Stratford+Academy+CK+-+Brian+Cole+&+William+Karlson+neg

Case Args:
Existence > ontology -- Wapner Heidegger is a Nazi Always value to life

Off Case Args:
ANWR Politics D/A** Bush is pushing for ANWR drilling Reuters 12-19-07 (“US Congress has big appetite for energy issues” Wednesday December 19 2007 By Chris Baltimore http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7165650) Landmark U.S. energy legislation ... in dispute,” Book said. Bush has no political capital Republican American 12-30-07, http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2007/12/30/opinion/307678.txt) Fellow Republicans whose earmarks ... past administrations and Congresses. Political capital is key to ANWR drilling Petral.com no date (Last mod in 31-Jan-2005, http://www.petral.com/docs/view_anwrcrude.pdf) However, the decision to ... of substantial political capital. Methane hydrate deposits are located on the North Slope of Alaska. Drilling for oil in ANWR could cause a release of these hydrates, which will lead to global warming Mielke 00 (James E., “RS20050: Methane Hydrates: Energy Prospect or Natural Hazard?” CRS Report for Congress. Feb. 14, 2000, http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRSreports/energy/eng-46.cfm?&CFID=15284369&CFTOKEN=99195247.) In the Arctic where ... to cause climate warming. Methane release empirically risk extinction and runaway warming Baltimore Sun 04 (“Methane Burps: Ticking Time Bomb” 15 Dec 2004 by Baltimore Sun by John Atcheson http://energybulletin.net/3647.html) There are enormous quantities ... out all the way. “Public health” is government prevention of infectious disease by containing its vectors through germ theory Kinney, '2 (Eleanor D., “FIELDS OF LAW: Administrative Law and the Public's Health,” 30 J.L. Med. & Ethics 212, summer, lexis) Early public health regulation...to public health concerns. n4 History of public health is key to clarify the field Labisch, '98 (Alfons, “History of Public Healh—History in Public Health: Looking Back and Looking Forward,” Social History of Medicine 1998 11(1):1-13, google) The history of public ... and factors of development. An early historical model of public health is essential to effective policy and preventing inappropriate government activities Rothstein, '2 (Mark A., Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 30 (2002): 144-149.) In common parlance, “public ... avoid inappropriate government activities. Older idea of public health ensures better allocation of resources Epstein, '4 (Richard A., “In Denfese of the “Old” Public Health: The Legal Framework for the Regulation of Public Health” - 69 Brooklyn L. Rev. 1421 lexis) In approaching this hot ... diseases such as AIDS. Rejection of the modern “reasonable” system throws us to the mercy of oppressive local traditions, simply because of past philosophers' authority Wolin, 2004 (Richard, The Seduction of Unreason, p. ?) When all is said ... by no means clear. Focus on narratives of Being, instead of specifics of policy proposals is functionally a new religion that gets hijacked by he far right, make the left ineffectively complacent and justifies all wars in history Volk, '7 (Joe, “The Story of Religion,” 11-14, http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4732) A former member of ... power of civil society. Abandoning the standards of falsification for policy-making leads to anti-intellectualism and oppression Sokol, 2000 (Alan, The Sokal Hoax: The Sham that Shook Academia”, 247-250) I didn't write the ... really quite a feat.) Reject the 1AC: the aff confuses claims to truth and assertions of fact with truth and facts—it has no way to establish these. the best policy is to the remember and support victims of oppression w/o uncritically supporting all of their claims. Otherwise, we act in a condescending manner and lack respect. Sokol, 2000 (Same, 251-252) Now, perhaps Dr. Anyon ... in spite of it.
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 * K of Heidegger**

2nr Strategy:
=TOC Round 1 v. CPS KV= China Influence DA ANWR Bad - Plan boost pol cap - Anwr causes meth hydrate bursts CP - Franchise Doc -in-a-box / Freeze Aid/ Lift DDT Ban African Econ DA DDT Bad on case Value to Life on case

Stratford CK – Negative

Doc-in-a-Box 1NC/2NC

Barnett, June 23, 2007 (Thomas, P.M., Phd., Senior Managing Partner Enterra Solutions, LLC, Strategic Planning for national security affairs [|http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/biography.htm)]

Garrett, 2006 (Laurie, Senior fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations, RedOrbit Breaking News, June 17 [|http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/541572/interview_a_onestop_healthcare_shop/)]

Council on Foreign Relations, 2006 (June 14, www,cfr.org/content/global_health_nt/doc_in_a_box.pdf)

Garrett, 2007 (Laurie, Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2007, [|http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070101faessay86103-p0/laurie-garrett/the-challenge-of-global-health.html)]

China DA

1nc Shell

A, China is winning the competition for African influence now because the US is not capitalizing on its political warfare weapons Chau 07 (Donovan, Missouri State university, "Political warfare in sub-saharan Africa March, www.strategicstudiesinstitute.arm.mil/pdffiles/PUB766.pdf) PRC political warfare…interest abroad

B, Aid Projects are key to China's charm offensive – the plan causes competition Kurlantzick 07

Joshua Kurlantzick author of "Charm Offensive. How China's Soft Power is Transforming the Globe" (Yale) 7/3/07 Sunday "The Boston Globe" Into Africa – As China becomes a major influence in Africa, it faces mounting resistance and a profound dilemma. How does a nation devoted to nonintervention become a global power? "For years, China…resources to China"

C, Collapse of China's sphere of influence leads nuclear conflagration Eland 05

Ivan Eland – Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute, Former Director of Defense Policy Studies at the Cato Institute – 4/11/05 ("Coexisting with a Rising China" [|http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1494)] "Although China is…a nuclear conflagration"

2nc stuff

Even if they win their impact defense that the china won't go into a hot war, a new cold war would devastate the world Shirk 07 ( China: Fragile Superpower The page is 5. published 2007, Publisher is oxford university press. ISBN: 978-019-530609-5) Even if the two…warming, and terrorism

Our Multilateralism good CP avoids the China DA Tanaka 06'

Akihiko Tanaka, prof IR+ dir Inst Oriental Culture U Tokyo, 2006, Asian Economic Policy Review 1, Journal Compilation Japan Center for Economic Research, "Global and Regional Geo-strategic Implications of China's Emergence" p. 194 "The only conclusion…a positive trend"

A2 aid now: The plan fulfills what are now only promises. It's a unique link. IC Publications 07 (10-28-07 Africa: China cashes in" www.africaasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=africa&item=071028024602.vho2otey.php)

The plan is unconditioned aid which triggers a unique change in US policy By Drew Thompson, Director of China Studies and Starr Senior Fellow at The Nixon Center in Washington, DC CHINA'S SOFT POWER IN AFRICA: FROM THE "BEIJING CONSENSUS TO HEALTH DIPLOMACY" Volume 5, Issue 21 (October 13, 2005) CHINA BRIEF [Jamestown Foundation] http://jamestown.org/publications_details.php?volume_id=408&issue_id=3491&article_id=2370717

"China's influence and…on the continent"

We consult with china now—SQ aid goes through this process James Swan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Department of State, CHINA'S ROLE IN AFRICA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE United States, February 8, 2007, http://www.state.gov/p/af/rls/rm/80288.htm "Attention devoted to China…the international system"

The plan is not consulted over and destroys relations Robert, prof. of polisci at Boston College, Foreign Affairs, March/April, http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19970301faessay3753/robert-s-ross/china-ii-beijing-as-a-conservative-power.html "There is no…more assertive pressure"

Plan is containment and containing china strengthens the hardliners and causes a Taiwan attack. Robert Reich 06 "the fallacy of Chinese containment" www.robertreich.org/reich/20060322.asp we also need...as our enemy

that goes nuclear Strait Times 2k

Containment leads to war William Perry "US strategy: engage china, not contain it" www.dod.mil/speeches/1995/s19951030-kaminski.html. we also have...they are probable

Containment fails to produce any positives Strait Times (Singapore) Janadas Devan Oct 29 2005 "Containing China an american conceit" (l/n) what would be...would be cataclysmic

Mearsheimer is wrong about containment Thomas J. Christiansen Prof of International Affairs Princeton 06 "Fostering stability or creating a monster?" International Secuirty 31.1 (2006) 81-126 there are counterintuitive... and diplomatic relations

**TOC Round 1 1nc against DDT Liberia Aff**
ANWR DA - ANWR Bad, Political Capital Link, The link was DDT popular - that makes a lot of sense..., MPX - Drilling ==> landslides, ==> Methane Warming Economy DA - African growth specific African localities CP - Had the USFG provide DDT, but freeze aid @ 2007 levels**
 * China DA - Link specific to Liberia