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HIV/AIDs Conflation K
The certainty that aids is caused by hiv is misplaced—despite the abyss of knowledge about aids, activists attempt to fix an objective site of the disease isolated from contamination by its social and cultural meanings. Boon 96 (Marcus, English @ York University, "Naming the Enemy: AIDS Research, Contagion and the Discovery of HIV," http://cultronix.eserver.org/boon/) It is usually assumed by activists and scientists that under the sludge

The HIV model of aids has been used to create stifling uniformity in the field of aids research—the lack of conclusive evidence for the model is concealed by the suppression of dissenting voices and the public's unquestioning acceptance. Rasnick 97 (David, Senior Researcher for the Dr Rath Health Foundation, http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/drblinded.htm) A skeptical veteran of AIDS research bemoans the culture of conformity imposed by government-funded, industry-driven, and media-hyped Big Science. People think of "AIDS research" as the crucible of modern science and technology. There are more than 100,000 scientists and doctors working on AIDS - more than the annual number of AIDS patients in the U.S. There are 80,000 AIDS organizations in the U.S., one for each new AIDS patient. As a scientist who has studied AIDS for 16 years, I have determined that AIDS has little to do with science and is not

The HIV model posits a single and identifiable enemy—it replaces complexity with simplicity and uncertainty with security in order to placate our fear of the disease. Colwell 96 (C., Philosophy @ Villanova, "Deleuze, Sense and the Event of AIDS," Postmodern Culture, Volume 6, Number 2) At this point, let me return to the question of the dominance of the HIV model of AIDS. Despite the fact that prominent researchers, Robert Root-Bernstein and Peter Duesberg among others, have provided significant evidence and coherent arguments that HIV is not a sufficient

This simplicity is dangerous—transfers blaim and fear of aids from the disease to its most visible symbol—authorizes scapegoating and violence against already marginalized groups. Boon 96 (Marcus, English @ York University, "Naming the Enemy: AIDS Research, Contagion and the Discovery of HIV," http://cultronix.eserver.org/boon/) For scientists, most research into AIDS became research into HIV, understanding its life cycle

The alternative is to reject the affirmative's representation of hiv as the monolithic cause of aids. only by refusing to connect aids to a stable signifier can we explore other methods for fighting the disease. Boon 96 (Marcus, English @ York University, "Naming the Enemy: AIDS Research, Contagion and the Discovery of HIV," http://cultronix.eserver.org/boon/) Donna Haraway has written persuasively on this subject [51]< http://cultronix.eserver.org/boon/notes.html#51>. She describes the replacement of an 'old' organic unity of body and knowledge replaced by a 'biopolitics of the body' envisioned as 'a coded text, organized as an engineered communications system, ordered by a fluid and dispersed command-control-intelligence system' [52]. In response to this new situation, 'our hopes for accountability....turn on revisioning the world as coding trickster with whom we must learn to converse' [53]. In the context of AIDS, this means never forgetting that, as much as we yearn for it, the power of modern medical science 'does not flow from a consensus about symbols and actions in the face of suffering'

The role of the ballot is to endorse the most socially productive representation of aids. Mathebe 05 (Lucky, Sociology @ University of South Africa, http://etd.unisa.ac.za/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-11182005-073339/unrestricted/ ) That said, however, AIDS in South Africa is also a clear-cut case of the much larger issues of culture and identity. The embeddedness of authentic voices in the AIDS story justifies



Challenging aids representations is crucial to combat entrenched cultural meanings that shape our social reality. Brophy 02 (Sarah, English @ McMaster University, Literature and Medicine 21.2 (2002) 306-311)

This ambitious book expands on Paula Treichler's groundbreaking 1988 essay "AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signification." In that essay, reprinted here as the book's first chapter, Treichler argues that "the very nature of AIDS is constructed through language and in particular through the discourses of medicine and science" (p. 11). The epidemic has generated "a chaotic assemblage of understandings of AIDS," "an epidemic of . . . signification." Insisting that our understandings of what AIDS and HIV infection mean be regarded as "culturally constructed," Treichler proposes that we pay careful attention to how language creates rather than simply reflects the meanings of illness. Far from being objective, biomedical definitions of AIDS are based "on prior social constructions



foreign aid is violent—it is based on the idea that individuals must sacrifice themselves for the needs of others.
“__There is no question that too much… No. Altruism says: Yes.”__ [|[7]] ==the politics of self-sacrifice is the driving force behind totalitarian violence—those who do not willingly sacrifice their lives can be forced at the point of a bayonet. == __The socialists had a certain… to the antithesis of the altruist morality. __ ==aid degrades those it claims to help—founding our relationship to africa on paternalism engenders the same racist attitudes responsible for africa’s history of colonialism and poverty. == What I saw - to state it simply… __easily the most paternalistic racists.__
 * Condottiero 07 ** (Reference Librarian at the Ludwig von Mises Library, http://homohominilupus.wordpress.com/2007/02/05/altruism-in-foreign-aid-and-family-remittances/ )
 * Rand 60 **<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif""> (Ayn, Philosopher, <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">http://freedomkeys.com/faithandforce.htm <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">)
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Holdt 03 **<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif""> (Jacob, Creator of American Pictures, <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.american-pictures.com/english/racism/articles/aid.htm <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">)

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">people are by nature rational and self-interested—the ideology of self-sacrifice is unethical and life-negating.

 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Sternberg 05 **<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif""> (Elaine, Philosophy @ University of Leeds, <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/000292.php <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">)

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Canada plays a leading role in assistance to Africa
__<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Canada's fundamental interest… new and existing resources over five years __<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif""> (2002-07).
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">FAITC 2 **<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif""> (July, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, “Canada and Sub-Saharan Africa”, <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/africa/welcome-en.asp <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif""> )

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Canada has a comparitive advantage over the u.s.– shared legal, economic, and cultural ties ensure effective assistence
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Since the 1960s African independence… model that many African states wish to replicate.
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">CCA 4 **<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif""> (Brief #1, “Canada & Africa Matching Reputation With Action in the 21st Century”, //Canadian Council on Africa,// September, <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.ccafrica.ca/publications/Briefing%20Notes%201.pdf <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">)

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">no offense on a solvency deficit---Canadian aid has empirically decreased corruption

 * <span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"">Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada 5 **<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif""> (“Canada's Contribution to the G8 Africa Action Plan: Consolidating Africa's Place at the Centre of Canada's International Cooperation Agenda”, June, <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/africa/aap-national-report-2005-en.asp <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">)

__With Canada's help, African public servants…__ efforts in support of Africa's development goals.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">china is winning oil influence through its aid-for-oil strategy
__<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">China's booming economy… of oil from African countries __<span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">. <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.ipri.pt/eventos/pdf/FLAD05_AMalaquias.pdf <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">) <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Ultimately, this will force… will help to reconfigure global power relations.
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Pan 7 **<span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">(Esther, Council on Foreign Relations, “China, Africa, and Oil”, 1/26, <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.cfr.org/publication/9557/ <span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">)
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">u.s.-sino influence is zero sum---the stage is set for confrontation **
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Malaquias 6 **<span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif""> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">(Assis, Associate Professor of Government, St. Lawrence University, THIRSTY POWERS: THE UNITED STATES, CHINA, AND AFRICA’S ENERGY RESOURCES,

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">this competition for oil will cause a US-sino war
__<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">The possibility that an alarmist… __<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">deserves to be given thorough, and critical, scrutiny. <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">The **Straits Times**, June 25, **2k** (Regional Fallout: No One Gains in War Over Taiwan. Straits Times. Lexis) __<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">THE high-intensity scenario… see the destruction of civilization. __
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Klare 6 **<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif""> (Michael <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Klare, Prof of Peace and World Security Studies @ Hampshire College <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif""> & Daniel <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Volman, director of the African Security Research Project in Washington; <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif""> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">2006 <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif""> “America, China & the Scramble for Africa’s Oil” Review of African Political Economy No.108:297-309)
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">extinction **

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Farm Bill Politics
A. Aggressive bush lobbying will secure farm bill passage now---failure to agree to a deal will collapse the agricultural sector

Sonner, AP Columnist, 2/12 http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iMBrr7hqE4aicMogELE62MHC-tWwD8UOO2LG0 SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — Failure to reach ...but "I don't think the Senate is there yet."

Bush must invest capital to ensure passage of farm bill

Brownfield Network, 2/13 http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=149F52A6-CAC5-4C7B-129F7E158C793B3D Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman ...said in the statement.

Collapse of agriculture will devastate the economy

Journal of Commerce, 98 (12/31)

If this country continues ..economy is sure to follow.

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