Dallas+Jesuit+OG+-+Sean+O’Brien+&+Rich+Graham+neg

Round 1 - v. RHSM
**__1NC__** **POLITICS:** BUSH HAS PROPOSED 10 MILLION FOR CONTINUED RRW RESEARCH BUT IT WON’T PASS Ekklesia, 15 April 2008, [|__www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/7006__] “Congress previously provided no money for RRW…end is eliminating funding for RRW.” BIPARTISAN CONGRESS IS KEY TO PASS RRW Japan Economic Newswire, 2 July 2007 “The main U.S. nuclear laboratory, the Lawrence…It’ll be a heavy lift, but I believe we can achieve it.” RUSSIA PERCEIVES GUIDELINES OF RRW AS A RETURN TO THE COLD WAR AND STRIKES THE U.S. Nelson 2007 (Nuclear Fact Sheet) “The RRW program would return the nuclear…such a policy would look like.” THIS IMPACT IS THE BIGGEST EXISTENTIAL THREAT Bostrom 2002 **AFRO-CENTRISM K:** FRAMEWORK AND LINK-AFROCENTRICITY MUST BE THE EXCLUSIVE FOCUS OF THE AFFIRMATIVE PROJECT. AFFIRMATIVES HAVE LET THE QUEST FOR A US KEY WARRANT DISTORT THE SPECIFIC TOPIC KNOWLEDGE ABOUT AFRICA. THE AFFIRMATIVE PROJECT MUST BE EVALUATED FROM AN AFROCENTRIC PARADIGM EXPOSING THE NON-AFRICAN JUSTIFICATIONS FOR ACTION Asante, 2007 “An Afrocentric Manifesto” p. 42-43 “The Afrocentrist is concerned with…or phenomenon, as subject.” THE IMPLICATIONS TO THE KRITIK FUNCTION ON TWO LEVELS. THE KRITIK FUNCTIONS TO REJECT THE DISCURSIVE ELEMENT OF THE 1AC WHICH DOES NOT PRESENT OR REPRESENT AFRICA OR PROVIDE AFRICAN AGENCY. THE LOSS OF AGENCY IS AN APRIORI IMPACT AND RESULTS IN TURNING THE CASE Asante, 2007 “An Afrocentric Manifesto” p. 40-41 “An agent, in our terms, must…related to the African world.” ALTERNATIVE AND EXTERNAL IMPACT-MUST REJECT THE AFFIRMATIVE PROJECT AND ENDORSE AFROCENTRICITY OR CEDE THE PLANET TO THE CONTINUED DOMINATION OF THE US AND ITS DESTRUCTIVE VALUES Asante 2007 “An Afrocentric Manifesto” p. 47-48 “In a powerful ethic of subject-to-subject…the most advanced thinking about centricity.”

LOST Good
Naval movility collapsing—LOST key to prevent this Oxman 2007 ( Bernard H., Professor of law university of Miami school of law, CQ Testimony, 10-4-07, lexis) “If the law of…costly to resist.” Naval mobility prevents global WMD conflicts Peele 1997 (Reynolds B., Lieutenant, USMC, The Importance of Maritime Chokepoints, Parameters, Summer) “there are presently six significant…interests can be protected”

RRW Bad
Russia perceives guidelines of RRW as a return to the cold war and strikes the US Nelson 2007 (Dr. Robert, Nuclear fact sheet, [|http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:29NkMTCwYy0J:www.faithfulsecurity.org/pdf/UCS_Complex2030_factsheet.pdf-RRW-leads+to+nuclear+war&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us]) “The RRW program…would look like.” This impact is the biggest existential threat Bostrom, PhD, Faculty of Phiosophy, Oxford university, March 2002 (Nick, “Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards”, Published in the Journal of Evolution and Technology, Vol. 9, March 2002. First version: 2001, [|http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html accessed August 28], 2007) “A much greater…in the 21st century.”

Farm Bill Bad
Farm subsides crush small farmers Infozine, 6/26/07, [|www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storesView/sid/23736/] “Because American producers…international trade negations.” The biodiversity gained form sall farms is key to prevent extinction James K Boyce, Department of Economics & Poitical Economy Research and Environmental research at the University of Massachusetts, July 2004, “A Future for Small Farms? Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture”. Political Economic Research Institute, ideap/w/86.html “there is a future…northwestern United States”

Heg Bad
“A lot of unforeseen events …choose the tools it needed.”
 * Multipolarity emerging—centers of power throughout the world now**
 * __UPI__**, March 26, 20**__06__** [//Outside View: Pentagon’s New Strategy//, l/n]

“THE high-intensity scenario … sovereignty above everything else.”
[Steven, Naazneen Barma, Matthew Kroenig, and Ely Ratner, //How Globalization Went Bad//, Foreign Policy, Jesuit Proquest] “How would things …can't change that alone.” [Jan 4, “Leading the way to a cure for AIDS”, l/n] “Despite the importance … human race," he said”.
 * Multipolarity key to solve inevitable disease outbreak—US unable to go-it-alone to stop it**
 * __Weber et al__**, professor of political science and director of the Institute of International Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, Jan/Fed 20**__07__**
 * Unchecked disease spread threatens human survival**
 * __South China Morning Post__,** 19**__96__**

Impact is nuclear war and extinction
[Mohamed, //Extinction!//, http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/705/op5.htm, 7/7/07, Stevens] “We have reached a point … we will all be losers.”
 * __Sid-Ahmed__**, 20**__04__**

Primacy guarantees discretionary federal spending trading off with domestic programs key to the US economy
[Christopher, //American Empire: A Debate//, pg. 124] “Why? Because under the Bush … needs here at home.”
 * __Layne__**, Associate Professor of Int’l Affairs at the Bush School of Gov’t and Public Service at Texas A&M, 20**__07__**

Impact is extinction
[Tom, //The Unnecessary Energy Crisis//, http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3aaf97f22e23.htm] “History bears out …for many decades.” [Steven, Naazneen Barma, Matthew Kroenig, and Ely Ratner, //How Globalization Went Bad//, Foreign Policy, Jesuit Proquest] “Axiom 3: Without a real chance … constraining American power.”
 * __Bearden__**, Lt Col US Army, 20**__00__**
 * Hegemony leaves no room for rogue states guaranteeing proliferation and oil shocks. Multipolarity cuts off the temptation to go bad by giving them a place to play**
 * __Weber et al__**, professor of political science and director of the Institute of International Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, Jan/Fed 20**__07__**

Proliferation causes nuclear war
[Carlton, //Controlling the International Transfer of Weaponry and Related Technology//, pg 26] “For each country …adverse environmental concerns.” EU Global fund Conditions (on Kenya) Canada
 * __Scheffran et al__**, Research Associate at Darmstadt Univ, 19**__95__**
 * CP**
 * Cap K---rejection alt and African socialism (Saul, __the next liberation struggle__ 2005)**

Security K –
Alt = Its Dillon evidence and **__Doty__**, Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University, 20**__02__** [Roxanne Lynn, //The Politics of Representation in North-South Relations//, pg 170-171]

China---relations = war Dutch Disease
 * Other disads**