg ground and that it’s a contestable stasisVote Neg – The resolution is the only common stasis point that anchors negative preparation. Allowing any aff deviation from the resolution is a moral hazard which justifies an infinite number of unpredictable arguments with thin ties to the resolution. Because debate is a competitive game, their interpretation incentivizes affirmatives to run further towards fringes and revert to truisms which are exceedingly difficult to negate Fairness is necessary for useful debates—it lets the aff train with the heavy bats of prepared negative strategies which internal link turns their ability to advocate change outside of debate. It enables both teams to more effectively challenge injustice and support movements for change. If debate is key to their movement, their aff has to be debateable. Only we have advanced criteria about how you can weigh between relative proposals and determine debatability in the first place.SSD solves their offense - playing devils advocate and researching and debating both sides encourages debaters to modify and adapt their own positions on critical issue which encourages better affs in the futureT should be evaluated through competing interps – reasonability invites judge interventionNo impact turns and RVIs – presumes that your args are evaluated fairly + we don’t force a norm but just say that a certain interpretation is good since it’s a question of models of debate | 12/19/21 |
JANFEB - T - Implement v2Tournament: CPS | Round: Octas | Opponent: Proof DR | Judge: Panel Interpretation: The aff may only garner offense off a policy stating that the appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust. To clarify, the aff may not defend the resolution as a consequence of another action or policy.Violation: they defend restricting appropriation of outer space as a consequence of expanding the public trust doctrine.Limits – the only thing the aff has to defend is an external policy that has no predictability since they can just say the plan is a public consequence of the thing they are doing – means the locus of the debate is about an external topic like the PTD as opposed to space appropriation. This is especially problematic because they can use that unpredictable policy to gain extra topical offense that can be used to solve links to disads that would otherwise be the center of the topic, which takes out generics check CP.Especially true with this aff – they use expansion of a legal principle to solve multilat and heg – also ruins counterplan competition.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 for—there’s no way for the negative to know what constitutes a "reasonable interpretation" when we do prep – reasonability is arbitrary and causes a race to the bottom, proliferating abuseNo RVIs—it’s your burden to be topical. | 1/15/22 |
JANFEB - T - NebelTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Catonsville AT | Judge: Heather Nagle Interpretation: the affirmative may not specify a type of space appropriationBare plurals imply a generic "rules reading" in the context of moral statementsCohen 1 — (Ariel Cohen, Professor of Linguistics @ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, PhD Computational Linguistics from Carnegie Mellon University, "On the Generic Use of Indefinite Singulars". Journal of Semantics 18: 183-209, Oxford University Press, 2001, accessed 12-7-20, HKR-AM) BP = bare plurals AND predicate holds of it just in case the rule is ‘in effect’. Violation—they specified megaconstellationsVote neg for predictable limits—specifying a type of appropriation offers a huge explosion in the topic since they get permutations of hundreds of appropriations. Limits explodes neg prep burden and draws un-reciprocal lines of debate, where the aff is always ahead.Use competing interps – reasonability is arbitrary and invites judge intervention. | 2/13/22 |
JANFEB - T - PermanentTournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 4 | Opponent: Diamond Bar NC | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin Interpretation: appropriation involves permanent, exclusive use of land and resource extraction. The aff must defend that appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust.Stephen Gorove, Stephen Gorove (1917-2001) was a space law education pioneer. He served as a professor of space law and director of space studies and policy, from 1991-1998, at the University of Mississippi., 1969 " Interpreting Article II of the Outer Space Treaty" Fordham Law Review, https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1966andcontext=flr AND with intention of keeping for one's own exclusive use would amount to appropriation. Violation – application of PTD to space isn’t permanent, it’s context dependent and depends on cost benefit analysisWEF n.d. — ("Public Trust Doctrine." Water Education Foundation, The Water Education Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose goal is to provide unbiased, balanced information on water issues in California and the Southwestern United States. The Foundation's mission, since its founding in 1977, has been "to create a better understanding of water resources and foster public understanding and resolution of water resource issues through facilitation, education and outreach," https://www.watereducation.org/aquapedia/public-trust-doctrine, HKR-AS) AND Purchase the Layperson’s Guide to Water Rights to learn more about public trust.~ Plan text in a vacuum bad for fairness because it allows for incongruency between 99 of the aff and 1 of the aff – the worst version of their model is that the plan text is different from the advantage, so it makes no sense – hold them to reading a plan text defined contextually with the advantageVote neg –1~ Ground – allowing affs to not defend permanent appropriation kills negative ground – we can’t read the innovation DA, since they can say innovative appropriation efforts are allowed, we can’t read asteroid mining or disads to specific types of appropriation since they can defend an exemption for that, etc. – Since the government gets to interpret whether or not the PTD applies to appropriation in specific instances, the negative can’t reasonably predict what the aff defends restricting and what it doesn’t. Ground controls the internal link to clash and fairness since the aff makes being neg impossible.2~ Predictable limits – topic lit assumes a permanent ban of specific types of appropriation and allowing the aff to shift what they defend banning in the 1AR makes generating case negs and 1NCs impossible.T is a voting issue that should be evaluated through competing interps – it tells the negative what to prepare for and reasonability invites judge intervention | 1/16/22 |
NOVDEC - CP - ICJTournament: Apple Valley | Round: 6 | Opponent: Strath Haven AM | Judge: Victor Chen CP: The United States federal government should request the International Court of Justice to issue an advisory opinion over whether they should establish an unconditional right to strike. The United States federal government should abide by the outcome of the advisory opinion.Solves – the ICJ will rule in favor of an unconditional right to strike.Seifert ’18 (Achim; Professor of Law at the University of Jena, and adjunct professor at the University of Luxembourg; December 2018; "The protection of the right to strike in the ILO: some introductory remarks"; CIELO Laboral; http://www.cielolaboral.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/seifert'noticias'cielo'n11'2018.pdf; Accessed: 11-3-2021; AU) AND 3)(b) of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. Compliance ensures faith in global democratic institutions – solves nuclear war.Hawksley ’16 ~Humphrey; formerly the BBC’s Beijing Bureau Chief and author of The Third World War: A Novel of Global Conflict and Asian Waters: American, China, and the Global Paradox; 11-19-2016; "Trump makes International Law Crucial for Peace"; Humphrey Hawksley; https://www.humphreyhawksley.com/trump-makes-international-law-crucial-for-peace/; Accessed 4-1-2020; AH~ AND establish the authority of the Security Council and reassert the primacy of law." Credible ICJ solves Global ConflictDavis 18, Christina L., and Julia C. Morse. "Protecting trade by legalizing political disputes: Why countries bring cases to the international court of justice." International Studies Quarterly 62.4 (2018): 709-722. (Professor of Government, Harvard University)Elmer AND increase the probability of filing complaints at the WTO (Davis, 2012). | 11/6/21 |
NOVDEC - CP - NLRBTournament: Apple Valley | Round: Octas | Opponent: Saratoga AG | Judge: Panel 1NC – CPCP: The National Labor Relations Board should, after soliciting notice and comment, rule that the definition of ‘employee’ in the National Labor Relations Act extends to include agricultural laborers.Solves and competes - notice and comment rulemaking solves the case and spills over to set a precedent that the courts will upholdZeisler 14 ~Royce Zeisler, J.D. Candidate 2014, Columbia Law School; B.S., B.A. 2012, University of British Columbia, "CHEVRON DEFERENCE AND THE FTC: HOW AND WHY THE FTC SHOULD USE CHEVRON TO IMPROVE ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT", Columbia Business Law Review, 2014, HeinOnline~ AND presumption for generalist courts to deploy in deciding the existence of bargaining units. It avoids politics – it’s under the radarEstreicher 15 ~Samuel Estreicher. Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Law and Director, Center for Labor and Employment Law, NYU School of Law. I appreciate the comments of several current members of the NLRB, as well of those of former chair Wilma Liebman and NLRB attorneys John Colwell and Joan Flynn. All persisting errors are my fault. Copyright© 2015 by Samuel Estreicher. All rights are reserved. "‘DEPOLITICIZING’ THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD: ADMINISTRATIVE STEPS." https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1173andcontext=elj~~ AND yet important, sphere of the agency’s work that triggers the politicization charge. Only Congress can amend a statuteLegal Dictionary ND ~https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/amend~~ AND of the court. (See: amended complaint, statute, stipulation) Key to democracy and court acquiescence—-notice and comment engages participants and creates deference.Harry First and Spencer Weber Waller 13. Harry First, New York University School of Law. Spencer Weber Waller, Loyola University Chicago School of Law. "Antitrust’s Democracy Deficit". Fordham Law Review, Volume 81 Issue 5 Article 13. https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4890andcontext=flr AND antitrust, the market economy, and the democratic branches of government themselves. US democratic retreat causes terrorism, great power war, famine, and poverty.Garry Kasparov 17. Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation, founded the Renew Democracy Initiative. "Democracy and Human Rights: The Case for U.S. Leadership". Feb 16 2017. U.S. Senate. http://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/021617'Kasparov'20Testimony.pdf AND having the exceptional courage to always try to be better. Thank you. | 11/7/21 |
NOVDEC - CP - US PICTournament: Apple Valley | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SD | Judge: Panel CP: With the exception of the United States, just governments ought to recognize an unconditional right of teachers to strike.The U.S. is a just government | 11/7/21 |
NOVDEC - DA - EconomyTournament: Apple Valley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harrison MB | Judge: Claudia Ribera Business 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. | 11/5/21 |
NOVDEC - DA - Economy v2Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: 4 | Opponent: Scarsdale JT | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin Business 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. The right to strike causes supply chain disruptions and economic volatilityEpstein 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 productivity and often prevents entry-level employees from rising through the ranks. 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 |
NOVDEC - DA - Economy v3Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: 6 | Opponent: Strath Haven AM | Judge: Victor Chen Business 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. The right to strike devastates 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. | 11/6/21 |
NOVDEC - DA - PoliticsTournament: Apple Valley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harrison MB | Judge: Claudia Ribera Both 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". | 11/5/21 |
NOVDEC - DA - Politics v2Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: 6 | Opponent: Strath Haven AM | Judge: Victor Chen Build Back Better passes nowTasolides et al 11-5 ~Justin Tasolides, Breanne Deppisch and Spectrum News Staff~ "House passes $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill: 'A monumental step forward as a nation'" Spectrum News, https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/coastal/news/2021/11/05/biden-social-climate-bill-congress 11-5-21 RE AND when America won the economic competition for the 21st Century," Biden said. Manchin’s broadly opposed to strike activity – plan causes a fightFurman and Winant 10/17/21 ~Jonah Furman is a labor movement organizer and writer for Labor Notes based in Maryland. Gabriel Winant is an assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago. He is the author of "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America." "The John Deere Strike Shows the Tight Labor Market Is Ready to Pop." https://theintercept.com/2021/10/17/john-deere-strike-labor-market/~~ AND is the shift in labor market power that such policy measures help secure. 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." | 11/6/21 |
NOVDEC - DA - TradeTournament: Apple Valley | Round: 6 | Opponent: Strath Haven AM | Judge: Victor Chen Growth of unions 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 the South China Sea, Taiwan—where the kindling seems awfully dry. | 11/6/21 |
NOVDEC - T - JustTournament: Apple Valley | Round: Octas | Opponent: Saratoga AG | Judge: Panel 1NC – TInterpretation: the affirmative must defend that only just governments ought to recognize the right to strikeJust governments respect libertiesDorn 12 James A. Dorn, Cato Journal, "The Scope of Government in a Free Society", Fall 2012, https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/2012/12/v32n3-10.pdf AND people’s money, but to prevent injustice by protecting property and securing liberty. Violation—the US is not just – their court system is racist and doesn’t respect libertyNellis, Ph.D., 18, Report to the United Nations on Racial Disparities in the U.S. Criminal Justice System, https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/un-report-on-racial-disparities/, Sentencing Project, AND former Georgetown Law Professor David Cole states in his book No Equal Justice, Prefer for limits – there are 200 governments in the world – letting them pick an unjust one explodes limits via infinite permutations of governments | 11/7/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - Artificial IntelligenceTournament: Greenhill | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Memorial SC | Judge: Panel CP: The member nations of the World Trade Organization should integrate centralized medical records and genetic information with machine learning technology and make data commercially available for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. The member nations of the World Trade Organization should offer financial rewards for the production of innovative new drugs in response to public health needs.Combining centralized records with genetic info shifts research to a genotype first approach—-both are key for synching gene variants with their medical effects. Excluding people from coverage ensures bottlenecks that undermine research.Broad 14. (The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, often referred to as the Broad Institute, is a biomedical and genomic research center located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Innovative "genotype first" approach uncovers protective factor for heart disease. June 31, 2014.https://www.broadinstitute.org/news/innovative-"genotype-first"-approach-uncovers-protective-factor-heart-disease) AND Medical School, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM, University of Helsinki). Only data integration solves pharma collapse—-the counterplan saves the industryShaywitz 13 (David, Medicine reporter for Forbes, "What's Holding Back Cures? Our Collective Ignorance (And No, Not A Pharma Conspiracy)" https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidshaywitz/2013/05/10/whats-holding-back-cures-our-collective-ignorance-and-no-not-a-pharma-conspiracy/~~#eda1100236fd) AND either prove effective or represent an attractive value proportion for the relevant stakeholders. | 9/20/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - Compensatory LiabilityTournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 1 | Opponent: Westwood AR | Judge: Kristiana Baez CP: Member nations of the WTO ought toimplement a "take and pay" approach for patents, where companies must pay indigenous communities a majority of profits they receive from patents for medicines based on Indigenous knowledge. | 10/17/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - DonationsTournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 6 | Opponent: Denton Guyer SB | Judge: Gerard Grigsby CP: The member nations of the European Union should:substantially increase COVID vaccine production to meet the global demandsign bilateral intellectual property licensing contracts with low and middle-income countries to share vaccinesdonate all necessary vaccines at no cost to low and middle-income nations unable to license intellectual property rightsThat solves – the EU can ramp up productionSam Fleming 21, Brussels Bureau Chief, "EU to back expansion of vaccine production capacity in Africa," Financial Times, 5-17-2021, https://www.ft.com/content/d2a47c7e-0b00-4e31-92ab-cd3ff0b9070b AND at dealing with possible future pandemics and perennial threats such as yellow fever. Eliminating IPR for vaccines gives China a massive competitive edge on innovation broadly – tanks pharma, undermines pandemic response, and tech leadership – BUT domestic production and distribution solvesOkutsu and Sharma 21 ~Akane, staff writer for Nikkei International, and Kiran, LPC, The College of Law, Guildford, 1997 BA (Hons), Law, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, 1996. "Vaccine Patent Waiver: COVID Stopper or Innovation Killer?" https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/COVID-vaccines/Vaccine-patent-waiver-COVID-stopper-or-innovation-killer~~ AND Health Organization's~ COVAX initiative to purchase and distribute vaccines to developing countries." Biopharma innovation is key to overall competitiveness – US still has a razor thin lead but IP is uniquely keyEzell 20 ~Stephen Ezell, Director of Global Innovation Policy at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). "Ensuring U.S. Biopharmaceutical Competitiveness." 7/16/20. https://itif.org/publications/2020/07/16/ensuring-us-biopharmaceutical-competitiveness~~ AND time for Washington to articulate and embrace a robust national biopharmaceutical competitiveness strategy. Chinese tech leadership causes nuke warKroenig 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. | 10/17/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - ExportsTournament: Nano Nagle | Round: 1 | Opponent: Monta Vista KR | Judge: David Dosch CP: The 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 innovation 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. | 10/8/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - InsulinTournament: Nano Nagle | Round: 3 | Opponent: Saratoga AG | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin CP: The United States federal government should commit to purchasing sufficient doses of insulin to meet local demand and establish public-private partnerships to expand global insulin manufacturing capacity. | 10/9/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - PenaltiesTournament: Nano Nagle | Round: 5 | Opponent: Ayala AM | Judge: Felicity Park CP: The member nations of the World Trade Organization should increase penalties for patent abuse and evergreening fraud in the pharmaceutical industry.Evergreening links to politics and collapses innovation, BUT the downsides are empirically debunked media hype – shifting enforcement for existing patent law solves abuse without harming pharmaMadigan and O'Connor 19 ~Kevin Madigan joined CPIP in January of 2016. As Deputy Director, Kevin works closely with CPIP scholars in their research and promotion of comprehensive intellectual property law and policy. Before joining CPIP, Kevin worked as an intellectual property Research Associate at Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett and Dunner and also interned at the Recording Industry Association of America. Sean O’Connor, noted innovation law scholar, is a Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy (C-IP2) at George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School. ""No Combination Drug Patents Act" Stalls, but Threats to Innovation Remain." https://cip2.gmu.edu/2019/06/27/no-combination-drug-patents-act-stalls-but-threats-to-innovation-remain/~~ AND discount evidence of the value of new and innovative drug uses and administrations. CP solves the aff while fostering innovation – directly comparative to the affHolman 20 ~Christopher, Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. "Congress Should Decline Ill-Advised Legislative Proposals Aimed at Evergreening of Pharmaceutical Patent Protection" p. 29-30 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract'id=3593954~~ AND patent system, while maintaining adequate incentives for the next generation of innovation. | 10/9/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - US PICTournament: Nano Nagle | Round: Octas | Opponent: Mission SS | Judge: Panel Counterplan: At least three-quarters of WTO member nations, excluding the United States, should reduce patents for sex-hormonal agents.Entirely solves while avoiding politicsSiripurapu 21 Anshu Siripurapu covers economics, energy, and geopolitics, BA in political economy from the University of Southern California. "The Debate Over a Patent Waiver for COVID-19 Vaccines: What to Know." Council on Foreign Relations, May 26, 2021, www.cfr.org/in-brief/debate-over-patent-waiver-covid-19-vaccines-what-know. AND vote of WTO members, it is unlikely that members would break precedent. | 10/10/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - Big PharmaTournament: Greenhill | Round: 4 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SD | Judge: Felicity Park Big Pharma can’t withstand legalization – large cash reserves solve patent cliffs now, but legalization causes medicinal marijuana to trade off with most dependable revenue streams - reducing cannabis undermines results so no turnsJackson, 2012 Lee, "Will National Legalized Marijuana Help or Hurt Big Pharma, Tobacco and Alcohol?" http://247wallst.com/investing/2012/12/11/will-national-legalized-marijuana-help-or-hurt-big-pharma-tobacco-and-alcohol/ AND likely to tolerate well, unless they get in on the action themselves. Profit margins determine RandD budgets —- that solves emerging existential pandemicsEngelhardt 8 "Innovation and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Critical Reflections on the Virtues of Profit" Hugo Engelhardt – PhD, MD, Professor of Philosophy at Rice, Ebrary AND profit in medicine and especially in the pharmaceutical and medical-device industries. New diseases cause extinction – uniquely probable due to environmental changes.Mooney 21 — (Tom Mooney, Senior Communications and Advocacy Manager for the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, "Preparing for the next "Disease X"", CEPI, 2-1-21, Available Online at https://cepi.net/news'cepi/preparing-for-the-next-disease-x/, accessed 9-10-21, HKR-AM) AND , we could credibly aim to eliminate the risk of epidemics and pandemics. | 9/18/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - Climate PatentsTournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 6 | Opponent: Denton Guyer SB | Judge: Gerard Grigsby Climate innovation is high and solving warming, but continued investment is key — reducing IP collapses collaboration and investments.Brand 5-26, ~Melissa. "Trips Ip Waiver Could Establish Dangerous Precedent for Climate Change and Other Biotech Sectors." IPWatchdog.com | Patents and Patent Law, 26 May 2021, www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/05/26/trips-ip-waiver-establish-dangerous-precedent-climate-change-biotech-sectors/id=133964/~ AND the biotech sector addressing climate change may be next on the chopping block. Only a strong private sector can solve climate changeGulker 19 ~Max Gulker, 2-11-2019, "How a Strong Private Sector Will Address Climate Change," AIER, https://www.aier.org/article/how-a-strong-private-sector-will-address-climate-change/~~ AND –truly unleashing global knowledge and ingenuity to address changes around the world. Warming causes extinctionKlein 14~(Naomi Klein, award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics, member of the board of directors of 350.org), This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, pp. 12-14~ AND now convinced that global warming poses a clear and present danger to civilization." | 10/17/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - Debt CeilingTournament: Nano Nagle | Round: 1 | Opponent: Monta Vista KR | Judge: David Dosch Debt limit and government funding will pass now—everything else is delayedBresnahan 9/15 ~JOHN BRESNAHAN, ANNA PALMER AND JAKE SHERMAN, Punchbowl News Legislataive Outlook 9/15, https://email.punchbowl.news/t/ViewEmailArchive/t/E48C6AF0C3714E452540EF23F30FEDED/C67FD2F38AC4859C/~~ AND , but it’s the reality we hear privately in the Capitol. Medical IP takes time, energy, and political capital away from domestic legislation – big pharma and EU alliesBhadrakumar 5/9 M K Bhadrakumar is a former Indian diplomat. "Biden’s talk of vaccine IP waiver is political theater." Asia Times, May 9, 2021, asiatimes.com/2021/05/bidens-talk-of-vaccine-ip-waiver-is-political-theater. AND , the European Union and the US, who all opposed the idea. Agenda change has a cascading effectJoly 19, ~Jeroen Joly is a Doctor Assistant at Universiteit Gent, Punctuated equilibrium theory and foreign policy, The research for this chapter was financially supported by the French Ministry of the Armed Forces, Directorate General for International Relations and Strategy (DGRIS), https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jeroen'Joly/publication/331073786'Punctuated'equilibrium'theory'and'foreign'policy/links/5c66ec3092851c1c9de446f2/Punctuated-equilibrium-theory-and-foreign-policy.pdf~~ AND foreign policy issues (Edwards and Wood 1999; Wood and Peake 1998). Debt default is the easiest way to wreck the US economy—ruins the US dollar and financial reputationEgan 9/8 ~Matt Egan is an award-winning reporter at CNN, covering business, the economy and financial markets across CNN's television and digital platforms, "'Financial Armageddon.' What's at stake if the debt limit isn't raised", 9/8/21, https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/08/business/debt-ceiling-default-explained/index.html~~ AND billion in fiscal 2020, would quickly rival what Washington spends on defense. ExtinctionJoshua Zoffer 20, Investor at Cove Hill Partners, Fellow at New America, JD Candidate at Yale University Law School, AB from Harvard University, "To End Forever War, Keep the Dollar Globally Dominant", The New Republic, 2/3/2020, https://newrepublic.com/article/156417/end-forever-war-keep-dollar-globally-dominant AND consortium of countries is prepared to fund, such as climate change mitigation. | 10/8/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - Drug ReformTournament: Greenhill | Round: 4 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SD | Judge: Felicity Park Drug price reform coming now – fight is ramping up but Biden has the opportunityCancryn 9/9 Cancryn, Adam. Adam Cancryn is a health care reporter for POLITICO Pro, graduate of Washington and Lee University."Biden admin backs direct government drug price negotiations." POLITICO, 9 Sept. 2021, www.politico.com/news/2021/09/09/biden-drug-price-negotiations-510828. AND at improving competition across a range of industries, including the drug sector. Biden’s PC is key to wrangle democrats and counter pharma lobbyingJohnson 8/12 Johnson, Jake, writer for Alternet . "Joe Biden throws support behind bold reforms to slash drug prices." Alternet, August 12, 2021, www.alternet.org/2021/08/biden-medicare-negotiate-prices. AND capital to push for congressional action at a pivotal moment in the debate." WTO waiver takes time, energy, and political capital away from domestic legislation – big pharma and EU alliesBhadrakumar 5/9 M K Bhadrakumar is a former Indian diplomat. "Biden’s talk of vaccine IP waiver is political theater." Asia Times, May 9, 2021, asiatimes.com/2021/05/bidens-talk-of-vaccine-ip-waiver-is-political-theater. AND , the European Union and the US, who all opposed the idea. Drug price controls massively reduce healthcare costs across the board – even assuming conservative modelsGamba 6/9 Gamba, Tyler. Author at the AJMC. "Adoption of the Lower Drug Costs Now Act May Lead to Billions in Savings." AJMC, 9 June 2021, www.ajmc.com/view/adoption-of-the-lower-drug-costs-now-act-may-lead-to-billions-in-savings. AND on the significant portion it pays toward member premiums in the individual marketplaces. Collapses the economyHowrigon, 16 — Ron Howrigon, M.S. in Economics with a focus on Health Economics from North Carolina State University, President and Founder of Fulcrum Strategies, 18 Years of Experience in Healthcare, 12-30-2016, "Flatlining: How Healthcare Could Kill the U.S. Economy," Greenbranch Publishing, 1st Edition, Accessed via Minnesota Libraries, Date Accessed: 8-10 AND resulting fallout could be could be much worse than even the housing crisis. Economic decline causes nuclear warTønnesson, 15 — Stein Tønnesson, Leader of East Asia Peace program at Uppsala University, Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, "Deterrence, Interdependence and Sino–US Peace" International Area Studies Review, Review Essay, Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 297-311, SAGE Journals, Minnesota Libraries, Date Accessed: 8-4 AND each other, with a view to obliging Washington or Beijing to intervene. | 9/18/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - Drug Reform v2Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 5 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Tarun Ratnasabapathy Drug price reform coming now – fight is ramping up but Biden has the opportunityCancryn 9/9 Cancryn, Adam. Adam Cancryn is a health care reporter for POLITICO Pro, graduate of Washington and Lee University."Biden admin backs direct government drug price negotiations." POLITICO, 9 Sept. 2021, www.politico.com/news/2021/09/09/biden-drug-price-negotiations-510828. AND at improving competition across a range of industries, including the drug sector. Biden’s PC is key to wrangle democrats and counter pharma lobbyingJohnson 8/12 Johnson, Jake, writer for Alternet . "Joe Biden throws support behind bold reforms to slash drug prices." Alternet, August 12, 2021, www.alternet.org/2021/08/biden-medicare-negotiate-prices. AND capital to push for congressional action at a pivotal moment in the debate." WTO waiver takes time, energy, and political capital away from domestic legislation – big pharma and EU alliesBhadrakumar 5/9 M K Bhadrakumar is a former Indian diplomat. "Biden’s talk of vaccine IP waiver is political theater." Asia Times, May 9, 2021, asiatimes.com/2021/05/bidens-talk-of-vaccine-ip-waiver-is-political-theater. AND , the European Union and the US, who all opposed the idea. Drug costs key to Democratic 2022 MidtermsFuchs et al 9/2 Fuchs, Hailey, et al. Hailey Fuchs is a reporter at POLITICO. Alice Ollstein is a health care reporter for POLITICO Pro, covering the Capitol Hill beat, BA from Oberlin. Megan Wilson is a reporter for POLITICO. "Drug industry banks on its Covid clout to halt Dems’ push on prices." POLITICO, 2 Sept. 2021, www.politico.com/news/2021/09/02/drug-prices-democrats-lobbying-508127. AND particularly salient after Trump’s pledges to take on the industry largely fell flat. Leads to rampant Trumpism and populismKilgore 8/31 Kilgore, Ed. Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York magazine and the managing editor of the Democratic Strategist, an online magazine. "The Midterms Could Give the Senate a MAGA Makeover." Intelligencer, 31 Aug. 2021, nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/2022-midterms-could-add-more-trump-republicans-to-senate.html. AND of the right-wing "populist" political movement he has created. ExtinctionCalland 20 Calland, Richard. "Countering climate denialism requires taking on right-wing populism. Here's how." Conversation February 12, 2020, theconversation.com/countering-climate-denialism-requires-taking-on-right-wing-populism-heres-how-131693. AND have the deepest vested interest of all: their future is at stake. | 9/19/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - Drug Reform v3Tournament: Greenhill | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Memorial SC | Judge: Panel Drug price reform coming now – fight is ramping up but Biden has the opportunityCancryn 9/9 Cancryn, Adam. Adam Cancryn is a health care reporter for POLITICO Pro, graduate of Washington and Lee University."Biden admin backs direct government drug price negotiations." POLITICO, 9 Sept. 2021, www.politico.com/news/2021/09/09/biden-drug-price-negotiations-510828. AND at improving competition across a range of industries, including the drug sector. Biden’s PC is key to wrangle democrats and counter pharma lobbyingJohnson 8/12 Johnson, Jake, writer for Alternet . "Joe Biden throws support behind bold reforms to slash drug prices." Alternet, August 12, 2021, www.alternet.org/2021/08/biden-medicare-negotiate-prices. AND capital to push for congressional action at a pivotal moment in the debate." WTO waiver takes time, energy, and political capital away from domestic legislation – big pharma and EU alliesBhadrakumar 5/9 M K Bhadrakumar is a former Indian diplomat. "Biden’s talk of vaccine IP waiver is political theater." Asia Times, May 9, 2021, asiatimes.com/2021/05/bidens-talk-of-vaccine-ip-waiver-is-political-theater. AND , the European Union and the US, who all opposed the idea. Drug costs key to Democratic 2022 MidtermsFuchs et al 9/2 Fuchs, Hailey, et al. Hailey Fuchs is a reporter at POLITICO. Alice Ollstein is a health care reporter for POLITICO Pro, covering the Capitol Hill beat, BA from Oberlin. Megan Wilson is a reporter for POLITICO. "Drug industry banks on its Covid clout to halt Dems’ push on prices." POLITICO, 2 Sept. 2021, www.politico.com/news/2021/09/02/drug-prices-democrats-lobbying-508127. AND particularly salient after Trump’s pledges to take on the industry largely fell flat. Leads to rampant Trumpism and populismKilgore 8/31 Kilgore, Ed. Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York magazine and the managing editor of the Democratic Strategist, an online magazine. "The Midterms Could Give the Senate a MAGA Makeover." Intelligencer, 31 Aug. 2021, nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/2022-midterms-could-add-more-trump-republicans-to-senate.html. AND of the right-wing "populist" political movement he has created. Extinction through breakdown of multilateralism and climate changeCalland 20 Calland, Richard. "Countering climate denialism requires taking on right-wing populism. Here's how." Conversation February 12, 2020, theconversation.com/countering-climate-denialism-requires-taking-on-right-wing-populism-heres-how-131693. AND have the deepest vested interest of all: their future is at stake. Drug price controls massively reduce healthcare costs across the board – even assuming conservative modelsGamba 6/9 Gamba, Tyler. Author at the AJMC. "Adoption of the Lower Drug Costs Now Act May Lead to Billions in Savings." AJMC, 9 June 2021, www.ajmc.com/view/adoption-of-the-lower-drug-costs-now-act-may-lead-to-billions-in-savings. AND on the significant portion it pays toward member premiums in the individual marketplaces. Collapses the economyHowrigon, 16 — Ron Howrigon, M.S. in Economics with a focus on Health Economics from North Carolina State University, President and Founder of Fulcrum Strategies, 18 Years of Experience in Healthcare, 12-30-2016, "Flatlining: How Healthcare Could Kill the U.S. Economy," Greenbranch Publishing, 1st Edition, Accessed via Minnesota Libraries, Date Accessed: 8-10 AND resulting fallout could be could be much worse than even the housing crisis. Economic decline causes nuclear warTønnesson, 15 — Stein Tønnesson, Leader of East Asia Peace program at Uppsala University, Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, "Deterrence, Interdependence and Sino–US Peace" International Area Studies Review, Review Essay, Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 297-311, SAGE Journals, Minnesota Libraries, Date Accessed: 8-4 AND each other, with a view to obliging Washington or Beijing to intervene. | 9/20/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - FTATournament: Heart of Texas | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Greenhill NT | Judge: Panel US-Jordan relationship stable, but continued economic investment and adherence to the FTA keyJordan Times 7/18 — ( "JBA hails King’s efforts to strengthen political, economic ties with US", Jordan Times, 10-2-2021, Available Online at https://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/jba-hails-kings-efforts-strengthen-political-economic-ties-us, accessed 10-2-2021, HKR-AR) AND and facilitate their entry into the American market, according to Tabbaa. Robust Jordanian IPR is the bedrock for the US-Jordan FTA and military and humanitarian aidEl Said 12 — (Mohammed El Said, "The Morning After: TRIPS-Plus, FTAs and Wikileaks - Fresh Insights on the Implementation and Enforcement of IP Protection in Developing Countries", 2012, https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1027andcontext=research, accessed 10-1-2021, HKR-AR)Brackets in original article AND be more inspections to prevent counterfeit or unsafe goods from crossing our borders. US-Jordan relationship key to prevent great power competition, resource wars, and a slew of existential threatsCarafano and Milstein 21 — (James Carafano and Adam Milstein, James Carafano is Vice President at the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute. Adam Milstein is Co-Founder of Israeli-American Council and Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation , "America Needs Jordan, Jordan Needs an Engaged America", Heritage Foundation, 7-19-2021, Available Online at https://www.heritage.org/middle-east/commentary/america-needs-jordan-jordan-needs-engaged-america, accessed 10-1-2021, HKR-AR) AND "business freedom," for example, is a dismal 58.9. | 10/18/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - HempTournament: Greenhill | Round: 4 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SD | Judge: Felicity Park Ambiguous standards result in confusion that deters hemp investment nowFulmer 2 ~Melinda Fulmer, award-winning financial writer and media strategist, Vice President of Public Relations for City National Bank, former Times Staff Writer, 1/16/02, Hemp Imports Run Afoul of DEA Rule, LA Times, http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jan/16/business/fi-hemp16~~ AND them, they say, the DEA's ambiguous standards will make that difficult. Hemp biofuels help achieve energy independence which lowers global oil pricesKeller 13 ~Nicole Keller, "NOTE: THE LEGALIZATION OF INDUSTRIAL HEMP AND WHAT IT COULD MEAN FOR INDIANA'S BIOFUEL INDUSTRY," Indiana International and Comparative Law Review 23 Ind. Int'l and Comp. L. Rev. 555, Lexis~ AND 64 largely because industrial hemp is illegal to grow in the United States. Drop in oil prices collapses the Russian economy – overwhelms resiliencyZotin 13 ~Aleksander, Columnist – Kommersant, "AN ECONOMIC CRISIS MAY BE LOOMING FOR RUSSIA", Kommersant, 8/30/13, http://www.worldcrunch.com/business-finance/an-economic-crisis-may-be-looming-for-russia/russia-economy-ruble-boris-yeltsin-global-crisis/c2s13220/~~ AND not be many choices: either devalue the ruble or cut government spending. Nuke warDr. Benjamin Ståhl 15, CEO of the Blue Institute, PhD in Business Studies and Economics from Uppsala University, MA in International Relations from the University of Kent, and Johan Wiktorin, Founder and CEO of the Intelligence Company Brqthrough, Licensed Master of Competitive Intelligence and Former Member of the Swedish Armed Forces, "What’s At Stake?: A Geopolitical Perspective on the Swedish Economic Exposure in Northeast Europe", Swedish Growth Barometer, 7/1/2015, https://blueinst.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/whats-at-stake'geopolitical-perspective.pdf AND using the nuclear weapons is, however, completely excluded in this scenario. | 9/18/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - InfrastructureTournament: Nano Nagle | Round: 3 | Opponent: Saratoga AG | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin The Debt Ceiling expansion gives Democrats two months to finalize and pass Biden’s spending package – every moment is necessary to resolve intraparty disputesCochrane 10/7 Cochrane, Emily. Emily Cochrane is a correspondent based in Washington. She has covered Congress since late 2018, focusing on the annual debate over government funding and economic legislation, ranging from emergency pandemic relief to infrastructure. "Senate Leaders Agree to Vote on Short-Term Debt Ceiling Increase." N.Y. Times, 7 Oct. 2021, www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/us/politics/debt-ceiling-senate.html. AND " to use the reconciliation process to approve a long-term increase. Fighting insulin and Big Pharma requires enormous political capital because of lobbying and donations– especially with flakey moderatesShure 8/5 Natalie Shure is a writer and researcher in Boston. Her work focuses on history, health, and politics. "Big Pharma’s Revolving Door Is Imperiling Democracy." New Republic, 5 Oct. 2021, newrepublic.com/article/163863/big-pharma-revolving-door-reconciliation. AND one of any number of industries to whom you sold out your constituents. Pushing the plan takes time, energy, and political capital away from domestic legislation – big pharma and EU alliesBhadrakumar 5/9 M K Bhadrakumar is a former Indian diplomat. "Biden’s talk of vaccine IP waiver is political theater." Asia Times, May 9, 2021, asiatimes.com/2021/05/bidens-talk-of-vaccine-ip-waiver-is-political-theater. AND , the European Union and the US, who all opposed the idea. Infrastructure package is sufficient, necessary, and the last opportunity to solve climate change – extinctionLeber 10/7 Leber, Rebecca. Rebecca Leber covers climate change for Vox. Before joining Vox, she was an environmental reporter at Mother Jones, where her investigations exposed government corruption and fossil fuel industry disinformation. She has worked as a staff writer at Grist, The New Republic, and ThinkProgress. A dozen more outlets have published her work over her decade as a climate journalist. "A last chance for US climate action: Democrats’ Build Back Better and infrastructure bills." Vox, 7 Oct. 2021, www.vox.com/22685920/democrats-infrastructure-build-back-better-climate-change. AND that can really help catalyze more ambition from other countries," Cleetus said. | 10/9/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - Infrastructure v2Tournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 1 | Opponent: Westwood AR | Judge: Kristiana Baez The Debt Ceiling expansion gives Democrats two months to finalize and pass Biden’s spending package – every moment is necessary to resolve intraparty disputesCochrane 10/7 Cochrane, Emily. Emily Cochrane is a correspondent based in Washington. She has covered Congress since late 2018, focusing on the annual debate over government funding and economic legislation, ranging from emergency pandemic relief to infrastructure. "Senate Leaders Agree to Vote on Short-Term Debt Ceiling Increase." N.Y. Times, 7 Oct. 2021, www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/us/politics/debt-ceiling-senate.html. AND " to use the reconciliation process to approve a long-term increase. Infrastructure and reconciliation are the priority now. they’ll pass by new deadlineAlemany 10/12 ~Jacqueline Alemany and Theodoric Meyer, "The new deadline to pass Biden's agenda is coming up fast", 10/12/21, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/13/new-deadline-pass-biden-agenda-is-coming-up-fast/~~ AND We’re experts at coming right up against the edge and pulling a miracle." Pushing a WTO waiver takes time, energy, and political capital away from domestic legislation – big pharma and EU alliesBhadrakumar 5/9 M K Bhadrakumar is a former Indian diplomat. "Biden’s talk of vaccine IP waiver is political theater." Asia Times, May 9, 2021, asiatimes.com/2021/05/bidens-talk-of-vaccine-ip-waiver-is-political-theater. AND , the European Union and the US, who all opposed the idea. Infrastructure package is sufficient, necessary, and the last opportunity to solve climate change – extinctionLeber 10/7 Leber, Rebecca. Rebecca Leber covers climate change for Vox. Before joining Vox, she was an environmental reporter at Mother Jones, where her investigations exposed government corruption and fossil fuel industry disinformation. She has worked as a staff writer at Grist, The New Republic, and ThinkProgress. A dozen more outlets have published her work over her decade as a climate journalist. "A last chance for US climate action: Democrats’ Build Back Better and infrastructure bills." Vox, 7 Oct. 2021, www.vox.com/22685920/democrats-infrastructure-build-back-better-climate-change. AND that can really help catalyze more ambition from other countries," Cleetus said. | 10/17/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - Infrastructure v3Tournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 3 | Opponent: Westlake MR | Judge: Jonathan Hsu The Debt Ceiling expansion gives Democrats two months to finalize and pass Biden’s spending package – every moment is necessary to resolve intraparty disputesCochrane 10/7 Cochrane, Emily. Emily Cochrane is a correspondent based in Washington. She has covered Congress since late 2018, focusing on the annual debate over government funding and economic legislation, ranging from emergency pandemic relief to infrastructure. "Senate Leaders Agree to Vote on Short-Term Debt Ceiling Increase." N.Y. Times, 7 Oct. 2021, www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/us/politics/debt-ceiling-senate.html. AND " to use the reconciliation process to approve a long-term increase. Infrastructure and reconciliation are the priority now. they’ll pass by new deadlineAlemany 10/12 ~Jacqueline Alemany and Theodoric Meyer, "The new deadline to pass Biden's agenda is coming up fast", 10/12/21, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/13/new-deadline-pass-biden-agenda-is-coming-up-fast/~~ AND We’re experts at coming right up against the edge and pulling a miracle." Pushing the plan takes time, energy, and political capital away from domestic legislation – big pharma and EU alliesBhadrakumar 5/9 M K Bhadrakumar is a former Indian diplomat. "Biden’s talk of vaccine IP waiver is political theater." Asia Times, May 9, 2021, asiatimes.com/2021/05/bidens-talk-of-vaccine-ip-waiver-is-political-theater. AND , the European Union and the US, who all opposed the idea. The bill quickly secures the vulnerable grid.Carney 21 ~Chris, August 6; Senior Policy Advisor at Nossaman LLC, former US Representative, Former Professor of Political Science at Penn State University; JD Supra, "The US Senate Infrastructure Bill: Securing Our Electrical Grid Through P3s and Grants," https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/the-us-senate-infrastructure-bill-4989100/~~ AND partnerships and grants, the nation can quickly secure its infrastructure from cyberattacks. Grid vulnerabilities spark nuclear war – extinction.Klare 19 ~Michael; November; Professor Emeritus of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College; Arms Control Association, "Cyber Battles, Nuclear Outcomes? Dangerous New Pathways to Escalation," https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2019-11/features/cyber-battles-nuclear-outcomes-dangerous-new-pathways-escalation~~ AND such attacks "could lead to major conflict and possibly nuclear war."14 | 10/16/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - InnovationTournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Bronx Science RP | Judge: Sai Karavadi Pharmaceutical 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~ Bioterrorism and future pandemics cause extinction.Hamish De Bretton-Gordon, CBRN Expert @ British Army, 20 ~Director @ DBG Defense, Consultant on CBRN and Biosecurity~, "Biosecurity in the Wake of COVID-19: The Urgent Action Needed," Combatting Terrorism Center Sentinel, November/December 2020, Volume 13, Issue 11, https://ctc.usma.edu/biosecurity-in-the-wake-of-covid-19-the-urgent-action-needed/ C.VC AND forward, there should no higher priority for the international community than biosecurity. | 9/18/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - Innovation v2Tournament: Nano Nagle | Round: 1 | Opponent: Monta Vista KR | Judge: David Dosch Pharmaceutical innovation is the bedrock of US competitiveness and economic growth now – boosts the US manufacturing base and helps us outrun China.Robert D. Atkinson, PhD, 19 ~President @ Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, PhD City and Regional Planning~, "China’s Biopharmaceutical Strategy: Challenge or Complement to U.S. Industry Competitiveness?," Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, 8-12-2019, https://itif.org/publications/2019/08/12/chinas-biopharmaceutical-strategy-challenge-or-complement-us-industry C.VC AND percent of all worldwide venture-capital investments in the biopharmaceutical industry.11 The plan sets a precedent that IP means nothing – that dooms long term biopharma innovation.Peter J. Pitts 21, former associate commissioner of the FDA, is president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, "Waiving Covid-19 Vaccine Patents Is a Bad Idea and Sets a Dangerous Precedent," 6-21-2021, https://medecon.org/waiving-covid-19-vaccine-patents-is-a-bad-idea-and-sets-a-dangerous-precedent/ AND in a single resident of the developing world getting vaccinated one minute sooner. 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~ AND health threats to an even greater extent under improved innova-tion conditions. Bioterrorism and future pandemics cause extinction.Hamish De Bretton-Gordon, CBRN Expert @ British Army, 20 ~Director @ DBG Defense, Consultant on CBRN and Biosecurity~, "Biosecurity in the Wake of COVID-19: The Urgent Action Needed," Combatting Terrorism Center Sentinel, November/December 2020, Volume 13, Issue 11, https://ctc.usma.edu/biosecurity-in-the-wake-of-covid-19-the-urgent-action-needed/ C.VC AND forward, there should no higher priority for the international community than biosecurity. | 10/8/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - Innovation v3Tournament: Nano Nagle | Round: 3 | Opponent: Saratoga AG | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin Pharmaceutical 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 protection to encourage investment and ensure companies are able to recover their investments. 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~ AND health threats to an even greater extent under improved innova-tion conditions. The plan sets a precedent that IP means nothing – that dooms long term biopharma innovation.Peter J. Pitts 21, former associate commissioner of the FDA, is president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, "Waiving Covid-19 Vaccine Patents Is a Bad Idea and Sets a Dangerous Precedent," 6-21-2021, https://medecon.org/waiving-covid-19-vaccine-patents-is-a-bad-idea-and-sets-a-dangerous-precedent/ AND in a single resident of the developing world getting vaccinated one minute sooner. Bioterrorism and future pandemics cause extinction.Hamish De Bretton-Gordon, CBRN Expert @ British Army, 20 ~Director @ DBG Defense, Consultant on CBRN and Biosecurity~, "Biosecurity in the Wake of COVID-19: The Urgent Action Needed," Combatting Terrorism Center Sentinel, November/December 2020, Volume 13, Issue 11, https://ctc.usma.edu/biosecurity-in-the-wake-of-covid-19-the-urgent-action-needed/ C.VC AND forward, there should no higher priority for the international community than biosecurity. | 10/9/21 |
SEPTOCT - K - CapitalismTournament: Nano Nagle | Round: Octas | Opponent: Mission SS | Judge: Panel Regulating intellectual property participates in a scarcity logic that re-affirms a broader market ownership over information – that consolidates neoliberal control through a shift to private protections, even if the individual act of the aff is goodSoderberg 1 ~Johan, BA from Falmouth College of the Arts. "Copyleft vs Copyright: A Marxist Critique" https://firstmonday.org/article/view/938/860~~** AND 32~. It is predominantly this struggle that I now will attend to. Capitalism is quickly reaching its ecological, structural, and psychological limits and causes near-term extinction – laundry list.Robinson 16 (William, Professor of sociology, global studies and Latin American studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His most recent book is Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity. | "Sadistic Capitalism: Six Urgent Matters for Humanity in Global Crisis" in Truth-out, April 12, 2016. http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/35596-sadistic-capitalism-six-urgent-matters-for-humanity-in-global-crisis )tbrooks AND financial system, despite a series of emergency summits to discuss such regulation. The alternative is to engage in anticapitalism, an act of radical resistance grounded in grassroots movements. Anticapitalism does not represent an unattainable utopia but challenges common myths about capitalism as a whole.Rogers 14 (Chris Rogers, author, Capitalism and Its Alternatives: A Critical Introduction, Zed Books, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/lib/umichigan/detail.action?docID=1758713.) AM AND , and in turn motivated action in order to try to address them. | 10/10/21 |
SEPTOCT - K - Capitalism v2Tournament: Heart of Texas | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Greenhill NT | Judge: Panel Medical hotspotting is a neoliberal tactic of somatic policing that gets mobilized to increase policing and culturally banish racial others to uncontained racial violence – it turns case – big shifting DAKrupar and Ehlers 17 (Shiloh, Geographer and Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor at Georgetown University, Nadine, Professor of Social and Political Sciences @ the University of Sydney, "Biofutures: Race and the governance of health," Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2017, Vol. 35(2) 222–240, Page 228-232) AND health that rationalizes and defends anti-black biosecurity as raceneutral technology. 27 Regulating intellectual property participates in a scarcity logic that re-affirms a broader market ownership over information – that consolidates neoliberal control through a shift to private protections, even if the individual act of the aff is goodSoderberg 1 ~Johan, BA from Falmouth College of the Arts. "Copyleft vs Copyright: A Marxist Critique" https://firstmonday.org/article/view/938/860~~** AND 32~. It is predominantly this struggle that I now will attend to. Capitalism is quickly reaching its ecological, structural, and psychological limits and causes near-term extinction – laundry list.Robinson 16 (William, Professor of sociology, global studies and Latin American studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His most recent book is Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity. | "Sadistic Capitalism: Six Urgent Matters for Humanity in Global Crisis" in Truth-out, April 12, 2016. http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/35596-sadistic-capitalism-six-urgent-matters-for-humanity-in-global-crisis )tbrooks AND financial system, despite a series of emergency summits to discuss such regulation. The alternative is to engage in anticapitalism, an act of radical resistance grounded in grassroots movements. Anticapitalism does not represent an unattainable utopia but challenges common myths about capitalism as a whole.Rogers 14 (Chris Rogers, author, Capitalism and Its Alternatives: A Critical Introduction, Zed Books, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/lib/umichigan/detail.action?docID=1758713.) AM AND , and in turn motivated action in order to try to address them. | 10/18/21 |
SEPTOCT - NC - UtilTournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Bronx Science RP | Judge: Sai Karavadi The standard is maximizing expected well-being.1. Science proves non util ethics are impossible and our version of util solves all aff offenseGreene 10 – Joshua, Associate Professor of Social science in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University AND religion, they don't really explain what's distinctive about the philosophy in question. 2. Uncertainty and social contract require governments use utilGoodin, 1995 (Robert, philsopher at the Research School of the Social Sciences, Utilitarianism as Public Philosophy. P. 62-63) 3. Disregarding foreseeable harm reifies structures of dominationMcCluskey 12 – JSD @ Columbia, Professor of Law @ SUNY-Buffalo AND losses to so many of us seem natural, inevitable, and beneficial. 4. Reducing existential risks is the top priority in any coherent moral theoryPummer 15 AND be acting very wrongly." (From chapter 36 of On What Matters) | 9/18/21 |
SEPTOCT - T - BracketsTournament: Nano Nagle | Round: Doubles | Opponent: NVHS DN | Judge: Panel Interp: If a debater inserts brackets into their evidence, then they must say right before the evidence that "this evidence is bracketed" and why it was bracketedViolation – their Gewirth card is heavily bracketed and they didn’t explicitly say it was or why it was bracketedVote neg for academic honesty- modifying the words of authors, even if it’s subtle modification, changes perception of the arguments since it is taken as the author’s words instead of the debaters. Explaining that your evidence is modified is most honest since the judges know that the words are sometimes your own and can call for evidence to resolve any persuasion bias. Otherwise you are representing your words as qualified authors, which is a blantant violation of academic honesty. At worst it is net better for norm setting because judges can call for evidence and find egregious brackets and thus disregard the evidence.Academic honesty is a voting issue to drop the debater -a) It calls into question everything else. If they would lie about their evidence then anything else they may have said could be a lie as well and should be disregarded, which functions the same way as any fairness claim- you cannot accurately determine whether or not their arguments are legitimate.b) Side constraint- It doesn’t matter if they are a really good debater on any layer, if they cheated they should lose.Use competing interps on theory – reasonability is arbitrary and invites judge intervention.No RVIs:1. Logic- aff doesn’t win for proving they’re fair or educational2. Chilling effect- debaters won’t read legitimate theory for fear of losing to a prepped-out counter-interp- proliferates abuse3. Substantive education- RVIs force a collapse to theory which crowds-out substance | 10/10/21 |
SEPTOCT - T - NebelTournament: Greenhill | Round: 4 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SD | Judge: Felicity Park Interpretation—the aff may not specify medicinesBare plurals imply a generic "rules reading" in the context of moral statementsCohen 1 — (Ariel Cohen, Professor of Linguistics @ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, PhD Computational Linguistics from Carnegie Mellon University, "On the Generic Use of Indefinite Singulars". Journal of Semantics 18: 183-209, Oxford University Press, 2001, accessed 12-7-20, HKR-AM) BP = bare plurals AND predicate holds of it just in case the rule is ‘in effect’. Rules readings are always generalized – specific instances are not consistent. Cohen 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 bare plurals are interpreted in the context of normative statements like the resolution. This means throw out aff counter-interpretations that are purely descriptiveViolation—they specified marijuana—Vote neg:1~ Precision – if we win definitions the aff is not topical. The resolution is the only predictable stasis point for dividing ground—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: unlimited topics incentivize obscure affs that negs won’t have prep on – limits are key to reciprocal prep burden– also means there is no universal DA to spec affs3~ TVA solves – read the aff as advantage – most authors advocate for a change in WTO policy or TRIPS4~ No PICs offense – potential neg abuse doesn’t justify aff abuse because that would permit infinite 1AC abuse | 9/18/21 |
SEPTOCT - T - Nebel v2Tournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 1 | Opponent: Westwood AR | Judge: Kristiana Baez Interpretation: "medicines" is a generic bare plural. The aff may not defend WTO member nations reducing intellectual property protections for a subset of medicines.The upward entailment test and adverb test determine the genericity of a bare pluralLeslie and Lerner 16 ~Sarah-Jane Leslie, Ph.D., Princeton, 2007. Dean of the Graduate School and Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy. Served as the vice dean for faculty development in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, director of the Program in Linguistics, and founding director of the Program in Cognitive Science at Princeton University. Adam Lerner, PhD Philosophy, Postgraduate Research Associate, Princeton 2018. From 2018, Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in the Center for Bioethics at New York University. Member of the Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab.~ "Generic Generalizations." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. April 24, 2016. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/generics/ TG
AND perhaps better used than "usually" to mark off the generic reading.) It applies to "medicines" – 1~ upward entailment test – "reduce intellectual property protections for medicines" doesn’t entail reducing protections for aids, because it doesn’t prove that we should derestrict other beneficial techViolation – they only reduce patents for medicines based on Indigenous knowledgeVote neg:1~ Limits – you can pick anything from COVID vaccines to HIV/AIDS to random biotech to insulin treatments and there’s no universal disad since each one has a different function and implication for health, tech, and relations – explodes neg prep and leads to random medicine of the week affs which makes cutting stable neg links impossible. PICs don’t solve – it’s absurd to say neg potential abuse justifies the aff being flat out not T, which leads to a race towards abuse. Limits key to reciprocal engagement since they create a caselist for neg prep.2~ TVA – read the aff as an advantage to a whole rez aff.3~ Precision o/w – anything else 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. | 10/17/21 |
SEPTOCT - T - New AffsTournament: Nano Nagle | Round: Octas | Opponent: Mission SS | Judge: Panel New, un-disclosed affs are a voting issue –Testing – they make it impossible to adequately test the aff without adequate pre-round prep – favors newness over engagement – disclosure solves their offense – you can break new affs, you just have to disclose the plan text personally or disclose it on the wiki before roundNegative ground – they make negative ground concessionary to the goodwill of the aff and results in extremist generics that heavily skew ground in favor of the aff | 10/10/21 |
SEPTOCT - T - PatentsTournament: Heart of Texas | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Greenhill NT | Judge: Panel Interpretation: Intellectual property for medicines only refers to patents.Oxfam ~Oxfam is a British founded confederation of 20 independent charitable organizations focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International. It is a major nonprofit group with an extensive collection of operations, "Intellectual property and access to medicine", No Date, https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issues/economic-well-being/intellectual-property-and-access-to-medicine/~~//pranav AND D. At the same time, the public benefits from technological advancement. Violation: Data exclusivity is IP on data from clinical trials, not on the medicine itself and is distinct from patent protection.1AC Thrasher ’21 ~Rachel, received a JD and a master’s degree in international relations, both from Boston University. She works on policy issues related to trade and investment agreements, trade law and development, economic relations between developing countries, and multilateral environmental agreements. She is the co-editor, alongside former Pardee Center Director Adil Najam, of a Pardee-sponsored book titled The Future of South-South Economic Relations. She teaches a course on trade and development at the Pardee School of Global Studies and continues to research areas of trade and investment agreements and their impact on development policy as part of the Global Economic Governance Initiative at Boston University, "Chart of the Week: How Data Exclusivity Laws Impact Drug Prices", 05-21-2021, https://www.bu.edu/gdp/2021/05/25/chart-of-the-week-how-data-exclusivity-laws-impact-drug-prices/~~//pranav AND original pharmaceutical product does not qualify for patent protection. Vote neg for limits – their interp explodes the topic to intellectual property protections on things other than medicine – that includes food, music, clinical trials, and more, all with distinct scenarios and no unified neg ground which makes pre-round prep impossible, killing clash. That controls the internal link to education – only terminal impact in debate and fairness – only thing under the judge’s jurisdiction.Competing interps – reasonability is arbitrary and invites judge intervention | 10/18/21 |
SEPTOCT - T - ReduceTournament: Nano Nagle | Round: 5 | Opponent: Ayala AM | Judge: Felicity Park Interp: Reductions must decrease, otherwise it’s a limitSpeirs 7 – brief in the District Ct of Eastern Texas (REEDHYCALOG v. BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD, 2007 U.S. Dist. Ct. Pleadings LEXIS 9234)BB AND . 6, line 61 ("reduced, or limited, exposure cutter"). Violation: They set a boundary for patents to only one period of exclusivity, it’s not a reduction of *protections*.Standards:1~ Limits and ground – placing arbitrary boundaries gets rid of neg generics like boundary related CPs and the Price Control CP. Independently not requiring the aff to decrease something means we get *no* DAs since they no-link out of all of them by saying that companies still get one period of exclusivity.2~ Extra T is a voter – means the res is no longer a stable basis and they can defend whatever they want. Also means you don’t have jurisdiction to vote for them cuz they haven’t affirmed the res.Drop the debater:1~ The abuse already occurred and shifted my time allocation2~ It’s the same as DTA since we indict your whole affUse Competing Interps for T:1~ There’s no way to be "reasonably" topical, it’s a yes/no binary2~ Reasonability collapses since we use offense defense to determine what’s reasonableNo RVI’s:1~ It’s your burden to be topical means it’s a prereq to engaging in substance2~ Encourages people to bait theory then win the RVI | 10/9/21 |
SEPTOCT - T - VaccinesTournament: Nano Nagle | Round: 1 | Opponent: Monta Vista KR | Judge: David Dosch Interp – "medicines" treat or cure, whereas vaccines preventVecchio 7/22 (Christopher Vecchio, ~CFA, Senior Strategist,~, 7-22-2021, "Delta Variant Concerns Won't Cripple Markets, US Economy", DailyFX, accessed: 8-9-2021, https://www.dailyfx.com/forex/video/daily'news'report/2021/07/22/market-minutes-delta-variant-concerns-wont-cripple-markets-us-economy.html) ajs AND you bulletproof, they dramatically increase the odds of surviving an adverse event. Violation – they defend vaccinesVote neg for limits and ground – expanding the topic to preventative treatment or medical interventions allows anything from surgery to medical devices to education strategies or mosquito repellent to prevent malaria. Destroys core generics like innovation which are exclusive to disease curing – core of the topic is about proprietary information.Drop the debater – T is a prior issue and proves the round was skewed to begin withUse competing interps - reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention | 10/8/21 |
SEPTOCT - T - Vaccines v2Tournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 6 | Opponent: Denton Guyer SB | Judge: Gerard Grigsby Interpretation – topical affs must defend a reduction of intellectual property protections for medicines.Violation: they reduce IP protections on vaccines which is categorically distinctVaccines are different from medicines in the context of intellectual propertyGarrison 04 ~Christopher Garrison, Consultant Legal Advisor to WHO. "Intellectual Property Rights and Vaccines in Developing countries," 04-13-2004, accessed 9-2-2021, https://www.who.int/intellectualproperty/events/en/Background'paper.pdf?ua=1~~ HWIC AND and outlines the impact of some of the differences between vaccines and medicines. Prefer for limits – allowing non medicines explodes limits to include affs that defend reducing protections for surgeries, therapy, injury prevention, cosmetic procedures, etc. – makes neg prep impossible because the case neg to the Botox and Laser Eye Surgery affs would have no overlap – privileges the aff by stretching pre-tournament neg prep too thin and precluding nuanced rigorous testing of affIndependently, extra t is a voting issue – they defend funding and enforcement in the plan, which aren’t words that are in the topic. That skirts the core question of the resolution, which doesn’t ask if COVID vaccines are good/bad but rather would waiving IP be able to solve COVID because of production and funding disparities, which they fiat out of. Extra t is a voting issue since it allows them to add infinite planks to the plan that aren’t predictable, ruining fairness and clash.Use c/I for norm setting – t is a yes/no question, not a normal theory argument. Being "reasonably topical" doesn’t make sense.No rvis – you have a burden to be topical. Anything else incentivizes chilling debate. | 10/17/21 |
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