Strategy+Notes+-+July+6th

toc General Comments =Space Strategy=

Ban the Space Weapons CP - What is it good for?
It answers the impact to space cooperation. Space cooperation says that it will prevent a space arms race. The CP prevents a space arms race. Any DA that you can read to the space aff, particularly those that are based on spending money, would be net benefit. That largely means that Fiscal D DA is a net benefit. Only read this against the "be nice" version of the plan but not the "Space Weapons bad" version because the perm solves. WHAT IF THE AFF SAYS OTHER COUNTRIES WILL KEEP BUILDING WEAPONS? Then the aff has also concede that they can not solve their advantage WHAT NET BENEFIT DO WE USE TO OUTWEIGH COMPETITIVENESS DA? You need to spend a ton of time making take outs, etc in the 1nc and the block.

When we read Heg bad, the 2ac says "that's not us, we are space coop good"?
That is a lot of spin. Although the neg cards may not assume space, NEITHER do the AFF cards. The balancing cards do not talk about SOLAR PANELS!

=Heidegger Answers= 3rd Wave contains some Heidegger answers Heidegger's philosophies encourages ecofacist policies good cards that we have evidence that requires instrumentalizing policies

=Securization Answers=

Michael Williams talks a lot about "willful realism" and need to be underlined. Most realism cards are about "neorealism" that deal with interenational politics off of a realist, rational model based on state power. Willful reason distinguishes itself fromt his that says we should not crate a rationalist model of politics, but can keep some elements including that we need to deal with nasty realities, deal with settled nation-state identities, and that making security realtionships may be necessary for ethical relationships to others.

=Solar Military Neg= Counterplans against this? Privitization CP - the private sector develops the technology for us. The States will fund the incentives.

=3rd Wave DA: PEPFAR DA= PEPFAR - President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. The reauthorization i coming now - budget tripled to $50 million. Bush's pol cap is key to persuading key GOP leaders. Its good to stop AIDS and good for Heg. (K for his credibility with the G8).

=3rd Wave Da: Natural Gas Flaring DA= Flaring is when Natural Gas is burned. The plan decreases the price of natural gas. When they find natural gas when dealing with oil, they can either ship it to use electrocity OR burn it off tolook for more oil. If prices are low, then they'd burn it because it is not economical to sell it as electricity. Burning it is worse for warming, turning the case. Specific links to RPS

Aff answers: Middle East depends upon natural gas. Various take outs. It is very expensive to ship natural gas at any price. There are various impacts to this in the Hydrogen neg

=3rd Wave DA: Natural Gas DA= Prices are low. Plan makes them higher, which is bad because it screws over the industries, etc. Links to hydrogen and Cap and trade affs.

=3rd Wave DA/CP; Japan Soft Power= There is a G8 meeting - Japan is going to take the opportunity to unveil its sweet alt energy tech. Doing the plan would ruin Japan's ability to take the lead. This destroys its environmental tech leadership, which is key to soft power. Impact options include Japan rearm.

There is also a CP, for which you could use the DA as a net benefit. The CP would also additionally have the benefit of pumping their economy.

Aff answers: Japanese soft power is low. Japanese and Chinese influence is zero-sum. No real link turns. = = =Nanotech DA= Renewable energy companies and nanotech companies like to work together. Expanding renewables, expands nanotech, which allows them to work on self replication. Terrorists can use this for evil. nanotech might eat the entire world, spreading through the galaxy. "Grey goo." We have specific links for Hydrogen cars, solar power, Aff answers Your Da defies the laws of physics. Nanotech also has various benefits.

=Competitiveness DA= US competitiveness trades off with japanese econ, hurting their economy US competitiveness trades off with Germany econ, hurting their economy.

Coal DA
Australian Supply - Australia is a big expoerter of coal. plan decrease coal, killing the market (the US determines the global price). A low Australian economy makes them unimportant in the US-Australian alliance, Asian Pacific War

Railroad DA
Railroads stay economically feasible by moving coal. When coal is used less, the railroads collapse. That prevents us from getting military tech around, hurting our power projection.

Aff answers China sets the global price and would use a lot of coal.

=Softpower DA= When the US gets more soft power on renewable energy, they will be able to get NMD in Europe, which causes China/Russia to freak out and lauch. Aff answers: The US want NMD based in Eastern Europe, but the countries who like this are the Western European countries.

=AT: Competitiveness= It's in the 3rd wave. Both new defensive frontline and the new DAs.

=Nuclear Strategies= "Consult Your Notes CP" T - Alternative Energy Elections - Plan is popular CTBT CP Heidegger K Nuke Power Bad - Radiation, Accidents Proliferation Turns - Light water reactors, reprocessing, theft, etc. Spending DA - spending link in the short term, any aff link turn is probably longer term Coal DAs DOE Tradeoff DA - if the plan doesn't spec, we can spec for them - NRC is under the authority of the DOE States CP - net benefit = spending