Tournament: Loyola | Round: 3 | Opponent: Brentwood RY | Judge: Kris Kaya

Counterplan: north korea should increase its desal plants

Viable in poorer and water-stressed areas—SMRs key

IAEA 7
"Economics of Nuclear Desalination: New Developments and Site Specific Studies", July, http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/te_1561_web.pdf
 With technical co-ordination or support of the IAEA, several demonstration programs
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appropriate for remote areas that are not suitable for connections to the grid.

Massive global water shortages are coming now—population growth, climate change, higher standard of living

Specter 15
~Michael Specter—staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998, and has written frequently about AIDS, T.B., and malaria in the developing world, as well as about agricultural biotechnology, avian influenza, the world's diminishing freshwater resources, and synthetic biology; "A Thirsty, Violent World," Feb 24 2015, New Yorkr~ dz
Dozens of other countries face similar situations—not someday, or soon, but
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going to be profound changes in the water cycle due to climate change."

Only desalination can meet growing water shortages

Orts 13
~Eric Orts, Faculty Director, Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership; "The Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water," Jun 2013, Wharton~dz
Once we exhaust the world's supply of fresh water, there isn't any more.
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a Year as World Water Dries Up," declared a recent Bloomberg headline.

Only nuclear power provides sufficient energy for desalination

IAEA 15 ~— widely known as the world's "Atoms for Peace" organization within the United Nations family. Set up in 1957 as the world's centre for cooperation in the nuclear field, the Agency works with its Member dz
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for coupling nuclear reactors and desalination systems for specific sites in the Mediterranean region

The impact is accelerating water crises—escalate and cause extinction

Gallagher 15
~Brian Gallagher—assistant research editor at Nautilus; "Why A Post-Nuclear World Would Look Nothing Like "Mad Max"," Nautilus, Jun 27 2015~ dz
Mad Max: Fury Road envisions an embarrassing, nightmarish future. Worldwide droughts have
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, there would no longer be billions of people drinking the world dry.

Tournament: Any | Round: 1 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any
Message me on Facebook for disclosure information. I only disclose stuff that are mine, but I'll talk about my previous strats and stuff.

Tournament: Loyola | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Servite PA | Judge: Panel

Biblical Christianity justifies racism and slavery

Giberson, Religion PHD, 15
Karl Giberson, Ph.D, Professor of Science and Religion, Stonehill College 6-24-2015, "The Biblical Roots of Racism," Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karl-giberson-phd/the-biblical-roots-of-racism_b_7649390.html
The tragic shooting in South Carolina offers another painful reminder of American Christianity's troubled relationship
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will be struggling with its mixed messages about the meaning of the races.

This is an independent voting issue-racism must be rejected in every cases

Memmi 2k (Albert, Professor Emeritus of Sociology @ University Of Paris; RACISM, translated by Steve Martinot, pp.163)

The struggle against racism will be long, difficult, without intermission, without
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. True, it is a wager, but the stakes are irresistible.

You cannot separate the debaters from the discourse-this is an independent voting issue

Vincent 13
Chris Vincent, Re-Conceptualizing our Performances: Accountability in Lincoln Douglas Debate, Vbriefly, 2013.  NS
The question then becomes how does our discourse justify what we believe? For many
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color, and in turn destroy the transformative potential this community could have.

Tournament: Loyola | Round: 5 | Opponent: Del Mar FK | Judge: Scott Wheeler

their speech act undermines vital military strategy

EYAGO 05 Political Commentary – Sound Politics Reporter ~7/8, http://www.soundpolitics.com/archives/004721.html, Sound Commentary on Current Events in Seattle, Puget Sound and Washington State~
Finally, I am angry at those who undermine our efforts to conduct this war
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our public leaders. What they do for political gain is completely unconscionable.

Heg solves several scenarios for war and extinction

Bradley A. Thayer, November/December, 2006 "In Defense of Primacy," NATIONAL INTEREST Issue 86
THROUGHOUT HISTORY, peace and stability have been great benefits of an era where there
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, for the United States humanitarian missions are the equivalent of a blitzkrieg.

Vote neg to align ourselves with hegemony – the academic sphere of debate is key

Mearsheimer 1995 Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago. West Point graduate, retired Air Force officer (John, Professor Political Science at the University of Chicago, International Security, Summer, p. 93)
The discussion of institutions up to now has a distinct academic flavor. However,
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-causing effects of institutions until they have solid evidence to support their positions

Tournament: Loyola | Round: 3 | Opponent: Brentwood RY | Judge: Kris Kaya

Securitization of North Korean war turns case – ethical obligation to reject it

Bleiker 5 – Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland (Roland, "Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland," University of Minnesota Press, google books, x-xi)
The dangers of North Korea's nuclear brinkmanship are evident and much discussed. Miscalculation or
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with new and more sensitive attempts to address the dilemmas of Korean security. 

North Korean threat is socially constructed and racist —- motivates imperial aggression and conflict

Lal 09 (Prerna, JD – George Washington University and MA in International Relations – San Franscisco State University, "North Korea Is Not a Threat – Unveiling Hegemonic Discourses", 4-5, http://prernalal.com/2009/04/ north-korea-is-not-a-threat-unveiling-hegemonic-discourses/)
That security is socially constructed does not mean that there are not to be found
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be an entity sometime in the near future and become into Korea again. 

Representations of North Korea are rooted in ideological hegemony not objective data

David Shim, Phd Candidate @ GIGA Institute of Asian Studies, 08 ~Paper prepared for presentation at the 2008 ISA, Production, Hegemonization and Contestation of Discursive Hegemony: The Case of the Six-Party Talks in Northeast Asia, www.allacademic.com/meta/p253290_index.html~
Laclau and Mouffe's (2001: chapter 2) concept of hegemony, which is
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practices of problematizing North Korea took place even before an action was done. 

Their representations are a product of imperialism and media bias

Alexandra Homolar-Riechmann, @ Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and Kings College, 09 ~Prepared for delivery at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, "Rebels without a cause: US foreign policy and the concept of rogue states," p. allacademic~
The 1993-94 North Korean nuclear crisis had a profound impact on the development
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, politics, and policies (cf. Bleiker 2003; Smith 2000). 

Cold War conceptions of Asia aren't true anymore – disproving the myth of an apocalyptic North Korea is key

Kang 03. David (Professor of International Relations and Business, Director of Korean Studies Institute), Getting Asia Wrong: The Need for New Analytical Frameworks International Security, Volume 27, Number 4, Spring 2003, pp. 57-85 MUSE
Following the end of the Cold War in 1991, some scholars in the West
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" response is mere rhetorical wordplay designed to avoid trou-  bling evidence.    

Threat discourse distracts from mass structural violence — that outweighs

Jackson 12—Director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, the University of Otago. Former. Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University (8/5/12, Richard, The Great Con of National Security, http://richardjacksonterrorismblog.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/the-great-con-of-national-security/)
It may have once been the case that being attacked by another country was a
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terrorism. Somehow, we need to challenge the politicians on this fact.

Teaching fear is the infusion point of militarism – justifies perpetual war, colonialism, and academic racism – rejection destabilizes the foundations of interventionism – a-priori issue of your ballot

Nguyen 14 ~Nicole, Department of Cultural Foundations of Education at Syracuse University, January 21, "Education as Warfare?: Mapping Securitised Education Interventions as War on Terror Strategy," Vol. 1 No. 1, pg. 20-6~
Since September 11, the US has renewed its focus on domestic education as a
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critical thinking for democratic participation to training young people for the war on terror