Bronx+Science+BM+neg

Judge: Malcolm Gordon
Aff = Cure for AIDS

Case Args:
1. Their author Cantwell has retracted his argument that the government created HIV – new evidence indicates a benign reason as to why AIDS spread. Maxwell, '5 (Mary, “Their hearts were young and gay – Is AIDS murder-by-government?”, http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_323.shtml, 12/12/05) Let's start with Alan ... More on that later. 2. The Nobel Prize winner they cite as support their claims is an environmental activist who admits she doesn't know where AIDS originated from – it's all speculation. Time, '4 (“10 Questions: Wangari Maathai”, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901041018-713166,00.html, 10/10/04) Kenyan environmental activist Wangari ... the Nobel Peace Prize. [continued...] YOU'VE SAID AIDS IS ... not be too exposed. 3. The US is not responsible for AIDS in Africa – HIV in America is a different strain. Cantwell, '5 (Alan, “Is AIDS a Man-Made Virus? Special Report”, http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read.html?id=5420) It is clear that ... not originate in Africa. 4. Our rhetoric is not racist or homophobic – we don't argue that it's the victims fault for spreading the disease. There's no link. 1. The AIDS crisis is not genocide – AIDS is not only killing Africa or homosexuals. White heterosexual males have AIDS too. If white heterosexual males, for instance, are so much more important as they say then the US would have stopped the AIDS crisis to save them. 2. AIDS won't cause extinction A. Our impacts outweigh Bostrom, '2 (Nick, “Existential risks,” Vol. 9 March http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html) Risks in this sixth ... fate of our species. B. Immunity will come first The UK Observer, Sunday February 3, 2002, date accessed 6/29/2007, http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,644001,00.html Some scientists believe the ... resistance to the disease. 1. Tetrasil doesn't solve – their boyd graves evidence is terrible. He continually says that “he believes” Tetrasil is the answer. He has no conclusive evidence. His only warrant is that a similar compound called Tetra silver is a ble to clean water in a pool,so Tetrasil must clean stop AIDS as well. 2. Africa will reject Tetrasil – there's already a backlash. They believe it's a pesticide. Medical News Today, '7 (“Zambian Government Announces That Reported HIV/AIDS Cure Found to Pesticide”, http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/73084.php, 6/6/07) The Zambian government on ... clinical trials are conducted.”
 * Contention I**
 * Contention II**
 * Solvency**

Off Case Args:
LOS will pass—Senate views through national security lens The Daily Yomiuri 3-25-2008. [U.S. taking steps toward ratification of U.N. convention, p. lexis] Another change is that ... expand the PSI regime. The plan costs political capital Jim Lehrer, President Bush in Africa, July 7, 2003. It encourages debate and ... is in fact is. Empirically, losers lose – plan spills over to undermine support for UNCLOS Chicago Tribune, '4 [U.S. stalls on ratifying sea pact, ln] Despite most officials' support ... require a lengthy debate. Ratification necessary for global protection of marine biodiversity Patricia Bauerlein, '95 [17 Loy. L.A. Int'l & Comp. L.J. 899, ln] Rather than implement a ... in marine resource protection. Oceanic environment destruction results in extinction Robin Craig, '3 [Winter, 34 McGeorge L. Rev. 155, ln] Most ecologists agree that ... is not necessarily unique. A. Values precede facts. Our karmic approach to the world determines how the world operates. There is no objective existence. Peter D. Hershock, '3 (Philosophy East & West 53.2, April) Among the Buddha's central ... situated as they are. B. Technologies of Control 1. The 1AC is a technology of control by using the law to mediate engagement with the world. This destroys karmic interconnectedness in favor of perpetual regulation, turning the case. Peter D. Hershock, '99 (Journal of Buddhist Ethics Vol. 6, “Changing the Way Society Changes”) Until now, social activists ... intimacy with all things. 2. The destruction of our karmic interconnectedness guarantees annihilation. Quinney, 00 [Richard, “Bearing Witness to Crime and Social Justice”] Suffering is the condition ... what we have thought. C. Alternative Vote negative against the 1AC as a technology of control. Resisting the impulse to short-term solutions in favor of karmic interconnectedness opens the possibility for dramatic and meaningful change. Hershock, '99 [Peter D., “Reinventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information Age”. suny press 1999] According to Hershock's analysis ... we might be headed. Text: The People's Republic of China should distribute Tetrasil to all topically-designated areas. Next is solvency, A. Tetrasil can easily be made. That's how their solvency advocate was able to receive the Tetrasil treatment. Boyd Graves '4 (“AIDS IS MAN MADE: INTERVIEW WITH BOYD GRAVES, INTERVIEWED BY SULTAN MOHAMMAD, FEATURED IN FINAL CALL NEWS, OCTOBER 5, [|HTTP://WWW.FINALCALL.COM/ARTMAN/PUBLISH/ARTICLE_1597.SHTML]) SM: Did you receive ... simple compound to make. B. China successfully reverse-engineers drugs – Pfizer proves. Dorgan 6 (Senator Byron L, __Take This Job and Ship It__, Google Books) Consider the case of ... that is called stealing. 1. Food aid's up now and more's coming David R. Sands, staff writer, 4-19-2008 [Washington Times, Global hunger prods nations, p. lexis] The Bush administration this ... places around the globe.” 2. New foreign assistance projects force budget trade-offs. Randall L. Tobias, 3-28-2007. [FY2008 Budget Hearing for Foreign Assistance Before the Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Agencies, p. http://www.usaid.gov/press/speeches/2007/ty070328.html] Focusing resources in this ... into the base budget. 3. Empirically, health trades-off with food assistance. Nita Lowey (D-NY) 3-21-2007. [Hearting of the State Foreign Operations and Related Programs Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, p. lexis] It seems the major ... cut by $400 million. Time and money are key—lack of funds will cause mass starvation. Samuel Loewenberg, 3-26-2008. [Politico, Bush in food aid fight with Congress, p. http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=F0FAD0FC-3048-5C12-0020C00A93046CE7] “It is terribly risky ... enough, people can die.” Trade-offs lead to disaster. Sean Callahan, 5-25-2006. [CQ Testimony, Committee on House International Relations Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations, “Food Aid,” p. lexis] The danger today is ... multi-year food security programs. Failure to specify agent in the 1AC justifies rejection. A. Effective policy discussion for health assistance requires specification. Lael Brainard, '2 (DAC Journal, “Organizing Foreign Assistance to Meet 21st Century Challenges, Google) The current sprawl of ... primary soft power levers. B. The agent is the biggest problem for spending, politics and even relations. John T. Bennett, 10/1/07 (http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=3070041&C=america) “I have had the ... a forum in Washington. C. Aff conditionality is uniquely bad. They can mutate the plan after hearing our strategy, make all negative strategies irrelevant.
 * LOST D/A**
 * Buddhism K**
 * China CP**
 * Food Aid Tradeoff DA**
 * ASPEC**

Block Strategy:
2NC kicked K, went for CP, case & ASPEC 1NR kicked LOST & answers environment K, went for Food Aid D/A

2nr Strategy:
C/P + Food D/A