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| AV | 4 | Opponent: Proof DR | Judge: Julian Kuffour AC - China |
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| CPS | 2 | Opponent: Stanford OHS Online MB | Judge: Alexandra Mork AC - whole rez |
| CPS | 3 | Opponent: Plano Independent RP | Judge: Grigsby, Gerard AC - Public Trust Doctrine |
| CPS | 5 | Opponent: Harker DV | Judge: Alan, Naomi AC - asteroids |
| HWL | 2 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart MF | Judge: M, Samantha *edit* cites aren't showing up ( look at os |
| HWL | 3 | Opponent: Marlborough MS | Judge: Lena Mizrahi AC - China (cites not working) |
| HWL | 6 | Opponent: Marlborough AW | Judge: David Dosch AC - Goehring AC |
| Jack Howe | 1 | Opponent: Marlborough TZ | Judge: Rao, Abhishek AC - Covid Aff |
| Jack Howe | 4 | Opponent: Northwood ST | Judge: Scott Brown AC - Whole res |
| Jack Howe | 5 | Opponent: Stockdale RP | Judge: Alvarez, Diana AC - Covid |
| Loyola | 1 | Opponent: Memorial BD | Judge: Rao, Abhishek AC - One and Done |
| Loyola | 4 | Opponent: San Mateo YR | Judge: Joseph Georges AC - kant |
| Loyola | 6 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll AS | Judge: Kuffour, Julian AC - weed |
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0 - Contact InfoTournament: Tournament | Round: Finals | Opponent: me | Judge: me Phone: 949 - 486 - 9196 | 9/3/21 |
0 - DebateDrillsTournament: Tournament | Round: Finals | Opponent: me | Judge: me | 9/3/21 |
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JANFEB - CP - IndiaTournament: CPS | Round: 2 | Opponent: Stanford OHS Online MB | Judge: Alexandra Mork CPCP: States ought to prohibit the appropriation of outer space by private entities except for private entities registered within The Republic of India.The Republic of India should limit the Indian Space Research Organization’s market share to 7.51NC—Investor ConfidencePrivate appropriation for Indian private entities is key for investor confidence.This card is so good ~#amritaisthebest AND parties will have little to nil returns, far less any substantive protection. Investor confidence is necessary for strong Indian private space-tech—that spills over, boosts Indian military heg, and turns case.Prasad 16 ~Narayan Prasad has a Master of Space and Telecommunications Law, May 2016, National Academy of Legal Studies and Research University of Law Hyderabad, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305402089'A'POLICY'REVIEW'TOWARDS'THE'DEVELOPMENT'OF'A'SPACE'INDUSTRY'ECOSYSTEM'IN'INDIA/link/578dbd2908ae5c86c9a65d05/download, 12-8-2021 amrita~ AND applications, complementing the societal benefits motivation currently being pursued by the government. Indian space military heg checks and limits Chinese heg in the Indo-Pacific.Bommakanti 7-15-20~Kartik Bommakanti is a Fellow with the Strategic Studies Programme. Kartik specialises in space military issues and his research is primarily centred on the Indo-Pacific region. He also works on emerging technologies as well as nuclear, conventional and sub-conventional coercion, particularly in the context of the Indian subcontinent and the role of great powers in the subcontinent’s strategic dynamics. He has published in peer reviewed journals., The enduring significance of space weapons for India, 7-15-2020,ORF,https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/the-enduring-significance-of-space-weapons-for-india/, 12-8-2021 amrita~ AND remains unduly restrained in the testing, integration and deployment of space weapons. China heg is revisionist and offensive— in the Indo-Pacific that causes draw-in.Brands 19 ~Hal Brands is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Zack Cooper is a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, an associate at Armitage International, and an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University, "After the Responsible Stakeholder, What? Debating America’s China Strategy." Texas National Security Review. Volume 2, Issue 2. February 2019k https://tnsr.org/2019/02/after-the-responsible-stakeholder-what-debating-americas-china-strategy-2/ 12-10-2021 amrita~ AND policymakers have come to see all three of these interests as being imperiled. That goes nuclear— extinction :/Hayes 18 ~Peter John Hayes is the Executive Director of the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, a non-governmental policy-oriented research and advocacy group. He graduated from the University of Melbourne with a degree in History, and from University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in energy and resources. ~#gobears, Trump and the Interregnum of American Nuclear Hegemony, November 8, 2018. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25751654.2018.1532525 recut 12-10-2021 amrita~ AND second time, less so, the third time, the new normal. | 12/18/21 |
JANFEB - DA - IndustryTournament: CPS | Round: 2 | Opponent: Stanford OHS Online MB | Judge: Alexandra Mork 1NC – Space Col DAPrivate sector innovation in the commercial space industry is high now.Smith 18 ~Matthew Smith, 6-11-2018, "Commercialized Space and You," Science in the News, https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/commercialized-space-and-you/~~//DDPT AND of 2018, the commercialized space industry shows no sign of slowing down. Private space appropriation is uniquely key to ensuring ongoing innovation towards space exploration and colonization.Cheng 20 ~Dean Cheng, 09-16-2020, "Outer Space and Private Property," Heritage Foundation, https://www.heritage.org/space-policy/commentary/outer-space-and-private-property~~//DDPT AND are not sure that they will be able to profit from their investments. The private sector is the key internal link to space exploration and colonization.Sharma 9/7 ~Maanas Sharma, 9-7-2021, "The Space Review: The privatized frontier: the ethical implications and role of private companies in space exploration," The Space Review, https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4238/1~~//DDPT AND more difficult, innovative projects which have transformative benefits for life on Earth. Space exploration solves extinction and endless resource wars.Collins 10 ~Patrick Collins, professor of economics at Azabu University in Japan, and a Collaborating Researcher with the Institute for Space and Astronautical Science, as well as adviser to a number of companies, Adriano V. Autino is President of the Space Renaissance International; Manager, CEO/CTO, Systems Engineering Consultant / Trainer at Andromeda Systems Engineering LLC; and Supplier of methodological tools and consultancy at Intermarine S.p.A, Acta Astronautica, Volume 66, Issues 11–12, June–July 2010, "What the growth of a space tourism industry could contribute to employment, economic growth, environmental protection, education, culture and world peace", Pages 1553–1562~ AND to be achievable only through the development of a vigorous space tourism industry. | 12/18/21 |
JANFEB - K - SetColTournament: CPS | Round: 3 | Opponent: Plano Independent RP | Judge: Grigsby, Gerard 1NC – OFFGenocidal disposition is not an event but on an ongoing process that functions through a tripartite structure of elimination, replacement, and indoctrination. Debate as a competitive research activity is not isolated from said violence, but works to iteratively indoctrinate settler ideologies which is necessary to maintain the broader process of genocide.Patel 14 ~Lisa (Leigh) Patel (2014), Countering Coloniality in Educational Research: From Ownership to Answerability, Educational Studies, 50:4, 357-377, DOI: 10.1080/00131946.2014.924942, Accesed via Taylor Francis Online~itsnagisa AND and what theoretical frames drive the data gathering, analysis, and implications. Their framing of "extinction", "the end of the world", and "existential risk calculus" is a false form of white neutrality positing the 1AC as modernity’s hero mystifying the disparate impact of settlement and racialized violence. We will be explicitly clear – this is not a question of yes no security, but rather an indict to the 1AC’s research agenda and citational practiceMitchell, Chaudhury 20 ~Audra; Balsillie School of International Affairs; Aadita; York University – Keele Campus; "Worlding beyond ‘the’ ‘end’ of ‘the world’: white apocalyptic visions and BIPOC futurisms"; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0047117820948936; pages 3-7~itsnagisa AND and other forms of agency toward BIPOC structures would result in ecological disaster. Reject their analysis of public trust- it relies on the notion that there is a mutually negotiated agreement between the US government and its citizens. This is not a mutually negotiated agreement as Indigenous populations are never and were never given a say over their land or their own bodies. Their forfronting of the PTD moves colonialized form of law into outerspace and cements a legal system that devalues indigenous population.Settler colonialism maintains itself through the everyday, repetitive acts of practices, presences, and speech acts. Thus, refuse the affirmative’s as a repudiation of the Settler subject’s ongoing attempt to achieve the end of Indigenous life. Only by cultivating cracks in the Settler psyche can we disrupt settler colonial formations and create an ethic of decolonization.Henderson 15 (Phil, Doctoral Student at the University of Victoria "Imagoed communities: the psychosocial space of settler colonialism" Settler Colonial Studies DOI: 10.1080/2201473X.2015.1092194, pp. 10-14) NIJ AND land serves as a powerful blockage of to the smoothness of this process. | 12/18/21 |
JANFEB - T - ReduceTournament: CPS | Round: 3 | Opponent: Plano Independent RP | Judge: Grigsby, Gerard Interp: The affirmative must defend the ban of private actor appropriation of Outer Space - not a reduction.Unjust means dialectically contrary to law – only ban does that.The Law Dictionary, ND, Def of Unjust, URL: https://thelawdictionary.org/unjust/~~#:~~:text=Contrary20to20right20and20justice,conduct20furnished20by20the20laws, KR Unjust means opposed to law.FreeDictionary ~TheFreeDictionary, Unjust, xx-xx-xxxx,https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Unjust, 12-17-2021 amrita~ Violation: They defend a reduction- that’s not oppositional to the law because it means that there’s a world where the law would permit private appropriation.Standards:1~ Predictable Limits – there’s hundreds of other ways in which the affirmative can defend the restriction of private entities in Outer space – they can make some fines, do a dance, etc, which makes it impossible for the negative to predict what process the affirmative is going to defend to mandate a ban of private actor appropriation of space. Our interp is the most predictable because it’s grounded in the topic wording.2~ Topic ed – Bans are one of the most common and is most germane to the literature – increases the amount of ground and ability to have deep debates on the model which the majority of the literature is centered around as opposed to an irrelevant model that kills critical thinking abilities.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. Reasonability is arbitrary and unpredictable, inviting a race to the bottom and we’ll win it links to our offense. No RVIs—it’s your burden to be fair and T—same reason you don’t win for answering inherency or putting defense on a disad. | 12/18/21 |
NOVDEC - DA - EconTournament: Apple Valley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Eden Prairie DT | Judge: Nelson, Alex EconThe global economy is recovering and is set to accelerate this year, but any shocks can devastate growthWorld Bank 21 - ~The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.~ "The Global Economy: on Track for Strong but Uneven Growth as COVID-19 Still Weighs" 06/08/2021 https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2021/06/08/the-global-economy-on-track-for-strong-but-uneven-growth-as-covid-19-still-weighs VS AND and moderate as the country’s focus shifts to reducing financial stability risks. Strikes deck economy– 3 warrants1~ Stop investmentTenza 20 - Tenza, Mlungisi. . ~Senior Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal~ "The Effects of Violent Strikes on the Economy of a Developing Country: A Case of South Africa." Obiter, Nelson Mandela University, 2020, http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci'arttextandamp;pid=S1682-58532020000300004VS AND reluctant to invest where there is an unstable or fragile labour relations environment. 2~ Strikes decrease productivity, create investment risk, weaken capital, and market volatility– causes econ collapseWisniewski et al 19 - Wisniewski, T. P., Lambe, B. J., and Dias, A. (2019). The Influence of General Strikes against Government on Stock Market Behavior. Scottish Journal of Political Economy. doi:10.1111/sjpe.12224 VS AND consider the full welfare implications for their members before staging a mass protest. Econ decline results in nuclear war.Tønnesson 15 ~Tønnesson is a research professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in Norway and the leader of the East Asia Peace program at Uppsala University in Sweden.~ "Deterrence, interdependence and Sino–US peace." International Area Studies Review, volume 18, number 3, pgs. 297-311. 2015. AND each other, with a view to obliging Washington or Beijing to intervene. | 11/5/21 |
NOVDEC - DA - PoliticsTournament: Apple Valley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Eden Prairie DT | Judge: Nelson, Alex Politics DABiden’s reconciliation bill passes now but compromises are delicateCaygle and Everett 10/20 (Heather and Burgess, Congress reporters at Politico) "Dems edge closer to ditching disarray" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/20/dems-edge-closer-ditching-disarray-516312 EE, DebateDrills AND if we make significant progress, that'll also be success towards those ends." The plan gets lumped in with the reconciliation bill and causes conflictMueller 09/21/2021 (Eleanor, labor reporter) "Unions squeeze pro-labor priorities into Democrats’ spending bill" Politico, https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/21/unions-reconciliation-bill-513423 EE, DebateDrills AND vehicle for the labor provisions since they were introduced in the PRO Act. Infrastructure only passes if reconciliation doesCochrane et al 10/18/2021 (Emily Cochrane, Luke Broadwater, and Jonathan Weisman, NYT reporters) Biden Meets With Feuding Democrats and Expresses Confidence a Deal Can Be Reached, https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/10/01/us/infrastructure-bill-house~~#house-infrastructure-delay-vote EE, DebateDrills AND Biden "was very clear" that the two bills were tied together. Failure of the infrastructure package locks in catastrophic climate change—-extinctionPaul Bledsoe 9/4, strategic adviser at the Progressive Policy Institute and a professorial lecturer at American University’s Center for Environmental Policy. He served on the White House Climate Change Task Force under former President Bill Clinton, "Climate devastation is upon us. Congress must act.," NY Daily News, 9-4-2021, https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-climate-congress-20210904-mqbe75qni5b77ocke5orzrmjce-story.html?outputType=amp AND all of those who come after us to a devastated and denuded world. | 11/5/21 |
NOVDEC - DA - UnionsTournament: Apple Valley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Eden Prairie DT | Judge: Nelson, Alex Recognizing the right to strike strengthens the power that unions have by creating unconditional leverage against companies.Hennebert et al. 20 ~Hennebert, Marc-Antonin, and Marcel Faulkner. "Are Strikes Still a Tool for Union Action? A Qualitative Investigation into the Private Sector in Quebec, Canada." Economic and Industrial Democracy, vol. 41, no. 1, Feb. 2020, pp. 73–97, doi:10.1177/0143831X16684963.~ DD PT AND financial information. One of our interlocutors summed up these difficulties as follows: An influx of union power forces widespread wage hikes.McNicholas et al. 20 ~Celine McNicholas, Lynn Rhinehart, Margaret Poydock, Heidi Shierholz, and Daniel Perez, 8-25-2020, "Why unions are good for workers—especially in a crisis like COVID-19: 12 policies that would boost worker rights, safety, and wages," Economic Policy Institute, https://www.epi.org/publication/why-unions-are-good-for-workers-especially-in-a-crisis-like-covid-19-12-policies-that-would-boost-worker-rights-safety-and-wages/~~ DDPT AND –20 for women and 33–37 for men.17 A sudden increase in wages causes a rapid rise in inflation.Rockeman and Pickert 21 ~Olivia Rockeman and Reade Pickert, 06-09-21, "Surprise Jump in U.S. Wages Gives Inflation Debate a New Twist," BloombergQuint, https://www.bloombergquint.com/global-economics/surprise-jump-in-u-s-wages-gives-inflation-debate-a-new-twist~~ DDPT AND the clout to make the pay increases stick in the longer term. Rapid inflation triggers an economic crisis.Cox 21 ~Jeff Cox, 06-07-2021, "Deutsche Bank warns of global ‘time bomb’ coming due to rising inflation," CNBC, https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/07/deutsche-bank-warns-of-global-time-bomb-coming-due-to-rising-inflation.html~~ DDPT AND overcome higher financing costs. | 11/5/21 |
NOVDEC - T - ATournament: AV | Round: 4 | Opponent: Proof DR | Judge: Julian Kuffour | 11/6/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - Compulsory LicensingTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough TZ | Judge: Rao, Abhishek 1NC – OFFCP Text: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to enforce compulsory licensing measures regarding the COVID-19 vaccineCompulsory license continues innovation AND checks back manufacturing capacity and scarcity of materials which a waiver doesn’t solveEzell, 21, "TRIPS Waiver on COVID-19 IP Rights Wouldn’t Help Vaccine Access; It Would Just Harm Innovation", ITIF, Stephen Ezell is vice president, global innovation policy, at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), Ezell holds a B.S. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, with an honors certificate from Georgetown’s Landegger International Business Diplomacy program, URL; https://itif.org/publications/2021/03/09/trips-waiver-covid-19-ip-rights-wouldnt-help-vaccine-access, KR AND and reject calls from some in Congress to endorse the proposed TRIPS waiver. | 9/18/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - WTOTournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Memorial BD | Judge: Rao, Abhishek | 9/5/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - InnovationTournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Memorial BD | Judge: Rao, Abhishek Current WTO legislation on IP rights promotes innovationEzell et al 4/29 Jaci McDole, Stephen Ezell ~Stephen Ezell is vice president, global innovation policy, at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). He focuses on science and technology policy, international competitiveness, trade, manufacturing, and services issues.~ 4/29/21, "Ten Ways IP Has Enabled Innovations That Have Helped Sustain the World Through the Pandemic" Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, https://itif.org/publications/2021/04/29/ten-ways-ip-has-enabled-innovations-have-helped-sustain-world-through DD AG AND top two filing growths of 73 percent and 26 percent, respectively.30 Reductions in protections kill medical innovation, economic growth, and knowledge building for the futureMcDole and Ezell 04/29 – Jaci McDole is a senior policy analyst covering intellectual property (IP) and innovation policy at ITIF. She focuses on IP and its correlations to global innovation and trade. Her work includes ITIF’s Innovate4Health Initiatives (2017–2019) and A Covid-19 TRIPS Waiver Makes No More Sense for Copyrights Than It Does for Patents (2021). McDole comes to ITIF from the Institute for Intellectual Property Research, an organization she cofounded to study and further robust global IP policies. Stephen J. Ezell is ITIF vice president for Global Innovation Policy. He focuses on science, technology, and innovation policy as well as international competitiveness and trade policy issues. He is the coauthor of Innovating in a Service Driven Economy: Insights Application, and Practice (Palgrave McMillan, 2015) and Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage (Yale 2012). The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) is an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational institute focusing on the intersection of technological innovation and public policy. Recognized by its peers in the think tank community as the global center of excellence for science and technology policy, ITIF’s mission is to formulate and promote policy solutions that accelerate innovation and boost productivity to spur growth, opportunity, and progress; April 29, 2021; "Ten Ways IP Has Enabled Innovations That Have Helped Sustain the World Through the Pandemic"; https://itif.org/publications/2021/04/29/ten-ways-ip-has-enabled-innovations-have-helped-sustain-world-through advay AND generations of biomedical innovation and thus perpetuate the enterprises into the future.13 Two Impacts –1~ Turns their disease impact – future pandemics are more likely and more deadly which makes innovation key to stop extinctionCeballos 5/27 Gerardo Ceballos ~PhD, Dr Gerardo Ceballos is an ecologist and conservationist at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He is particularly recognized for his influential work on global patterns of distribution of diversity, endemism, and extinction risk in vertebrates. He is also well-known for his contribution to understanding the magnitude and impacts of the sixth mass extinction.~, 5/27/21, "THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION AND THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY", Population Matters, https://populationmatters.org/news/2021/05/sixth-mass-extinction-and-future-humanity DD AG AND and civilization. What it is at stake is the future of mankind. 2~ Anticipated economic results in nuclear war – especially for a post-pandemic worldTønnesson 15 ~Tønnesson is a research professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in Norway and the leader of the East Asia Peace program at Uppsala University in Sweden.~ "Deterrence, interdependence and Sino–US peace." International Area Studies Review, volume 18, number 3, pgs. 297-311. 2015 recut advay AND each other, with a view to obliging Washington or Beijing to intervene. | 9/5/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - PoliticsTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 4 | Opponent: Northwood ST | Judge: Scott Brown 1NC – OFFDems win the Senate now, but it’s close—-it determines the Biden presidency.Shane Goldmacher 7/17. Reporter, New York Times, "Democrats See Edge in Early Senate Map as Trump Casts Big Shadow," The New York Times, July 17, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/us/politics/midterm-elections.html, RJP, DebateDrills. AND through President Biden’s expansive agenda on the economy, the pandemic and infrastructure. The plan is unpopular—-it’s seen as soft on China.Cynthia Hicks 21. Director of Public Affairs at PhRMA focusing on polling and opinion research that supports advocacy communications and strategy. "New polling shows Americans are sounding the alarm on the TRIPS IP waiver," PhRMA, May 14, 2021, https://catalyst.phrma.org/new-polling-shows-americans-are-sounding-the-alarm-on-the-trips-ip-waiver, RJP, DebateDrills AND – expressed by more than six in ten voters – include the following: China is the key for the midterms—-Senate control hinges on it.Sarah Mucha 21. Politics reporter at Axios, covering the Biden administration and Congress. "Parties pounce on China as midterm issue," Axios, June 23, 2021, https://www.axios.com/democrat-republicans-china-2022-midterms-6c242c54-b51b-444e-b9b2-65ff0afb906a.html, RJP, DebateDrills AND by (President) Xi (Jinping) and the Chinese Communist Party. GOP control of the Senate will be used to usher in a new wave of Trumpism, crushing democracy.Morton Kondracke 21. Retired executive editor of Roll Call, a former "McLaughlin Group" and Fox News commentator and co-author, with Fred Barnes, of Jack Kemp: The Bleeding Heart Conservative Who Changed America. "Why Democrats Must Retain Control of Congress in 2022," RealClearPolitics, August 4, 2021, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/08/04/why'democrats'must'retain'control'of'congress'in'2022'146189.html, RJP, DebateDrills AND for election results and the rule of law would again be in peril. | 9/19/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - VaccineTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 5 | Opponent: Stockdale RP | Judge: Alvarez, Diana 1NC – OFFUS vaccine production and donation key to vaccine diplomacy – otherwise, Russia and Chinese spheres of influence are guaranteed.Smith 21 ~Alexander Smith is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital based in London.~ "Russia and China are beating the U.S. at vaccine diplomacy, experts say", NBC News, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-china-are-beating-u-s-vaccine-diplomacy-experts-say-n1262742 NBC News VM AND authoritarian forms of government at the expense of more democratic forms of government." Reductions on IP protections immediately hampers US COVID vaccine development.Pipes 3/5 Sally Pipes ~Sally C. Pipes is President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy at the Pacific Research Institute, a California-based think tank founded in 1979.~, 3-5-2021, "Intellectual Property Rights Are Key To Fighting Covid-19 And Protecting Public Health," Forbes, https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2021/03/05/intellectual-property-rights-are-key-to-fighting-covid-19-and-protecting-public-health/ DD AG AND for future pandemics. It's an idea that tomorrow's patients will pay for. Specifically, Latin America – greater Chinese soft power boosts trade and investmentKnipe 21 Lucie Kneip, ~Lucie Kneip is a sophomore studying political science and global affairs. Her research interests include political legitimacy and instability in Latin America, transnational migration, and international jurisprudence~. ~"China’s Vaccine Diplomacy in Latin America,"~ https://thediplomat.com/2021/08/chinas-vaccine-diplomacy-in-latin-america/** VM AND but accounts for a quarter of the global COVID-19 death toll." We’re falling behind but not out of the race yet – action by Biden is imminentMcCarthy 21 ~Lauren McCarthy is a project manager for live coverage at The New York Times and a journalist based in New York. ~ September 3, 2021, "Covid-19: Biden Pledges $2.7 Billion to Help Create ‘Arsenal of Vaccines For the World’" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/09/02/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine, New York Times, VM AND coronavirus response coordinator, who announced the effort during a briefing with reporters." Increasing Chinese trade in Latin America causes great power war – mere perceptual regionalism causes US first strikeLake 18 – David Lake is a Professor of Social Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego; "Economic Openness and Great Power Competition: Lessons for China and the United States"; April 30, 2018; https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract'id=3171196/ advay AND politics and grand strategy,14 and systemic theories of international relations.15 | 9/19/21 |
SEPTOCT - K - Set ColTournament: Loyola | Round: 6 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll AS | Judge: Kuffour, Julian 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) AND p. 36). Settler colonialism and its decolonization implicates and unsettles everyone. The case is NOT offense – their scenarios for "extinction" are metaphorical invocations that sustain settler futurity – only the alternative can prevent them and other ongoing extinctionsMitchell 17 (Audra Mitchell, CIGI Chair in Global Governance and Ethics, Balsillie School of International Affairs, and Associate Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, former Senior Lecturer in International Relations, department of Politics, University of York, Ph.D. Queen’s University of Belfast, "Decolonizing against extinction part II: Extinction is not a metaphor – it is literally genocide," Worldly, 9-27-2017, https://worldlyir.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/decolonizing-against-extinction-part-ii-extinction-is-not-a-metaphor-it-is-literally-genocide/)KMM AND relations, worlds and peoples that are targeted by these discourses and practices. This requires you adopt an ethic of incommensurability in making comparisons and evaluating argumentative burdens – evaluate the 1ac as a scholarly artifactTuck and Yang 12 (Eve Tuck, Associate Professor of Critical Race and Indigenous Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada Research Chair of Indigenous Methodologies with Youth and Communities, William T Grant Scholar and former Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, is Unangax and an enrolled member of the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island, Alaska, and K. Wayne Yang, University of California, San Diego, "Decolonization is not a metaphor," Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society, 1(1), 2012, http://decolonization.org/index.php/des/article/download/18630/15554)KMM AND one. Decolonization is not an "and". It is an elsewhere. | 9/5/21 |
SEPTOCT - NC - UtilTournament: Loyola | Round: 4 | Opponent: San Mateo YR | Judge: Joseph Georges The meta ethic is consistency with empiricism. Prefer-1~ Non-natural moral facts are epistemically inaccessiblePapinau ’07 (David ~David Papineau is an academic philosopher. He works as Professor of Philosophy of Science at King's College London, having previously taught for several years at Cambridge University and been a fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge~, "Naturalism". http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/naturalism/ 2007) AND it is hard to see how we can have any knowledge of them. 2~ Bindingness- only pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain can motivate action consistently- no external system of ethics has anything intrinsic that dictate it be followed. Chemical and biological responses to certain experiences provide objective markers of pleasure and pain while maximizing deontological ethical principles are unverifiable.Thus, the standard is maximizing expected utility. Prefer-1~ Pleasure/pain is intrinsically valuableMoen 16 ~Ole Martin Moen, Research Fellow in Philosophy at University of Oslo "An Argument for Hedonism" Journal of Value Inquiry (Springer), 50 (2) 2016: 267–281~ SJDI AND places where we reach the end of the line in matters of value. 4~ Extinction must be relevant given inevitable moral uncertaintyPummer 15 ~Theron, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. "Moral Agreement on Saving the World" Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. May 18, 2015~ AT AND be acting very wrongly." (From chapter 36 of On What Matters) | 9/5/21 |
SEPTOCT - T - NebelTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough TZ | Judge: Rao, Abhishek 1NC – OFFInterpretation – the affirmative may not specify a subset of medicines1~ Grammar – Medicines is a generic bare pluralNebel 20 ~Jake Nebel is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California and executive director of Victory Briefs. He writes a lot of this stuff lol – duh.~ "Indefinite Singular Generics in Debate" Victory Briefs, 19 August 2020. no url AG AND This suggests that "a democracy" in the resolution is not existential. It applies to this topic – a~ the noun "medicines" in the topic has no determiner preceding it to justify speccing a subset of medicines. that means medicines is an existential bare plural b~ it fails the upward entailment test bc "member nations ought to reduce ip protections for medicines" does not entail that "member nations ought to reduce ip protections for pharmaceuticals" even though all medicines are pharmaceuticals.Violation – they only defend the COVID vaccineStandards:1~ Limits: There’s an infinite number of medicines – hundreds of vaccines (Influenza, Coronavirus, Diptheria, Yellow Fever, etc.) and thousands of pharmaceutical drugs (Metformin, Lisinopril, Atorvastatin, and many more) – the negative could spec AND choose combinations – that’s supercharged by the fact that they can also spec countries. Kills neg burdens – it’s impossible for me to research every possible combination of medicines. Functional limits don’t check – each individual weapon has implications and articles as to why it is bad2~ Prep hazard – there are an infinite number of medicines they could possibly spec exploding neg prep – generics and functional limits don’t apply because each medicine has different effects, capabilities, and implications which makes there infinite arguments for each weapon being bad3~ TVA Solves – just read your aff as an advantage to a whole rez aff. We aren’t stopping them from reading new FWs, mechanisms, or advantages. PICs don’t solve – it’s ridiculous to say that neg potential abuse justifies the aff making it impossible for me to winFairness and education are voters – debate’s a game that needs rules to evaluate it and education gives us portable skills for life like research and thinking.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.Drop the debater – a) they have a 7-6 rebuttal advantage and the 2ar to make args I can’t respond to, b) it deters future abuse and sets a positive norm.Use competing interps – a) reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention since we don’t know your bs meterNo RVIs – a) illogical – you shouldn’t win for being fair – it’s a litmus test for engaging in substance, b) norming – I can’t concede the counterinterp if I realize I’m wrong which forces me to argue for bad norms | 9/18/21 |
SEPTOCT - T - PermanentTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough TZ | Judge: Rao, Abhishek 1NC – OFFInterpretation: reduce means to diminishIdao State Court of Appeals 03 AND a "reduction" under Colorado Cr. R. 35(b)). It has to be permanentNew York Supreme Court 3rd Appellate Division AND or degrade. The word "reduce" seems adequately to indicate permanency. Violation: their aff is temporaryVote neg for limits and ground – nonpermanent affs open the floodgates to delay and conditions affs that could hypothetically result in future reductions. These affs don’t materially change the status quo which destroys neg link uniqueness and avoids core topic questions of medical IP good/bad in favor of burner condition-of-the-week affs that gain advantages from the most extreme of crises.Cross apply paradigm issues from first shell. | 9/18/21 |
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