Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 5 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake MG | Judge: Rodrigo Paramo

Frame this round only in terms of education. You writing "Aff" on that paper has no impact on the USFG – the plan doesn't happen– you should focus on advocacy skills we can use as students – that's the neg. Our role of the ballot is to interrogate our ontology – that is the biggest internal link into education because it teaches us about us and those around us, allowing us to place our social location and existence in the context of a broader world.

This debate is question of mindset and ontology – the alternative  is a prerequisite to affirmative solvency because their ontological assumptions ensure serial policy failure –

Our interpretation: the judge should consider the mindset of the aff pre-fiat. Questions of mindset are key to advocacy skills – they affect how we advocate for improving the world every day.

Progress is the elaboration of civil society into the future. The politics of the 1AC can only reproduce the violence of the state -a state predicated off the violence of the black body- and their racial progress is only a justification for more violence –and create an Antiblack future.

Dillon 13 ~Stephen Dillon, Assistant Professor of Queer Studies at Hampshire College, Ph.D. in American Studies and Feminist / Sexuality Scholar, "'It's here, it's that time:' Race, queer futurity, and the temporality of violence in Born in Flames"~
In one of the first lines of the film, a state newscaster covering the
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specifically about the continuation of sexual violence in the revolution, they respond:

Impact: Time does not pass; it accumulates and as a result, blackness marked as slavery since the middle passage has remained a death sentence even in the present – there's a history of violence.

Dillon 13 ~Stephen Dillon, Assistant Professor of Queer Studies at Hampshire College, Ph.D. in American Studies and Feminist / Sexuality Scholar, "'It's here, it's that time:' Race, queer futurity, and the temporality of violence in Born in Flames"~
In Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of
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, but they are also temporal intensities that structure subjectivity and life chances.

The alternative is to burn down the conception of the future and time as a method to destroy the notions of temporality as we know it in order to stop the accumulation of time. Black bodies are always already dying and always have been – there is no tomorrow for those who die tonight. There is no time to care about their impacts when they are always already systematically destroyed in society.

Dillon 13 ~Stephen Dillon, Assistant Professor of Queer Studies at Hampshire College, Ph.D. in American Studies and Feminist / Sexuality Scholar, "'It's here, it's that time:' Race, queer futurity, and the temporality of violence in Born in Flames"~
In his 1972 text Blood in My Eye, published shortly after he was shot
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. The future was not coming and so the present could not wait.

Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 2 | Opponent: Union BS | Judge: Varad Agarwala

Nuclear energy is becoming one of the main sources of electricity for most countries – energy production will only increase with time

WNA 16 1 (The World Nuclear Association (WNA) is the international organization that promotes nuclear power and supports the companies that comprise the global nuclear industry. Its members come from all parts of the nuclear fuel cycle, including uranium mining, uranium conversion, uranium enrichment, nuclear fuel fabrication, plant manufacture, transport, and the disposition of used nuclear fuel as well as electricity generation itself. http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/nuclear-power-in-the-world-today.aspx JC)
In the 1950s attention turned to the peaceful purposes of nuclear fission, notably for
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The rest of the improvement is due to better performance from existing units.

Nuclear energy is cheaper than coal – switching now will increase costs.

WNA 16 2("The Economics of Nuclear Power" The World Nuclear Association (WNA) is the international organization that promotes nuclear power and supports the companies that comprise the global nuclear industry. Its members come from all parts of the nuclear fuel cycle, including uranium mining, uranium conversion, uranium enrichment, nuclear fuel fabrication, plant manufacture, transport, and the disposition of used nuclear fuel as well as electricity generation itself. http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-aspects/economics-of-nuclear-power.aspx JC)
There have been many studies carried out examining the economics of future generation options,
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5-4.5 c/kWh, depending greatly on fuel price

Electricity is key to the economy – even a 10 decreases causes an irreversible collapse

NRECA 15 (NRECA is the national service organization for more than 900 not-for-profit rural electric cooperatives and public power districts providing retail electric service to more than 42 million consumers in 47 states and whose retail sales account for approximately 12 percent of total electricity sales in the United States. "New Study Highlights Impact of Increased Electricity Prices" http://www.nreca.coop/new-study-highlights-impact-of-increased-electricity-prices/ JC)
The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) released a new economic study detailing
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by electric cooperatives is 11.5 percent less than the national average.

Impacts – Choose 1

War

Economic decline causes war and an increased threat of terror attacks – multiple warrants.

Royal, 2010, in Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives' eds. Goldsmith and Brauer, ~Director Cooperative Threat Reduction DOD, Jedediah~, p. 213-215
Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict
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with external conflict at systemic, dyadic and national levels. This implied connection

SV

Economic decline disproportionally affect the black body racializing their daily lives and making their recovery inevitable.

White 15' (http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/black-recession-housing-race/396725/
The ~A~ recession, while painful for everyone, was especially ~is
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slim, even as white Americans start to get back on their feet.

Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 5 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake MG | Judge: Rodrigo Paramo

We endorse the genealogy of the affirmative absent their prescription for action via an advocacy statement - Ending your genealogy with the simple, easily-digestible recommendation that we “insert advocacy” ruins the entire point of genealogical investigation in the first place – Foucault wrote genealogies as a direct rejection of Lenin's question "What is to be done?" – by providing a direct instruction manual for political action, the affirmative has corrupted the unsettling critical potential of genealogy – the goal of our genealogy is to make you feel uncomfortable with everything about how we are currently acting, and that uneasiness cannot be achieved if we tell you exactly what to do

lyvberg and Richardon 2 – dept of development @ Aalborg University (Bent, Aalborg University, Department of Development and Planning and Tim, University of Sheffield, Department of Town and Regional Planning, Planning and Foucault: In Search of the Dark Side of Planning Theory, http://flyvbjerg.plan.aau.dk/DarkSide2.pdf
3. Towards Foucault Instead of side-stepping or seeking to remove the traces
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versus 'constitution' thinking, about struggle versus control, conflict versus consensus.

Genealogical strategies are easily coopted unless there is an unending, constant stream of critical investigation and epistemic questioning – their concrete advocacy is a closure of epistemic uncertainty in favor of a universal truth of what should be done – turns all of case and solidifies new hegemonies

Medina 11 prof @ Vanderbilt (Jose, Toward a Foucaultian Epistemology of Resistance: Counter-Memory, Epistemic Friction, and Guerrilla Pluralism, Foucault Studies, No. 12, pp. 9-35, October 2011)
As Foucault puts it, genealogies can be described as the ‚attempt to desubjugate
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conversation with other epistemological pluralistic approaches to memory and knowledge of the past.

Tournament: Plano Senior | Round: 1 | Opponent: C | Judge: C

NASA DA

Space leadership high now but sustained exploration key

Empsak 3/16 (Jesse Empsak , a freelance science writer based in New York City. His work has appeared in Scientific American, The Economist, New Scientist, "Space Race Losers? US Leadership in Danger, Report Warns", http://www.space.com/32185-united-states-space-exploration-leadership.html_ , March 8th, 2016 ) AP
The United States could lose its long-held leadership position in space science,
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should be one sentence: 'Space is good — keep investing.'"

RPS key to maintain future space exploration

Nasa 14 (This is from the NASA official government website. NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA was started in 1958 as a part of the United States government. NASA is in charge of U.S. science and technology that has to do with airplanes or space. "Radioisoptope power systems". https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/rps/overview.cfm. August 19th, 2014)AP
In 2011 the National Academy of Sciences completed a major study of the priorities for
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would maintain NASA's current space science capabilities and enable future space exploration missions.

RPS is the only possible long term fuel system for space exploration

Nasa 14 (This is from the NASA official government website. NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA was started in 1958 as a part of the United States government. NASA is in charge of U.S. science and technology that has to do with airplanes or space. "Radioisoptope power systems". https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/rps/overview.cfm. August 19th, 2014)AP
Power is the one thing a spacecraft cannot do without. Without the technology to
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That heat is produced by the natural radioactive decay of plutonium-238.

Deep Space exploration key to reestablishing faltering STEM leadership

Tina beller sharing a report by Col. Robert S. Kimbrough 13(Col. Robert S. Kimbrough, Chief of Robotics at the NASA Astronaut Office, who is a former alumnus and assistant professor of mathematics at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. "Army Astronaut promotes STEM, inspires space exploration "https://www.army.mil/article/102748. May 7th, 2013) AP
Becoming an astronaut takes more than just high physical fitness scores, mental abilities and
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can thrust forward and reestablish our country's position as the superpower of STEM." 

Failure of American space leadership allows China to overtake the US, causing conflict by miscalculation.

Dowd, 2K9
(Alan, Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute, Surrendering Outer Space, http://www.fraseramerica.org/commerce.web/article_details.aspx?pubID=6853 ~accessed 6/19/11~)
"I am concerned that America's real and perceived leadership in the standing of the
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"This situation will naturally and understandably lead to hedging against the unknown."

War with China causes extinction

Straits Times 6-25-2000
THE high-intensity scenario postulates a cross-strait war escalating into a full
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should that come to pass, we would see the destruction of civilisation.

Tournament: Plano Senior | Round: 1 | Opponent: A | Judge: A

CP-Thorium Reactors

1NC

Text: The aff actor ought to replace all uranium based reactors with thorium based reactors

Solvency

====CP solves the aff—Thorium based reactors have much better accident safeguards, produce significantly less nuclear waste, are extremely difficult to proliferate, and thorium is mined much more environmentally friendly than uranium====
Warmflash, David. "Thorium Power Is the Safer Future of Nuclear Energy."Discover. Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2015. Web. 15 Aug. 2016. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/01/16/thorium-future-nuclear-energy/~~#.V7JsF5grKUk.
Nuclear power has long been a contentious topic. It generates huge amounts of electricity
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term – and to dramatically improve the world's energy sustainability in the process.

And, the CP is mutually exclusive—you can't prohibit nuclear power production and create more means to do so—perm is severance

And, 2 net benefits to the CP—it doesn't link to the Navy subs or warming DA