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0 - Contact InfoTournament: All | Round: Finals | Opponent: All | Judge: All Hellooo, I'm Joseph! (he/him/his) I'm a freshman at Martin Luther King High School, but my school doesn't have a program, so I compete under ModernBrain! Email: 25josephor@gmail.com Please reach out to me before the round with interps! (disclosure, accessibility requests, trigger warnings, etc). I'm not the most familiar with circuit debate, so pleasee reach out to me if you have something you want me to meet | 12/17/21 |
SO -- K - HauntologyTournament: Meadows | Round: 1 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: Sam Larson Meadows R1 NC1 – TInterp: Medicines are substances used to prevent, diagnose, or treat harms.MRS 20 ~(MAINE REVENUE SERVICE SALES, FUEL and SPECIAL TAX DIVISION) "A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE SALES AND USE TAX LAW" https://www.maine.gov/revenue/sites/maine.gov.revenue/files/inline-files/Reference20Guide202020.pdf December 2020~ SS Medicines solely refer to physical substances.American Heritage Dictionary of Medicine 18 The American Heritage Dictionary of Medicine 2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company https://www.yourdictionary.com/medicine Elmer Violation: CRISPR is a platform technology, not a medicine.Editas Medicine ~(a clinical-stage biotechnology company which is developing therapies based on CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing technology)., No Date, CRISPR Gene Editing, https://www.editasmedicine.com/crispr-gene-editing/~~ Justin Negate –1~ Limits – their model explodes it to medical devices, any form of strategy for medical research, databases that are used to create medicines and more – only our definition creates a reasonable caselist for medicines while they make prep impossible and wreck engagement2~ Precision – MRS is a legal definition of medicines from codified law and has intent to define which proves we're right and consistent with topic litUse competing interps – a) reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention since we don't know your bs meter, b) collapses to competing interps – we justify 2 brightlines under an offense defense paradigm just like 2 interps.2 – DACOVID vaccine debate will kill the WTO, but the aff reverses that instability.Meyer 6-18-21 (David, Senior Writer, https://fortune.com/2021/06/18/wto-covid-vaccines-patents-waiver-south-africa-trips/) WTO collapse solves extinctionHilary 15 John Hilary 2015 "Want to know how to really tackle climate change? Pull the plug on the World Trade Organisation" http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/want-to-know-how-to-really-tackle-climate-change-pull-the-plug-on-the-world-trade-organisation-a6774391.html (Executive Director, War on Want)Elmer 3 – KThe 1AC is a graveyard of failed policies and a failed system – we are here to haunt it. Our institutions are dead. Every policy "reform" is haunted by ghosts of neoliberal ideologies.Checks and balances no longer exist – our policymakers hide their intentions to uphold the system under veils of progressivism, making conflict inevitable.Atticus 20 (Atticus – Member of International Communist Tendency. January, 24th 2020. "Against Pacifism" http://libcom.org/blog/against-pacifism-24012020, DOA: 6/3/20, kbb) Their attempt at controlling disease is a neoliberal pipedream that is used by our institutions to distract away from the fact that they are the root cause.Giroux, Henry. "The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Exposing The Plague Of Neoliberalism." Socialist Project. April 08, 2020. Web. August 20, 2021. https://socialistproject.ca/2020/04/covid19-pandemic-exposing-plague-ofneoliberalism). The plan is a colonialist revision that re-packages the WTO as a legitimate organization that can overcome its insidious past towards a future of equal free trade—that decks class consciousness.Gilbert 19 ~Geoff Gilbert is a Professor of Law in the School of Law and Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. He was Head of Department between 2000-2003 and 2011-13. In 2012, he was appointed a Professorial Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He was Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Refugee Law from 2002-15 and is co-Editor-in-Chief as of September 2019; he also sits on the Advisory Board., "Free trade" is today's imperialism by the 1 percent, 1-13-2019,No Publication,https://www.bilaterals.org/?free-trade-is-today-s-imperialism, 8-21-2021 amrita~ The Aff is an investment into disaster capitalism – their emphasis on threats are the necessary fabric for the survival of capitalism, the shock created by the aff gives capitalism the needed time to implement neoliberal policies and continue privatizationKlein 07 ~Naomi Klein is the senior correspondent of The Intercept, she is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses, support of ecofeminism, organized labour, left-wing politics and criticism of corporate globalization, fascism and capitalism.|The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism |library.lol/main/889E346734D1349A84C07A77A379DFC7| P6 – 10 |Accessed 1 Sept. 2021.~ Comrade PW The alternative is to haunt the political imaginary of the 1AC with the specter of Marx – the political project of the 1AC is dead, but the fundamental tensions that give it weight are not; by preserving the possibility of proletarian revolution as a specter, we keep its radical and unforeseen potential aliveHitchcock, '13 ~Peter Hitchcock, Professor, Baruch College, English, CUNY; "from ( ) of Ghosts" in The Spectralities Reader, Maria del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, eds., London: Bloomsbury, 2013~ The ROB is to vote for the debater who best identifies the specters. Hauntology is critical in academic spaces like debate. Prior to considering instrumental approaches to the resolution, pedagogy must prioritize encounters with spectral moments in order to contest hegemonic forms of knowledge and being that systemically cause violence—both in and out of the classroom.Zembylas, '13 ~Michalinos Zembylas, assistant professor of education at the Open University of Cyprus; "PEDAGOGIES OF HAUNTOLOGY IN HISTORY EDUCATION: LEARNING TO LIVE WITH THE GHOSTS OF DISAPPEARED VICTIMS OF WAR AND DICTATORSHIP"; EDUCATIONAL THEORY, Volume 63, Number 1, 2013; Wiley~ a/t: caseThe WTO can't enforce the aff – causes circumvention.Lamp 19 ~Nicholas; Assistant Professor of Law at Queen's University; "What Just Happened at the WTO? Everything You Need to Know, Brink News," 12/16/19; https://www.brinknews.com/what-just-happened-at-the-wto-everything-you-need-to-know/~~ Justin Recent evidence confirmsHillman and Tippett 21 ~Jennifer A; Senior fellow for trade and international political economy; Alex; Research associate for international economics, at the Council on Foreign Relations; "Europe and the Prospects for WTO Reform," CFR; 3/10/21; https://www.cfr.org/blog/europe-and-prospects-wto-reform~~ Justin 1~ They don't solve their advantage—CRISPR tech is so much more than medicine – it can also be used for cosmetic gene editing or warfare. Only reducing patents on genomic medicine can't stop fights over other uses of genomics or threats of lawsuits that trigger all their internal links – read their ev – it doesn't even reference genomic medicine specifically, which means non-medicinal genomics are a huge alt cause they can't solve.2~ CRISPR fails.CUMC 17, Columbia University Medical Center, 5-30-2017, "CRISPR Gene Editing Can Cause Hundreds of Unintended Mutations," http://newsroom.cumc.columbia.edu/blog/2017/05/30/crispr-gene-editing-can-cause-hundreds-of-unintended-mutations/ Disease won't cause extinction—Burnout and empirics.Owen Cotton-Barratt 17, et al, PhD in Pure Mathematics, Oxford, Lecturer in Mathematics at Oxford, Research Associate at the Future of Humanity Institute, 2/3/2017, Existential Risk: Diplomacy and Governance, https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Existential-Risks-2017-01-23.pdf Resilience and countermeasures prevent spread – distinct from burnoutAdalja 16 Economic growth guarantees civilizational collapse by 2050 – decoupling is impossible and tech is a pipeline dreamKallis et al 18 Giorgos Kallis ~ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, environmental scientist working on ecological economics and political ecology, formerly Marie Curie International Fellow at the Energy and Resources Group of the University of California at Berkeley, PhD in Environmental Policy and Planning from the University of the Aegean in Greece~, Vasilis Ragnar ~Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology~, Steffen Lange ~Institute for Ecological Economy Research, Berlin, Germany~, Barbara Muraca ~College of Liberal Arts, Oregon State University~, Susan Paulson ~Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida~, and Matthias Schmelzer ~DFG Research Group, University of Jena~, 5-31-2018, "Research On Degrowth," Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Vol. 43:291-316, https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-environ-102017-025941 ash | 10/30/21 |
so -- cp - indigenous patentsTournament: meadows | Round: 3 | Opponent: westwood ev | Judge: lena mizrahi CP text: The member nations of the world trade organization should—-eliminate patent protections except for indigenous patents.—-establish an international legal instrument to protect indigenous intellectual propertyThat is in line with indigenous demands.WIPO no date WIPO, xx-xx-xxxx, "Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property – Background Brief," No Publication, https://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/briefs/tk_ip.html?fbclid=IwAR2iLd8fJ4lNl_fhhwQBHvCdoFEfB44H5GHIWBBb0xGPVBt1fRJT-uzUXDU SJDA Preserving native sovereignty is key to cultural diversity and preserves global survivalBarsh 93 Russel Lawrence Barsh 1993 "Native American Sovereignty" University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, Winter, 1993, 25 U. MICH. J. L. REF. 671 (Professor of Native American Studies at the University of Lethbridge)Elmer | 12/19/21 |
so -- da - climate patentsTournament: meadows | Round: 3 | Opponent: westwood ev | Judge: lena mizrahi Climate Patents and Innovation high now and solving Warming but patent waivers set a dangerous precedent for appropriations - the mere threat is sufficient is enough to kill investment.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/. sid Warming causes extinction in mere decades – scientific consensus proves.Schultz 16 (Robert Schultz ~Retired Professor and Chair of Computer Information Systems at Woodbury University~ "Modern Technology and Human Extinction," http://proceedings.informingscience.org/InSITE2016/InSITE16p131-145Schultz2307.pdf) RW | 12/19/21 |
so -- da - wtos life supportTournament: meadows | Round: 1 | Opponent: immaculate heart rr | Judge: sam larson COVID vaccine debate will kill the WTO, but the aff reverses that instability.Meyer 6-18-21 (David, Senior Writer, https://fortune.com/2021/06/18/wto-covid-vaccines-patents-waiver-south-africa-trips/) WTO collapse solves extinctionHilary 15 John Hilary 2015 "Want to know how to really tackle climate change? Pull the plug on the World Trade Organisation" http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/want-to-know-how-to-really-tackle-climate-change-pull-the-plug-on-the-world-trade-organisation-a6774391.html (Executive Director, War on Want)Elmer | 12/19/21 |
so -- t - medsTournament: meadows | Round: 1 | Opponent: immaculate heart rr | Judge: sam larson Interp: Medicines are substances used to prevent, diagnose, or treat harms.MRS 20 ~(MAINE REVENUE SERVICE SALES, FUEL and SPECIAL TAX DIVISION) "A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE SALES AND USE TAX LAW" https://www.maine.gov/revenue/sites/maine.gov.revenue/files/inline-files/Reference20Guide202020.pdf December 2020~ SS Medicines solely refer to physical substances.American Heritage Dictionary of Medicine 18 The American Heritage Dictionary of Medicine 2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company https://www.yourdictionary.com/medicine Elmer Violation: CRISPR is a platform technology, not a medicine.Editas Medicine ~(a clinical-stage biotechnology company which is developing therapies based on CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing technology)., No Date, CRISPR Gene Editing, https://www.editasmedicine.com/crispr-gene-editing/~~ Justin Negate –1~ Limits – their model explodes it to medical devices, any form of strategy for medical research, databases that are used to create medicines and more – only our definition creates a reasonable caselist for medicines while they make prep impossible and wreck engagement2~ Precision – MRS is a legal definition of medicines from codified law and has intent to define which proves we're right and consistent with topic litUse competing interps – a) reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention since we don't know your bs meter, b) collapses to competing interps – we justify 2 brightlines under an offense defense paradigm just like 2 interps. | 12/19/21 |
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