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9/10/16
2 - Terror Talk K
Tournament: Loyola | Round: 6 | Opponent: Arcadia JC | Judge: Nick Steele Before we engage in policy discussion, we must examine the media to guarantee undistorted and accurate information. Steuter and Wills 09, Steuter, Erin and Wills, Deborah. “Discourses in Dehumanization: Enemy Construction and Canadian Media Complicity in the Framing of the War on Terror.” Global Media Journal: Volume 2, Issue 2, pp. 7-24 (2009). http://www.gmj.uottawa.ca/0902/v2i2_steuter20and20wills.pdf The data collected in this AND to national, even global safety. The Affirmative neglects key issues of state terror by ignoring politically motivated violence against the East, thereby reflecting the distorted lens of terrorist rhetoric. Kapitan 03, Kapitan, Tomis. “The Terrorism of ‘Terrorism’.” Terrorism and International Justice (Oxford, 2003), 47-66. http://www.niu.edu/phil/~kapitan/pdf/TheTerrorismofTerrorism.pdf A further point is that AND which such judgments give rise. And, the rhetoric of fear around terror recreates and expands itself in the representations of western media and discourse – the threat of terrorism is a social construction. Martin 85, Martin, L. John. “The Media's Role in International Terrorism.” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 1985. http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~surette/mediasrole.html While terrorist incidents are fairly AND drawing power of the story? Impact—misinformation, racism, and genocidal violence against the other—empirics prove we are only a few steps from genocide. Steuter and Wills 09, Steuter, Erin and Wills, Deborah. “Discourses in Dehumanization: Enemy Construction and Canadian Media Complicity in the Framing of the War on Terror.” Global Media Journal: Volume 2, Issue 2, pp. 7-24 (2009). http://www.gmj.uottawa.ca/0902/v2i2_steuter20and20wills.pdf The metaphors that collectively construct AND framed, responded to and understood. Terrorist rhetoric is the root of the problem—turns case. Kapitan 03, Kapitan, Tomis. “The Terrorism of ‘Terrorism’.” Terrorism and International Justice (Oxford, 2003), 47-66. http://www.niu.edu/phil/~kapitan/pdf/TheTerrorismofTerrorism.pdf More dramatically, the ‘terrorist’ rhetoric AND result through violence against civilians. 16 The alternative is rejecting the discourse of terrorism in favor of examining the circumstances wherein violence against civilians is see as a necessary route of resistance. Rejection of this discourse encourages and initiates real political solutions. Kapitan 03, Kapitan, Tomis. “The Terrorism of ‘Terrorism’.” Terrorism and International Justice (Oxford, 2003), 47-66. http://www.niu.edu/phil/~kapitan/pdf/TheTerrorismofTerrorism.pdf There are legitimate ways of AND the civilized discourse of today. 25
9/11/16
3 - Util NC
Tournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Crossroads NS | Judge: Fred Ditzian First, only impacts and values that exist in the physical world are relevant. Physical realism is the only meaningful ontological theory of being. Donald Williams. “Naturalism and the Nature of Things.” The Philosophical Review, Vol. 53, No. 5 (Sep., 1944), pp. 417-443. Duke UP. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2181355 Casting up our accounts to AND of a spatio-temporal hypersphere Second, consequences are the only values we can experience. Harris 10’ Sam Harris 2010. CEO Project Reason; PHD UCLA Neuroscience; BA Stanford Philosophy. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values.” I believe that we will AND the foundation of all values. All non-consequentialist theories collapse to consequentialism. Two warrants - first, since real-world acts never contain the certainty necessary for absolute obligations, and second since inaction fails to resolve moral dilemmas. Peterson 10 Peterson 10 “A Royal Road to Consequentialism?” Martin Peterson (Section for Philosophy and Ethics, Eindhoven University of Technology). Ethic Theory Moral Prac (2010) 13:153–169 Briefly put, the main idea AND of a cardinal utility scale. If there’s even a risk of ethical uncertainty, we should always prioritize the survival of the human race to ensure future value. Bostrom 12 Nick Bostrom. Faculty of Philosophy and Oxford Martin School University of Oxford. “Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority.” Global Policy (2012) These reflections on moral uncertainty AND must prevent any existential catastrophe. The standard is minimizing existential risk
9/10/16
SEPOCT - Electricity DA
Tournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Crossroads NS | Judge: Fred Ditzian Nuclear Power Provides global electricity and many industrialized countries depend on it for up to 75 of their power WNA 15 World Nuclear Association, February 2015, Nuclear Power in the World Today, http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Current-and-Future-Generation/Nuclear-Power-in-the-World-Today/ DOA: 8-11-15 In the 1950s attention turned AND on intermittent sources has grown. Closing nuclear power plants causes electricity prices to rise. Mark Perry 4/11 (full professor of economics at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan, where he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in economics and finance since 1996. Starting in the fall of 2009, Perry has also held a joint appointment as a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Perry holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University and an MBA degree in finance from the University of Minnesota). “What happens when a nuclear power plant is shut down” The Detroit News. April 11, 2016. http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2016/04/11/nuclear-power-plant-closed/82923486/. A recent study indicates that AND 2 — employ nearly 3,000 people.
9/10/16
SEPOCT - Future Reactors T
Tournament: Loyola | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Palo Alto FZ | Judge: Sherwood, Fried, OKrent A. Interpretation: The affirmative may not defend a prohibition on nuclear power in a country that does not currently produce nuclear power
Tournament: Loyola | Round: 6 | Opponent: Arcadia JC | Judge: Nick Steele Japan economy rising Harding and Wells 5/18 (Robin and Peter Japan GDP growth rate jumps to 1.7 Financial Times 5/18/16 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/866509c8-1c8e-11e6-a7bc-ee846770ec15.html#axzz4J3ZzXFgL Acc 9/2/16) CW Japan’s economy grew at an AND the data had been bad. Japan nuclear phase out explodes debt via vicious cycle Belogolova 13 – staff editor (Olga Why Japan Can't Quit Nuclear Power 2/14/13 Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/02/why-japan-cant-quit-nuclear-power/437028/ Acc 9/2/16)CW If Japan goes to zero AND a miserable path," Hirai says. Renewables fail – infrastructure can’t support growth and permits are complicated – XA to renewables – my evidence is comparative to the solar energy movement Jackson 16(Joe Despite nuclear fears, Japan solar energy sector slow to catch on 1/23/16 Al Jazeera America http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2016/1/23/japan-solar-energy-nuclear-fears.html Acc 9/3/16) CW However, growth has come almost AND to build projects,” said Franklin. High debt to GDP ratio in Japan kills the world economy Hutchinson 15 – international merchant banker (Martin Collapse of Abenomics Threatens Global Stability Wall Street Daily 8/31/15 http://www.wallstreetdaily.com/2015/08/31/japan-gross-domestic-product-gdp/ Acc 9/2/16) CW First, Japanese savers hold the AND world markets won’t be pretty. Econ collapse means extinction. Kerpen 08 Phil Kerpen , National Review Online, October 29, 2008 , Don't Turn Panic Into Depression, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/29/opinion/main4555821.shtml It’s important that we avoid AND on an even greater scale.
9/11/16
SEPOCT - Japan PTX DA
Tournament: Loyola | Round: 6 | Opponent: Arcadia JC | Judge: Nick Steele Shinzo Abe pushing for constitutional revision of Article 9 – just shy of PC required Walters 7/26 (Riley Electoral Win for Japanese Prime Minister Draws International Concern Providence Mag 7/26/16 https://providencemag.com/2016/07/electoral-win-japanese-prime-minister-draws-international-concern/ Acc 9/1/16) CW As the longest serving Prime AND remain the public’s top concern. Nuclear phase-out extremely popular Kingston 13 (Jeff Will the real Shinzo Abe emerge after Diet success? CNN 23 July 2013 http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/23/opinion/japan-real-abe-kingston/index.html Acc 9/1/16) CW Abe also faces stiff public AND be trumped by political expediency. Constitution revision causes explosive East Asian arms race Siegel 07 (Michael T. Questioning the Rationale for Changing Japan’s Peace Constitution Asia-Pacific Geopolitics: Hegemony Vs. Human Security ed. Joseph A. Camilleri pp. 75-92 1/1/07 Google Books Acc 9/1/16) CW For almost sixty years, Japan AND the risks that that entails. East Asian arms race triggers global annihilation. Ogura and Oh 97 Toshimaru Ogura and Ingyu Oh are professors of economics, April, “Nuclear clouds over the Korean peninsula and Japan,” 1997Accessed July 10, 2008 via Lexis-Nexis (Monthly Review) North Korea, South Korea, and AND escalate into a global conflagration.
9/11/16
SEPOCT - MSR CP
Tournament: Loyola | Round: 3 | Opponent: Elite of Irvine CL | Judge: Adam Torson Counterplan text: All countries will convert all nuclear power plants into Transatomic Power molten salt reactors – solves waste, prolif, accidents Research Career 14 (Grant to shake-up nuclear design with salty new reactor 8/19/14 http://www.researchcareer.com.au/archived-news/grant-to-shake-up-nuclear-design-with-salty-new-reactor Acc 9/3/16) CW An experimental energy company has AND commercial-scale model by 2020.
9/10/16
SEPOCT - Warming DA
Tournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Crossroads NS | Judge: Fred Ditzian Prohibiting nuclear power means warming can’t be solved – impracticality of renewables combined with a switch to coal only makes warming worse. Harvey ‘12 Fiona Harvey - award-winning environment journalist for the Guardian, used to work for financial times. “Nuclear power is only solution to climate change, says Jeffrey Sachs.” The Guardian. May 3, 2012. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/may/03/nuclear-power-solution-climate-change *bracketing in original Combating climate change will require AND of climate scientists," he said. Warming leads to extinction – multiple scenarios prove. Roberts ‘13 David Roberts - staff writer for Grist. “If you aren’t alarmed about climate, you aren’t paying attention.” Grist. January 10, 2013. http://grist.org/climate-energy/climate-alarmism-the-idea-is-surreal/ There was recently another one AND level of alarm is adequate?
9/10/16
SEPOCT - Warming DA Loyola R3
Tournament: Loyola | Round: 3 | Opponent: Elite of Irvine CL | Judge: Adam Torson Nuclear power is currently progressing – many reactors are being built with only more planned. Groskopf ‘01/26 Christopher Groskopf – reporter. “New nuclear reactors are being built a lot more like cars.” Quartz. January 26, 2016. http://qz.com/581566/new-nuclear-reactors-are-being-built-a-lot-more-like-cars/ At its birth, nuclear power AND make a much greater difference. Newest studies prove – warming is real, anthropogenic, and almost certainly caused by emissions from fossil fuels. Phys ‘8/24 Phys.org. “Humans have caused climate change for 180 years: study.” Phys.org. August 24, 2016. Originally provided by Australia National University from Nature Journal. http://phys.org/news/2016-08-humans-climate-years.html An international research project has AND away from the frozen continent. Prohibiting nuclear power means warming can’t be solved – impracticality of renewables combined with a switch to coal only makes warming worse. Harvey ‘12 Fiona Harvey - award-winning environment journalist for the Guardian, used to work for financial times. “Nuclear power is only solution to climate change, says Jeffrey Sachs.” The Guardian. May 3, 2012. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/may/03/nuclear-power-solution-climate-change *bracketing in original Combating climate change will require AND of climate scientists," he said. Warming leads to extinction – multiple scenarios prove. Roberts ‘13 David Roberts - staff writer for Grist. “If you aren’t alarmed about climate, you aren’t paying attention.” Grist. January 10, 2013. http://grist.org/climate-energy/climate-alarmism-the-idea-is-surreal/ There was recently another one AND level of alarm is adequate? Warming perpetuates black inequality Hoerner 8—Former director of Research at the Center for a Sustainable Economy, Director of Tax Policy at the Center for Global Change at the University of Maryland College Park, and editor of Natural Resources Tax Review. He has done research on environmental economics and policy on behalf of the governments of Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States. Andrew received his B.A. in Economics from Cornell University and a J.D. from Case Western Reserve School of Law—AND—Nia Robins—former inaugural Climate Justice Corps Fellow in 2003, director of Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (J. Andrew, “A Climate of Change African Americans, Global Warming, and a Just Climate Policy for the U.S.” July 2008, http://www.ejcc.org/climateofchange.pdf) Everywhere we turn, the issues and impacts AND by 3 to 4 percent.