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1		-===Framing===
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4		-====Education and modes of knowledge are corrupted by Eurocentric thinking, meaning denouncing colonialism is a prior question. Reject any ethics that come from neutral standpoints because they're based on flawed Eurocentric knowledge, which propagates endless racism. The role of the ballot is challenging colonialism.====
5		-**Mignolo 9.** (William H. Wannamaker Professor of Romance Studies and Literature at Duke University and Director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, (Walter D., Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and Decolonial Freedom, Theory Culture Society, 2009 26: 159 – 182, SAGE) //RS
6		-Once upon a time scholars assumed that the knowing subject in the disciplines is transparent
7		-AND
8		-who take 'originality' as the ultimate criterion for the final judgment.1
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11		-====Theories that can't create material change in the real world are counter-productive and threaten actual solutions to oppression.====
12		-**Curry 14** (Tommy J. "The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century" (2014) Victory Briefs, p. 55-56 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Texas AandM)
13		-Despite the pronouncement of debate as an activity and intellectual exercise pointing to the real
14		-AND
15		-used to currently justify the living wages in under our contemporary moral parameters.
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18		-===Advocacy===
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21		-====Foreign companies exploit uranium mines in Niger, leaving the country with nothing but radioactive dust. Uranium mining allows western imperialists to deploy troops in Niger in the name of "protecting uranium mines." Nigeriens mine uranium for Western electricity.====
22		-**Moreno 13.** (Antonio Moreno. Anti-Imperialism.com is a website that provides news, analysis, and culture from a Communist perspective, featuring content that is relevant to the struggle against imperialism and for a revolutionary transformation of society. Anti-Imperialism.com functions as a popular website with news, commentary, essays, and other media for the growing tide of support for revolutionary global democracy., 4-23-2013, "U.S. Sets Up Drone Base In Niger, Further Expansion of War For Africa," Anti-Imperialism, https://anti-imperialism.com/2013/04/23/u-s-sets-up-drone-base-in-niger-further-expansion-of-war-for-africa/) //RS
23		-The U.S. has recently set up a permanent drone base in the
24		-AND
25		-up to the peoples of the world to bring and end to it.
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28		-====The US has normalized the use of militarist violence in Niger through intervening for uranium. This militarist ideology is seeping into Nigerien politics – protestors against uranium mines are massacred.====
29		-**Madsen 13.** (Wayne Madsen is a Investigative journalist, author and syndicated columnist. A member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the National Press Club Top of Form , 1-3-2013, "Obama's Military Presence In Niger: Uranium Control And Tuareg Suppression," Strategic Culture Foundation, http://www.strategic-culture.org/pview/2013/03/01/obama-military-presence-niger-uranium-control-tuareg-suppression.html) //RS
30		-President Obama's military incursion into Niger, ostensibly to establish a drone base to counter
31		-AND
32		-it will leave much of the world, including Niger, in shock.
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35		-====The ruthless capitalist pursuit of Niger's uranium propagates endless structural violence.====
36		-**Internationalists 13.** (The Internationalists: We are called internationalists because we believe that the interests of the exploited are the same all over the world, and that communism cannot be achieved in a single geographic area, a myth peddled as the truth by Stalinism. We, are therefore, bitterly opposed to Stalinism in all its varieties, for too long taken to be communism, both by the bourgeoisie and many generations of workers who looked to it in good faith when the ownership of industries, distribution, land, etc ... went from private to state hands, leaving capitalism's relations and all its parts (commodities, money, wages, profits, borders etc.) largely intact. This was not communism but a particular form of capitalism, state capitalism. After 1917 the economic blockade of the Soviet Union and the failure of the world revolution in the West meant that the revolution was transformed into its opposite, eventually becoming an imperialist bloc that would collapse after only seventy years. , 1-31-2013, "Niger: Act Two of French Imperialism's Campaign in West Africa," No Publication, http://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2013-02-03/niger-act-two-of-french-imperialismE28099s-campaign-in-west-africa) //RS
37		-It is obvious to everyone that a rapacious French imperialism intends to re-colonize
38		-AND
39		-class response to itself and that capitalist system which has continuously generated it.
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42		-====Corporate media has historically tainted our knowledge of Niger to justify uranium mining and US imperialism. Our literal reading of this aff is key to produce anti-Imperialist knowledge in the context of Niger.====
43		-**Argue 10.** Steven Argue, 2-21-2010, "U.S., French, andamp; UK Imperialist Hands off Niger! : NOLA Indymedia," No Publication, http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2010/02/14740.php //RS
44		-On February 18th the dictatorship of Mamadou Tandja was overthrown in Niger in a military
45		-AND
46		-of the Democrats, and ultimately through socialist revolution in the United States.
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49		-====Thus, my advocacy is that the Fifth Republic of Niger should prohibit the production of nuclear power. To clarify, the plan includes a ban on uranium mining.====
50		-**Thorpe 8.** (David Thorpe is a freelance environmental journalist and a news editor for Defra's Energy, Resource, Sustainable and Environmental Management magazine. He runs a blog, The Low Carbon Kid, and won a national competiton as a children's author with his novel Hybrids, published last May by HarperCollins, 12-5-2008, "David Thorpe: The effects of uranium mining are disastrous. To minimise the risks, the nuclear supply chain needs independent auditing," Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/dec/05/nuclear-greenpolitics) //RS
51		-The increased sourcing of raw uranium that will arise from nuclear new build is an
52		-AND
53		-the nuclear supply chain. Better, just leave it in the ground.
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56		-====Uranium mining and the nuclear cycle generate tons of emissions – everything at mining camps are run on diesel.====
57		-**Dowie 10.** (Mark Dowie Is An Investigative Historian and Award-Winning Journalist. He Is The Author Of Losing Ground, 2010, "Uranium Mining and Nuclear Power Will Not Offset Climate Change," No Publication, http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?zid=0d71851bccfbb51cf1d34a3bc4e8f558andamp;action=2andamp;catId=andamp;documentId=GALE7CEJ3010715206andamp;userGroupName=dep56001andamp;jsid=335487b2609ac6fc9c00866c1516873c) //RS
58		-Aside from the combined intentions of countries like China, Russia, India, Finland
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60		-thirty-one more licence applications before the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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63		-===U/V===
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66		-====Mining is a part of production of nuclear power.====
67		-**Rosenberg No Date.** (Dr Eureta Rosenberg and Claire Janisch, "Energy Considerations For Economics, Environment And Society," No Publication, http://www.enviropaedia.com/topic/default.php?topic_id=80andamp;page=2) //RS
68		-Nuclear reactors do not emit air pollution and greenhouse gases in the electricity generating process
69		-AND
70		-is officially opposed to the building of the proposed Pebble Bed Modular Reactor.
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73		-====Prefer our definition, it's from the topic lit –used in the same context as that of the resolution.====
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76		-====Fairness isn't a voter.====
77		-**Branson 07.** ~~Josh, NDT/TOC winner from Northwestern and St. Marks, Harvard Law school Graduate, Current lawyer; http://osdir.com/ml/education.region.usa.edebate/2007-11/msg00295.html~~
78		-There is no such thing as unfairness. If you respond to this and don't
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80		-the people that do it a lot tend to be the laziest ones.
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83		-====Prohibit is defined as: formally forbid (something) by law, rule, or other authority.====
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86		-====Prefer reasonable aff definitions: aff must establish an advocacy, but the neg can adapt to aff definitions, they can try to constrain and exclude the aff advocacy. I have no intention of turning this into a shell – it's just defense when theory or topicality is an issue.====

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1		-2016-10-16 15:10:58.0

Judge

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1		-Aaron Timmons

Opponent

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1		-Law Magnet MG

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1		-5

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1		-6

Team

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1		-Westwood Shhah Aff

Title

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1		-SEPTOCT ~-~- 1AC ~-~- Niger Uranium Mining

Tournament

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1		-St Marks