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Squirrel 1AC ........................................................................................................................................................... 2
Zombies Are Gonna Kill Us! ................................................................................................................................ 11
Brony 1AC (From Richardson) ............................................................................................................................ 16
***Make Me A Sandwich*** .............................................................................................................................. 41
1AR: 1Ns Burden Shell ....................................................................................................................................... 42
Freedom Net Benefit ............................................................................................................................................. 44
U.S. Russia War Net Benefit ................................................................................................................................ 45
A/T 1NR Important/No voter................................................................................................................................ 50
A/T Make a sandwich during 1AR ....................................................................................................................... 51
A/T Aff Needs to Make a Sandwich Too ............................................................................................................. 52
A/T 2N beating up the 1N during the 2NR ........................................................................................................... 53
A/T Put it on the tab (Ill get a lot of sandwiches later) ....................................................................................... 54
A/T 2N didnt ask ................................................................................................................................................. 55
A/T 2N asked but didnt get anything................................................................................................................... 56
A/T Trieu, 2010/Beat up the 1N ........................................................................................................................... 57
Timecube Kritik .................................................................................................................................................... 59
Mao Kritik ............................................................................................................................................................. 62
Nobody Gives a Shit ............................................................................................................................................. 65
***Counterplans*** ............................................................................................................................................. 70
***Consult Ashtar*** .......................................................................................................................................... 71
Consult Ashtar CP Solves Case ......................................................................................................................... 72
Consult Ashtar CP Solves Net Benefit .............................................................................................................. 73
1NC - Ashtar DA .................................................................................................................................................. 74
Ashtar DA Impact Ext. ...................................................................................................................................... 76
Ashtar DA - TimeFrame ....................................................................................................................................... 77
Ashtar DA- 2012 = Positive.................................................................................................................................. 80
A/T Ashtar is Demonic ......................................................................................................................................... 84
A/T Ashtar is Alien Invasion ............................................................................................................................... 86
Consult Vermin Counterplan ................................................................................................................................ 88
***Consult Chuck Norris*** ............................................................................................................................... 93
***Planking*** .................................................................................................................................................... 96
***WGLF*** ..................................................................................................................................................... 100
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Observation 1 is Inherency
Squirrels have been running amok since 1975 when Executive Order 11870 banned the
most effective squirrel poison other approaches require more personnel
Department of the Army Historical Summary, 2004 (27 August 2004,
http://www.army.mil/cmh/books/DAHSUM/1977/ch11.htm, accessed 3/13/2007 7:08 PM,
Google)
The ground squirrel population in that area has increased to a point where the
rodents pose threats on several counts. They are potential carriers of bubonic
plague, cause damage to buildings and facilities, reduce crop production, and
compete with other wild life for available food. Since 1971 the Army has not
applied effective pest control measures at Fort Ord. Resumption of these measures
has been precluded since 1975 by Executive Order 11870, which forbade the use on
federal lands of "secondary poisons" which make the tissue poisonous to other
creatures. In the meantime, most private landowners adjacent to Fort Ord
continued to use pesticide 1080, a secondary poison. Although the Army submitted
its environmental impact statements in the winter and spring of 1977, it selected
zinc phosphide, a less controversial rodenticide, as the prime agent to fight the
squirrel menace in the spring of 1978 when the rodents would be most active and
susceptible to control measures.
And, Military budget crunch has caused severe cuts in pest management personnel
Kuffner, 2006 (Charles,
http://www.offthekuff.com/mt/archives/cat_national_news.html)
A "severe budget crunch" has hit Fort Hood, one of the nation's largest military
posts and home to a U.S. Army division serving in Iraq, officials said Thursday.
The funding squeeze forced the Central Texas installation to impose an immediate
hiring freeze and dramatic cuts in contracts with local providers of support
services, officials said.
The move announced Thursday follows "significant internal steps to help manage
existing funds through the end of the fiscal year," an announcement from base
headquarters said.
"Additional measures are necessary and will be implemented beginning (Thursday),"
the statement said.
In addition to the "100 percent civilian hiring freeze," other cutbacks will
reduce custodial contracts, on-post housing referrals, grounds maintenance
contracts and government vehicle contracts, officials said.
Additionally, pest management contracts were "severely" cut and other services
were "significantly" reduced, officials said.
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Wasserman 02 (Harvey, Senior Editor Free Press, Earth Island Journal, Spring,
www.earthisland.org/eijournal/new_articles.cfm?articleID=457&journalID=63)
The intense radioactive heat within today's operating reactors is the hottest
anywhere on the planet. Because Indian Point has operated so long, its
accumulated radioactive burden far exceeds that of Chernobyl
Infants and small children would quickly die en masse. Pregnant women would
spontaneously abort or give birth to horribly deformed offspring. Ghastly sores,
rashes, ulcerations and burns would afflict the skin of millions. Heart attacks,
stroke and multiple organ failure would kill thousands on the spot. Emphysema,
hair loss, nausea, inability to eat or drink or swallow, diarrhea and
incontinence, sterility and impotence, asthma and blindness would afflict
hundreds of thousands, if not millions.
Then comes the wave of cancers, leukemias, lymphomas, tumors and hellish diseases
for which new names will have to be invented.
Evacuation would be impossible, but thousands would die trying. Attempts to
quench the fires would be futile. More than 800,000 Soviet draftees forced
through Chernobyl's seething remains in a futile attempt to clean it up are still
dying from their exposure. At Indian Point, the molten cores would burn
uncontrolled for days, weeks and years. Who would volunteer for such an American
task force?...
As at Three Mile Island, where thousands of farm and wild animals died in heaps,
natural ecosystems would be permanently and irrevocably destroyed. Spiritually,
psychologically, financially and ecologically, our nation would never recover
If so, the ticking reactor bombs that could obliterate the very core of our life
and of all future generations must be shut down.
Advantage 2 is the Utilities Sector
Squirrel attacks are dragging down the utilities sector
Gomez, 2007 (3-11-07, Suicide squirrels driving utilities nuts, Alan,
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-03-11-suicide-squirrels_N.htm)
Squirrels that fry themselves on power lines and transformers cause tens of
thousands of blackouts every year.
Some states have seen a massive jump in recent years in the number of such
outages. In Georgia, squirrel-related outages more than tripled from 5,273 in
2005 to 16,750 in 2006.
While the outages are usually smaller than ones caused by weather, they are
costly. Georgia Power officials estimate the rodents cost them $2 million last
year. Stopping the squirrels is costing utilities millions more dollars.
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Austin Energy in Texas is alone spending over one hundred thousand dollars on
squirrel guards WE DO NOT ENDORSE THE SQUIRREL GENDERED LANGUAGE IN THIS CARD
UPI, 2006 (Dec. 25, http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/20061225-040356-2618r/,
United Press International)
A report from the Austin Energy power company in Texas has revealed approximately
20 percent of all its power outages are the result of squirrels. The Austin
(Texas) American-Statesman reports the rodents have a habit of coming into
contact with sensitive electrical equipment on utility poles and could likely be
responsible for nearly 700 area outages a year."He's a formidable foe," Austin
Energy supervisor Karl Hauer admitted. "Ask anyone who has been stuck in traffic
or left in the dark because of a squirrel."By coming into contact with the poles'
distribution equipment, the critters quickly become a conduit for up to 7,200
volts of electricity.To fight the increasing problem, Austin Energy is spending
more than $100,000 annually to install deterrents on equipment to keep the
animals at bay.Yet many in the Texas city maintain such incidents never occur and
that energy companies simply use the squirrels as scapegoats when possible, a
charge Hauer strongly disputes."There is no truth to that," Hauer told the paper.
"That might be the lore, but who wants to carry around a dead squirrel?"
But squirrels cannot be stopped they can only be killed; they will squirrel
their way around any barriers, making guards a waste of money
Gomez, 2007 (3-11-07, Suicide squirrels driving utilities nuts, Alan,
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-03-11-suicide-squirrels_N.htm)
In Lincoln, dubbed a Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation,
"squirrel guards" have been placed on all 19,391 transformers.
The guards vary. Some are plastic or silicone caps that protect the point where
the power line and the transformer meet. The "Critter Guard" features a flat disk
that spins around whenever a squirrel tries to climb past. Others deliver a minor
shock to the squirrel to scare it off.
PECO, which powers Philadelphia and its surrounding counties, spends $1 million a
year on squirrel guards to stop outages from "those rascally little varmints,"
Engel said.
But squirrels adapt to the technology, forcing the utilities to switch to
different forms of what's known in the business as "wildlife abatement
technology."
"Whenever we think we've got them figured out, they try something else," Engelman
said.
And, Electric sector is critical to the economy any negative effects ripple
quickly through the economy
Singh, 1998 (Hon. Ganja Singh, Minister of Public Utilities, September 11,
http://www.ttparliament.org/hansard/house/1998/hh980911.pdf, accessed 3/12/2007
3:14 PM)
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I would now look at the rationale of this Bill by exploring the following areas:
the importance of the utilities sector, global trends, local trends and the
limitation of the present Public Utilities Commission legislation and key
provisions of the new legislation. The importance of the sector. Vital and
essential to life in a modern society, utility services constitute the
infrastructural foundations of the development process. The level and quality of
the provision of these services are generally regarded as direct measures of the
quality of life or the standard of living in a country. Providing infrastructure
services to meet the demand of users is, therefore, one of the major challenges
of economic development. Utility services have strong linkages to the national
economy and to human well-being. Inefficiencies in the provision of these
services are likely to be felt quickly and throughout the economy and, thereby,
impact adversely on the competitiveness of the national economy and the quality
of life of the people. Good utility infrastructure, on the other hand, raises
productivity, lowers production costs and improves the quality of life of people.
And, Economic struggles in the U.S. directly affect Japan and China and quickly
spread globally
Frontline, 5-6-2005
[India's National Magazine, from the publishers of THE HINDU, Volume 22 - Issue
09, http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2209/stories/20050506002012000.htm]
According to Tomomichi Akuta, an economist at the UFJ Institute in Japan,
Japanese subsidiaries in China exported around 4.9 trillion yen of electronics
goods in 2004, of which 8 per cent were direct exports to the U.S. The exports of
electronics related items from Japanese firms to their Chinese subsidiaries in
that year were around 1.3 trillion yen. Of this, about 20 per cent was linked to
exports by these subsidiaries to the U.S. Further, about a third of the 846
billion yen of unfinished goods exported by these subsidiaries to other Asian
countries, were finally destined for the U.S., Thus a slowdown in the U.S. would,
at one remove, affect Japan as well. In fact, the effect would be far greater
than suggested by these figures since there are a number of non-Japanese firms in
China exporting to the U.S. that import capital goods, intermediates and
components from Japanese firms. What all this implies is that a slowdown in the
U.S. can not only rein in growth in the other major growth-pole in the world
economy, China, but also have ripple effects in the form of deceleration across
the globe that can spiral into a major crisis.
And, Global economic collapse equals global nuclear war
Thomas Bearden, Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, 2000
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3aaf97f22e23.htm)
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History bears out that desperate nations take desperate actions. Prior to the
final economic collapse, the stress on nations will have increased the intensity
and number of their conflicts, to the point where the arsenals of weapons of mass
destruction (WMD) now possessed by some 25 nations, are almost certain to be
released. As an example, suppose a starving North Korea launches nuclear weapons
upon Japan and South Korea, including U.S. forces there, in a spasmodic suicidal
response. Or suppose a desperate China-whose long-range nuclear missiles (some)
can reach the United States-attacks Taiwan. In addition to immediate responses,
the mutual treaties involved in such scenarios will quickly draw other nations
into the conflict, escalating it significantly. Strategic nuclear studies have
shown for decades that, under such extreme stress conditions, once a few nukes
are launched, adversaries and potential adversaries are then compelled to launch
on perception of preparations by one's adversary. The real legacy of the MAD
concept is this side of the MAD coin that is almost never discussed. Without
effective defense, the only chance a nation has to survive at all is to launch
immediate full-bore pre-emptive strikes and try to take out its perceived foes as
rapidly and massively as possible. As the studies showed, rapid escalation to
full WMD exchange occurs. Today, a great percent of the WMD arsenals that will be
unleashed, are already on site within the United States itself. The resulting
great Armageddon will destroy civilization as we know it, and perhaps most of the
biosphere, at least for many decades.
Advantage 3 is the Plague
New Bubonic Plague Mutations are frighteningly resistant to treatment we must
prepare a response
UCG, 2003 (United Church of God, Drug-Resistant Bubonic Plague, Good News
Magazine, http://www.ucgportland.org/popups/gn9805e.html)
A case of bubonic plague was recently discovered in Madagascar, an island in the
Indian Ocean off the southeast coast of Africa. This is not the first case of
bubonic plague discovered in recent years. Rather, it is the first case
identified that is resistant to multiple antibiotics, including the ones commonly
given to treat the plague.
Two years ago a 16-year old boy on Madagascar was diagnosed with a drug-resistant
plague bacterium. Three antibiotics were necessary to save his life. The isolated
organism (Y, Pestis bacterium) was found to carry five antibiotic-resistant
genes. The antibacterial drugs that this particular bacterium was resistant to
were streptomycin, gentamicin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline and various
sulfonamide compounds. It was found susceptible to trimethropim.
Although similar multiple drug-resistant gene transfers have been found in other
diseases-causing bacteria, never before have they been found in bubonic plague, a
disease synonymous with debilitating epidemics and pandemics. Researchers dont
know whether the Madagascar bacterium is rare or common, but they do know that it
symbolizes the growing problem of antibiotic resistance in human pathogens.
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Stuart Levy of Tufts University Medical School cautions, We now know this agent
exists, and have to be alert for it in other countries, where we know antibiotic
resistance has emerged in so many other bacteria.
Drs. David Dennis and James Hughes of the CDC state that such incidents provide
another grim reminder that emerging infectious diseases and antimicrobial
resistance in one location can pose serious problems for the entire world.
This response must include squirrel eradication they carry bubonic plague
NBC, 2007 (Santa Monica To Give Birth Control Shots To Local Squirrels, March
5, http://www.nbc4.tv/news/11173312/detail.html?subid=10101581)
Experts say squirrels are aggressive and may carry rabies or host fleas that can
spread disease, such as bubonic plague.
The larger the squirrel population, the greater the chance for infestation, which
in turn could expose humans and predatory animals to disease, Gail Van Gordon, a
Los Angeles County Health Services Department entomologist, told The Times.
Finally, resistant microbes are the greatest threat to humyn survival
Bruce Sterling February 1995 (science journalist) in Bitter Resistance
At the close of this century, antibiotic resistance is one of the gravest threats
that confronts the
human race. It ranks in scope with overpopulation, nuclear disaster, destruction
of the ozone, global warming, species extinction and massive habitat destruction.
Although it gains very little attention in comparison to those other horrors,
there is nothing theoretical or speculative about antibiotic resistance. The mere
fact that we cant see it happening doesnt mean that its not
taking place. It is occurring, stealthily and steadily, in a world which we
polluted drastically before we ever took the trouble to understand it.
We have spent billions to kill bacteria but mere millions to truly comprehend
them. In our arrogance, we have gravely underestimated our enemys power and
resourcefulness. Antibiotic resistance is a very real threat which is well
documented and increasing at considerable speed. In its scope and its depth and
the potential pain and horror of its implications, it may be the single greatest
menace that we human beings confront aside, of course, the steady increase in
our own numbers. And if we dont somehow resolve our grave problems with
bacteria, then bacteria may well resolve that population problem for us .
Thus the Plan: The United States Federal Government should substantially
increase the number of persons serving in the Armed Forces by substantially
increasing the pecuniary and educational benefits as well as end strength for
Pest Management (3E4X3) in order to enable the National Guard to apply its pest
control operations procedure to the emerging squirrel crisis.
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And, we arent extra T, it is already standard policy for the National Guard to
do animal control
Heath et al, 1998 (Animals in Disasters, Secretary/Treasurer, American Academy
on Veterinary Disaster Medicine,
http://training.fema.gov/EMIWEB/downloads/IS11Comp.pdf, accessed 3/12/2007 6:11
PM)
If your initial assessment requires resources beyond your local
capability, your State emergency management office should be
notified of this immediately. Most States require the chief
executive of the local government to officially request a
Governors declaration of disaster in order to obtain State
assistance. The local emergency program manager is
responsible for local damage assessment and the report to the
State emergency management office.
The State, acting on the information provided, will dispatch
personnel and equipment to the disaster area and assist in the
response and recovery effort. The National Guard may be
asked to assist with animal care and control issues and animalrelated claims investigations. Detailed assessments and specific
requests for assistance will receive the most appropriate
response. If the State feels that Federal assistance is also
required, the States director of emergency management alerts
FEMA. FEMA may also dispatch representatives to the area.
The National Guard is already assigned to target pest disease vectors, its just
that these are subject to prioritizing
Pritt, 2002 (Douglass A., COL GS, Chief of Staff, Integrated Pest Management
Plan, http://www.mil.state.or.us/Agi-E/ORARNGRRegs/210-5/Regulations/PESTPLANTEXT.DOC.)
PRIORITY. Pest control operations will be prioritized at each facility, for
reasons discussed below, and conducted in the order shown below:
a. DISEASE VECTORS AND PUBLIC HEALTH PESTS
(1) Mosquito species found in Oregon have the potential to transmit
St. Louis encephalitis and Western equine encephalitis, although these diseases
have not occurred in the state for many years.
(2) Rabies has been found in Oregon, mainly in wild mammals.
(3) Plague has been found in field rodents located in the eastern
and southwestern parts of the State, and the hantavirus has been confirmed in
rodents during tests at both Camp Rilea and the Biak Training Center. The ORARNG
Occupational Health Office has developed a hantavirus exposure prevention
program.
(4) Ticks may transmit disease organisms within the State. Tickborne diseases include Lyme disease, Colorado tick fever, tick-borne relapsing
fever, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Some ORARNG training sites were
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surveyed for ticks in 1992, with negative results for target species. Since
problems have occurred in adjoining states, ORARNG will periodically complete
additional surveys.
(5) Pest control operations will target all disease vectors and
public health pests if they are shown to be a problem. All persons engaged in
pest control operations should ensure that proper procedures are followed for all
pest control operations involving disease vectors.
And the job description of Pest Management (3E4X3) is applicable
National Guard Career Detail, 2007
(http://www.goang.com/careers/detail.aspx?career=cf7123bb-e50b-4d45-a71f22ed999743b8)
Pest Management (3E4X3)
Manages evaluates, and executes integrated pest management and environmental
compliance, hazardous materials and waste, and pollution prevention programs.
Alternate Titles:
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SPECIALISTS; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTISTS; AIR POLLUTION
ANALYSTS; SOILS ANALYSTS; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENISTS; AIR QUALITY ANALYSTS; FOOD AND
DRUG INSPECTORS; PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTORS
Duties and Responsibilities:
BACKGROUND
Performs integrated pest management functions. Conducts pest management surveys.
Determines pest management actions needed to control and prevent infestations of
plant and animal pests. Interacts with medical activities to control health
hazards. Selects chemicals and operates pesticide dispersal equipment. Provides
maximum residual benefits consistent with environmental protection parameters.
Ensures compliance with applicable laws and directives. Maintains tools,
equipment, and facilities. Ensures correct use and maintenance of personal
protective and tools. Maintains facilities, equipment, and storage areas. Plans
and coordinates activities. Evaluates proposed work, determines resource
requirements, and prepares cost estimates. Identifies, budgets for, and acquires
specialized equipment. Inspects facilities and provides assistance to building
managers on pest preventative and control practices. Maintains historical
databases, tracking systems, and profile sheets. Provides technical assistance to
CE hazardous material users and hazardous waste generators. Each military base is
a small community. The health and well-being of the residents and surrounding
land is a major concern of the services. Keeping military work places and living
areas sanitary helps to prevent illness. Environmental health and safety
specialists inspect military facilities and food supplies for the presence of
disease, germs, or other conditions hazardous to health and the environment.
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victims in fewer than 2 days. After death, this virus is able to restart the
heart of its victim for up to two hours after the initial demise of the person
where the individual behaves in extremely violent ways from what is believe to be
a combination of brain damage and a chemical released into blood during
resurrection. Cambodian officials say that the outbreak has been contained and
the public has no need to worry. General Ary Serey had this to say, "We have
obtained samples of this new virus and plan to learn how it starts the heart and
other major organs of the deceased. We intend to use this to increase the quality
of life for all." US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice opposed the plan saying
that the Cambodian government holds a great biological weapon and should destroy
it immediately. Cambodian officials have yet to comment. A United Nations team
will be dispatched to Cambodia to confirm the safety of biological research in
Cambodia.
Second, Zombiefication is increasing at an alarming rate.
Max Brooks 2003 (Qualfications: History Major from Pietz College highly
acclaimed author DoA: 7/21/11 DoP: ?/??/ 2003 Book: The zombie Survival Guide, a
Howto Strategy of surviving. )
Until the late twentieth century, those who studied the living dead were
convinced that the frequency of outbreaks remained constant thronghout time.
Societies that suffered more attacks than others appeared so only because they
kept the best records. The most commonly held example was ancient Rome compared
to the early Middle Ages. This theory was also used to calm "alarmists" by
stating that, as humanity as a whole relied more and more on the written word, it
would appear as if outbreaks were becoming more and more common. This way of
thinking, although still common, has been falling into disfavor for some time.
The world's population is growing. Its center has shifted from rural to urban
zones. Transportation has linked the planet with increasing speed. All these
factors have led to a renaissance of infectious diseases. Logic dictates that
Solanurn can flourish in such a ripe environment. Even though information is
being recorded, shared, and stored as never before, it cannot hide the fact that
zombie attacks are on the rise, their frequency mirroring the "development" of
this planet.
Third, Its try or die A bigger outbreak of a zombie Virus causes collapse of
civilization and extinction. You have an obligation to use your ballot to save
life from becoming extinct.
Max Brooks 2003 (Qualfications: History Major from Pietz College highly
acclaimed author DoA: 7/21/11 DoP: ?/??/ 2003 Book: The zombie Survival Guide, a
Howto Strategy of surviving. )
An outbreak of zombies infecting humans is likely to be disastrous, unless
extremely aggressive tactics are employed against the undead. While aggressive
quarantine may eradicate the infection, this is unlikely to happen in practice. A
cure would only result in some humans surviving the outbreak, although they will
still coexist with zombies. Only sufficiently frequent attacks, with increasing
force, will result in eradication, assuming the available resources can be
mustered in time. Furthermore, these results assumed that the timescale of the
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outbreak was short, so that the natural birth and death rates could be ignored.
If the timescale of the outbreak increases, then the result is the doomsday
scenario: an outbreak of zombies will result in the collapse of civilisation,
with every human infected, or dead. This is because human births and deaths will
provide the undead with a limitless supply of new bodies to infect, resurrect and
convert. Thus, if zombies arrive, we must act quickly and decisively to eradicate
them before they eradicate us. The key difference between the models presented
here and other models of infectious disease is that the dead can come back to
life.
Zombie apocalypse outweighs nuclear extinction
Monstrous News, No Date
(Monstrous.com, Last Accessed 7/21/20011)
http://zombies.monstrous.com/symbolism.htm#apocalypse
Much like the atomic bomb, zombies are unleashed in a chain reaction, each
devoured corpse arising and looking for more human flesh to consume.
Like any
Apocalypse, mankind is striken because of its decadence. In Romero's zombie
trilogy, the flesh-eating dead threaten a society already lost, whether the
source of that loss be violence, hate, bureaucracy or stupidity. The media, the
military, science, philosophy are all helpless to provide an answer. The violence
and spiritual void of human society feeds upon itself and the result is an
apocalypse of the dead. Zombies also represent widespread annihalation in the
form of plague-like sickness. The implications here are basically the same as
they are with nuclear apocalypse, but on a more personal and intimate level. As
the zombie count increases exponentially, they cover more and more distance until
they overtake massive amounts of land area. Indeed, by the end of Romero's Day of
the Dead (1985), the final installment of his trilogy, only a small band of
military survivors is remaining in the United States. Consequently, they choose
to relocate to an uninhabited island in the tropics as the U.S. becomes a barron
wasteland, populated only by the walking dead.
Zombie Apocalypse will destroy the world
Weise, Elizabeth. "CDC Helps Americans Prepare for a Zombie Apocalypse - Science
Fair - USATODAY.com." News, Travel, Weather, Entertainment, Sports, Technology,
U.S. & World - USATODAY.com. US Today, 5-19-2011. Web. 22 July 2011.
<http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2011/05/cdc-helpsamericans-prepare-for-a-zombie-apocalypse/1>.
Never let it be said that the doctors at the Centers for Disease, Control and
Prevention lack a sense of humor - or the sense to find a fun way to teach
Americans about emergency preparedness. Hence today's most excellent CDC
offering: Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse. The concept of zombies, the CDC
helpfully notes, has Haitian and New Orleans voodoo origins and refers to "a
corpse mysteriously reanimated to serve the undead." But even though science
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can't answer that gnawing question "Why do zombies like to eat brains so much?"
there is much that everyday Americans can do to prepare themselves in the event
of a Zombie Apocalypse. "That's right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e.
You may laugh now, but when it happens you'll be happy you read this, and hey,
maybe you'll even learn a thing or two about how to prepare for a real
emergency." That's from the author of this particular medical treatise. Clearly,
CDC's quite concerned about zombies as they've brought in the big guns here. In
this case, Rear Admiral Ali S. Khan, MD, MPH, Assistant Surgeon General and
Director, Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response After some actually
quite fascinating discussion of the various zombie-creation scenarios used in
movies, TV shows and literature, as well as a (fictional) medical paper by
Harvard psychiatrist Steven Schlozman which posits an Ataxic Neurodegenerative
Satiety Deficiency Syndrome, Khan is ready to get down to business. In a zombie
apocalypse scenario, "zombies would take over entire countries, roaming city
streets eating anything living that got in their way. The proliferation of this
idea has led many people to wonder: 'How do I prepare for a zombie apocalypse?'"
Khan helpfully offers up tips for surviving exactly such an event which, wouldn't
you know it, also would work in a real emergency.
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years (Rees, interviewing Tony Benn, in Reza 2003: 13). It is, therefore, worth
considering how, and according to what politics, US discourse has constituted and
continues to constitute outer space. So, before I go on to examine the gendered
constitution of US outer space discourse, I want first to provide some, political
and historical, background to the contemporary constitution of US space policy.
If the Marshall Plan heralded 'a sort of colonial reconstruction of Europe'
(Benn, in Reza 2003: 13-14), the Bush administration's 'new vision for space
exploration' represents an' equally imperial design, a design predicated on ideas
of imperial expansion in which the reproduction and promulgation of heterosexual
gender identity(ies) are not just incidental to the success of the project, but
absolutely central to it. As analysts have noted, particularly of the Kennedy and
Johnson Cold War administrations, US electoral politics has long embodied, 'an
obsession with "toughness" and the use of a sexualised language of competition
and dominance among men who contended for power within the American electoral
system and within the foreign policy bureaucracy' (Dean 2001: 3-4). A brief
history of US space administration The contemporary US discourse of outer
space that I examine in this chapter is primarily descendent of a heavily
militarized, but highly institutionalized, discourse of post-Cold War security,
military policy and alliance politics, predicated on the attainment and
maintenance of military and strategic superiority.It would be a mistake to
underestimate just how much the 'Cold War' between the US and USSR (and the
'space age' that it inaugurated) dominated the writings of intellectuals and the
agendas of political leaders during the 1950s and 1960s. US politics was the
preserve of security, military policy and alliance politics, with issues beyond
these receiving little sustained attention (Agnew and Corbridge 1995: 2). The
conquest of outer space achieved particular prominence as a 'space race' to
develop the most effective long range rocket-based technologies. At this point,
the US approach to space was to consider it entirely an extension of Earth-bound
warfare, probably most clearly evidenced by the public 'clamour' surrounding the
Soviet launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957. Although the apparent mass public panic in
the US at the launch of Sputnik 1 belied the satellite's 'inability to do more
than orbit the Earth and transmit meaningless radio blips' (Dickson 2004: 1), the
agenda was configured as a crisis in US identity, and read as a warning to the US
administration that the US's mantle of 'greatest nation on Earth' was
slipping (cf. Garber 2003; McDougall 1985; Carter 1988). Any discussion of space
'exploration' for its own sake, as distinguishable from the development of
'rocket technology', remained, at this very early stage, muted.2 Although talk of
hysteria in Washington at the launch of Sputnik may be somewhat overstated, the
US certainly appeared to many something less of a world hegemon, and Eisenhower's
'paternalistically vague' (Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, quoted in Dickson
2004: 2) response to Soviet space 'dominance' was heavily criticized. Dickson
characterizes the period immediately proceeding Sputnik's launch as one of
'national insecurity', 'wounded national pride', 'in-fighting', 'political
grandstanding', 'clandestine plots' and 'ruthless media frenzy' (2004: 4). As
McDougall articulates, when Sputnik 1 first circled the earth in 1957,
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And, this normalizing of gender superiority devalues human life to the point of
nothingness, according to Tickner:
Tickner, 92-[ J. Ann. (1992). (Gender in International Relations: Feminist
Perspectives on Achieving Global Security, Engendered Insecurities. Columbia
University Press. Retrieved June 22, 2011 from Columbia International Affairs
Onlinehttp://www.ciaonet.org/book/tickner/tickner12.html]- AAA
While the purpose of this book is to introduce gender as a category of analysis
into the discipline of international relations, the marginalization of women in
the arena of foreign policy-making through the kind of gender stereotyping that I
have described suggests that international politics has always been a gendered
activity in the modern state system. Since foreign and military policy-making has
been largely conducted by men, the discipline that analyzes these activities is
bound to be primarily about men and masculinity. We seldom realize we think in
these terms, however; in most fields of knowledgewe have become accustomed to
equating what is human with what is masculine.Nowhere is thismore true than in
international relations, a discipline that, while it has for the most part
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resisted the introduction of gender into its discourse, bases its assumptions and
explanations almost entirely on the activities and experiences of men. Any
attempt to introduce a more explicitly gendered analysis into the field must
therefore begin with a discussion of masculinity. Masculinity and politics have a
long and close association. Characteristics associated with "manliness," such as
toughness, courage, power, independence, and even physical strength, have,
throughout history, been those most valued in the conduct of politics,
particularly international politics. Frequently, manliness has also been
associated with violence and the use of force, a type of behavior that, when
conducted in the international arena, has been valorized and applauded in the
name of defending one's country. Thiscelebration of male power, particularly the
glorification of the male warrior, produces more of a gender dichotomy than
exists in realityfor, as R. W. Connell points out, this stereotypical image of
masculinity does not fit most men.Connell suggests that what he calls "hegemonic
masculinity," a type of culturally dominant masculinity that he distinguishes
from other subordinated masculinities, is a socially constructed cultural ideal
that, while it does not correspond to the actual personality of the majority of
men, sustains patriarchal authority and legitimizes a patriarchal political and
social order.6Hegemonic masculinity is sustained through its oppositionto various
subordinated and devalued masculinities, such as homosexuality, and, more
important, through its relation to various devalued femininities. Socially
constructed gender differences are based on socially sanctioned, unequal
relationships between men and women that reinforce compliance with men's stated
superiority. Nowhere in the public realm are these stereotypical gender images
more apparent than in the realm of international politics, where the
characteristics associated with hegemonic masculinity are projected onto the
behavior of states whose success as internationalactors is measured in terms of
their power capabilities and capacity for self-help and autonomy.
And, the perpetual reification of patriarchy in our everyday lived actions has
impacts, real ones, Warren and Cady explain:
Warren and Cady 94Warren is the Chair of the Philosophy Department at Macalester
College and Cady is Professor of Philosophy at Hamline University (Karen and
Duane, Feminism and Peace: Seeing Connections, p. 16,
JSTOR,http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/3810167.pdf, JB)
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each other in kyriarchical narrative fighting for male approval. Theres only two
minor plotlines centreing on romance Spike the dragons crush on Rarity, and
Raritys Prince Blueblood at the Grand Galloping Gala in The Best Night Ever.
Neither is a very central storyline, and in the case of Rarity, the Prince is
shown to be selfish and rude, a poor substitute for a night with her friends.
Theres nothing wrong with a bit of romance in childrens stories (though I
suppose its too much to ask a mainstream show to have canonical queer children),
but there is often a disproportionate emphasis on it. In contrast, My Little
Pony: Friendship is Magic doesnt just pass the Bechdel test, it shatters
it. There is only one male regular character on the show, the aforementioned baby
dragon Spike, and hes relegated to a marginal sidekick kind of role. This is a
clever reversal of what feminist essayist Katha Pollitt two decades ago called
the Smurfette Principle, the way in which male characters dominate, with a lone
female character rounding out the cast. Pollitt argues that: The message is
clear. Boys are the norm, girls the variation; boys are central, girls
peripheral; boys are individuals, girls types. Boys define the group, its story
and its code of values. Girls exist only in relation to boys. Sadly, this remains
as true now as it is then. For adults as well as children, texts in which men
dominate are still largely considered neutral, whereas those which feature a
similar female predominance are relegated to the chick-flick bin, watched only by
women. The logic goes: men wont watch shows or films about women, they can only
identify with other men. Yet MLP:FiM, of all shows, puts the lie to this wellworn, if nonsensical, cultural dogma. To the surprise of all concerned, MLP:FiM
has managed to attract a huge adult male fanbase dubbed bronies
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Scene 3 is Solvency
Know Your Meme Explains:
Know Your Meme, No Date of Publication, Accessed on
3/18/12: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/friendship-arsenal
About The Friendship Arsenal features a series of weapon-based image macros and
animated gifs used within the fanbase of the popular Tv Series My Little Pony:
Friendship is Magic. Multiple variations excist of this. Origin: Orbital
Friendship Cannon Orbital Friendship Cannon, also known as the Sonic Rainboom
Laser, is the first known weapon in the Friendship Arsenal. The
image originated from episode 16 of the first season of the series, Sonic
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Rainboom. During the episode, the character Rainbow Dash can be found flying
downwards to save others from a certain death. Creating the Sonic Rainboom in the
process. Due to the phenomenons appearance being similar in style to an orbital
laser blast, as well as the main theme of the show being friendship, fans of
the show created an image macro of it making it appear that the Sonic Rainboom is
actually a laser shot from orbit. This is often combined with the phrase Fire
the Orbital Friendship Cannon. Darken the Skies With Hate is a phrase related
to the Orbital Friendship Cannon, and is used as its exact opposite. The image
contains a color-inverted image of the original version. This is traditionally
used by either a more violent brony who thinks the atmosphere requires more
conflict, or a troll who is trying to intentionally anger the surrounding
bronies. Spread Following the creation and repeated use of Orbital Laser image
macros on numerous websites such as 4chan and Ponychan, the Orbital Friendship
Cannon has become a well-known in-joke within the brony community.
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(which isnt always true, and is anyway certainly a secondary matter compared
with the fundamental point: the effects proper to true discourses. (1980, p. 131)
I maintain that both the audience and the rhetorical critic as an audience member
can operate and struggle at the general level of that rgime of truth which is
so essential to the structure and functioning of our society. (Foucault, 1980,
p. 132). The specific intellectual may bring a deeper understanding of
narrative construction or a more- complete analysis of power depiction because of
research skills or clarity of analysis. However, my method invites all audience
members to use the ontological foundations of the narrative paradigm to
participate more completely in a narrative criticism that can increase their
conception of a truth which can actively change their lives at the individual
level by exposing the power structures implicit in society. Foucault contends
that this action is key to understanding the role of discourse in relation to
power and knowledge: Discourses are not once and for all subservient to power or
raised up against it, any more than silences are. We must make allowance for the
concepts complex and unstable process whereby discourse can be both an
instrument and an effect of power, but also a hindrance, a stumbling block, a
point of resistance and a starting point for an opposing strategy. Discourse
transmits and produces power; it reinforces it, but also undermines and exposes
it, renders it fragile and makes it possible to thwart it. (1980, p. 100-101;
cited in McKerrow, 1989, p. 98) Here Foucault describes a role for audiences
andrhetorical critics,one that still gives them a definite prescriptive
purpose: to uncover the places where discourse transmits, exposes, and
renders fragile power. More important, though, is Foucaults choice of the term
thwart. Ultimately, critics should work to resist the totalization of power.
However, Foucault is not seeking a particular normative structurecritique is
not about the business of moving us toward perfection (McKerrow, 1989, p. 97).
Rather, critics must consciously continue to push against the inherent powers
that control audiences. Consequently, the truth at which an audience can
arrive (with or without the assistance of the rhetorical critic) is in the daily
action of understanding the ever-changing human conditionthe constant
reconfiguration of powerthrough the constant examination of ever-changing
narratives.Derrida (1982) supports this assertion: The amalgamation of syntagmas
creates new knowledge in the form of a new narrative which also corresponds to
whatever always has resisted theorganization of forces, which always has
constituted the remainder irreducible to the dominant force which organized
thelogocentric hierarchy (p. 329-330, italics in original). An audiences
intensive examination of these issues can only lead to more creative and
constructive forms of resistance (Biesecker, 1992). Moreover, Phillips (2002)
contends that the spaces for emergence of resistance are also spaces of
invention that allow a resolution among power, knowledge, and the
subjectivity (context) in which Foucauldian theory demands the narrator and
audience work (p. 332). These spacesof invention are the areas necessary to
continue the (re)formation of narratives. Conclusion In this chapter, I have
elaborated a method of narrative rhetorical criticism that emphasizes audience
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and range in age from their teens well into middle age. The wide age range is
likely due to the technology of the Internet, which enables diverse groups of
people to interact who would not normally do so in real life. Fan fiction has
been interpreted as a subversive act--as women writing about sex while infringing
on copyright law (Bacon-Smith 1992)--but women do not approach fan fiction with
the goal of breaking the law; fan fiction is seductive to so many fans because it
offers the freedom to manipulate favorite characters and settings, free from the
restraint of publishers or the series' creators (Green et al. 1998).
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In memoriam: deserts.
Hello: my name is debate, and Im depressed. I feel so bogged down by responsibilities as if I HAVE to act a
certain way. Im not really sure why it has to be me, you know? I just want to have fun, I want to be free, but it
seems like everyone is always breathing down my neck. You have to grow up to be a well respected man
about town, you have to be important! You have to be tidy and proper! Be predictable, people will like you
more. I think in the end it is all the same, just more and more responsibility thrown in my face. More and
more things everyone tells me to do or say or be: they always tell me to drink, never be thirsty the say. They
treat me like a wasteland: an emptiness, a void to be filled, a blank sheet to be drawn on.
Welcome to New Vegas: hear me gasp. I see rounds every year: debaters pull recycled expando files on the
same old shit. This round was Shawnee mission west; you can bet money they read the spending DA. South
next round; same old ddev and wipeout blocks. SME MT round 3: the 1nc will be 3 Ts, The PIC, Wipeout,
Nietzsche and politics. CCC after that; like I havent heard THAT T Bases twelve thousand times. Millard next
round; expect the unexpected. Its the same routine, the same banal bullshit. Even when its wild and
unpredictable its always part of the plan. Its all so rational, so calculated, so mechanical and it makes me so
goddamn sick. It doesnt matter what happens, even if the plan is horrifying. For instance, if I say that
tomorrow a gang banger is going to get shot, or a truck full of soldiers is gonna get blown up, no one panics
because its all according to the plan.3 Dont trust whistles, nothing absurd: no garden walls. Debate has
become a church full of stale air: welcome to the cult of the rational and the Good, the empire aligned against
the forces of Evil and the insane. Anyone falling outside our plan: well, fuck em
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3 The Joker, The Dark Knight
4 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, pg. 158=59, 1980
The judgment of God, the system of the judgment of God, the theological system, is precisely the operation of
He who makes an organism, an organization of organs called the organism, because He cannot bear the BwO,
because He pursues it and rips it apart so He can be first, and have the organism be first. The BwO howls:
Theyve made me an organism! Theyve wrongfully folded me! Theyve stolen my body! The judgment of God
uproots it from its immanence and makes it an organism, a signification, a subject. It is the BwO that is
stratified. It swings between two poles, the surfaces of stratification into which it is recoiled, on which it submits
to the judgment, and the plane of consistency in which it unfurls and opens to experimentation4
I remember my first debate round: the day I learned the rules. Ive been told to conform, told to become
something Im not, a form I dont belong in, a body thats not mine. Little Gods are birthed on all sides: the
ballot, the judge, the preference sheet. Dont want to read the K in front of that guy. Dont say fuck in front
of her, shell knock your speaker points. Little body-snatchers throw me into alien forms. Little words instill
death in me. I have been ordered, controlled, cataloged and filed like a footnote: footnote 233, they call me.
"It's not up to you," said Kronman. "The discourse makes of you something. It makes of you something
juridical. In your case, we just call it 233 for short."
"For short?" I saw a glimmer of hope. 233 was merely a mnemonic device. "Then I don't really have to become
233?" I asked with renewed hope. "It's just a name, an address, a handle?"
"You're not paying attention. We call you 233 for short. But once the work is finished, that's all you are: You
are "233 for short.' You don't exist except in the mode of being-for-short. Think of it in Heideggerian terms. Not
so much being-there. But rather being-for-short. Nothing else is left of you."5
They tell me Ill be-for-short, nothing but a footnote at the bottom of the latest wiki page. Round 5, UT. They
tell me: You will be organized, you will be an organism, you will articulate your bodyotherwise youre just
depraved. You will be signifier and signified, interpreter and interpretedotherwise youre just a deviant. You
will be a subject, nailed down as one, a subject of the enunciation recoiled into a subject of the statement
otherwise youre just a tramp.6
In memoriam: debate.
First national tournament sophomore year: mall of America. Staring at the map which represents material
reality, always representing but never being. Never doing, the stupid purple sharpie dot proclaims that I am
here: but how can I ever be here if Im standing there. Moreover, how can I be standing there if I am here?
I wander over to a map, desperate to find an exit and a breath of air not laced with pastries, coffee,
perfume. He stared at it incredulously. His location was marked with a dot. That wasnt too confusing because
the statement You are here, was rather explicit. He was more frightened by the virulent purple sharpie
underneath it. It boldly proclaimed in capital letters OR AM I? The question stared at him, bored into his
mind. The Pice de rsistance of his cultural encounter did nothing but provide his brain with the mental
dynamite to blow up his locked door of cultivated normalcy. He stared around him more bewildered as if the
surreal nature of his surroundings suddenly made sense. Sensory input collapsed upon sensory input in a giant
blur of constant stimulation. Something that catered to every man-made sultry delight stretched out for him
across the glass displays of the mall that made the mythic markets of civilizations long past, mundane
mortuaries. It was city in the truest sense, its artificial existence. 7
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5 - Pierre Schlag, Byron White Professor of Law at the University of Colorado, Summer 2004, Buffalo Law Review, 52 Buffalo L. Rev. 851
6 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, pg. 158-159, 1980
7 Vincent Li, Mall Story
I am here. Am is an interesting word. How can I be here if I AM here, how can I be if I am? How can I be?
<shouted> OR AM I?! <shouted>
When
you
will
have
made
him
then
you
will
have
delivered
him
from
and restored him to his true freedom.
They
you
will
teach
him
again
to
as
in
the
frenzy
and this wrong side out will be his real place.8
a
all
body
his
dance
of
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automatic
wrong
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organs,
reactions
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halls
Wed like to think of ourselves sort of like starfish: not that my stomach comes out, but there are definitely
some similarities. We speak of sea monsters, defying time and space. Our politics is of the brittlestarOf
special interest is the information that the Brittlestar is a creature without a brain; it is simply a visualising
apparatus, a metamorphosing optical system. As Barad forcefully notes, 'there is no res cogitans agonizing
about the postulated gap (of Its own making) between itself and res extensa. There is no optics of mediation, no
noumena/phenomena distinction, no question of representation' (Barad in press). Instead, the Brittlestar is the
model of intraaction, constantly breaking off and regenerating its bodily boundaries as it enfolds bits of its
environment within itself and expels parts of its own body into the surrounding environment. In this way, the
Brittlestar cannot be said to exist as an autonomous entity positioned inside a spacetime frame of reference,
neither that of a Euclidean container nor even that of a dynamical manifold specified by classical science.
There is no pre-existent container or manifold within which the creature exists and moves along spacetime coordinates while its body is made and remade. Instead, the Brittlestar might be said to undergo what I would call
a spatio-temporalisation, what Barad refers to as 'space-time-matter-in the making.9
In memoriam: organisms.
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8 Antonin Artaud. 1947. Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings. To Have Done with the Judgment of God: A Radio Play University of California Press Berkeley Los Angeles ISBN 0-520-06443-7
(paperback). Retrieved from: http://ndirty.cute.fi/~karttu/tekstit/artaud.htm.
9 - Dorothea Olkowski Every One A Crowd, Making Room for the Excluded Middle Deleuze and Queer Theory . Edinburgh University Press, 2009, pg. 55-56
We speak of madness, and we speak madness: a language of Evil. You may ask us, What does the world of the
critique look like? To that we respond HAVE YOU EVER DONE ACID? The question is self-defeating
and without purpose: we are rather like an M.C. Escher piece, paradox stairs and monks traveling up and down
at the same time, praying to a trickster-God. Wed rather stay as children forever, playing on beaches and
drawing maps with starfish. We return debate in a regurgitated form: digested in the stomach of the brittlestar,
in the stomachs of men who know how to leave, to scramble the codes, to cause flows to circulate, to
traverse the desert of the body without organs. They overcome a limit, they shatter a wall, the capitalist barrier.
And of course they fail to complete the process, they never cease failing to do so. The neurotic impasse again
closes - the daddy-mommy of oedipalization, America, the return to the native land - or else the perversion of
the exotic territorialities, then drugs, alcohol - or worse still, an old fascist dream. Never has delirium
oscillated more between its two poles. But through the impasses and the triangles a schizophrenic flow moves,
irresistibly; sperm, river, drainage, inflamed genital mucus, or a stream of words that do not let themselves be
coded, a libido that is too fluid, too viscous: a violence against syntax, a concerted destruction of the signifier,
non-sense erected as a flow, polyvocality that returns to haunt all relations.10
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In memoriam: sanity.
But lets get back to this dead-end point between Leibniz and Spinoza, to their inability to imagine a politics of
the empty sign and Cartesian coordinate, one day becoming revolutionarywhat Im calling the conjunction of
deterritorialization processes. I think its impossible to sustain the sole promotion of the power sign for very
long in the exclusive work of reality* unless you topple over into archaization. So you need to come to terms
with the absurdity of the figure-signs deterritorializtion in its non-sense efficiency and logic. You need to come
to terms with the fact that code surplus value is, ultimately, taken back under the wing of a super revolutionary
alliance machine of deterritorialized signs that can double and master the set of all local power processes. To
what extent is Spinozas God emptied of its substance? Is this not just another assemblage of figure-sign flows
leading to radical desubstantialization? Permanent desubstantialization. It always has to happen all over
again. Isnt the only way to eliminate Absolute Knowledge, the Great Other and all the rest to have codes be
invaded by figure-sign cancer? The power sign - the sign-point is continuously deterritorialized, it never stops
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producing figure-signs, even trashy ones, and being axiomatized, evading signifying chains paired with
significations, and all this through a pure logic of non-sense.12
We know its easy to get lost, but of all things to remember we must not forget ourselves. You are here, here
in this room, here in the political, here in space, here in the ocean, here on the beaches, stick in hand, starfish
staring into you: tides consuming you. We always have to begin on this beach, with ourselves, with the here:
where you are. Artaud puts it well: all writing is so much pig shit - that is to say, any literature that takes itself
as an end or sets ends for itself, instead of being a process that "ploughs the crap of being and its language,"
transports the weak, the aphasiacs, the illiterate. At least spare us sublimation. Every writer is a sellout. The
only literature is that which places an explosive device in its package, fabricating a counterfeit currency,
causing the superego and its form of expression to explode, as well as the market value of its form of content.13
So come find us: well be out there in the desert, drawing maps in the sand dunes and holding funerals for
starfish. Come visit us, we would like to be alone with some company rather than surrounded by ourselves.
Dont worry about directions. Feel free to wander out there. It shouldnt be too hard to find us because We are
deserts, said Deleuze but populated by tribes, flora and fauna . We pass our time in ordering these tribes, arranging them in other
ways, getting rid of some and encouraging others to prosper. And all these clans, all these crowds, do not undermine the desert, which
is our very ascesis; on the contrary they inhabit it, they pass through it, over it . In Guattari there has always been a sort of
wild rodeo, in part directed against himself. The desert, experimentation on oneself, is our only identity, our single chance
for all the combinations which inhabit us. (Deleuze and Parnet, 1977, 11) The individual here is explicitly seen as
multiple and political, and the process of subjectification is presented as dynamic and continuing, never as something that has
reached or could reach a satisfactory conclusion . For Deleuze and Guattari living is always a process of becoming, never of
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***Make Me A Sandwich***
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find meats that both taste good and hold up over the course of the tournament.
The flavor should be present, but not overwhelming. Be careful to avoid messy
meat, as it could get on a flow or laptop. Roast beef, turkey, salami, ham, and
grilled chicken have worked best depending on the round (tailor the meat to the
2NR strat). For vegetarians, boca burgers and falafel are solid choices.
Vegetables are also a crucial component to the ideal sandwich. A prepared 1N
should have a veggie toolbox that is both flexible and complementary. Lettuce
(romaine and iceberg), tomatoes, cucumbers, pickles, onions and peppers (as many
varieties as possible) are a must. 1Ns should also be prepared for the whims of
their partner, so crunchy noodles, relish, zucchini, bean sprouts, beets, and
olives (black AND green) are all advanced options. Many 1Ns overestimate the
importance of cheese. While it is a key centerpiece, it is often overwhelmed on
the palate by other things on the sandwich. Some general tips: avoid American or
Velveeta, and cater the cheese choice to the meat. Know key combos like roast
beef and provolone, ham and swiss, and others to save time instead of
contemplating the proper cheese during your 1NR. If you learn nothing else from
this introduction to sandwich-making, the choice of condiments can make or break
whether or not the judge votes neg. First and foremost is the use of mayonnaise;
never forget to bring it, but dont put on too much unless you want your 2N to
drop the permutation. And studies have shown that the quality of the line-by-line
is directly proportional to the type of mayonnaise on the sandwich, so dont go
with the light. Brands are also key; whenever possible avoid generic brands and
get something like Heilmans. Additionally, make sure you stay up to date on the
mustard harvest, and purchase updates as necessary. Know the differences between
deli, Dijon, honey Dijon, etc. A prepared 1N will also have non-traditional
condiments, such as olive oil, vinegar, raspberry vinaigrette, etc. That should
be a good primer for all the 1Ns out there. Many of the top 1Ns in history have
carried extra tubs and professional-quality equipment in an often successful
effort to be the best possible 1N. Feel free to ask further questions, as this
has really only scratched the surface of sandwich making
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2. Extinction
Caldicott 2002 (Helen- Founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, The new
nuclear danger, p. 7-12)
If launched from Russia, nuclear weapons would explode over American cities
thirty minutes after takeoff. (China's twenty missiles are liquidfueled, not
solid-fueled. They take many hours to fuel and could not be used in a surprise
attack, but they would produce similar damage if launched. Other nuclear-armed
nations, such as India and Pakistan, do not have the missile technology to attack
the U.S.) It is assumed that most cities with a population over 100,000 people
are targeted by Russia. During these thirty minutes, the U.S. early-warning
infrared satellite detectors signal the attack to the strategic air command in
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Colorado. They in turn notify the president, who has approximately three minutes
to decide whether or not to launch a counterattack. In the counterforce scenario
the US. government currently embraces, he does [the U.S.] launch[es], the
missiles pass mid-space, and the whole operation is over within one hour. Landing
at 20 times the speed of sound, nuclear weapons explode over cities, with heat
equal to that inside the center of the sun. There is practically no warning,
except the emergency broadcast system on radio or TV, which gives the public only
minutes to reach the nearest fallout shelter, assuming there is one. There is no
time to collect children or immediate family members. The bomb, or bombs-because
most major cities will be hit with more than one explosion-will gouge out craters
200 feet deep and 1000 feet in diameter if they explode at ground level. Most,
however, are programmed to produce an air burst, which increases the diameter of
destruction, but creates a shallower crater. Half a mile from the epicenter all
buildings will be destroyed, and at 1.7 miles only reinforced concrete buildings
will remain. At 2.7 miles bare skeletons of buildings still stand, single-family
residences have disappeared, 50 percent are dead and 40 percent severely
injured.' Bricks and mortar are converted to missiles traveling at hundreds of
miles an hour. Bodies have been sucked out of buildings and converted to missiles
themselves, flying through the air at loo miles per hour. Severe overpressures
(pressure many times greater than normal atmospheric have popcorned windows,
producing millions of shards of flying glass, causing decapitations and shocking
lacerations. Overpressures have also entered the nose, mouth, and ears, inducing
rupture of lungs and rupture of the tympanic membranes or eardrums. Most people
will suffer severe burns. In Hiroshima, which was devastated by a very small
bomb-13 kilotons compared to the current iooo kilotons-a child actually
disappeared, vaporized, leaving his shadow on the concrete pavement behind him. A
mother was running, holding her baby, and both she and the baby were converted to
a charcoal statue. The heat will be so intense that dry objects-furniture,
clothes, and dry wood-will spontaneously ignite. Humans will become walking,
flaming torches. Forty or fifty miles from the explosion people will instantly be
blinded from retinal burns if they glance at the flash. Huge firestorms will
engulf thousands of square miles, fanned by winds from the explosion that
transiently exceed 1000 miles per hour. People in fallout shelters will be
asphyxiated as fire sucks oxygen from the shelters. (This happened in Hamburg
after the Allied bombing in WWII when temperatures within the shelters, caused by
conventional bombs, reached 1472 degrees Fahrenheit.)" Most of the city and its
people will be converted to radioactive dust shot up in the mushroom cloud. The
area of lethal fallout from this cloud will depend upon the prevailing wind and
weather conditions; it could cover thousands of square miles. Doses of 5000 rads
(a rad is a measure of radiation dose) or more experienced by people close to the
explosion-if they are still aliv-will produce acute encephalopathic syndrome. The
cells of the brain will become so damaged that they would swell. Because the
brain is enclosed in a fixed bony space, there is no room for swelling, so the
pressure inside the skull rises, inducing symptoms of excitability, acute nausea,
vomiting, diarrhea, severe headache, and seizures, followed by coma and death
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within twenty-four hours. A lower dose of 1000 rads causes death from
gastrointestinal symptoms. The lining cells of the gut die, as do the cells in
the bone marrow that fight infection and that cause blood clotting. Mouth ulcers,
loss of appetite, severe colicky abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and bloody
diarrhea occur within seven to fourteen days. Death follows severe fluid loss,
infection, hemorrhage, and starvation. At 450 rads, 50 percent of the population
dies. Hair drops out, vomiting and bloody diarrhea occurs, accompanied by
bleeding under the skin and from the gums. Death occurs from internal hemorrhage,
generalized septicemia, and infection. Severe trauma and injuries exacerbate the
fallout symptoms, so patients die more readily from lower doses of radiation.
Infants, children, and old people are more sensitive to radiation than healthy
adults. Within bombed areas, fatalities will occur from a combination of trauma,
burns, radiation sickness, and starvation. There will be virtually no medical
care, even for the relief of pain, because most physicians work within The United
States owns 103 nuclear power plants, plus many other dangerous radioactive
facilities related to past activities of the cold war. A 1000- kiloton bomb (1
megaton) landing on a standard iooo megawatt reactor and its cooling pools, which
contain intensely radioactive spent nuclear fuel, would permanently contaminate
an .' area the size of western Germany3 The International Atomic Energy Agency
now considers these facilities to be attractive terrorist targets, ' postSeptember 11,2001. Millions of decaying bodies-human and animal alike-will rot,
infected with viruses and bacteria that will mutate in the radioactiveenvironment to become more lethal. Trillions of insects, naturally ' resistant to
radiation-flies, fleas, cockroaches, and lice--will transmit disease from the
dead to the living, to people whoseimmune mechanisms have been severely
compromised by the high levels of background radiation. Rodents will multiply by
the millions among the corpses and shattered sewerage systems. Epidemics of
diseases now controlled by immunization and good hygiene will reappear: such as
measles, polio, typhoid, cholera, whooping cough, diphtheria, smallpox,
plague,tuberculosis, meningitis, malaria, and hepatitis. Anyone who makes it to a
fallout shelter and is not asphyxiated in it, will need to stay there for at
least six months until the radiation decayssufficiently so outside survival is
possible. It has been postulated that perhaps older people should be sent outside
to scavenge for food because they will not live long enough to develop
malignancies from the fallout (cancer and leukemia have long incubation periods
ranging from five to sixty But any food that manages to grow will be toxic
because plantsconcentrate radioactive elements.*/ Finally, we must examine the
systemic global effects of a nuclear . , war. Firestorms will consume oil wells,
chemical facilities, cities, and forests, coveringthe earth with a blanket of
thick, black, radioactive , I I ' smoke, reducing sunlight to 17 percent of
normal. One year or more ' ) , will be required for light and temperature to
return to normalper-"r haps supranormal values, as sunlight would return to more
than its , , usual intensity, enhanced in the ultraviolet spectrum by depletion
of the stratospheric ozone layer. Subfreezingtemperatures could destroy the
biological support system for civilization, resulting in massive starvation,
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warning system was rendered incompetent for almost a year." (At that time I was
sitting at a meeting in the west wing of the White House discussing potentially
dangerous Y2K nuclear weapons glitches. Several Pentagon officials blithely
reassured me that everything would function normally during the roll-over. But in
fact, their intelligence system had already been disabled.) Such a situation has
the potential for catastrophe. If America cannot observe what the Russians are
doing with their nuclear weapons-or vice versa-especially during a serious
international crisis they are likely to err on the side of "caution," which could
mean that something as benign as the launch of a weather satellite could actually
trigger annihilation of the planet.This situation became even more significant
after the September 11 attack.
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3. Still vote them down for 1N laziness- they only have one job during negative
rounds, thats to make a single sandwich for the 2NR; vote them down if they
are too unintelligent to understand.
4. 2N should have pushed them harder: that analysis was in the 1ar, I shouldnt
have to explain it again.
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Alternatively, one could vote the negative team down and beat up the 1N in all
other instances.
Alternatively, one could vote the negative team down and consult with the judge
on other issues regarding the 1N.
Alternatively one could vote the negative team down and consult over the
timeframe of how long of a beating is necessary.
Alternatively, one could beat up the 1N in a world where the judge votes
affirmative and just simply vote down the negative in a world where the judge
doesnt vote affirmative.
Furthermore, the author of the article has a questionable academic and personal
history. Mr. Trieu has reportedly been found trespassing on Selena Gomezs
property. He claims he was invited, but witness reports have confirmed that Mr.
Trieu was not only uninvited, but proceeded to take his clothes off for Ms.
Gomez, while singing I love you Selena, you belong with me. Academically, Mr.
Trieu has defended false, immoral positions, at one time advocating the
annihilation of all White males dating Asian females. One also has to question
his qualifications to speak on 1N discipline, since his debate partner, the
infamous Mitchell Caminer, has not only dropped the 1Ns burden, but has been
found clipping cards, tags, roadmaps, RFDs, cross-examination questions, expando
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indexes, novice lectures, judging philosophies, and speaker awards. If Mr. Trieu
could assert so strongly that causing physical harm to the 1N is so necessary,
perhaps it should have been more effective on his lazy and unethical partner
(full disclosure: I am Tom Trieus debate partner).
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Timecube Kritik
The State uses oppression to brainwash us into applying beneficent feelings to
obedience and thus promotes its singularist regime.
Gene Ray, Dr Gene Ray is the self proclaimed smartest man on earth and has a
self-appointed doctorate in cubism, www.cubicao.com, The State, 2010:
The state can exert control by a simple forceful oppression technique. Maybe itd
use technology as a means for this. But the people, as victims of the oppression,
are likely to resent it, and might even be spurned to revolt. This creates a
problem. So, the second strategy that the state can use is to control the people
by means of Word. This strategy makes sense: the WordVirus, at its basic level,
consists of pure Word. So, shackles and whips are obsolete. By penetrating the
mind of each population member, and by programming them in certain way, random
mutations are discouraged, and obedience is entrenched. The forceful oppression
is partially relaxed. The people gain a sense of freedom. They experience
beneficent emotions. They are then taught to associate those happy feelings with
a morality that supports the state. Thus they feel compelled to embrace said
morality.
The Aff use of the Government fails to acknowledge and rejects the legitimacy of
the philosophy of Dr. Gene Ray and must be rejected.
Gene Ray, Dr Gene Ray is the self proclaimed smartest man on earth and has a
self-appointed doctorate in cubism, www.timecube.com, 2010:
Evil academia blocks out Time Cube site and suppresses its discussion and
debate. You are an educated singularity idiot who can stupidly deny Nature's
Harmonic 4 simultaneous 24 hour days within a single rotation of Earth, or even
make parody of the Cubic Creation Principle - but your mental ability to
comprehend the greatest social and scientific discovery of all human existence
has been lobotomized by the evil academic singularity bastards hired to destroy
your ability to think opposite. You cannot comprehend Opposite
Creation. Religous/academic taught singularity is the reduction of the human mind
to android.
Ignorance of the Time Cube lobotomizes your mind, leading to cycloptic singular
perspective. This creates a cubeless, android mentality.
Gene Ray, Dr Gene Ray is the Dr Gene Ray is the self proclaimed smartest man on
earth and has a self-appointed doctorate in cubism, www.timecube.com, 2010:
If ignorant of the almighty. Time Cube Creation Truth, you deserve to be
killed. Killing you is not immoral but justified to save life on Earth for future
generations. Academic taught singularity within a universe of opposites, has
lobotomized your mind. You are Enslaved by Word - no whip or shackle
required. You do not have the freedom to discuss/debate Time Cube. Academia
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The Alt is to reject singularist mentality of the state and accept the
philosophical principles proposed by Dr. Gene Ray, including Timecube theory.
Voting neg is literally the difference between extinction and salvation.
Gene Ray, Dr Gene Ray is the Dr Gene Ray is the self proclaimed smartest man on
earth and has a self-appointed doctorate in cubism, www.cubicao.com, Cubic
Salvation, 2010:
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Theory:
Voting Neg has real world results
Standards:
Awareness: if you vote neg, then awareness is spread of Cubism and literally
brings solvency to the alt
Action: we discuss hypothetical extremities all the time in debate, but voting
neg results in an actual change in the real world
Education: discussion of Cubism actually helps us rid ourselves of singularity,
so we have real world impacts. Even if you dont accept Cubism, you have been
exposed and can spread the word.
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Mao Kritik
People who rely solely on book knowledge without investigating anything never
actually end up changing anything.
Mao Tse-tung [Chairman of the Communist party of China 19431974, Revolutionary],
May 1930, OPPOSE BOOK WORSHIP,
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume6/mswv6_11.htm //Skills
III. OPPOSE BOOK WORSHIP
Whatever is written in a book is right such is still the mentality of
culturally backward Chinese peasants. Strangely enough, within the Communist
Party there are also people who always say in a discussion, "Show me where it's
written in the book." When we say that a directive of a higher organ of
leadership is correct, that is not just because it comes from "a higher organ of
leadership" but because its contents conform with both the objective and
subjective circumstances of the struggle and meet its requirements. It is quite
wrong to take a formalistic attitude and blindly carry out directives without
discussing and examining them in the light of actual conditions simply because
they come from a higher organ. It is the mischief done by this formalism which
explains why the line and tactics of the Party do not take deeper root among the
masses. To carry out a directive of a higher organ blindly, and seemingly without
any disagreement, is not really to carry it out but is the most artful way of
opposing or sabotaging it.
The method of studying the social sciences exclusively from the book is likewise
extremely dangerous and may even lead one onto the road of counter-revolution.
Clear proof of this is provided by the fact that whole batches of Chinese
Communists who confined themselves to books in their study of the social sciences
have turned into counter-revolutionaries. When we say Marxism is correct, it is
certainly not because Marx was a "prophet" but because his theory has been proved
correct in our practice and in our struggle. We need Marxism in our struggle. In
our acceptance of his theory no such formalisation of mystical notion as that of
"prophecy" ever enters our minds. Many who have read Marxist books have become
renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism
very well. Of course we should study Marxist books, but this study must be
integrated with our country's actual conditions. We need books, but we must
overcome book worship, which is divorced from the actual situation.
How can we overcome book worship? The only way is to investigate the actual
situation.
Without probing into the problem you talk nonsense, meaning that your right to
speak should be revoked. Only by truly investigating things can we change
anything.
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stands now, and then it will be easy to solve your difficult problem.
Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a
problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
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all this passes. We've got to learn to believe in shit again. After this latest
shitstorm, it may take years to accomplish, but we must somehow find the strength
to put our trust back into the nation's shit." Despite such impassioned calls for
faith in the U.S. political system and all the shit that comes with it, if the
Gallup Poll is any indication, the majority of Americans are no longer willing to
put up with the shit. "Fuck that shit," said Evansville, IN, day-care provider
Helen Reiderer. "I'm tired of hearing about it. Do they actually expect us to
still believe that load of shit?" "If you ask me, the shit is about to hit the
fan," said Reiderer's husband Frank. "As far as I'm concerned, all that shit is
just too much to be believed." Another disgruntled citizen, Wenatchee, WA,
tractor salesman Tom Huard, summed up the sentiments of most Americans when,
holding up the front page of the local newspaper to friend Benjamin Pritchard, he
said, "Jesus, Ben, can you believe this?" "Shit, no," Pritchard replied.
Boredom is the root cause of all evil and always has been. This is empirically
proven.
Kierkegaard 1843( Either/Or, February 20, 1843, philopher)
People with experience maintain that proceeding from a basic principle is
supposed to be very reasonable; I yield to them and proceed from the basic
principle that all people are boring. Or is there anyone who would be boring
enough to contradict me in this regard? This basic principle has to the highest
degree the repelling force always required in the negative, which is actually the
principle of motion. It is not merely repelling but infinitely repulsive, and
whoever has the basic principle behind him must necessarily have infinite
momentum for making discoveries. If, then, my thesis is true, a person needs only
to ponder how corrupting boredom is for people, tempering his reflections more or
less according to his desire to diminish or increase his impetus, and if he wants
to press the speed of the motion to the highest point, almost with danger to the
locomotive, he needs only to say to himself: Boredom is the root of all evil. It
is very curious that boredom, which itself has such a calm and sedate nature, can
have such a capacity to initiate motion. The effect that boredom brings about is
absolutely magical, but this effect is one not of attraction but of repulsion.
How corrupting boredom is, everyone recognizes also with regard to children. As
long as children are having a good time, they are always good. This can be said
in the strictest sense, for if they at times become unmanageable even while
playing, it is really because they are beginning to be bored; boredom is already
coming on, but in a different way. Therefore, when selecting a nursemaid, one
always considers essentially not only that she is sober, trustworthy, and goodnatured but also takes into esthetic consideration whether she knows how to
entertain children. Even if she had all other excellent virtues, one would not
hesitate to give her the sack if she lacked this qualification. Here, indeed, the
principle is clearly acknowledged,but things go on so curiously in the world,
habit and boredom have gained the upper hand to such a degree, that justice is
done to esthetics only in the conduct of the nursemaid. It would be quite
impossible to prevail if one wanted to demand a divorce because one's wife is
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ALT. WE MUST ACT MORALLY, EVEN IF IT MEANS OUR OWN DEATH. This means we must
reject boredom.
Watson, philosophy professor, Washington University, WORLD HUNGER AND MORAL
OBLIGATION, 1977, pp. 118-9.
One may even have to sacrifice ones life or ones nation to be moral in
situations where practical behavior would preserve it. For example, if a prisoner
of war undergoing torture is to be a (perhaps dead) patriot even when reason
tells him that collaboration will hurt no one, he remains silent. Similarly, if
one is to be moral, one distributes available food in equal shares even if
everyone dies. That an action is necessary to save ones life is no excuse for
behaving unpatriotically or immorally if one wishes to be a patriot or moral. No
principle of morality absolves one of behaving immorally simply to save ones
life or nation. There is a strict analogy here between adhering to moral
principles for the sake of being moral, and adhering to Christian principles for
the sake of being Christian. The moral world contains pits and lions, but one
looks always to the highest light. The ultimate test always harks back to the
highest principle recant or die. The ultimate test always harks back to the
highest principle recant or die and it is pathetic to profess morality if one
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destroy a lot and kill a lot, but it's the living that are interesting not the
way of killing them, because if there were not a lot left living how could there
be any interest in destruction. Alright, that is the way I feel about it. They
think they are interested about the atomic bomb but they really are not not any
more than I am. Really not. They may be a little scared, I am not so scared,
there is so much to be scared of so what is the use of bothering to be scared,
and if you are not scared the atomic bomb is not interesting. Everybody gets so
much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so
much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.
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***Counterplans***
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***Consult Ashtar***
Text: The United States federal government should engage in genuine, prior and
binding, with Ashtar Galactic Command regarding the mandates of the affirmative
plan.
Competition
Any permutation is severs the immediacy and certainty of the plan and the
counterplan avoids the Ashtar DA net benefit.
Solvency The Ashtar command can control matter, energy, and gravity we should consult
over space exploration & development
Lord Ashtar, 2004 (August 19, 2004, Our Fleets Are In Position, Ready
Yourselves Brother Veritus,
http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/ashtar_command_mission.htm, accessed 6/27/11,
SL)
I salute you in the sacred name of I AM and in representation of the
Intergalactic Command!
My name is Ashtar Sheran, I am a space Commander, and I
am in charge of the Star Ship. The Ashtar Command is a branch of the
Intergalactic Command with the specific mission of assisting this planet in
crisis. It is under the direct supervision, the loving care and the attention of
Beloved Master Sananda (known by you as Jesus); who, among other positions, is
the Supreme Commander of the Holy Alliance.
The Ashtar Command is present
everywhere. In and over the Earths atmosphere, there are thousands and
thousands of space ships, of course, the majority at an invisible level. Its
function is to watch over the planet and its inhabitants, to be attentive to any
fault or danger and if we are invoked, to intervene quickly in an impersonal
manner, since our mission of Love is to help.
Due to our great scientifictechnological level, we can control matter, energy, counteract and annul the Law
of Gravity. To make our ships visible (which we do now exceptionally), we retard
the vibratory frequency and this makes possible densification. We do not live in
a physical body but in etheric level, but our bodies are the same as yours in
form and aspect, albeit finer and subtle. We are the authority that controls the
space program to be fulfilled for the Planet Earth.
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1NC - Ashtar DA
A. Uniqueness We are moving towards our necessary quota of lightness
Ariana, Pleiadian Walk In and Channel and Communicator, Healer and Artist, 11
(Anakya, 5/2/2011, Channelling, Human Ascension: Earth Changes and Evacuation of
Earth Ashtar Spiritual Forum,
http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/instructions-foraccomplishing#ixzz1QVjan065, accessed: 6/24/11, SL)
Remember: it is due to the lack of light that we have not met the Galactic
Federation of Light. Yes, I said LIGHT. They do not resonate with darkness. They
will not return-until a certain quota of light is here. You, as lightworkers,
have been sent here for one reason, and one reason ONLY. To work with light-to
focus it-to create it-to HOLD IT ONCE CREATED-to transform...in ways you cannot
begin to imagine. Do a visualization. Imagine traveling to a foreign land-where
friendly and loving people reach out to you-and compete to have you in their home
as a guest, so they can treat you well and listen to your stories of where you
are from-and exchange love. There are no wars, there is no crime. All the
world....is at peace, and in joy and laughter. We have so long been enslaved,
that we no longer can fathom true freedom. Want to explore the Pleades and return
home for awhile? Imagine no calendar-no job to return to-no money-and only
safety, health and happiness in your travels. All is provided. We will learn and
follow the Law of One. Which creates balance and good for all. All is one. One is
all. Namaste. Lightworkers....master and hold the light....
B. Link & Impact The 1ac embraces negativity rather than lightness, makes
evacuation impossible and guarantees our extinction
Skirvin, 6/17/2011
(Revered Joshua, Best Kept Secrets #3 Ashtar Command Center Spiritual Blogs,
http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/best-kept-secrets3#ixzz1QXGL8Ogq, accessed: 6/27/11, SL)
Hello friends, let us finish this article on planet-x. As it is the 3rd. time
here now it gets bigger and stronger as it pulls on the earth and forces the
magnetic energy to expand and start to change course. The earths expansion causes
earth quakes and volcanoes to go off to release the pressure. We will see more of
what happened in New Zealand and now Japan as Planet-x gets closer still. The
plates under Japan will continue to move and break up as the earth quakes there
continue on and on,more damage is yet to come. The moon like the earth has been
forced to move away from Planet-x and has also changed its course. And of course
the sun is really upset because it is so close to it and will continue with its
coronas and super flares. More heavy storms will also continue on earth with
floods like last year until Planet-x moves away from us but first she will show
her face to us for all to see. things will settle down a bit until she returns
again next year and will come even closer and be a even stronger pull on the
earth sun and moon. Planet-x will join in the Galactic alignment of dec.21,2012.
And thats when who ever is still here who has a ticket to leave must leave as
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things will get very heavy down here. I myself am looking forward to the new
adventure on the new earth they have prepared for us. No one in fear or
negativity will be picked by the ships that will come to rescue us. The rescue
should start sometime next year according to how heavy the earth changes are. The
christens call it the Golden age of peace. .Hope to see you there in our new
healthy and young bodies. Or if you choose you can join the Federation of light
and visit the universe. Some may even wish to come back to repopulate the old
earth when she is finished her healing process. Anyway you look at it, its going
to be exciting times. The governments of the western world want to keep it a
secret because they don;t believe we the people will survive. They and the
sinister secret government SSG have known about this for a long time and have
built underground cities,bases,roads and rail systems for there survival. But
they don;t know about Jesus,Ashtar and the federation of light rescue plans for
us. All of this and more,I write about in my new book which you can get on my web
site. I want people to know there is hope even amongst the greatest change the
people and the earth has ever gone through. We are not alone in this quest and
never was. We are on journey without distance. So we must start the re-awaking
process now so that we are ready for it because ready or not here it comes
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Ashtar DA - TimeFrame
The paradigm is shifting and the negativity has been combated the Deprogramming
is starting now towards the creation of the Federation of Nations and full
Disclosure is on schedule for mid July
Skirvin, 6/17/2011 (Revered Joshua, Paradigm Shift Begins Ashtar Command Center
Spiritual Blogs, http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/paradigm-shiftbegins-1#ixzz1QX9kprh6, accessed: 6/27/11, SL)
But our jobs now as light-workers and warriors will be much easier, which is a
blessing because we need all the positive energy we can muster up to not only
deal with our own Deprograming. But the Deprograming of the sleeping survivors,
starting with the lightworkers, so that as many as possible of the original
250,000 may wake up. And in so doing we may all make the Ascension Program a
complete reality. Our mission has up to now been greatly hampered. I want to
shout and cheer for the''war both in the heavens and on earth is over''. Lets
celebrate this very special occasion as soon as we can.
Problem is I don't
know if we have time for a party, as time itself is speeding up as well. But do
put the word out that this Great News comes from Sananda and Ashtar, so I believe
its true. Also they say we should start to feel the Christ energy now as it
returns. Jesus is head of the Christ office and the valves have been opened full
throttle, take in as much as you can handle. I myself have begun to feel and
remember these energies from long ago before we neared the 50% mark of
negativity. Which we are more than Lucky to survive as some planets didn't make
it far past that mark. But we are special. Thats why our father Michael created
Jesus to save us.
The ascended Masters have also been busy, not only in the
spirit realm but down here on the planet as well. They are nearly finished with
the preparations of installing the new benevolent world gov't called (FON) the
Federation of Nations. There human partners are now in place to take leadership
when Discloser and Contact is made, which also looks to be on schedule by or
before summer in the west. The new world currency backed by precious metals are
also in place and ready to be distrbuted. And of course the federation of light
is also very involved in all of this and are ready to take there places. The time
peroid of mid June to mid July is still holding strong. I believe we must stick
to this time table because of the coming of planet-X,ELEnin and the Great
Disruption and Earth Changes it will bring.
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Ashtar DA - TimeFrame
Between August 13-18, humanity will move to another spiritual plane in the
Spiritual Evolution, bringing us closer to Ascention
Cota-Robles, Chanel and Co-founder of the New Age Study of Humanitys Purpose
6/13/2011
(Patricia Diane, This is a cosmic moment Ashtar Command Center Spiritual Blog,
http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/this-is-a-cosmic-momentby#ixzz1QXDD71iP, accessed 6/27/11, SL)
We are moving at warp speed through frequencies, vibrations, and physical
experiences beyond anything Humanitys physical bodies have collectively endured.
The Divine Intent of this rapid acceleration is to strengthen our bodies at a
cellular level, so that our I AM Presence can move us through the surfacing
negativity quickly. Then we will be able to effectively anchor our NEW Planetary
CAUSE of Divine Love into the physical plane. This will be accomplished August
13-18, 2011, through the newly expanded Threefold Flames now pulsating through
every persons heart. It is true that we are in uncharted waters, but our I AM
Presence is able to take command in ways we have not experienced since our fall
from Grace aeons ago. This aspect of our Divinity is daily and hourly guiding us
through these monumental changes in alignment with our Divine Plans and our
highest good. Listen to your heart. Be still and KNOW. It is vital that we stop
clinging to the obsolete behavior patterns that no longer serve us. Instead, we
must push away from the shore and turn our faces toward the radiant Light of our
Father-Mother God. Then as we are catapulted through this fast moving River of
Life, we will KNOW that the Light of God is ALWAYS Victorious and that WE are
that Light! The key words for this summer are Trust, Self-Acceptance, and New
Beginnings. This is the Cosmic Moment for which we have been preparing for
lifetimes. Everything we need to succeed God Victoriously in our particular facet
of this Divine Mission is already within us. Be at Peace. All is well. This
summer the Company of Heaven is standing in readiness awaiting the invitation to
intervene in our lives. Powerful celestial alignments are occurring that will
help us release and let go of the behavior patterns that have kept us stuck in
our dysfunctional human miscreations.
This is an incredibly powerful and sacred
time. This month we will experience three eclipses and the June Solstice, all of
which will provide unique opportunities for Humanity to add to the Light of the
world as we pave the way for the unprecedented influx of Divine Love that will be
secured in the physical plane through every person's Heart Flame, in August. Each
of these alignments will build on the previous influx of Light which will
catapult the Earth and ALL her Life further up the Spiral of Evolution. This will
move us a quantum leap toward our ultimate goal of Ascension into the 5thDimensional frequencies of Divine Love and Unity Consciousness.
For this
reason, the entire Universe is rejoicing, and the Company of Heaven is assisting
us in unprecedented ways. For the activity of Light that will take place August
13-18, 2011, it is critical that Lightworkers from around the world be physically
present. Through our unified Heart Flames, we will form the transformer through
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which our NEW Planetary CAUSE of Divine Love will be permanently secured in the
physical world of form. The Lightworkers who have been prepared to serve in this
wondrous way, on behalf of Humanity and ALL Life on this sweet Earth, will know
who they are through the inner promptings of their heart. So listen to your
heart, and Trust your inner guidance.
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Photon belt is a field of very high vibratory frequency, which enhances the
spiritual condition of our Earth when we enter it. If were spiritual evolved at
that time, our evolution will be magnified by many folds. And if our spiritual
growth is negative, we go into a very fast downward spiral, as it happened during
our last entry, nearly 10,000 years ago, when the great civilization of Atlantis
was destroyed. Our Solar system has begun its entry into this field. Our earth is
under the direct influence of the Photon Belt from Dec 21st, 2009 and the effects
will increase in seven stages. We are now in the third stage of this influence.
This entry of our Earth into the Photon Belt, which coincides with the Galactic
alignment happening on the same day, will have a massive spiritual effect on
Humanity.
2012 will usher the New Age of Light
Singh, 4/29/11
(Ravinder Singh, Earth Changes Part 1: The Cosmic Events Ashtar Command Center
Spiritual Blog, http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/earth-changespart-1-the#ixzz1QXLlbuGP, accessed: 6/27/11, SL)
Effects of these Events When important events happen almost simultaneously at the
cosmic levels, the effects will also be huge and long lasting. The events which
are scheduled to occur after 2012 are going to release a huge amount of energies,
both physical and spiritual, which will have massive effects. Some of them are:
a. Reduction of the Transitory period The 5000 year long dark age ended on this
Earth on 14th April, 1974. Before the New Age of Light begins, a transitory
period of 432 years is usually provided, for humanity to make a gradual shift
from the beliefs and values of the old age and rise to the higher values of the
New age. This is also the period when the Rishis invoke many processes at
different levels to help us make this shift. One of them is the intense churning
process called as Pralaya, which was to lasts for 49 years. The Pralaya began in
1987 and was supposed to continue up to 2036. The unprecedented events which are
scheduled to occur at the cosmic level in and around 2012 have given us a rare
opportunity to speed up this process and make a swift entry into the Light Age!
The gradual transition which we were supposed to make in 432 years can be
hastened up and reduced by many folds, because of the intensity these cosmic
events create in our lives at all levels. The Galactic alignment between the
Galactic Centre, Sirius and Alcyone begins in 2012 and will continue upto 2032.
Like the duration of an eclipse, the spiritual effect of this alignment will be
present for these twenty years. Among other things, the Rishis have made use of
this opportunity to drastically reduce the 432 years of transition and the 49
years of Pralaya, to ease our suffering and take us quickly into the Light age.
As a result of this, the Pralaya process will end by 2015 and well enter Satya
Yuga in 2018! By the time this alignment ends in 2032, the New Age of Light will
be firmly established on this Earth.
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Singh, 4/29/11
(Ravinder Singh, Earth Changes Part 1: The Cosmic Events Ashtar Command Center
Spiritual Blog, http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/earth-changespart-1-the#ixzz1QXLlbuGP, accessed: 6/27/11, SL)
b. Removal of Evil from this Eartha New Light Age. Our Earth is a planet where
there are equal opportunities for the forces of Light and Darkness to manifest
and take effect. These are evident in the 4 yugas, in which Light reigns supreme
in one, darkness in another and a shade of these two manifest in the other two
yugas. However the reign of darkness has increased over the course of many
Mahayugas, resulting in an imbalance in creation and more burden on the Rishis
who take care of Gods creation. The Galactic alignment and many other events
occurring this time has enabled the Rishis to initiate a very great project,
which will not only set right this imbalance but also remove Evil completely from
this Earth. This project has been named as Pavitrena Karyam. The aim of this
project is to ensure that darkness and evil are not only made dormant but also
removed completely from this Earth. This also means that the other three yugas
will no longer be present on this Earth henceforth and there will be Light Age
all the time. The Galactic alignment and the huge surge of Spiritual energies it
brings about have enabled the Rishis to initiate this experimentation on this
Earth, from this Light Age onwards. Also, this is the first time that the Rishis
could visit all the Manifested and Unmanifested Universes and also enter the
realm of the Primordial God, Mula Brahma. The access to the energies and
knowledge from all these Universes is another major reason for the initiation of
this experimentation on this Earth.
2012 will increase vibrational energy, helping the human race shift to higher
levels of consciousness
Singh, 4/29/11
(Ravinder Singh, Earth Changes Part 1: The Cosmic Events Ashtar Command Center
Spiritual Blog, http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/earth-changespart-1-the#ixzz1QXLlbuGP, accessed: 6/27/11, SL)
c) Further Effects of the Galactic Alignment The Galactic alignment of 2012 has
enabled energies of very high frequencies to be released from the three sources
which are coming together in alignment. It is also helping newer energies to come
into our Galaxy. All these Energies are already reaching our Earth and this will
increase as we move towards 2012. Normally the Energies are released in the form
of rays or spirals. Now the new energies in shape of X and Z are getting
released. These new energies are being released from eclipse which occurred
between 31st December and 1st Janurary of this year. The alignment has eased the
process of anchoring these higher energies on our Earth. These new energies are
first absorbed by the Photon belt and then released to our Earth. The first
impact is the increase in the vibrational frequency of our Earth, resulting in a
lot of positive churning to take place at all levels. This churning helps every
human being on Earth to deal with his own negativity and get over them, in order
to move into the New Light Age. This alignment has also brought in new knowledge
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and is helping all humanity to become aware of newer possibilities of life and
creation. It has enabled a major push and growth in the whole galaxy. The new
experimentation, Pavitrena Karyam has become possible because of this growth.
The Galactic alignment is slowly increasing the pace of rotation of the entire
Milky way galaxy and will help it shift higher to many levels of consciousness.
This alignment is so powerful that it can shift the entire Material Cosmos to the
next level of consciousness. But since this is not the right time for such a
shift, the Rishis headed by Vasishtha Maharshi are monitoring the entire process
with great vigilance to keep such huge effects in check.
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Thus can we assess that Vermin Supreme is the best most super awesome piece of
shit there ever was!
Contention 3 is the Net Benefit
A. Vermin Supreme ensures a pony-based economic platform. This is goodmultiple
warrants
Ridley Report 11 (Vermin Supreme Backers Develop a More Supreme Missionagainst
Obama. 14 June 2011. Online video clip. Youtube. Accessed on 20 January 2012.)
My name is Vermin Supreme. Im a friendly fascist. Im a tyrant you should
trust. You should let me run your life. Because I do know what is best for you.
Yes, I am a politician. I will promise you anything your heart desires, because
you are my constituents and because I have no intention of keeping any promise I
make. Vote early, Vote often, and remember, a vote for Vermin Supreme is a vote
completely thrown away Do you still stand by your word to provide a pony to
every American? Yes I do! Free ponies for all Americans. This is one of the
overlooked issues in America today. My free pony platform is of course a jobs
creation program. It will create lots and lots of jobs, once we switch over to a
pony-based economy. Well also lower dependence on foreign oil. Well be able to
turn all that pony poop into methane gas, a wonderful compost, so we will be able
to re-up our soil that is being depleted by agrochemicals etc. etc. etc. And of
course the important thing to realize is that it is a Federal Pony Identification
System. You will have to have your pony on you at all times. Thank you very
much.Mr. Supreme, Regarding the ponies, is that the only government program you
support?... Just that one. Thats enough. In the vein of energy production, we
can harness the awesome power of zombies. This is for energy sources; not just to
run away from anymore. We have giant turbines we have been working on, and we
will have a lot of zombies, and we will dangle brains in front of them. They will
run and turn the giant turbines, creating energy in order to lessen our
dependence on foreign oil. (play circus music) (singing). My name is Vermin, my
name is Vermin, my name is vermin..supreeeeme. My name is vermin and you should
vote for me in this upcoming electionnn, and yeahThanks everyone for coming out
today. Oh and one last thing Jesus told me to make Randall Terry Gay.
(sprinkles sparkle dust above Terry) WOOOOOH LOOK HES GAY!! WOOOH.
AND a pony-based nation is crucial to affective communication systemsPony
Express proves.
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And Foreign oil dependence is KILLING our economyalternate energy forms such as
Zombie Treadmills solves effectively
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Fuel Economy 12 (Reduce Oil Depence Costs January 20 2012. Fuel Economy.gov
(FEG)
Today, about half of the oil we use is imported, and our dependence will increase
as we use up domestic resources. Most of the world's oil reserves are
concentrated in the Middle East, and about two-thirds are controlled by
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) members. Oil price
shocks and price manipulation by OPEC have cost our economy dearlyabout $1.9
trillion from 2004 to 2008and each major shock was followed by a recession. We
may never eliminate our need to import oil, but we can reduce cartel market
control and the economic impact of price shocks by reducing our demand. Congress
recently passed legislation to decrease our dependence on oil by increasing
corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards on new cars and trucks to 35 mpg
by model year 2020. This could reduce our petroleum use by 25 billion gallons by
2030. Ultimately, the solution to this problem lies in technological progress: By
Developing advanced vehicle technologies that use energy more efficiently. [By]
Creating new energy sources that can replace petroleum cleanly and costeffectively
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Will the state banking system, which has served this country so well throughout
our
history, retain its relevance and political significance if it charters only 17
percent of
the nation's banking assets? We say no. Is it good to lose the FDIC and the
Federal
Reserve's current roles in regulating and supervising these large, interstate
banks?
We say no.
3-The impact is extinction
Beardon 00
(Tom-, Retired Lieutenant Colonel, The Unnecessary Energy Crisis: How to Solve
it
Quickly, www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3aaf97f22e23.htm)
History bears out that desperate nations take desperate actions. Prior to the
final
economic collapse, the stress of nations will have increased the intensity and
number
of their conflicts, to the point where the arsenals of weapons of mass
destruction
(WMD) now possessed by some 25 nations, are almost certain to be released. As an
example, suppose a starving North Korea launches nuclear weapons upon Japan and
South Korea, including U.S. forces there, in a spasmodic suicidal response. Or
suppose a desperate China-whose long-range nuclear missiles (some) can reach the
United State-attacks Taiwan. In addition to immediate responses, the mutual
treaties
involved in such scenarios will quickly draw other nations into the conflict,
escalating
it significantly.
Strategic nuclear studies have shown for decades that, under such extreme stress
conditions, once a few nukes are launched, adversaries and potential adversaries
are
then compelled to launch on perception of preparations by ones adversary. The
real
legacy of the MAD concept is this side of the MAD coin that is almost never
discussed. Without effective defense, the only chance a nation has to survive at
all is
to launch immediate full-bore pre-emptive strikes and try to take out its
perceived
foes as rapidly and massively as possible. As the studies showed, rapid
escalation to
full WMD exchange occurs. Today a great percent of the WMD arsenals that will be
unleashed, are already on site within the Untied States itself. The resulting
great
Armagedoon will destroy civilization as we know it, and perhaps most of the
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***Planking***
Contention 1: Plan Text: The entire USFG Should Plank on the steps of the white
house
Contention 2: Qualifications
We are plankers ourselves, and part of the planking community, so we are experts
in the field of planking making us a credible source.
Contention 3: Net Benefit
1. Lets face it planking for a few minutes in front of everyone creates a good
laugh and boosts morale.
2. Planking for a while gives time to think.
3. Planking creates popularity, internet proves.
And Lets face it, the government is boring and the people are pissed at the
government this is The Onion in 98
[Poll: 73 Percent Of Americans Unable To Believe This Shit, OCTOBER 7, 1998
| ISSUE 4327 ISSUE 3410, http://www.theonion.com/articles/poll-73-percent-ofamericans-unable-to-believe-thi,1537/]
PRINCETON, NJAccording to the latest Gallup Poll, conducted Monday and Tuesday
of this week, nearly three out of four Americans can no longer believe this shit.
In addition to the 73 percent of poll respondents who described this shit as
"beyond belief," 9 percent said they could "hardly" believe this shit, with
another 5 percent "just barely" believing it. An additional 13 percent said they
"couldn't give a flying fuck about the whole goddamn thing."
The poll also found that the National Shit-Credulity Index (NSCI) has hit an alltime low, with only 2 percent of Americans describing themselves as "fully
confident of [their] capacity to believe this shit." "The American people have
had to deal with this kind of shit for years," Gallup Organization president Lee
Sanderson said, "but now, for the first time, it appears that the vast majority
of them just can't fucking believe it anymore."
"In all honesty, who can blame them?" Sanderson added. "Regardless of one's
political affiliation, socioeconomic status, religion or just about any other
viewpoint, you've got to admit, the shit that's been going on lately is way out
of hand." In the wake of the poll, many activists are calling upon America's
leaders to get their shit in gear. "The American people have had it up to here
with this shitheap," said James Schuerholz, president of the D.C.-based Heritage
Foundation. "There is a public mandate for our leaders to cut this shit out, and
it's high time they finally did."
Despite Americans' incredulity over this shit, historians note that this sort of
shit has been going on for years and is unlikely to end anytime soon. "Contrary
to popular belief, this type of shit is hardly anything new," Harvard University
American history professor Lawrence Coombs said. "The same shit was going down
50, 100 and 150 years ago. The only difference was, back then, you never read
about that shit in the newspapers." Calling the American people's enormous shitbelief capacity "one of the cornerstones of our democracy," U.S. Sen. John Kerry
(D-MA) stressed that it is the patriotic duty of all citizens to grant our
leaders the benefit of the doubt with regard to their shit.
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"If the American people are no longer willing to believe this shit, who will?"
Kerry said. "Somebody's got to take this shit at face value. Otherwise, why are
we even doing all this shit in the first place? I am truly saddened by the lack
of faith that the citizens of this country are willing to put in my shit, as well
as that of my esteemed colleagues. We must repair our society's fraying trust in
the shit of our elected officials, or you would not believe the kind of hardcore,
heavy-duty shit that will come down." "America," conservative author and social
critic Patricia Stouffer said, "is seriously losing its shit. But we've got to
somehow hold our shit in place until all this passes. We've got to learn to
believe in shit again. After this latest shitstorm, it may take years to
accomplish, but we must somehow find the strength to put our trust back into the
nation's shit."
Despite such impassioned calls for faith in the U.S. political system and all the
shit that comes with it, if the Gallup Poll is any indication, the majority of
Americans are no longer willing to put up with the shit. "Fuck that shit," said
Evansville, IN, day-care provider Helen Reiderer. "I'm tired of hearing about it.
Do they actually expect us to still believe that load of shit?" "If you ask me,
the shit is about to hit the fan," said Reiderer's husband Frank. "As far as I'm
concerned, all that shit is just too much to be believed." Another disgruntled
citizen, Wenatchee, WA, tractor salesman Tom Huard, summed up the sentiments of
most Americans when, holding up the front page of the local newspaper to friend
Benjamin Pritchard, he said, "Jesus, Ben, can you believe this?" "Shit, no,"
Pritchard replied.
And Planking is Awesome, it solves for a stale government this is Barb in 2011
[http://www.chicagonow.com/thats-awesome/2011/05/happy-global-plankingday/,By Awesome Barb, a person rumored to be awesome, May 19, 2011 at 11:25 am]
In case you didn't get the memo...people are weird. And apparently there is a new
trend--Planking--gaining momentum and today just so happens to be Global Planking
Day.
Planking is exactly as how it sounds. You replicate a plank. Lie down, stiff as a
board, with your toes pointed and arms straight at your sides. The complexity
[and fun?] of the act comes down to where you plank. And from the looks of it,
people are starting to push the planking envelope. One absurdity. One part
dangerous. All parts bizarre. Seriously, what ever happened to the good old days
of sniffing glue and huffing aerosol cans? With questionable origins, planking is
also known as the "laying down game" where you recruit folks to simply lay down
in strange public places to draw attention to themselves. But in recent months,
it has started taking a dangerous turn to appease adrenaline junkies. Photos of
people planking on roofs, balconies, moving vehicles, public monuments, top of
police cars, in the middle of streets and even in fire have been surfacing all
across the
interwebs. Although most participants seem to play in the harmless and hilarious
arena when it comes to planking. I guess in less conventional ways, I am indeed a
fan of planking...and sometimes even practice it. You know...when I lay out on my
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stomach and try to get a tan on my back or heck, even when I'm sleeping. And I'm
pretty sure I planked on the floor once or twice back in college after a night of
heavy drinking. In fact, we're all guilty of planking at some point in time. So
while you're on your way home from work today, if you see some hipster
or a goofy college kid laying flat over a mailbox, no need to be alarmed...it's
just Global Planking Day. Unless, of course, they're laying across the the El
tracks. Then you'll probably want to alert the proper authorities. Because
planking is all fun and games until somebody gets hurt. And people do get
hurt...and in this case last week, even die while planking.So be sure to practice
safe planking, campers!And while you're out and about today, if you're so lucky
to witness any planking on Global Planking Day, be sure to capture a photo
and send it my way so we ensure that Chicago's crazy planking pics can be
represented in the slideshow.
If we sound stupid and ignorant, thats only good for the world
[BY ALASDAIR WILKINS, Author, DEC 18, 2011, Democracy needs ignorant people, says
science, http://io9.com/5869088/democracy-needs-ignorant-people-says-science]
You might think that democracies work best when people care and know about the
key issues. But a new study argues that for a democracy to function at all, you
need lots of ignorant people blindly siding with the majority. That's the
argument put forward by Princeton researcher Iain Couzin and his team, who make
the argument that a fully informed electorate would collapse into an unworkable
hodgepodge of minority factions or risk being dominated by a single forceful
minority group. But if most voters don't really think about the issues, they will
just tend to side with whoever is popular, allowing majority rule to continue and
democracy to keep functioning. Yeah, you might want to check your last shreds of
political idealism at the door for this one. Couzin and his team argue for what
we might call a sweet spot of ignorance. There needs to be just enough people who
know anything about the issues to act as leaders for everyone else, but the
majority disintegrates if there are too many viewpoints pulling in different
directions. And while that seems to pretty aptly describe the last decade (at
least) of American political discourse, I'd feel better if I knew just how the
researchers arrived at their conclusions. Why, by studying the behavior of fish,
of course. Specifically, they looked at golden shiners, a species that is
naturally attracted to the color yellow. The researchers took a bunch of these
fish and trained most of them to act against instinct and swim towards a blue
target, while the rest were trained to follow their natural preference and go for
a yellow target. When the researchers placed just these two groups together, the
smaller group of yellow-seeking fish was able to dominate the blue-seeking fish,
making them all swim to the yellow target 80% of the time. This is because their
natural instinct gave them a stronger desire go after the yellow target than
their counterparts. But then, when fish with no prior conditioning were added to
the mix, the influence of the yellow-seeking fish quickly dropped away, and the
initial, blue-seeking majority regained control. Couzin describes the strange
role these uninformed fish play: "Adding those individuals dramatically changes
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the outcome of group decision-making. They inhibit the minority and support the
majority view, and this allows the majority to be heard and that view to
dominate. We thought, Wow, that's kind of interesting,' because you don't
normally think that adding uninformed individuals to decision-making processes
would have that sort of democratizing effect." The next question, of course, is
whether this phenomenon applies to humans as well. While we can't say for
certain, Couzin and his team found that the phenomenon does hold up in computer
simulations of typical human behavior. In the simulations, there is a similar
threshold where adding in uninformed people can swing the general sentiment from
a passionate minority to a less engaged majority view. The researchers want to
further investigate this by performing experiments with human volunteers. There
is, however, a limit to this phenomenon. Couzin found that if you have twenty
uninformed people and only one or two with strong opinions, there's too much
noise and the whole process breaks down. And, of course, all this really shows is
that uninformed people are necessary for the smooth operation of majority rule and while the will of the majority is a part of a working democracy, there are
plenty of situations where the more passionate minority actually has the best
idea.
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***WGLF***
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(1) THE TABLE OF CONTENTS IS SCREWED UP AND WE REFUSE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CONSTELLATION OF
WESTERN TECHNO-RATIONALITY IN ORDER TO FIX IT. YOULL MAKE DO. BLAME BILL GATES.
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BE OPERATED BY UNSKILLED HANDS/MINDS. IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBT, CONSIDER YOURSELF
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LEVEL, OF 'THINGS'. IT IS ON THE BASIS OF THIS INDEPENDENCE OF 'THINGS' THAT WE HAVE CONSTRUCTED
THE ABSTRACT RATIONALIST NOTION OF 'CAUSALITY'. TWENTIETH CENTURY PHYSICS HAS DEMONSTRATED
CONCLUSIVELY, HOWEVER, THAT SPACE IS NEITHER EUCLIDIAN NOR TIME INDEPENDENT ; INSTEAD, THE
NON-EUCLIDIAN SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM IS A PARTICIPANT IN NATURAL PHENOMENA. THE SCIENCE OF
GEODESY, WHICH DETERMINES THE EARTHS SHAPE AND SIZE BY SURVEYS AND MATHEMATICAL
MODELING, HAS DETERMINED THAT THE EARTH IS IN FACT NOT A PERFECT SPEHERE, BUT EXHIBITS THE
ATTRIBUTES OF A GEOID. WE CAN BE SAID TO BE LIVING IN A GEOIDAL EPOCH, BECAUSE THE EARTH IS
LITERALLY EARTH SHAPED. THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED AS EARLY AS 247 B.C. BY THE GREEK GEOGRAPHER
ERATOSTHENES
THE FACT IS, THAT WE HAVE 'LEAKAGE' BETWEEN AND BETWIXT 'THINGS' AND THE SPACE WHICH
ENVELOPES THEM. THIS MEANS THAT OUR LINEAR EFFORTS TO REORDER AND RESTRUCTURE THINGS SO
THAT WE MIGHT 'PROGRESS' TOWARDS A DESIRED STATE CANNOT SUCCEED, BECAUSE EACH TIME WE
ATTEND TO THE NEXT ITEM ON OUR LIST, OUR ACTIONS ARE BLEEDING THROUGH THE ETHER AND
EFFECTING THOSE THINGS WE JUST ATTENDED TO IN AN UNKNOWN AND UNPREDICTABLE WAY. OUR
EFFORTS AT 'PROGRESS' ARE AKIN TO RE-ARRANGING DECK CHAIRS ON THE TITANIC.
SEEN THROUGH THE MORE REALITY-CONSISTENT LENSES OF A NON-EUCLIDIAN SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM,
WHEREIN SPACE IS A 'PARTICIPANT' ALONG WITH 'THINGS', THE REDUCTION OF LIFE TO GIVENNESS IS
REPLACED WITH A NEW WAY OF BEING IN THE WORLD; OUR FEAR OF ANTHROPIC MORTALITY IS
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DECONSTRUCTED, AND THE REDUCTION OF LIFE TO THE ZERO POINT OF THE TSUNAMI IS
SIMULTANEOUSLY ACHIEVED AND EXTINGUISHED.
-=-=-=-=-=-=IN ORDER TO DISCURSIVELY ACTIVATE THESE HOMOTOPIAS FROM WITHIN OUR DABAIT-O-SPHERE,
ADDRESS THE APORIAS PRESENT IN OUR CONCEPTIONS OF HETEROSPATIAL EXISTENCE, AND ADRESS THE
FASCIST AND MODERNISTIC APPROPRIATION OF PROGRESS, WE MUST ENGAGE IN A SELF-REFLEXIVE
PROCESS WITHIN OUR OWN COMING HOLY AND/OR SACRED COMMUNITY:
THE WGLF NON-COMPETITIVE PURPOSE: INCREASE MEANINGFUL PARTICIPATION OF NON-NAZIS WITHIN
DABAIT. WE HAVE A PEDAGOGICAL RESPONSIBILITY AS INTELLECTUALS TO TAKE A STAND AGAINST NOTNON-NAZISM. NON-NAZIS HAVE PRODUCTIVE CONTRIBUTIONS TO PRODUCTIVELY CONTRIBUTE TO OUR
ACTIVITY, ALL OF WHICH ARE NOT NAZISM. AND WE CAN ALL AGREE THAT WE CAN ALWAYS USE LESS
NAZISM. AND NAZIS.
AFFIRM THE TOPIC AS A METAPHOR FOR THIS PARTICULAR NON-COMPETITIVE PURPOSE. BECAUSE JUST
LIKE THE RESOLUTION HAS THE USFG REDUCE CONSUMPTION OF FOSSIL FUELS, OUR PURPOSE HAS THE
DABAIT COMMUNITY REDUCE NAZIS.
-=-=-=-=-=-=SO YOU MAY BE WONDERING: WHATS THE IMPACT?
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THIS IS IN NO WAY MEANT TO DENY THE OBVIOUS FACT THAT TIME IS A CUBE WITH FOUR SIDES.
WED LIKE TO THANK ALL OF THE VICTIMS OF THE TRAGIC EVENTS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI FOR
ALLOWING US TO UTILIZE THEIR MISERY FOR THE PURPOSES OF GETTING A FIRST ROUND BID.
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IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND WHAT NAZIS DO AND WHY THEY DO IT THE WAY THEY DO, WE MUST LOOK TO
THE BRILLIANT WORKS OF THE DABAIT COMMUNITYS OWN BRITNEY SPEARS, GIORGIO AGAMBEN. WE ALL
KNOW THAT THE CAMP IS BIOPOLITICAL, THAT HOMO SACER IS SOME ROMAN CONCEPT, AND THAT THE
SOVEREIGN BAN IS SOMETHING SERIOUS, BUT WE MUST LOOK TO THE (TRANS)POLITICAL FIGURE OF THE
ZOMBIE TO TRULY UNDERSTAND THE INDISTINCTION BETWEEN LIFE, DEATH, SPACE, TIME, AND
CONSUMPTION. JUST AS
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=WE WILL NOT FORFEIT OUR RIGHT AS THE AFF TO CHOOSE THE FRAMEWORK FOR THE DABAIT, AS EMORY
AND MICHIGAN STATE HAVE STRENUOSLY ARGUED FOR MANY TIMES AGAINST US. IN RESPONSE TO THOSE
THAT WOULD INEVITABLY COMMIT GENOCIDE BY RUNNING TOPICALITY AGAINST US, WE PRESENT THE
FOLLOWING:
THE 1AC IS A CRITICISM OF HOW WE (THE ROYAL WE) RELATE TO THE RESOLUTION. THEIR FRAMEWORK IS
A SPACESHIP THAT ALSO CAN BE DESCRIBED AS A SUBMARINE WHERE THEY ENCASE THEMSELVES IN
ORDER TO MEDIATE THEIR EXPERIENCE OF THE TOPIC. LIKE A SPACESHIP THAT ALSO CAN BE DESCRIBED
AS A SUBMARINE ONLY LETS US EXPERIENCE NATURE THROUGH THE PORTHOLES OF A SPACESHIP THAT
ALSO CAN BE DESCRIBED AS A SUBMARINE WHILE SITTING IN BONG HIT INDUCED COMFORT, POLICY DABAIT
ONLY LETS US EXPERIENCE THE TOPIC THROUGH THE WINDOW OF PREDICTABILITY WHILE SURROUNDED
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BY COMFORTINGLY FAMILIAR ARGUMENTS. THEIR FRAMEWORK IS A SPACESHIP THAT ALSO CAN BE
DESCRIBED AS A SUBMARINE, AIR CONDITIONED, UNCOMFORTABLY DISSIMILAR - SECURE IS IN AN
INSECURE WORLD. WE ARE CERTAIN WHAT WE WILL FIND. THEY DON'T FEEL GUILTY BECAUSE OTHERWISE
HOW CAN THEY STAY SAFE. THIS IS AN UNPRODUCTIVE POSITION WITH THE RESOLUTION JUST LIKE THE
SEAL HUNTER COMMERCIAL. FRAMEWORK DOES VIOLENCE TO US AS SUBJECTS. LIKE DEATH WHO
ALLOWED HIMSELF TO BE INTERPOLATED BY A SPACESHIP THAT ALSO CAN BE DESCRIBED AS A
SUBMARINE THEIRS IS AN ATTEMPT TO INTERPOLATE OUR RELATIONSHIP TO THE TOPIC. VOTING NEGATIVE
LITERALLY DESTROYS OUR ABILITY TO ACT.
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AND, SCIENTISTS HAVE PROVEN THAT THE SUN WILL EXPLODE BEFORE 2008
The Sun is overheating and will soon blow up, taking Earth and the rest of the solar system with it.
The alert was issued after an international satellite photographed a massive explosion on the
surface of the Sun that sent a plume of fire 30 times longer than the diameter of Earth blasting
into space.
"It will blow apart like an out-of-control nuclear reactor within six years," predicts Dutch
astrophysicist Dr. Piers Van der Meer, a top expert affiliated with the European Space Agency. 8
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(http://www.explodingfist.com/notes/000469.php)
(http://gospacewaitress.typepad.com/gate_a/2002/10/the_sun_will_ex.html)
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AN EARTHQUAKE, MAGNITUDE 9.2, TO HIT SAN JOSE ON WEDNESDAY. WE THINK BIRDS ARE NOT DESCENDED
FROM DINOSAURS. WE ARE THE HYPNOTOAD AND THE CENTIPEDE LORDES. 13
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2AC COUNTER-INTERPRETATION
COUNTER INTERPRETATION: IN ORDER TO WIN, THEY MUST BEAT US IN SUPER NINTENDO.
OUR INTERPRETATION IS BEST:
1) GROUND: THERE ARE MANY DIVERSE SUPER NINTENDO GAMES, EACH OF WHICH IS A STABLE
HISTORICAL ARTIFACT
2)HAND EYE COORDINATION: SCIENCE HAS SHOWN THAT VIDEO GAMES INCREASE HAND EYE
COORDINATION.
3)EDUCATION: SUPER NINTENDO TEACHES US ABOUT MAGIC, FLYING SORCERORS, AND ENDLESS QUESTS
TO SAVE GIRLFRIENDS.
4)LIMITS: SUPER NINTENDO NO LONGER MAKES GAMES, THIS IS THE DEFINITION OF A LIMIT.
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2AC:FRAMEWORK
NO SPILLOVER INTO OTHER DEBATES- THERE IS NO REASON ALL OTHER DEBATES MUST OPERATE FROM
WITHIN ONE FRAMEWORK. THE IDEA THAT SOMEHOW WELL EVENTUALLY COME TO THIS IS STUPID. IF WE
HAVE PROVEN AN EDUCATIONAL BENEFIT TO WHAT WE HAVE DONE IN OUR AFF SPEECHES, YOU SHOULD
VOTE AFF.
ALL OF THEIR ABUSE CLAIMS ARE ULTIMATELY SELF-SERVING- THE EXTREME EXAMPLES OF AFFS THAT
JUST SAY RACISM OR SEXISM BAD DONT APPLY- OUR ARGUMENT IS ULTIMATELY ENGAGIBLE IN BOTH
FORM AND CONTENT- THEY CAN CRITICIZE HUMOROUS/PARODIC APPROACHES TO POLITICS, DEFEND
POLICYMAKING, AND WHATEVER ELSE THEY CAN COME UP WITH. ALL OF THIS ALSO DEMONSTRATES THE
INEVITABILITY OF SWITCH SIDE DEBATE.
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PARTICIPATION IN DEBATE
THE CLAIM THAT PEOPLE WILL JUST LEAVE THE ACTIVITY IS UNVERIFIABLE. JUST BECAUSE DEBATE
NUMBERS ARE DOWN DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE APPROPRIATE SCAPEGOAT IS THE PROLIFERATION OF
CRITICAL ARGUMENTS. WELL BE WILLING TO WAGER THAT NO ONE IS GOING TO QUIT AFTER THIS DEBATE
BECAUSE OF THE RESULT OF THIS FRAMEWORK DEBATE BEING CONCLUDED ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
THIS MEANS IT ALL COMES DOWN TO EDUCATION WHICH IS THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF ALL TOPICALITY
IMPACTS. FAIR DEBATES BREED BETTER EDUCATION, GROUND IS KEY TO HAVE A BALANCED,
EDUCATIONAL DEBATE, ETC. THESE ARE ALL CLAIMS THAT THE 2NR WILL LIKELY SPOUT OFF EVERYWHERE.
THIS MEANS WE GET TO WEIGH THE EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS OF THE 1ACS METHODOLOGY CLAIMS AND
THE IMPACT TURNS WE READ TO PRETENDING TO BE THE GOVERNMENT AND POLICING ACADEMIC
BOUNDARIES.
THERE IS NO IMPACT TO PARTICIPATION IF IT RESULTS IN A DISTORTED, BANKRUPT UNDERSTANDING OF
HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD OR BE POLITICAL. IN ORDER FOR IT TO MATTER THAT DEBATE IS MORE
ACCESIBLE, THEY MUST PROVE THAT THE TOPIC THEY FORCE US TO DEBATE IS BENEFICIAL.
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2AR STUFF
STRAIGHT UP TOPICALITY DEBATES ABOUT THE NUANCES OF SEMANTIC INTERPRETATIONS
FUNDAMENTALLY MISS THE POINT TO OUR AFF. THE TYPE OF EDUCATION THEIR INTERPRETATION
SECURES IS ONE THAT IS POLITICALLY STAGNANT AND LEAVES US DEBATERS, THE SO-CALLED FUTURE
LEADERS OF THE WORLD, WITH NO HOPE FOR MEANINGFUL EDUCATION OR POLITICAL CHANGE.
ALL OF THEIR EVIDENCE (HABERMAS, MUIR,PARCHER, ETC) ARE ALL ANSWERED BY OUR SCHLAG AND
GRUPPE EVIDENCE. THE NEUTRAL, COMMUNICATIVE MODEL IS BANKRUPT. IT IS NOT ABLE TO KEEP UP
WITH THE PROLIFERATION OF MEDIA DISCOURSE AND THE THE BUSH ADMINISTRATIONS SPINSTERS. NONE
OF THEIR EVIDENCE ASSUMES THIS POSTMODERN CONDITION OF COMMUNICATION IN WHICH STRAIGHT
FORWARD DELIVERANCE OF COUNTER DEMANDS THROUGH NORMAL COMMUNICATIVE AND POLITICAL
CHANNELS PRODUCES COUNTLESS COPIES OF JOHN KERRY. THEIR ASSERTIONS ABOUT NOT BEING ABLE
TO COUNTER THE RIGHTS INFLUENCE IN POLITICS ARE DESCRIPTIVE OF EXACTLY WHAT OCCURS WHEN
WE TRICK OURSELVES INTO THINKING THAT THE OLD APPROACHES TO POLITICAL ACTION ARE SUFFICIENT.
THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE POLICTICAL HAS ALREADY BEEN CEDED TO THE RIGHT, AND THEY HAVE NO
WAY TO COUNTER IT.
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CLAUDE EVIDENCE
THEIR INTERPRETATION OF FIAT ENDORSES AN IMPOVERSHED VIEW OF THE STATE BY PORTRAYING IT AS
A HOMOGENOUS ENTITY CAPABLE OF ACTING IN PREDICTABLE, RATIONAL WAYS. THIS NEGLECTS THAT
THE STATE IS COMPRISED OF A MULTITUDE OF PERSONALITIES WITH COMPETING INSTITUTIONAL
PRIORITIES AND GOALS.
Claude, 88 (Prof. of Gov. and Foreign Affairs, U of VA, States and the Global System, p. 18)
This view of the state as an institutional monolith is fostered by the notion of sovereignty, which calls up the image of the monarch, presiding majestically over his
kingdom. Sovereignty emphasizes the singularity of the state, its monopoly of authority, its unity of command and its capacity
to speak with one voice. Thus, France wills, Iran demands, China intends, New Zealand promises and the Soviet
Union insists. One all too easily conjures up the picture of a single-minded and purposeful state that decides
exactly what it wants to achieve, adopts coherent policies intelligently adapted to its objectives, knows what it is
doing, does what it intends and always has its act together. This view of the state is reinforced by political scientists
emphasis upon the concept of policy and upon the thesis that governments derive policy from calculations of national
interest. We thus take it for granted that states act internationally in accordance with rationality conceived and
consciously constructed schemes of action, and we implicitly refuse to consider the possibility that alternatives to
policy-directed behavior may have importance alternatives such as random, reactive, instinctual, habitual and
conformist behaviour. Our rationalistic assumption that states do what they have planned to do tends to inhibit the
discovery that states sometimes do what they feel compelled to do, or what they have the opportunity to do, or what they
have usually done, or what other states are doing, or whatever the line of least resistance would seem to suggest.
Academic preoccupation with the making of policy is accompanied by academic neglect of the execution of policy.
We seem to assume that once the state has calculated its interest and contrived a policy to further that interest, the
carrying out of policy is the virtually automatic result of the routine functioning of the bureaucratic mechanism of
the state. I am inclined to call this the Genesis theory of public administration, taking as my text the passage: And God said, Let
there be light; and there was light. I suspect that in the realm of government, policy execution rarely follows so promptly and
inexorably from policy statement. Alternatively, one may dub it the Pooh-Bah/Ko-Ko theory, honouring those denizens of William S. Gilberts Japan
who took the position that when the Mikado ordered that something be done it was as good as done and might as well be declared to have been done.
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CLAUDE OVERVIEW
EXTEND THE 2AC CLAUDE EVIDENCE- THEIR CONCEPTION OF FIAT HOMOGENIZES THE STATE, IGNORING
THE MYRIAD OF PERSONALITIES THAT OPERATE THE APPARATUS KNOWN AS THE USFG. THIS
PREOCCUPATION WITH THE MAKING OF POLICY RATHER THAN THE EXECUTION OF POLICY SERVES TO
IMPOVERSH OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE WAY POLITICS OPERATES. FIAT ONLY SERVES TO JUSTIFY THIS
APPROACH BY WISHING AWAY THE HARD QUESTIONS OF POLICY EXECUTION. THE USFG ACTS, FUNDING IS
GUARANTEED, AND THE NEG GETS A POLITICS LINK AND THE COURTS COUNTERPLAN. THIS SHALLOW
EXAMINATION OF THE WAY POLICY OUTCOMES ACTUALLY HAPPEN TURNS THEIR EDUCATION CLAIMS INTO
REASONS TO VOTE FOR US.
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2AC: FRAMEWORK
THEIR CALL FOR A COMMON, LITERAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE TOPIC RELIES UPON A NORMATIVE VIEW OF
COMMUNICATION THAT PRESUPPOSES LANGUAGE AS A NEUTRAL CONDUIT OF THOUGHT. THIS LARGELY
IGNORES THE REALITY THAT MUCH OF COMMUNICATION IS INEFFECTIVE.
SCHLAG IN 1990 (43 STAN. L.R.)
One answer is that normative legal thought conceives of its own linguistic situation in just this problematic manner: getting
its message across. Normative legal thought establishes and sees itself as transmitting important substance through
already existing, relatively unobstructed channels of legal communication. This conception of language as an empty, neutral,
already extant conduit for thought is itself linguistically embedded in our metaphorical understanding of language.
Unfortunately, as Reddy demonstrates, this conception greatly overestimates the possibility of successful communication and
greatly underestimates the need for active intervention on the part of the participants in constructing communication
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2) NO IMPACT: THIS ULTIMATELY BOILS DOWN TO A NON-UNIQUE PMN TO OUR MODE OF POLITICS: THEY
HAVE NO ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF HOW TO ACT IN THE WORLD WITHOUT OBTAINING ENJOYMENT OR
SHOWING A LIBIDINAL INVESTMENT IN OUR ACTIONS. POINTING THIS FACT OUT IS NOT ENOUGH TO
CONDEMN THE EFFICACY OF OUR APPROACH.
3) NO LINK: THEIR CLAIM THAT WE PLAY INTO THE HANDS OF THE SYSTEM ASSUMES THAT THE POINT OF
OUR AFF IS A LOUISVILLE-ESQUE COMMUNITY WIDE REVOLUTION. THIS IS FALSE. OUR AFF SHOULD BE
CONCEPTUALIZED AS A POLITICALLY PRODUCTIVE MODEL FOR ACTION CALLED DETOURNMENT, WHICH
WELL READ EVIDENCE ABOUT BELOW. IT HAS AN ADVANTAGE. WE DONT NEED TO PROVE MATERIAL
EFFECTS OUTSIDE THE ROUND, JUST LIKE POLICY TEAMS DONT HAVE TO PROVE HEGEMONY INCREASES
OR DECREASES POST AFF-VOTE.
4) NO LINK: WE DONT CLAIM TO HAVE A SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE DEBATE COMMUNITY, THE END ALL
BE ALL UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT DEBATE IS OR WHAT DEBATE COULD BE. WE HAVE A PERSPECTIVE,
WHICH IS NOT THE EQUIVALENT TO NAZI CLAIMS TO HAVE A SPECIAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF
HUMANITY.
5) PERMUTE: VOTE AFF AND ENGAGE THE NEG ALTERNATIVE. BEING THE ANALYST IS NOT MUTUALLY
EXCLUSIVE WITH THE AFF. WE ASSUME THE ROLE OF THE ANALYST OF THE COMMUNITY, ETC.
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the totalitarian order, fantasy is then at the same time the leftover of the real that enables us to 'pull ourselves
out,' to preserve a kind of distance from the socio-symbolic network. When we become crazed in our obsession
with idiotic enjoyment, even totalitarian manipulation cannot reach us" (128). Zizek's example here is precisely popular music,
the inane ditty that anchors the fantasy, that runs endlessly in one's head; what one wishes to add here is the criterion of force, of intensity, of sound so
loud that, even though it is a cultural product from top to bottom, it nonetheless enfolds the audience and isolates it within the symbolic order. The
intensity of loud drowns out the Other. It is the limit of the symbolic, its null point, experienced in the very onslaught of its signs. Perhaps we could
appropriate a Lacanian term for this fantastic volume that goes beyond fantasy: the sinthome. Zizek calls it
"subversive," but that, unfortunately, is to offer it to those who wannabe subversive, to see themselves seen as subversives, to be (to fantasize being)
political agents in an older and ever more current sense.26 Let us nonetheless pursue the concept for a moment. Zizek:
[T]he signifier permeated with idiotic
enjoyment is what Lacan, in the last stage
of his teaching, called le sinthome.
Le sinthome is not the symptom, the coded
message to be deciphered by interpretation, but
the meaningless letter that immediately
procures jouis-sense,"enjoyment-in-meaning,"
"enjoy-meant.". . . [W]hen we take into account
the dimension of the sinthome, it is no
longer sufficient to denounce the "artificial"
character of the ideological experience, to
demonstrate the way the object experienced by
ideology as "natural" and "given" is effectively
a discursive construction. . . . What we must
do . . . on the contrary, is to isolate
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into the toilet bowl, hard-boiled eggs, which sank, and shells sucked out in various degrees to obtain varying
levels of immersion"(36). Sometimes she would urinate on them. Physically confined, Simone continues the
violation of fixed images, while the images themselves proliferate and the possibilities of incommensurate
connections explode. Eyes in the toilets, hard-boiled eggs, partially sucked eggs, all objectify imagery that is
fixed. Simone's play with eggs gradually increases the force of its transgressive nature.The mother's entrance
into the room advances the play to the edge of its own limits; instead of disrupting their activity, her presence
intensifies their pleasure. In order for their behavior to be have impact, there must be a prohibition against it. The
play must occur within the system so that the system itself can release its own non-meaning.
"Play," Bataille notes, "is nothing if not an open and unreserved challenge to everything opposed to play" (quoted by Derrida 378n40). Simone's play with the egg prefigures the Derridean concept of play,
an activity of the difference that results from the appropriating action of classification systems such as language or numismatics. Bataille's play executes the non-meaning in the appropriative movement
that creates meaning--being an activity of that which is not retained in the substitutive movement of metaphor. To return to the system of coinness, Bataille's play with the egg and the eye and the
testicles---a seemingly random contiguity of images privileging surfaces in this text which classifies eyeness--calls attention to a system that contains objects detached from their totality of meaning. The
coin collected as coin no longer in currency is a coin detached from its use-value. Play is the activity of the use-value,the presence of the bank draft. A reading or writing of the text is an action of
expenditure without reserve--pure potlatch.
The images are put into play by the urination which figurates the fissure or rupture needed to unlock the contained optical simulacrum and to unleash the violent discharges of the pineal eye: "Upon my
asking [Simone] what the word urinate reminded her of, she replied: terminate, the eyes, with a razor, something red, the sun" (38). In The Story of the Eye the "eye" of the anus or genital orifice, the
description of which always foregrounds the raw and fleshy aspects, becomes the rupturing gaze, and its most gruesome portrayal is the bullfighting scene when the eye of Granero, the matador, is
gouged out by the bull.
The final scene in the church of Don Juan, however, depicts the most virulent transgression of The Story of the Eye. If the text is God relieving Himself, then these final scenes can be read as God voiding
His own Absoluteness, a gesture reified in the urination of the priest into the ciborium containing the communion wafers which are an embodiment of the absent Christ, himself an embodiment of the
absent Absolute. Since the ritual of the Mass includes the expression "the Word is God." The action of urination here is then the transgressing of the system of Christian religion that grounds the systems
of knowledge in Western culture, that is, the systems through which we know our world and which enable us to live within it. But as urinating is the passing and the making, this transgressive action
expendsin order that the system can continue to make.
In Simone's intercourse with the dying priest, she attempts to capture the totality of the experience of life which can only be gained by dying. Her action takes place at the limit of life, as this last
transgressive scene takes place at the limit of the prohibition---the violation of the most sacred. Transgression must occur within the system or it would not be a transgression, as Bataille seeks to embrace
the non-meaning of the bank draft within the system because to go outside the system would be to be outside the totality of coinness and to render the non-meaning meaningless. For a human to die is to
experience the totality of what it means to live, but to die is to move beyond expression. Bataille needs always to be at the limit while including a gesture toward the non-being on the other side.
Bataille writes at the conclusion of his essay on "The Notion of Expenditure" that "the states of excitation, which are comparable to toxic states, can be defined as the illogical and irresistible impulse to
reject material or moral goods that it would have been possible to utilize rationally (in conformity with the balancing of accounts)" (128). What he presents to the reader, in the form of the narrative text,
The Story of the Eye is a logical gesture of irrationality which expresses the need of a limitless loss which
Bataille maintains is necessary to remain rationally within the system. Bataille's transgressive text transgresses
the prohibition against the transgressive act, but without text there could be no transgression. From within the
system, however, the gesture must always remain an irrational gesture of refusal to remain within the system. The
text, for the reader as well as Bataille, is anexperience of irrationality, expended in the reading and the writing.
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billboard, for instance, shell becomes hell -creates a moment of surprise and confusion in the receiver. It suggests the use of oppositional codes
and bring out meanings other than those intended by the advertisers. The aura of a mythical figure like Microsoft boss Bill Gates can be detourned by a
pie placed into his face at the right
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Traditional left politics frequently seem to rely on the persuasive power of the rational argument. The confidence
that the simple presentation of information represents an effective form of political action is still unshakeable.
Critical content is supposed to be sufficient to tear up the network of manipulating messages, with which the
media influence the consciousness of the masses. The main problem here is the acceptance of the idea:
'whomsoever possesses the senders can control the thoughts of humans'. This hypothesis comes from a very
simple communication model which only focuses on the 'sender' (in the case of mass communication usually centrally
andindustrially organised), the 'channel' which transports the information, and the 'receiver'.
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trigger any consequences. Face it, even if stories of disasters, injustice, social and ecological scandals are being
published, it has almost no consequences.
Reflections on the interrelations between the reception of information, knowledge and the options to act within a social context have tackled how
information becomes meaningful and how it thenbecomes socially relevant. Information by itself has neither meaning nor
consequences - both are created only through the active reception and through the scope of action of the
audience. But this basic banality has far too rarely been taken into consideration within the framework of radical
politics.
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Power relations have a tendency to appear normal, even natural and certainly inevitable. They are inscribed into
the rules of everyday life. Communication guerrillas want to create those short and shimmering moments of
confusion and distortion, moments which tell us that everything could be completely different: a fragmented
utopia as a seed of change. Against a symbolic order of western capitalist societies which is built around
discourses of rationality and rational conduct, guerrilla communication relies on the powerful possibility of
expressing afundamental critique through the non-verbal, paradoxical and mythical.
To be quite clear: guerrilla communication isnt meant to replace a rational critique of dominant politics and hegemonic culture. It doesnt substitute
counter-information, but creates additional possibilities for intervention. But also, it shouldnt be misunderstood as the topping on the cake, a mere
addition to the hard work of 'real' politics and direct, material action.
In its search for seeds of subversion, guerrilla communication tries to take up contradictions which are hidden in
seemingly normal, everyday situations. It attempts to distort normality by addressing those unspoken desires
that are usually silenced by omnipresent rules of conduct, rules that define the socially acceptable modes of
behaviour as well as the 'normal' ways of communication and interpretation. To give just a simple example: Most people will
say that it is not okay to dodge paying the fare, even if there is awidespread feeling that public transport is over-expensive. If, however, some
communication guerrillas at the occasion of an important public event like the funeral of Lady Di manage to distribute fake announcements declaring that
for the purpose of participating, public transport will be free, the possibility of reducing todays expenses may tempt even those who doubt the
authenticity of the announcement.
Communication guerrillas attack the power-relations that are inscribed into the social organisation of space and time, into rules and manners, into the
order of public conduct and discourse. Everywhere in this 'Cultural Grammar' of a society there are legitimations and naturalisations of economic,
political and cultural power and inequality. Communication guerrillas use the knowledge of 'Cultural Grammar' accessible to
everybody in order to cause irritations by distorting the rules of normality: It is precisely this kind of irritations
that put into question seeminglynatural aspects of social life by making the hidden power relations visible and
offering the possibility to deconstruct them. Using a term coined by Pierre Bourdieu, one might say that guerrilla communication aims at
a temporary expropriation of Cultural Capital, at a disturbance of the symbolic economy of social relations.
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Other really doesn't exist? Why not demonic saucer masons encoding the destruction of political power into the
very symbology of American democracy? Why not the fucking hand of God? Zizek himself repeats the old joke about the
man who complained to his analyst that there are crocodiles under his bed; when he doesn't turn up for an
appointment the doctor assumes it is because he has achieved a cure, only to discover the man was indeed
eaten by crocodiles in his sleep. Perhaps the notion that the other does not exist is the other of psychoanalysis.
Isn't the whole point that there are only points de capiton, never a total truth on which to anchor something more
real than the Real--that one cannot, in any sense, claim to have possessed the real, not even by means of a
symbolic-rationalist dispossession? The stupid underground, once again, proceeds along this line not by analytical
distance but by frenzied overdetermination: the only reality is the apocalyptic plot, and the plot is always at one
and the same time hidden and omnipresent, vaporous and thick, future and present ("the end of the world is
over"), ridiculous and serious, unacceptable and unavoidable, the most grotesque, most immediate, and most
conspicuously absent truth.
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LUFTHANSA EXAMPLE
GRUPPE IN 2003 ( HTTP://ionek.strg.at/bin/view/Main/KgUsingLan)
An example for the sophisticated use of both principles is a campaign of the German anti-racist network kein
mensch ist illegal against the deportation of refugees and immigrants. Or, in the logic of overidentification: Its objective is to
help the German airline Lufthansa to get out of their obligation to do the dirty business for the German government by brutally carrying
out deportations. This tongue-in-cheek help turns out to be a continous image pollution, which constantly puts the airline into trouble.
The image of Lufthansa (and every other airline) is based on the fantasy of a world without any borders, open for unlimited excitement,
for adventurous explorations of its hidden treasures (or business opportunities). The hidden reverse of this ideology of globalisation is
migration and border-regimes with all their deadly consequences. Lufthansas image relies on the assumption that they
make thepleasures of travelling available to every customer, that they can take you to the most remote parts of the world at any
given time. What may not be articulated is that at the same time, Lufthansa is coercing unwanted migrants to go where they
certainly do not want to go the country they were forced to leave for political or economic reasons , or even a place
where they have never been before. The Lufthansa Campaign is using this hidden reverse in many creative ways. In the first leaflet in
spring 2000, they worked with the principle of overidentification by producing a fake to advertise the new
deportation class which they had invented for Lufthansa. The leaflet features the brand colours, a detourned logo and the
typography of Lufthansa. It looks exactly as if it was produced by the airline itself. It also reads like an original, since the corporate
language with its customer-friendly overtones is copied as well. Moreover, the content overidentifies completely with thelogic of profit.
Lufthansa, it is explained, is obliged to carry out deportations for the German government. Yet the company is aware
that the presence of handcuffed people with special helmets over their heads and sticky tape across their
mouths reduces the comfort of the paying passengers, expecially if they resist their deportation. To compensate
for this inconvenience, Lufthansa has launched the deportation class and from now on offers seats on such
flights at reduced prices. This fake leaflet was placed in the information stalls of Lufthansa in airports, at tourist fairs and travelagents. The logic was credible enough, many people including customers and journalists thought the airline capable of such
cynical marketing and consequently started attacking it. Lufthansa was forced to publish a dementi to distance
itself from the incriminating leaflet. But the company found itself in a double bind: They couldnt deny the fact that
they are carrying out deportations, and that this caused inconveniences; at the same time, they didnt offer any
compensation.
The logo of the deportation class was the winner of a poster competition which the campaign had tendered until March 2000. It called for detournements
of Lufthansa branding to make connections between the ideology of free travel and deportations. The submitted posters were put together in a travelling
exhibition and presented in many museums. Interestingly, Lufthansa only objected in October 2000, when they discovered that the exhibition is also
available on the internet. They threatened to sue the owner of the webpage. Supported by kein mensch ist illegal, he didn`t back down. To the contrary
within a few days, the exhibition was mirrored on dozens of other international webpages. Lufthansa ended up looking really stupid, a web-newbie with
no respect for the freedom of art. In the end, Lufthansa begged the campaign to stop embarrassing them.
The company faced tactical embarrassement and interventions on many other fronts. The passenger lobby group fair fly staged invisible theatre at
airports and tourist fairs, demonstrating the act of deportation. At an information stall at the Expo in Hanover, plastic-bags with the logo of the deportation
alliance were distributed filled up with information about deportations. At the annual shareholder meeting in summer 2000, along with more traditional
protests, a concerned shareholder pointed out the financial risks involved in deportations. In several cases, deportations were stopped
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LUFTHANSA RANT
A BUNCH OF GERMANS GOT TOGETHER TO PROTEST THE COMPLICTY OF THE AIRLINE LUFTHANA WITH
ILLEGAL GOVERNMENT DEPORTATIONS OF TURKISH IMMIGRANTS. THEY PRODUCED FAKE OR DETORUNED
FLIERS THAT ADVERTISED A BRAND NEW DEPORTATION CLASS THAT OFFERED DEEP DISCOUNTS. THEY SET UP
BOOTHS AT THE AIRPORT, FORCED THE PEOPLE TO WORK BEHIND THE DESK.
THE AIRLINE WAS FORCED BY THESE ACTIONS TO OWN UP TO THEIR OWN INVOLVEMENT, STOP DEPORTING
IMMIGRANTS.
ANOTHER TYPE OF DETOURNEMENT ADBUSTERS MAGAZINE THESE CATS CONSTANTLY CREATE
ADVERTISEMENTS THEY CALL THEM SUBVERTISEMENTS PUT THEM UP OVERNIGHT OR WHATEVER FORCE
THE ADVERTISED MESSAGE TO BE DISTORTED CALVIN KLEIN ADS PERFUME OBSESSION STUFF LIKE THAT
THIS HAS ACTUALLY MOUNTED A MATERIALLY SUCCESSFUL AT LEAST IN SOME WAYS, SOMETIMES SMALL
SOMETIMES BIG BLOWS AGAINST THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM
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TRADTIONAL POLITICS-OVERVIEW
OUR 1AC IS A FORM OF GUERRILLA POLITICS AND GUERRILLA COMMUNICATION TAKEN AGAINST THE
DABAIT COMMUNITY ITSELF IF INDEED THERE IS ANY HOPE OF OUR COMMUNITY TO BE POLITICAL,
REVOLUTIONARY, OR WHATEVER WE MUST FIRST FORM A POTENT LEFTIST CRITIQUE WITHIN OUR
COMMUNITY DABAIT ARGUMENTS AND FALSE PROTESTS AND WACKADEMIC WAX POETICS HAVE ALL
BECOME COMMODIFIED TO THE POINT WHERE DABAIT BECOMES BANKRUPT- DESPITE EVERYONES BEST
INTENTIONS, ALL OF THESE STRATEGIES ARE BANKRUPT AND DOOMED TO FAIL.
THE 1AC DETOURNS THOSE DABAIT PRACTICES IN A WAY THAT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE MESSAGE OF
THEIR RADICALISM BAD ARGUMENTS AND THEIR TYPES OF POLITICS THEY ADVOCATE. THE PLACE WHERE
WE DIFFER IS AT THE LEVEL OF WHAT SHOULD WE DO THEN?
INSTEAD OF FOCUSING ON TRIED AND FAILED STRATEGIES OF TRADITIONAL LEFTISTS POLITICS, WHICH
HAVE PRODUCED A WORLD WHERE JOHN KERRY IS THE BEST WE CAN DO, AND EVERYONE KNOWS THAT
THE ENVIRONMENT IS TOTALLY HOSED, YET BUSH IS STILL ABLE TO GIVE THE REACH-AROUND TO HIS
HOMIES AT CHEVRON AND HALLIBURTON, WE SHOULD HIJACK THE SIGNS AND SYMBOLS LEFT BEHIND
FOR US ON THE POLITICAL TERRAIN AND ENGAGE IN A STRATEGY OF COMMUNICATIVE GUERILLA TACTICS:
BY PLAYING IN THE CRACKS AND CLEAVAGES LEFT BEHIND
ALL OF THEIR LINK ARGUMENTS ASSUME THE CONTENT OF THE 1AC DIVORCED FROM ITS FORM YES, WE
HAVE A BUNCH OF MADE UP WORDS AND SELF-REFERENTIAL ARGUMENTS, BECAUSE THATS WHAT
DABAIT HAS BECOME. OUR EXPOSURE OF THAT IS A WAY TO POLITICIZE DABAIT, JUST IN THE WAY THAT
DETOURNED LUFTHANSA FLIERS WERE A WAY TO POLITICZE THE DEPORTATION ISSUE IN GERMANY.
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LANGUAGE RANT
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And yet it is rare that any of this ever occurs to critics, who seem to believe that "subversion" consists of vicarious identification with subversives, and of telling
everything one knows to one's enemies.
It is nonetheless already the case that, in critical discourse, behind all the humanistic myths of communication, understanding, and interpretive fidelity, one
finds the tactical value of misinterpretations. In an argument it is often crucial for combatants not to know their enemy, to project instead a paper figure, a
distortion, against which they can conceive and reinforce their own positions. Intelligence, here, is not only knowledge of one's enemies but the tactical lies one
tells about them, even to oneself. This is so regular a phenomenon of discursive conflict that it cannot be dismissed as an aberration that might be remedied through
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better communication, better listening skills, more disinterested criticism. One identifies one's own signal in part by jamming everyone else's, setting it off from the
noise one generates around it. There is, in other words, already plenty of fog in discursive warfare, and yet we tend to remain passive in the face of it, and for
the most part completely and uncritically committed to exposing ourselves to attack. Imagine what might be possible for a writing that is not insistently
positional, not devoted to shoring itself up, to fixing itself in place, to laying out all its plans under the eyes of its opponents. Nothing, after all, has been more
fatal for the avant-gardes than the form of the manifesto. If only surrealism had been more willing to lie, to dissimulate, to abandon the petty narcissism of the position
and the desire to explain itself to
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AT: HABERMAS
THE NOTION OF IDEAL SPEECH ONLY SERVES TO DEFINE UNACCEPTABLE SPEECH, CREATING THE
POSSIBILITY OF NORMALIZATION AND EXCLUSION
KULYNYCH IN 1997 (JESSICA, Performing politics: Foucault, Habermas, and postmodern participation Polity,
Winter 1997 v30 n2)
Even such a sophisticated and sensitive approach to ideal speech as Benhabib's cannot cleanse communicative action of its
exclusivity. It is not only that acquiring language is a process of mastering a symbolic heritage that is systematically gendered, but
the entire attempt to set conditions for "ideal speech" is inevitably exclusive. The model of an ideal
speech situation establishes a norm of rational interaction that is defined by the very types of interaction
it excludes. The norm of rational debate favors critical argument and reasoned debate over other forms of
communication.(29) Defining ideal speech inevitably entails defining unacceptable speech. What has been
defined as unacceptable in Habermas's formulation is any speech that is not intended to convey an idea.
Speech evocative of identity, culture, or emotion has no necessary place in the ideal speech situation, and
hence persons whose speech is richly colored with rhetoric, gesture, humor, spirit, or affectation could be
defined as deviant or immature communicators. Therefore, a definition of citizenship based on
participation in an ideal form of interaction can easily become a tool for the exclusion of deviant
communicators from the category of citizens. This sort of normalization creates citizens as subjects of rational debate.
HABERMAS IDEAL SPEECH SITUATION IS IMPOSSIBLE: IT DOES NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE
DISCIPLINARY EFFECTS OF DISCURSIVE EXCHANGE, AND IS THEORIZED IN AN EXCEEDINGLY ABSTRACT
WAY THAT PREVENTS IT FROM BEING USEFUL.
KULYNYCH IN 1997 (JESSICA, Performing politics: Foucault, Habermas, and postmodern participation Polity,
Winter 1997 v30 n2)
As Habermas describes, "every encounter in which actors do not just observe each other but take a second-person attitude,
reciprocally attributing communicative freedom to each other, unfolds in a linguistically constituted public space."(20) Thus, the
concerns that political scientists have had about unequal resource distribution and its effect on one's capability to act are mitigated in
Habermas's broad definition of discursive participation. Even though limited resources may prevent active interventions in
decisionmaking and policymaking processes, for Habermas the "communicative structures of the public sphere relieve the public of
the burden of decision-making."(21) In a similar vein, Habermas does not limit participation to a specific set of activities, but defines
it procedurally or contextually. Participation is not limited to traditional activities such as voting, campaigning, or letter-writing, but is
instead designated by the discursive quality of the activity. In other words, it is not the intent to influence policy that defines
participation, but rather the communication structure in which the activity takes place. That communication structure must be
equitable and inclusive, social problems must be openly and rationally deliberated, and they must be thematized by people
potentially affected. However, Habermas's discursive formulation is inadequate primarily because it does not
explicitly and rigorously attend to the disciplinary effects of contemporary societies explained so
creatively by Foucault. Habermas has been routinely criticized for ignoring the productive nature of
contemporary power. His juxtaposition of system and life-world in The Theory of Communicative Action
relies on a separation of good power from bad (communicative power v. steering media), and posits an ideal
speech situation freed from the distortions of power.(22) More importantly, Habermas's theorization of
discursive participation is exceedingly abstract and does not adequately attend to the ways in which
power informs discourse.
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Consider these two photos taken two days apart and published in the Washington Post.
Leading experts in animatronic motion agree that what you are seeing is a puppet that has defaulted into "standby mode."
Created in absolute secrecy by the CIA and top defense contractors, "Unit W" was designed to simulate average human
motion, speech, and behavior. Originally intended for espionage, he is the fusion of a servo-motorized biofidelic shell and
a sophisticated artificial intelligence module. The fiendish experiment proved to be such a success that his human
masters decided to put their creation to the ultimate test -- run him for President.
Now George W, a mindless automaton created in a top-secret lab, will preside over the first literal "puppet government.
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C)
THE MISSING LINK THIS IS A VOTING ISSUE; SEVERAL REASONS!
1) FAIRNESS. PLAN SPIKES OUT OF ALL OF OUR POLITICS LINKS BECEAUSE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO
DETERMINE HOW MUCH POLITICAL CAPITAL A ROBOT HAS. EVEN IF WE WERE TO ACCESS THE
SECRET CIA FILES, THEY COULD ALWAYS JUST CHANGE THE LEVELS ON US, WHICH EXPLODES
LIMITS.
2) LIMITS. PLAN UNLIMITS THE TOPIC BECAUSE IF WE ALLOW ROBOTIC ACTORS THAT ENCOURAGES
DEBATERS TO BUILD THEIR OWN ANIMATRONIC ROBOTS TO DO THE PLAN WHICH IS UNPREDICTABLE
BECAUSE THERE IS AN INFINITE AMOUNT OF ROBOTS THAT COULD BE BUILT AND THERES NO
LITERATURE ON THEM.
3) SOLVENCY. ALL OF THEIR SOLVENCY EVIDENCE ASSUMES THAT A HUMAN DOES THE PLAN. THIS
KILLS 90 PERCENT OF THEIR SOLVENCY, WHICH IS ENOUGH OF THE TABLES LEG SAWED OFF SO
THAT THE TABLE COLLAPSES.
Richard F. Elmore, Backward Mapping: Implementation Research and Policy
Decisions, Political Science Quarterly, 94, Number 4 Winter 1979-1980, page 605
Analysis of policy choices matters very little if the mechanism for implementing
those choices is poorly understood. In answering the question, "What percentage
of the work of achieving a desired governmental action is done when the
preferred analytic alternative has been identified?" Allison estimated that, in
the normal case it was about 10 percent leaving the remaining 90 percent in the
realm of implementation.
4) DEHUMANIZATION. THEY UPHOLD THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AS A SAFE HAVEN FOR
ANIMATRONIC ROBOTS. THIS SETS UP A SLIPPERY SLOPE. THATS NUCLEAR WAR.
BERUBE 97
[PhD http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/faculty/berube/prolong.htm]
Assuming we are able to predict who or what are optimized humans, this entire resultant worldview smacks of eugenics
and Nazi racial science. This would involve valuing people as means. Moreover, there would always be a superhuman
more super than the current ones, humans would never be able to escape their treatment as means to an always further
and distant end. This means-ends dispute is at the core of Montagu and Matson's treatise on the dehumanization of
humanity. They warn: "its destructive toll is already greater than that of any war, plague, famine, or natural calamity on
record -- and its potential danger to the quality of life and the fabric of civilized society is beyond calculation. For that
reason this sickness of the soul might well be called the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse.... Behind the genocide of the
holocaust lay a dehumanized thought; beneath the menticide of deviants and dissidents... in the cuckoo's next of America,
lies a dehumanized image of man... (Montagu & Matson, 1983, p. xi-xii). While it may never be possible to quantify the
impact dehumanizing ethics may have had on humanity, it is safe to conclude the foundations of humanness offer great
opportunities which would be foregone. When we calculate the actual losses and the virtual benefits, we approach a
nearly inestimable value greater than any tools which we can currently use to measure it.
Dehumanization is nuclear war, environmental apocalypse, and international genocide. When people become things,
they become dispensable. When people are dispensable, any and every atrocity can be justified. Once justified, they
seem to be inevitable for every epoch has evil and dehumanization is evil's most powerful weapon.
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BUSH EXTENSIONS
( _ ) AT: THERE HAS TO BE A REASONABLE EXPLANATION FOR THIS.
WASHINGTON INSIDERS SAY OTHERWISE. OR AT LEAST THEY HAVENT FOUND IT YET.
WEINGARTEN 00
[GENE WASHINGTON POST STAFF WRITER 12/27]
First, don't panic. There is probably a good explanation for the mystery of the photographs,
something that does not threaten the enslavement and/or extermination of mankind.
There has to be a benign explanation. I just haven't found it yet.
The first photograph appeared in The Washington Post on Dec. 18. In it, the presidentelect stands behind and to the side of Condoleezza Rice, his nominee for national
security adviser. George W. Bush is slightly out of focus. His head is cocked to the left
and tilted slightly backward, his mouth downturned in a perfect cartoonish crescent, the
way a first-grader might draw a frown. His eyes are squinty.
The next photograph appeared in this paper two days later. In it, the president-elect
stands behind and to the side of Alberto R. Gonzalez, his choice for White House
counsel. George W. Bush is slightly out of focus. His head is cocked to the left and
tilted slightly backward, his mouth downturned in a perfect, cartoonish crescent, the
way a first-grader might draw a frown. His eyes are squinty.
It is not a similar pose; it is an identical pose. It is not a similar expression; it is the
identical expression.
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B) THE BIGGEST IMPACT IN THE TUBS:
Reptilian domination is global tyranny via mind control, sex crimes, and mass genocide, which turns the case.
Jim Bartley, online, accessed 4-18-05
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:jWnqbgE78asJ:www.davidicke.net/emagazine/vol23/articles/bartley-235.html+%22united+nations%22+reptilian+&hl=en
The reptilians make full use of what American Military War Colleges refer to as a "Force Multiplier." In this case, it is
mayhem, sexual predation, ritual murder and Genocide by PROXY. Rather than go to the trouble of manifesting in full
physical density and having to individually rape, torture and perpetrate genocide upon countless humans, the reptilians
manipulate individual humans as well as entire societies and nations to do the work for them.
This is an important point to understand. The reptilians will manipulate individual males into becoming serial sex offenders
and serial murderers and on a macro level, they will inculcate notions of racial purity and racial superiority into entire
cultures which then serves as the basis and justification for those same cultures to perpetrate Genocide upon other races
and societies deemed "inferior" or "sub-human."
If we as a Species ever hope to move beyond the control of the draco-reptilian overlords, we must first recognize the
massive deception that has been foisted upon us.
We must understand that notions of racial purity and racial superiority are inherently reptilian modalities. These reptilian
modalities than provide the justification for individuals and entire cultures to perpetrate mayhem and slaughter upon their
fellow humans. This serves to further the reptilian's ultimate goal of a Global Tyranny because often as not United
Nations troops become embroiled in the various regional conflicts. Those of us within the research community must be
willing to point out the absurd fallacies of the reptilian propagandist and New Age Globalist. Starry eyed New Agers
display the same kind of misplaced enthusiasm that so many young intellectual Communists displayed in the 1920's and
1930's during the worst of the Bolshevik Revolution's excesses. We must come to grips with the fact that the worst
atrocities perpetrated by humans throughout history has been the end result of Reptilian manipulation.
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CONGO LINK
The conflict in Congo is a fabrication its just a stepping stone to world domination set down by the reptilian illuminati.
ICKE 00
[David - http://www.davidicke.net/newsroom/africa/congo/022400a.html]
The war has drawn many "sides" into conflict. The Congo government, led by President Laurent Kabila, and supported by Angola,
Namibia, and Zimbabwe, has been pitted against "opposition" forces supported by Rwanda and Uganda.
It is worth noting that Zimbabwe on one "side" is headed by the British place-man, Robert Mugabe, who has massive personal
investments in the Congo, and on the other "side" is Uganda, which has long been recognised as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Britain
in Africa.
It was from Uganda that the London headquarters of the Illuminati orchestrated the genocide in Rwanda and Burundi, not least
through the manipulations of Henry Kissinger and his sidekick, the Bilderberg Group chairman, Lord Carrington. And it was
Carrington was the British Foreign Secretary who handed power in Zimbabwe to the ludicrous and murderous figure of Robert
Mugabe (see And The Truth Shall Set You Free for the background).
In other words all "sides" in the Congo conflict are controlled by the same force. So what's new?
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The U.N. is controlled by the reptilian overlords
Jim Bartley, online, accessed 4-18-05
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:jWnqbgE78asJ:www.davidicke.net/emagazine/vol23/articles/bartley-235.html+%22united+nations%22+reptilian+&hl=en
The third method of Genocidal Rape Warfare involves Bosnian-Herzogovinian and Croation women being repeatedly raped whilst in
detention until they become pregnant. The women are held in detention until such time as it is too late for the women to safely obtain
an abortion. The women are not only physically abused and tortured but psychologically abused as well. They are told throughout
their ordeal that they have been impregnated and will have a Serbian child. Upon being released they are told by the Serbians that if
they ever tell anyone about what happened to them, they and their families will be killed. It goes without saying that all sorts of cruelty
is perpetrated upon the women and young girls held in these rape-death camps. Many of the survivors have stated that the rapes and
the rape-torture which precedes murder is often videotaped by the perpetrators.
The evidence that this is going on in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia is overwhelming and yet nothing has been done about it. Indeed,
it has been alleged by survivors that UNITED NATIONS TROOPS have actually taken part in these rapes within the rape camps.
This should give one pause for thought when you consider that United Nations forces may one day be conducting "Peace
Enforcement" operations in America. I believe at the deepest darkest levels of the United Nations, tacit approval has been given to the
Serbs to continue this atrocious policy of Genocidal Rape Warfare. I believe the reason for that is the United Nations are controlled
by the same reptilian overlords that are responsible for the Rape-Death Camps in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia.
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KOFI LINK
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at: this stuff doesnt exist
FALSE IT IS RIDICULOUS TO CLAIM OTHERWISE
RHODES 99 [http://reptile.users2.50megs.com/research/r100799k.html, John]
There is more than enough evidence to indicate that a highly evolved reptilian life form is interacting with human beings. Their presence has been witnessed in
every corner of the Earth by people from all walks of life. Now that we have established the fact that they are here, the next question to address is: Where are they
coming from?
Theories as to the origin of reptilian "alien" life forms range appear to be threefold. From the accumulative evidence provided to thus far, it has been determined
that they are either:
a) Extra-Terrestrial beings from another planet or star system
b) Inner Terrestrial beings that are naturally evolved terrestrial Earth life forms that reside in inner earth Caverns, sub-cities, and underwater bases
c) Inner-Dimensional - other alien entities existing in vibrational levels - time/space travelers
Although a large amount of data supporting each theory exists, this report will only address the basic facts regarding each. It is important to realize that, even
though each theorized origin appears to be distinct in it's own right, all three theories could be, and are probably, correct.
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UN troops are under the control of reptilians
TRUNKERTON 04
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/nazis_and_the_grays.htm
Now in recent years 'Patriot' organizations have been warning of a possible "RED DAWN" takeover of the U.S. by Socialist
UNITED NATIONS troops who NOW HAVE AN INCREASING ARMY OF U.N. TROOPS "IN TRAINING" within the borders of the
United States. (If such a take-over attempt were to occur, we would suggest that the UNITED NATIONS complex in New York City
increase it's security by at least a thousand fold to defend itself from the retaliation that would follow. Let's just say that there is an
entire 'Army' of grassroots Patriots waiting-in-the-wings to defend America from such a threat if or when such an invasion is
attempted). The Bavarian "National" Socialists who ultimately control the U.N., such as the Trilaterals, are reportedly
tied-in with the reptilian gray empire, so it is doubtful that any resistance to the invaders will come through the
Trojanhorse United Nazis (er, excuse us... United Nations!). Such a 'war' may be the grand finale of a series of outward
Machiavellian 'conflicts' which the Bavarian Empire has allegedly 'arranged' between nations over the centuries for the
purpose of simply keeping the human race in the state of disorder, chaos, confusion and fear which is so necessary to
ensure the final goal -- an absolute electronic dictatorship in which every human being will be 'tagged' and branded
like cattle with an electronic chip implant which will make them the absolute spiritual, mental and physical slaves of
the 'New World Order'.
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THIS EVIDENCE DOESNT EXIST.
THEIR METHOD OF CULTURE JAMMING DOESNT SOLVE. JUST MESSING AROUND WITH
SIGNS AND SYMBOLS ACTUALLY UPHOLDS AND SUBMITS TO THEIR POWER OVER US. THE
WGLF IS JUST LIKE A BUNCH OF SINGING RAISINS DRINKING SPRITE WHILE TRYING TO BE
ALL HIP AND SUBVERSIVE. THEY DONT ACCOMPLISH SHIT.
So the reason such things as the swoosh, the golden arches, flavor crystals, singing raisins, Have it Your Way, Millertime,
Youve Come a Long Way, Baby, Be Like Mike, Taste the Rainbow, Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands, Its Like
This, Obey Your Thirst, Just Do It and the ever-present, green and black, coffee sirenit just keeps going, and going, and
going, and going . . .hold sway over us is that were accidentally agreeing to them as powerful, corporate symbols that
someone else defined.
This is the reason that such programs as Adbusters-brand culture jamming dont work: because mocking powerful
corporate symbols as such only reinforces their power. Making fun of symbols does not, in any way, debunk, undermine
or question the corporations right to define them. By continuing to ignore the question of whether or not we agree to their
power, we agree to it. Worse, we support their right to it. The challenge to activists is to stop mucking about and thinking
of funny plays on the phrase Just Do It. Instilling in themselves and others the understanding that the definitions of such
symbols are agreed to, and therefore can be rejected or changed, is one way for activists to begin the process of
uprooting corporate power.
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THIS EVIDENCE DOESNT EXIST.
ADBUSTERS-STYLE PARODY ONLY REINFORCES WHAT YOURE TRYING TO FIGHT BETTER TO JUST STOP
MESSING AROUND AND DO REGULAR COMMUNICATION.
BEATO 99 - http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/1999/05/beato.html
To Lasn, the networks' refusal broadcasts their fear of his message. He believes that if Adbusters and other advocacy
advertisers had the same access to the airwaves as General Motors and Calvin Klein, product marketers would end up
substantially reducing their own TV advertising. To validate his vision, Lasn refers to the showdown that occurred
between antismoking ads and cigarette commercials in the late '60s after the FCC ordered broadcasters who aired
cigarette commercials to run opposing viewpoints for free. "Those antismoking ads were so potent that, ultimately, the
industry couldn't compete," recounts Lasn. "Every time you were watching one of those pro-smoking ads, you just started
snickering because they just didn't make sense anymore."
Actually, it was an act of Congress, rather than the antismoking ads, that forced cigarette commercials off
television. And ultimately, that move did little to hinder the tobacco industry's advertising efforts; it just spent more on
other media. Ironically, cigarette sales increased dramatically in 1971, the first year of the cigarette-ad ban, probably
because antismoking commercials, which had indeed caused a decline in cigarette consumption, could no longer be aired
for free.
Still, if we are to learn anything from the cigarette-ad battle, it's that the most likely industry response to
uncommercials would be to simply air more commercials -- in the realm of political advertising, has one attack ad
ever failed to spawn a rebuttal? To be sure, escalation is a poor excuse for censorship; Lasn has as much a right to the
airwaves as do his counterparts at Honda and GM. But how excited are we supposed to get about the notion that
anticonsumerist arguments can be trivialized with the same smug, soundbitten language that graces Bud Light and Camel
ads?
Lasn's paradigmatic cigarette ads are again a case in point. Taking for granted that kids start smoking because
tobacco companies have convinced them that smoking is "cool," modern antismoking ads simply promote not
smoking as being even cooler. What gets lost in the exchange is that being "cool" is a pretty flimsy reason to do
anything.
In short, advertising may indeed be the operative language of the modern world, but it's a fairly limited idiom,
designed to make you feel rather than think. For those whose message is simple -- Buy me! -- the language of advertising
works beautifully. For those trying to express a more complicated idea, it's less effective.
Of course, parodies and publicity stunts (such as the soundbite-ready flacktivism of Buy Nothing Day) are effective as
bait-and-switch tactics: You hook them with punch lines and eye candy, then educate them after you have their attention.
But are the Absolut vodka ad collectors who call up Adbusters in search of its parodies of the well-known ad campaign
sticking around for such schooling? And wouldn't it be just as effective if the funky-fresh brandinistas of the world
simply applied black electrical tape to their eyes instead of their logos? In the end, is virtuous mindlessness
better than materialistic mindlessness?
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