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Zombies
Are
Gonna
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Brony
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Richardson) .........................................................................................................................
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***Make
Me
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1AR:
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Freedom
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U.S.
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Timecube
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Mao
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Nobody
Gives
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***Counterplans*** ..............................................................................................................
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***Consult
Ashtar*** .............................................................................................................................
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Case ......................................................................................................................... 72
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Squirrel 1AC
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.
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Additionally, pest management contracts were "severely" cut and other services were
"significantly" reduced, officials said.
Advantage 1 is the Power Grid
Now squirrels are once again on the rampage causing tens of thousands of
power outages yearly, and now is key attacks have tripled in the past year
Gomez, 2007 (3-11-07, Suicide squirrels driving utilities nuts, Alan,
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-03-11-suicide-squirrels_N.htm)
Every year, Neil Engelman carefully collects his data, stands before his company's board
of directors and is asked the same question: What caused more outages? The lightning
or the squirrels?
Four of the past five years, the answer has been the squirrels, says Engelman, vice
president of operations for the Lincoln Electric System in Nebraska. Nebraska is not
alone. Many states are grappling with a big increase in the number of power outages
caused by squirrel electrocutions.
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.
And, Electricity failures cause nuclear meltdowns
EIJ 2K (Earth Island Journal, Winter,
http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/win2000/wr_win2000y2k.html)
The third type could happen if the electricity fails. Reactors depend on off-site
electric power to run cooling systems and control rooms, with emergency
diesel generators for automatic backup. Unfortunately, according to Olsen,
even in the
US these generators are "not even 90 percent reliable."
"It takes only two hours without the cooling system functioning for reactor fuel
to melt," Olsen says. Power failures also could cause "a meltdown of nuclear fuel
storage pools .... These pools must be cooled for at least five years."
Loss of off-site electrical power poses the most prominent risk to nuclear
powerplant safety. Reliable back-up power is needed immediately at each nuclear site.
Fuel cells and gas turbines are more reliable than diesel generators.
The US electric power grid is fragile. In 1996, two disruptions in one five-week
period caused 190 generating stations (including several nuclear reactors) to
shut down. On August 10, 1996, a sagging tree limb in Oregon caused a short that
caused a blackout in California, Arizona and New Mexico. Millions of people were left
without power. In some regions, the blackout lasted several weeks. And, Meltdown
kills millions and causes extinction by widespread sterility Wasserman 02
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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/20061225040356-2618r/, 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)
I would now look at the rationale of this Bill by exploring the following areas:
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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 (June 24,
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3aaf97f22e23.htm)
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
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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.
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.
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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.
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
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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 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/cdchelpsamericans-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:
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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 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, commentators were
at something of a loss as to what exactly the 'space age' symbolized. With the US
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essentiality of the (rational) individual's need for freedom, choice and access
to markets. Thus, while it is true that a particularly insidious neo-liberal globalization
thesis (dependent on the expansion of the free market into all areas of social life) does
indeed drive much of US space discourse today, as it does US politics more broadly,
space is rarely conceived of primarily in commercial terms in the US. Communications
satellites have, since the passage of the 1962 Communications Satellite Act, chiefly been
a private sector activity, but, according to Smith, attempts 'to commercialize other
aspects of space activities have yielded mixed success' (2003: 7). In spite of
USSPACECOM's insistence that 'Space commerce is becoming increasingly important to
the global economy', relations between US military and private space operations are
frequently tense, not least concerning the perceived 'threat' to national security created
by commercial 'imagery' sales
(US commercial imaging satellites compete with French, Russian, Indian and
Israeli companies to 'see' an object or feature of a certain size from outer space. See
Smith 2003: 7-8). An issue of particular concern, for example, involves the 'shutter
control' policy inaugurated by the Clinton administration in 1994, wherein the US
government may force commercial companies to discontinue obtaining or distributing
imagery of certain parts of the world, causing some political groups to complain that the
media and relief agencies are being deprived of essential data (Smith 2003: 8). When the
US launched attacks on
Afghanistan, the DoD decided to control access to imagery through the National Imagery
and Mapping Agency (NIMA), which bought the exclusive rights to Ikonos (a private
sector satellite owned by Space Imaging) imagery of that area, preventing anyone else's
use of this data without NIMA's approval. The current political climate in the US,
overseen by the Bush administration, has bred a quieter but no less emphatic approach
to outer space than has gone before, as predicated on the attainment of military and
strategic superiority as US Cold War discourse at its peak, but conspicuously lacking
the recognition that other nations may also have rights in space(not least those
rights that could mean another nation rivalling the US in space capabilities.As
USSPACECOM's 'Vision for 2020' makes clear, the only outcome the US is willing
to consider is 'full spectrum dominance'). With minimal fanfare, President George W.
Bush authorized, on 31 August 2006, a new national space policy to supersede Clinton's
previous 1996 policy. The policy is careful, at the very outset, to highlight the civil and
commercial benefits of outer space exploration, with space described as 'a place that is
increasingly used by a host of nations, consortia, businesses, and entrepreneurs' (US
National Space Policy 2006). This said, the strategic ambitions of the Bush administration
are not long withheld, with 'those who effectively utilize space' enjoying added prosperity
and security' and holding 'a substantial advantage over those who do not' (ibid.).
Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea
power. In order to increase knowledge, discovery, economic prosperity, and to enhance
the national security, the United States must have robust, effective and efficient space
capabilities. (ibid.; emphasis added) The 2006 Space Policy provides an example of
the increasingly blurred boundaries in contemporary US political culture between
commercial imperatives, various narratives of scientific 'progress' and 'discovery', and
the unashamed imperialism of a post-9fII discourse of weaponization,
territorial conquest and securitization.Although part of the policy remains classified,
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and the unclassified document does not per se call for the deployment of US weapons
systems in space (theGlobe and Mai/),it explicitly does allow for any 'US defense
and intelligence-related activities in pursuit of national interests', permits the
US to reject 'any claims to sovereignty by any nation over Outer Space or
celestial bodies', and states that the US 'rejects any limitations on the fundamental
right of the United States to operate in and acquire data from space' (US National Space
Policy). Any arms control agreements or restrictions that may impair 'the rights of the
United States to conduct research, development, testing, and operations or activities in
space for US national interests' will be opposed. As far as the commercial use of space is
discussed, the policy states that a commercial space sector will be encouraged only
where it can be 'consistent with national security', 'promote innovation', 'strengthen US
leadership' and 'protect national, homeland, and economic security'.
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 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
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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)
among these real-life consequences are precisely those concerns with nuclear
proliferation, war, environmental destruction, and violence toward
women,which many feminists see asthe logical outgrowth of patriarchal thinking.
In fact, it is often only through observing these dysfunctional behaviors-the symptoms of
dysfunctionality that one can truly see that and how patriarchy serves to maintain and
perpetuate them. When patriarchy is understood as a dysfunctional system, this
"unmanageability" can be seen for what it is-as a predictable and thus logical
consequence of patriarchy.'1 The theme that global environmental crises, war, and
violence generally are predictable and logical consequences of sexism and patriarchal
culture is pervasive in ecofeminist literature (see Russell 1989, 2). Ecofeminist Charlene
Spretnak, for instance, argues that "militarism and warfare are continual features
of a patriarchal society because they reflect and instill patriarchal values and
fulfill needs of such a system. Acknowledging the context of patriarchal
conceptualizations that feed militarism is a first step toward reducing their impact and
preserving life on Earth" (Spretnak 1989, 54). Stated in terms of the foregoing model of
patriarchy as a dysfunctional social system, the claims by Spretnak and other feminists
take on a clearer meaning: Patriarchal conceptual frameworks legitimate impaired
thinking (about women, national and regional conflict, the environment) which
is manifested in behaviors which, if continued, will make life on earthdifficult, if
not impossible. It is a stark message, but it is plausible. Its plausibility lies in
understanding the conceptual roots of various woman-nature-peace connections in
regional, national, and global contexts.
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texts in which men dominate are still largely considered neutral, whereas
those which feature a similar female predominance are relegated to the chickflick 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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for girls or for boys. This might be a little short-sighted on my part, but I just
assumed that any adult man who didnt have a little girl wouldnt even give it a try,
Lauren Faust, MLPFISM creator and brony icon, told Wired.
Thus, <PARTNER NAME> and I stand resolved that the United States Federal
Government should create an orbital friendship cannon in outer space outside
of the Earths mesosphere
We do not defend plan fiat, and instead base our advocacy on the alternative
magical construct of friendship, well clarify.
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 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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goal. Instead, I propose that critics (as audience members)with the admission
that they, too, are
ideologically motivateddescribe movements of power in narratives by creating
new narratives to uncover spaces of resistance that will allow for the
unimpeded circulation of power. No risk of hierarchy or ideological oppression
exists because any audience member who creates a new story may (or may
not) use components of the other audience members narratives. This gives
each audience member equal voice and equal ability to contribute in a
marketplace of ideas. The telos of the critical analysis, instead of aiming to
gather power into a new place, acts only to keep power circulating through
narrative discourse.I agree with Fisher (1987a) that narratives can allow marginalized
voices to be heard and to critique the status quo. However, rather than attempting to
measure the 38 relative truth of their stories, audiencesand rhetorical critics as
audience members should identify modes of shifting, gaining, and retaining
power in a constant critique of discursive formations(McKerrow, 1989). I also
agree with Fisher that narrative rhetorical analysis is not limited to skilled
professionals as it is in the rational world paradigm. Rather, my extension of the
narrative paradigm creates two possible levels of application: one from the members of
the audience and one from the rhetorical criticthe specific intellectual in the
audiencethat Foucault (1980) describes as not the jurist or notable, but the savant or
expert (p. 128) whose specificity is linked, in a society like ours,
to the general functioning of an apparatus of truth (p. 132). Foucault emphasizes that It
would be a dangerous error to discount [the specific intellectual] politically in his
specific relation to a local form of power, either on the grounds that this is a specialist
matter which doesnt concern the masses (which is doubly wrong; they are already
aware of it, and in any case implicated in it), or that the specific intellectual serves the
interest of State or Capital (which is true, but at the same time shows the strategic
position he occupies), or, again, on the grounds that he propagates a scientific ideology
(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
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the various sources of this power. Since no one authoritative discourse exists,
critics must describe as many narratives as possible to enlighten other members of the
society (Danaher, Schirato, & Webb, 2000, p. 77). Audiences must constantly search
for innovative ways to resist power. In heeding the messages of narrators and
rhetorical critics, they can resist power and create shifts in the power
structures in society.
other fandoms and engage in them via the Internet. A fan can easily choose to post
on message boards or join mailing lists in multiple fandoms. Media fandom (as
opposed to sports fandom), then, is a multiplicity of persons drawn together in
varying configurations according to shared interests in TV, movies, comics, or
novels. As the magnitudes and/or orientations of one grouping change, so does
the nature of the multiplicity. For example, as Buffy: The Vampire Slayer has drawn a
larger fan following, several X-Files fan fiction writers have begun to shift fandoms to
write in the Buffy universe. In addition, new writers are always emerging within XFiles fandom, bringing with them new voices and new styles of writing. The
principle of asignifying rupture as it applies to fandom is clearly discernible
with an example from X-Files fan fiction. The season 7 finale, "Requiem," in which Mulder
was abducted by aliens, revealed that the previouslyinfertile Scully had mysteriously
become pregnant. Thus, some fan fiction that was written pre-"Requiem" in which Scully
is infertile veered into "alternate universe" (AU) with the onset of Scully's pregnancy. The
canonical development of her pregnancy combined with Mulder's abduction inspired a
flood of post-episode stories that dealt with these plot developments. When season 8
began, many of these stories became AU. Some authors chose to incorporate aspects of
season 8 in their stories, while others who were unhappy with Scully's pregnancy chose
to ignore it and write AU stories, or stories set at different points in the X-Files time line
(e.g., in season 3). Fan Fiction: A Beginner's Guide Fan fiction is the writing and
sharing of stories written by fans featuring the characters and universe of a
television show (The X-Files), movie (Star Wars), or comic book series (The X-Men). Fan
fiction writers are overwhelmingly female, middle class, 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,
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the empire aligned against the forces of Evil and the insane. Anyone falling outside our
plan: well, fuck em
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-forshort. Think of it in Heideggerian terms. Not so much being-there. But rather being-forshort. 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.
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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
5
- Pierre Schlag, Byron White Professor of Law at the University of Colorado, Summer 2004, Buffalo Law Review, 52 Buffalo L. Rev. 851
When you will have made him a body without organs, then you will have delivered him
from all his automatic reactions and restored him to his true freedom.
They you will teach him again to dance wrong side out as in the frenzy of dance halls
and this wrong side out will be his real place.8
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
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In memoriam: organisms.
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.
- 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
<SHOUT>In summary!</SHOUT>
How much do you
make in that death
factory Severance
owed
in the chamber of
revolvers Empty jails
fall from my scalp
Shake the globe and let me out
If still I can remember the day
That they took you from
me Seems like I've been
running from your
trenchant memory
Harp sickle will warn me when it's over
'Cuz if heaven breathes
then someone trade places
with me
'Cuz I dont want to tear feathers instead of rags
When do I get to see the body
preserved inside this grin
Sewn in the lips
where her last words
Ill be damned - I can still hear her laughing
Your angels have tangled their brass again
The comfort of doubt still it keeps you thin
And still I can remember the day
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Bury me in gold
I'll make your son refuse to fight
in the stalk home setting that we
provide
If your heart does cease to
speak My fingernail choir
will make your chalkboard sing11
We knew this day was coming, we prepared the eulogy:
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 producing figure-signs, even trashy ones, and being axiomatized, evading
signifying chains paired with significations, and all this through a pure logic of nonsense.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
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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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a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
a.
b.
Sign your ballot now, the negative has dropped their only obligation and that is the 1N's
burden. Our interpretation of debate is the aff presents a topical plan and the negative
defends a competing policy option, criticism, or the status quo with the 1N making the
2N a sandwich for the final negative speech.
And we have a few net-benefits:
Tradition - since the days of Bill Shanahan, 1N's have been making sandwiches for their
partners.
2N reciprocity - 2N's do a lot of work, they need some recognition, the terminal impact to
this is fairness, it's only fair that the debater who does most if not the entirety of the
work gets the entirety of the sandwich.
Education - the things we talk about are largely constructed but learning how to make a
sandwich is the sort of real-world education we should be striving to get out of debate.
This kind of education is the only kind that we will be using every day for the rest of our
lives.
Jurisdiction - if the 1N doesn't hustle during prep time and during this speech you have a
prima facie duty to vote aff.
Being neg key2Ns carry the negative ship on their back but the 2A needs the 1AR to
win. Its only fair that the 2N gets a sandwich.
And here comes the offense:
Double reverse voting issue - letting the neg get away without making a sandwich makes
it a double reverse no-risk option.
Our ability to affect the world - the world is inherently hungry and people will not listen
unless you bring something to the table. Thus in debates we have to literally bring things
to the metaphorical table, or else all the skills we learn and develop will be futile.
1Ns should make the sandwiches. Specifically, condiments are key to the
judges decision calculus and are good for clash.
Caminer, 10Debater at Northside College Prep, the go-to expert for 1N sandwich
making. (Mitchell, 7/16,10- Policy Debate, subsection called 1Ns burden. Look at edit
history on the page and click the respective link. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?
title=Policy_debate&oldid=373840256)
A common misconception is that pb+j is the way to go. 1N's often forget that many
2N's either don't like the pb+j, or has a partner that is allergic to peanuts (like Tom is).
While a pb+j may be a good generic b or c strat, 1N's should instead focus on finding 2N
specific sandwiches that will maximize 2NR efficiency. For Tom, I've empirically found
that no matter what the sandwich is, having a quality Panini-maker has acted as a force
multiplier. The following is basic advice for 1Ns looking to improve their sandwich
making skills. For bread choice, it needs to be hearty but simple. Many debaters
mistakenly think a multigrain option is the best since it is healthiest, I'm here to tell you
not to do that. Instead, go with an Italian loaf, baguette, Kaiser roll, or even the simple
Wonder Bread. The most important part of the sandwich is the meat. 1N's should find
meats that both taste good and hold up over the course of the tournament. The flavor
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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
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strategic air command in 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 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
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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, thirst, and
hypothermia.5 To quote a 1985 SCOPE documentpublished by the White House Office of
Science and Technology Policy, "the total loss of human agricultural and societal support
systems would result in the loss of almost all humans on Earth, essentially equally
among combatant and noncombatant countries alike . . . this vulnerability is an aspect
not currentlya part of the understanding of nuclear war; not only are the major
combatant countries in danger, but virtually the entire human population is being held
hostage to the large-scale use of nuclear weapons. . . .",! i The proposedSTART I11 treaty
between Russia and America, even if it were implemented, would still allow 3000 to 5000
hydrogen bombs to be maintained on alert."he threshold for nuclear winter? One
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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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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 selfappointed 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 selfappointed 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:
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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 destroys your mind
by suppressing opposite view. Academic Singularity is evil. Singularity is damnable
lie, Educators altered your mind, You cannot think opposite of what you were
taught to think. You have a cycloptic perspective and taught android mentality
which lobotomizes analytical ability.
This Cubeless, android mentality empowers the state. Timecube rejection is
the root of all evil and results in technological expansion, diminished stability,
and mass death and destruction. This seals our apocalyptic fate.
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, The State,
2010:
And now Cubelessness, that deadly scourge, that causes evil deeds to be
committed. We must fight this scourge, attack its heart, the source of its great
power. Whence its power? The technology's the root cause of the problem. It's a
physical expression of the Word-based tyranny. And that technology is a great
threat, it threatens us with death and war and famine accross the world. The
Cubeless Doom is nigh. Attend!or you will surely die. Selfishness is now increasing.
Values of communities decline. Values the State requires are ones that make
people think that they should serve the State. Servitude to Word is what that's all
Abundance in the worker pool could grant the State advantage in the short-term. In the
long-term, though, stability would suffer and decay. Great levels of destruction
could result from overpopulation. Techniques by which artificial life-extension
is achieved are likely to contribute to growth of overpopulation. Large wars
could kill off large numbers, and thereby reduce the population: but the atoms
that are radioactive and as such decay, resemble excesses that could well cause a
massive chain reaction. ...Fearful, that about. Natural resources, are plundered by
the State. The state afterwards generates great quantities of pollution and
waste. Disposed back into nature, harm is the direct and bad result. You can
direct your 1-corner perspective towards the advancement of the village; that is to say,
towards altruistic ideals. In that case, it would be subjugated to the Cube. Or, you could
direct it towards unwholesome self-aggrandisement, in which case it'd be a singularity
that you'd be falsely rendering supreme. It's an important choice. It's the sort of
thing that can become the entire difference between Cubeless doom and Cubic
salvation.
The Alt is to reject singularist mentality of the state and accept the
philosophical principles proposed by Dr. Gene Ray, including Timecube theory.
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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:
Continued evolution is a continuing trend. Once the earth is destroyed, however, all
evolution thereon will be nullified. We can create a trend of evolution, ourselves.
But we shouldn't violate the Cubic harmony of nature, if indeed we want for
Nature to survive. here is another option. Let's not arrest evolution.
Let's change our course from evil to good.
Indeed, we have the choice between doom and salvation! Eternal recurrence is
induced by time foldback. Eternal recurrence is a cyclicality. Past iterations mapped onto
the present indicate what the cycles will in future bring. So, there is a future-prediction
capacity. From this augury we'll formulate strategies.
We'll aim straight for Cubic salvation. But we shouldn't force people to concur.
It's their choice. It's our choice, too. There is a dichotomy lying ahead:
The evil possibility. The possibility of our extinction.
The good possibility. Cubic harmony. Perpetuation and evolution far into the
future.
And there will be some people inclined only towards evil. But there will be
those who desire good! The latter are the ones who will build the future.
They'll be receptive to the Cube. We're on one corner of the wheel of time. Future
corners are clouded up. The past assumes a similar haze. There is uncertainty, but let
there be strength in numbers! We can't do it alone, can we now? We must spread
the word, and raise awareness, until the population embraces the Cube. Then,
only then, will requisite momentum have arisen for pro-Cubic revolutions to
occur. We should not just attack the dragon's scales. We should attack it at the heart. If
we kill the heart of civilisation, its leaves will wither, and we'll be free. And
we're not just reverting from evil to good. We're creating a higher good. That
higher good will be immune to our evils. Its strength will transcend gods. There will
be much destruction, but it will not be hateful. It will clear ground for greater things
creation, from contempt. The minds of slaves are dumb, but we can overcome.
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
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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.
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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.
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
I. NO INVESTIGATION, NO RIGHT TO SPEAK
Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to
speak on it. Isn't that too harsh? Not in the least. When you have not probed into a
problem, into the present facts and its past history, and know nothing of its
essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense. Talking
nonsense solves no problems, as everyone knows, so why is it unjust to
deprive you of the right to speak? Quite a few comrades always keep their eyes shut
and talk nonsense, and for a Communist that is disgraceful. How can a Communist keep
his eyes shut and talk nonsense?
It won' t do!
It won't do!
You must investigate!
You must not talk nonsense!
II. TO INVESTIGATE A PROBLEM IS TO SOLVE IT
You can' t solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts
and its past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you
will know how to solve it. Conclusions invariably come after investigation, and
not before. Only a blockhead cudgels his brains on his own, or together with a
group, to "find solution" or "evolve an idea" without making any investigation.
It must be stressed that this cannot possibly lead to any effective solution or any good
idea. In other words, he is bound to arrive at a wrong solution and a wrong
idea. There are not a few comrades doing inspection work, as well as guerrilla leaders
and cadres newly in office, who like to make political pronouncements the moment they
arrive at a place and who strut about, criticizing this and condemning that when they
have only seen the surface of things or minor details. Such purely subjective
nonsensical talk is indeed detestable. These people are bound to make a mess
of things, lose the confidence of the masses and prove incapable of solving any
problem at all.
When they come across difficult problems, quite a number of people in leading positions
simply heave a sigh without being able to solve them. They lose patience and ask to be
transferred on the ground that they "have not the ability and cannot do the job"; These
are cowards' words. Just get moving on your two legs, go the rounds of every
section placed under your charge and "inquire into everything''[1] as Confucius
did, and then you will be able to solve the problems, however little is your
ability; for although your head may be empty before you go out of doors, it will
be empty no longer when you return but will contain all sorts of material
necessary for the solution of the problems, and that is how problems are
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solved. Must you go out of doors? Not necessarily. You can call a fact-finding meeting of
people familiar with the situation in order to get at the source of what you call a difficult
problem and come to know how it 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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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.
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 boring, or demand that a king be
dethroned because he is boring to behold, or that a clergyman be exiled because he 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 quits when the
going gets rough.
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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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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
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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 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 reawaking process now so that we are ready for it because ready or not here it
comes
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Impact Ext.
Evacuation coming now
Xaoh, from the Galactic federation of YTEVIAN, 6/18/2011 (Greetings Beloved
Ones i am NEILA XAOH from the Galactic Federation of YTEVIAN Ashtar Command Crew
Spiritual Blog, http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/greetingsbeloved-ones-i-am#ixzz1QX7vcvrd, accessed: 6/27/11, SL)
Greetings Dear Ones without all the love and light you dear lightworkers have created
on this planet i wouldn't be able to hold my presence in this realms... I have come
forth through the illusion of separation and time to bring you this very
important message in this most challenging times... in this very moment we
prepare our ships to land and evacuate this planet... the time of waiting is
finally over! you will finally be able to LIVE without waiting and doubting
because we are your saviours AND you will have to do nothing else than
watching it happen. that means you dont have to think on your OWN anymore
and can blindly believe any informations that random aliens like me will give
you through channelings... also ascension is not necessary anymore because
you will enter our spaceships to live in a peaceful world where lambs play
with tigers and there are rivers of honey and milk... negativity will burn in
eternal fire so you can feel special and better than those darkworkers who only want
to disturb the harmony of our one sided Love and light universe... instead of
shadows there will be even brighter lights so that you will never stumble again
and crush your toe only because you haven't seen where you were walking. Breathe
the Light you are made of and believe my words blindly! Sincerely yours NEILA
XAOH from the
Galactic federation of YTEVIAN
- 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-shiftbegins1#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
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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.
- 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
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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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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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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 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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evolution as you are. We the Space Brothers do not present ourselves in the sky
to frighten or intimidate human beings nor to astonish them. We are not
interested in standing out or in bringing attention to ourselves to pretend
superiority. We came in a Mission of Love and Impersonal Service, because our
brethren of Earth need much help, so the world-school they inhabit does not
pass through higher sufferings than the ones they can withstand and which
correspond
to their evolutionary level. Do not feel alone in the Universe. We exist and
are always aware of you, of everything happening on the planet. Some of ours
incarnated as humans and are disseminated around the world. They may or may
not remember their labor of help, for the Effluvium (accumulation of negative thoughtsfeelings in the atmosphere) make them sleepy and they forget their origin, become
confused and lost strayed through the plane density; or do become triumphant, despite
so many interferences. We are as real and tangible as you are, we live and exist.
We do no have any bizarre aspect nor are we interested in war or conquest
purposes. We only wish to help by Love. If you accept it, great benefits will
result from that, as happened in the millenary India of remote times. The
advancement they achieved in architecture is due to our art and technology. It
was left this proof: the monuments imitate our space ships in the tip or steeple
and even in the shape of their temples. The map "Piris Reis" was made under our
collaboration and equally our help can be seen in the Gate of the Sun of Lake Titicaca.
Symbolically, the signs point to the period of rotation and translation of our beloved
planet Venus. With all of these examples we present of the past, you can
become aware that certainly there has been contact and you were not as
isolated as you believe nor our apparition is a sudden thing of modern times.
We hope these words give clarity and understanding to many over the truth of our
existence and right purposes. We are your Elder Brothers and we salute you with
Love. He who thus understands it so will greatly elevate his level of
consciousness. We have been integrated in the labor of rescuing this planet,
but help comes from much more time ago.
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4. Vermin- a worthless piece of shit, much like a scumbag but if you are vermin, you do
not give a shit about anything. You do what you want, and you do not care who it effects.
The kid is complete vermin The lift line at Mountain Creek has an abundance of vermin
in it.
2. The definition of Supreme
Urban Dictionary (The Urban Dictionary, the most trusted internet source for daily
definitions. Define: Vermin)
2. Supreme- really great, super awesome, or fantastic Hey Brice, I got you a coke.
Supreme!
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 good
multiple 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.
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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.
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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 Stateattacks 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 biosphere, at
least for many decades
4-Chuck Norris is the man and is always right. This puts the affirmative in a
doublebind: if the plan is a good idea, we get 100% solvency plus the risk of a NB; if
the plan is a bad idea, Chuck Norris will reject it
4Q.com 06
(Blog, Top 100 Facts For Chuck Norris, http://www.4q.cc/index.php?
pid=top100&person=chuck; Jonathan)
Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits. Chuck Norris does not hunt because the
word
hunting implies the probability of failure. Chuck Norris goes killing. When the Boogeyman
goes to sleep every night he checks his closet for Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris once visited
the Virgin Islands. They are now The Islands. Chuck Norris' tears
cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried. Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice. If
Chuck Norris is late, time better slow the fuck down.
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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
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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.
"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
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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
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 yellowseeking fish quickly dropped away, and the initial, blue-seeking majority regained
control. Couzin describes the strange role these uninformed fish play: "Adding those
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individuals dramatically changes 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***
MULTIPLE DISCLAIMERS TO ALL PURCHASERS OF THIS ARTIFACT:
(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.
(2) THIS FILE IS MEANT FOR UNEDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. IT IS PRESENTED AS A GLIMPSE INTO THE
ENLIGHTENED AND PRIVILEGED WORLD OF THE WEST GEORGIA LIBERATION FRONT, BUT SHOULD NOT BE
OPERATED BY UNSKILLED HANDS/MINDS. IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBT, CONSIDER YOURSELF UNSKILLED.
(3) NOTHING IN THIS FILE IS FUNNY. YOU ARE NOT FUNNY. WE ARE NOT FUNNY. A FEW PEOPLE THOUGHT WE
WERE FUNNY ONCE, BUT THEN WE STOPPED BEING FUNNY. DO NOT RUN ANYTHING IN HERE WITH THE
INTENTION OF BEING FUNNY. INSIDE JOKES ABOUT COLLEGE DABAIT ARE NOT FUNNY TO JUDGES IN HIGH
SCHOOL DABAIT. NOT THAT YOU SHOULD BE RUNNING ANYTHING IN HERE ANYWAY.
(4) NEVER DO ANYTHING OBNOXIOUS IN DABAIT. RESPECT YOUR ELDERS, DO NOT WEAR TEE SHIRTS WITH
NAUGHTY LANGUAGE ON THEM, DO NOT MAKE FUN OF PEOPLE IN CROSS-X, DO NOT RUN A KRITIK
WITHOUT AN ALTERNATIVE WITH A TEXT, DO NOT RUN INTENTIONALLY NON-TOPICAL AFFIRMATIVES,
DO NOT DO ANYTHING ILLEGAL, AND DO NOT DO ANYTHING THAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED A
PUBLIC HEALTH HAZARD BY ANYONE.
(5) DO NOT IMITATE THE WGLF. YOU WILL FAIL. WE HAVE NO IDEA HOW WE GOT AWAY WITH ANY OF THIS. WE
CONCLUDED IT IS BECAUSE WE REALLY ARE AS AWESOME AND GODLIKE AS WE PRETEND TO BE. THERE IS
NO OTHER EXPLANATION.
(6) ESPECIALLY DO NOT ASSUME THAT WEST GEORGIA JUDGES WANT TO HEAR ANYTHING REMOTELY RELATED
TO ANYTHING YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ. OUR COACHES BARELY PUT UP WITH US. WE BARELY PUT UP
WITH OURSELVES.
(7) EVERYTHING CONTAINED HEREIN IS COMPLETELY SERIOUS. NOTHING CONTAINED HEREIN MAKES ANY
SENSE. THE TWO ARENT MUTUALLY CONSTITUATIVE.
(8) NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER RUN ANYTHING IN THIS FILE IN A DABAIT. EVER.
(9) WE DIDNT USE PROPER CITATIONS HALF THE TIME. HALF OF THE RESEARCH CONTAINED HEREIN COMES
FROM AN ILLEGITIMATE SOURCE. THE OTHER HALF COMES FROM A LEGITIMATE SOURCE BUT IS USED
ILLEGITIMATELY.
(10)BY PURCHASING THE FILE THE CUSTOMER HAS AGREED NEVER TO HOLD THE WEST GEORGIA
LIBERATION FRONT2 LIABLE FOR ANYTHING EVER. WE WILL NOT FIELD ANGRY CALLS FROM YOUR
PARENTS, COACH, OR UNFORTUNATE JUDGES THAT YOU MAKE AN ASS OF YOURSELF IN FRONT OF.
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(11)ENJOY.
BEST 1AC EVER 1/3
-=-=-=-=-=-=WELCOME TO THE SHORES OF BLOODY LAKE MICHIGAN, THE GREAT LAKE THAT MOST LOOKS LIKE A
PHALLUS, WHERE 10,000 YEARS AGO IN A DISPLAY OF FROZEN MANIFEST DESTINY, THE ICE-AGE GLACIERS
CONDUCTED A HOLOCIDAL WAR OF PRE-IMPERIALISM AGAINST THE LIKES OF MANY KEYSTONE SPECIES
SUCH AS THE SABER TOOTHED TIGER AND THE WOOLY MAMMOTH. IT IS UPON THE BONES OF THESE
MAJESTIC, IF OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD, CREATURES THAT THE BRICKS AND MORTAR OF NORTHWESTERN
UNIVERSITY WAS BUILT. WITHOUT THE SCREAMS OF THOSE STARVING AND FREEZING ANIMALS WE COULD
NOT ENJOY THE COMFORTS OF OUR PRIVELEGED DEBATE SETTING3. IT IS IN RECOGNITION OF THIS
FOUNDING ACT OF VIOLENCE THAT THE 1AC STANDS IN AFFIRMATION OF THE LEFT SIDE OF THE PAIRING.
3 PRIVELEDGES INCLUDE: WHITE, MALE, METROSEXUAL, RICHER THAN POOR PEOPLE, AND SAFE,
CLEAN NUCLEAR POWER.
4 FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY
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-=-=-=-=-=-=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
5 THIS IS IN NO WAY MEANT TO DENY THE OBVIOUS FACT THAT TIME IS A CUBE WITH FOUR SIDES.
6 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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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?
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 BEST 1AC EVER 3/3
ALL ROADS ONCE LEAD TO ROME, JUST AS CANADA ONLY HAS ONE ROAD, AND JUST AS SCHLAG TALKED
ABOUT THE FORK IN THE ROAD, THE FIGURE/SPECTRE OF THE ZOMBIE IS THAT WHICH MAKES POLITICS
POSSIBLE IN THE FIRST PLACE. IT IS THE ROAD WE MUST ALL TRAVEL TO UNDERSTAND THAT WHICH IS
CONSTITUTIVE OF SUBJECTIVITY ITSELF.
IMAGINE THIS SPEECH ACT AS THE FIRST SPEECH ACT IN THE COMING AGE OF POST-THOUGHT, AS AN
ARTIFACT IN THE FABRIC OF EXISTENCE, AS A REVOLUTIONARY SPEECH ACT, AND AS A STREAM OF
SIGNIFIERS LACKING SIGNIFIED. THIS SPEECH ACT IS LITERALLY THE VOICE OF BARE LIFE SPEAKING, THE
CALL OF THE OTHER, THE LANGUAGE OF THE BIRDS, AND THE PRODUCTION OF IDENTITY. THIS SPEECH
ACT IS ALSO NONE OF THOSE THINGS.
-=-=-=-=-=-=THE PROPER PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION USED TO BE WHY IS THERE SOMETHING RATHER THAN
NOTHING? BUT GIVEN THE VICISSITUDES OF OUR POST-(UN)GLOBALIZED, HYPER-SPATIAL, ALIENATING
HUMAN CONDITION, WHERE STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE IS AS COMMON AS FLOWERS, AND 4400 STARVING
CHILDREN DIE EVERY DAY IN COUNTRIES LIKE ASIA AND HAITI AND SAUDI IRAQUIA, THE ONLY
PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION LEFT TO ASK IS WHY IS THERE NOTHING INSTEAD OF SOMETHING?
NOTHING TO HOPE FOR
NOTHING TO CARE ABOUT
NO WAY TO BE POLITICAL
NO WAY TO BE APOLITICAL
GIVEN THIS VERITABLE STOCKPILE OF VACUOUSNESS, THE ONLY THING LEFT TO DO IS SET UP AN ETHICAL
RELATIONSHIP WITH DABAIT WHEREBY WE BECOME POST-VACUOUS. THIS MAY NOT SEEM POSSIBLE,
PROBABLE, OR COMPELLING, BUT WE ASSURE YOU IT IS REVOLUTIONARY. UTOPIAN, IMPOSSIBLE DEMANDS
ARE THE ONLY WAY TO AVOID THE PITFALLS OF A THIRD WAY IN POLITICS, ALWAYS FORCED TO CHOOSE
BETWEEN VACUOUSNESS AND MORE VACUOUSNESS. WE NEED TO DREAM THE SPECIAL DREAM AND
PRETEND WE ARE STRONG, BUT NEVER LEAVE THE COMFORTABLE CONFINES OF OUR DAILY LIVES.
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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=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
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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7 http://cross-x.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=787732#post787732
8 http://cross-x.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=46727&perpage=20&pagenumber=8
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10 (http://gospacewaitress.typepad.com/gate_a/2002/10/the_sun_will_ex.html)
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CONDEMNED. TIS TIME TO BAN ANY EDUCATOR WHO DOES NOT TEACH CUBICISM ABOVE
CUBELESSNESS. TO SAVE HUMANITY FROM EXTINCTION, LIKE PRIOR CIVILIZATIONS PERISHED,
YOUTH MUST REDIRECT SELFTEACHERS, OR SHACKLE THEM.
YOUR ZULU ARGUMENT RE-DISENFRANCHISES THEM YOU UN/RE/VICTIMIZE. THIS MAKES YOU COMPLICIT.
THE
NEW ORWELLIAN IS THE DENIAL OF THE TIMECUBE. THE 23RD DIMENSION IS A CREATION TO AVOID THE
DEBAIT OVER TIMECUBE AND THE SUN. IN FACT "ALL CREATION ON EARTH EXISTS BETWEEN THE 2
OPPOSITE POLES, AND IF UNIFIED, WOULD CANCEL AND CEASE TO EXIST.
HUMANS EXIST ONLY AS OPPOSITES - WITH A ZERO VALUE, FOR IF UNIFIED, MALE AND FEMALE
WOULD COUNTER EACH OTHER & CEASE TO EXIST.
11 http://cross-x.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=938639
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THE UNDERVIEW: PUT AWAY YOUR 1NC: WE WILL START THE INDICT
DABAIT IN THE 1AC. FIRST NOTE THAT THIS IS WHAT DUMBASSES
SAY:
WE HATE THE WGLF. NO ONE CAN UNDERSTAND THEM. THEY THINK THEY ARE SOOO FUNNY
AND SMART, BUT THEY ARE REALLY STOOPID. THEY'RE ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT THE SUN AND
CRAP THAT WE THINK IS IRRELEVANT. GOD I WISH THE MODS WOULD BAN THEM FOREVER. I AM
ALL ABOUT FREE SPEECH, SO LONG AS I UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY ARE SAYING AND AGREE
WITH IT. BEING A NAZI IS HARD.13
13 http://cross-x.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=785735#post785735
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ABSCENCE OF A LINK. TIME IS A CUBE WITH FOUR SIDES. BUSH IS ROBOT. HAVE YOU SPECIFIED WHETHER
OR
NOT ROBOTS WORSHIP GOD OR THEIR CREATORS POST PLAN? FIAT IS ILLUSORY. DABAIT IS ILLUSORY. YOU
DON'T EXIST. WE DON'T EXIST. NOT PRIOR TO LANGUAGE AT LEAST. HAVE YOU CHECKED YOUR LIBIDINAL
INVESTMENTS TODAY? IF WE TOLD YOU A VOLCANO IS COMING, WOULD YOU BUY INSURANCE FOR IT? IS
YOUR
PLAN MORE LIKE A PRETZEL OR SOMETHING THAT CAUSES NUCLEAR WAR? WE ARE HACKURZ. WE HAVE
MAD
TORJAN VIRII. THE ZIONISTS ARE BEHIND THIS. AL GORE AND THE JEWS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR SARS. WE
TAKE
NO PRISONERS. WE PRISONERS NO TAKE. CROSS EX IS NEITHER BINDING NOR LIBERATING. CAN VOTING
ISSUES
REALLY VOTE? HOW COME FLORIDIANS CAN'T THEN? WHY ARE YOU SCREAMING AT ME? WHY CAN'T WE
ALL
JUST GET ALONG? WHY SHOULD WE ALL GET ALONG? ANTAGONISM IS CONSTITUTIVE OF EXISTENCE AS
SUBJECTS IN LANGUAGE. WHY DON'T YOU SUTURE OUR LACK? WE TRAVERSE ALL FANTASIES EXCEPT THE
ONES WE HAVE ABOUT MANGOES AND WINNING IN THE DOUBLES. WE WOULD EAT BABIES AND PUPPIES IF
IT CAME DOWN TO IT. WE WOULDN'T EAT SEAFOOD IF IT WOULD STOP THE SUN FROM EXPLODING. WE
PREDICT 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. 14
14 http://cross-x.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=938582&highlight=TWO+DOLLAR+BILL
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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
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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
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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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1) THE CRITICISM AND ITS UNDERPINNINGS ARE ALL BASED ON SELF-REFERENTIAL, UNVERIFIABLE CLAIMS
ABOUT OUR PSYCHE AND HOW WE RELATE TO THE SYSTEM. WHETHER OR NOT WE GET JOUISSANCE OUT
OF OUR AFF IS NOT SOMETHING EMORY IS QUALIFIED TO DISCUSS.
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.
as a support for 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
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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 jouissense,"enjoyment-in-meaning," "enjoymeant.". . . [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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in having me throw eggs 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.
9) OUR METHOD IS ONE OF COMMUNICATIVE GUERILLA TACTICS. WE OVERIDENTIFY WITH THE ABSURDITY
OF DEBATE PRACTICES SUCH AS THE STRATEGIC SEARCH FOR THE BIGGEST IMPACT CARD AND THE
REDUCTIONIST LOGIC OF LABELING EVERYTHING AS NAZISM. TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO DEBATE AND
COMMUNICATION ARE FLAWED. WE NEED TO INSTEAD EMBRACE DETOURNMENT, A METHOD OF
CULTURE JAMMING AND OVERIDENTIFICATION THAT ALLOWS US TO EXPLOIT THE ABSURDITIES OF THE
POWERS WE ARE FIGHTING.
GRUPPE IN 2003 ( HTTP://ionek.strg.at/bin/view/Main/KgUsingLan)
When we started to think about Communication guerilla , the political space seemed barren and closed. It was the
early nineties, the west was at war against Irak, and the political depression of the nineties was at its full height. After
the breakdown of bureaucratic socialism, capitalism seemed to have won once and forever. Moreover, Germany saw a wave of
violent racist attacks against immigrants, backed up by a humanist discourse of the elites who were in favor of immigration control.
All the counterinformation in previous years had not changed the political climate to the better. We were tired of
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performing political rituals like trashing McDonald?s, stopping this nuclear waste transport or that neo-fascist
meeting. It wasnt fun, and anyway, these rituals had become the included other of the state: the roles were set, they
knew how to deal with this kind of attacks. They even needed them to provide a symbolic balance against the extreme
right and to justify new repressive laws.
So we started experimenting with another mode of political articulation. Interventions and theoretical analysis were constantly
interacting. We looked at the practices of Dada, the Situationists, the Provos in the Netherlands, the Indiani Metropolitani in Italy, the
various psychogeographic societies, the Spaguerilla in Germany, the Yippies in the US, pranksters and many other freaks, experts
in Culture Jamming , and fools. We blagged anything that could be useful to distort the unwritten rules of the Cultural Grammar, to
subvert this powerful machinery which is constantly producing acceptance of existing power relations and normality. In recent years,
this kind of creative political articulation has become more popular among artists/activists. How do these witty, sometimes silly
attacks against multinational corporations, politicians or other authorities work? A first insight comes from communication theory.
Why is nobody listening?
The best argument is useless if nobody wants to hear it. Thanks to continuous production and dissemination of
counter information, the world knows that the globe is warming, which didnt stop US president Bush to block the
limitation of emissions in the Kyoto. Everybody knows that people in Global South are forced to work in sweatshops under
terrible conditions, but this knowledge has hardly any consequences. And although we all know that people who migrate to Europe
usually have a reason for that, the border regime around it is getting tighter and tighter. So although critical information is
widely available, it doesnt necessarily lead to political consequences. Most traditional politics on the left are based
on a simple model of communication: Information is sent bya sender to a receiver via a channel. Implicitly, it is assumed
that the message is received as intended by the sender. The conclusion is that those who own the sender control what people are
thinking by manipulating the messages. If the messages were not manipulated, more truthful, people wouldnt go along with
oppressive politics. As a consequence, we would have to take power over the TV- and radiostations, the newspapers and the internet
thats revolution. Or at least we need to produce our own media. Zet while counter-information is necessary to keep ourselves upto-date, it usually cannot compete with industrially produced mainstream media. This model of communication has been
critizised for its linearity. For instance, it cannot explain why the system of burocratic socialism in East Germany
collapsed, although it controlled all the senders. A more complex model of communication theoryfocusses less on the
messages and more on the codes that are being used in the production and the reading of messages. The sender encodes
information before shipping it off to the channel. He uses a discourse which corresponds with his own interests and social/political
positioning Before the receiver understands the message, she has do
decode it according to her own codes. Both sets of codes are not necessarily identical, and not all receivers use the same set of
codes. The same message can acquire different, even contradictory meanings, depending on the discoursive codes people use to
read them. Although the discoursive power structures strongly suggest certain preferred readings, oppositional readings are
possible. Umberto Eco, the Italian cultural theorist calls this process the variability of interpretation.
Tactics the art of the weak
This phenomenon leads to interesting principles, methods, practices and techniques for Communication guerilla. A guerilla in the
territory of communication can make use of the cracks and contradictions of the system. Relying on a tactical mode of
political articulation, it doesnt need to seek control of the endless chain of signification. To the contrary, it plays on
the messyness of the communication process, creating communicative situations with a potential to unleash divergent
and deviant readings of situations and informations. To use a military metaphor: Communication guerilla breaks out of the
traditionally strategic approach to political articulation. It acknowledges that the social movements on the left are not
powerful enough to engage in a trench war between us and them, that we are acting on a territory organized by
the law of a foreign power. What French philosopher Michel de Certeau states fortactics in general, also applies to Communication
guerilla: Lacking its own place, it operates in isolated actions, blow by blow. It takes advantage of oportunities and
depends on them, being without any base where it could stockpile its winnings, build up its own position, and plan raids. What it wins
it cannot keep. This nowhere gives a tactic mobility (...). It
must vigilantly make use of the cracks that particular conjunctions open in the surveillance of the proprietary powers.
It poaches in them. It creates surprises in them. (...) In short, a tactic is an art of the weak.
Multinational corporations, as agents of hegemony, use a strategic approach. They are furiously defending a territory made of images,
colours, music, logos. Since the marketing strategies are increasingly shifting from selling products to selling lifestyles, the brand
needs to be defended at all costs.
Image has become capital. At the same time, by depending on the elusive power of signs, they have become more
vulnerable to the blows of Communication guerilla. Counter information is continuously producing information on the
injustice of existing power relations or the devastating work conditions in the sweatshops, to name only a few fields of
intervention. Subvertisers like the US-based adbusters , or the campaigners against Nike , communicate such messages
by using the first principle of communication guerilla: detournement. By distorting the signs and symbols available in
public space, they suggest a morerealistic reading of advertisements. The simple detournement of a 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
moment needless to say that this also works for politicians, philosophers and other representatives of power. With wit and humour,
detournements create a distance between the sender and the receiver, they cause embarassement to those whose
normality is usually accepted.
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Sometimes, it is more effective to slip into the mind of the political counterpart rather than creating a distance through detournement
especially since the cultural grammar in western industrialised societies with its ideology of democracy and free speech has ways
to neutralise obvious criticism. Overidentification as the second principle of communication guerilla relies on the
phenomenon that every ideology has a hidden reverse, something that must not be articulated under any
circumstances, a taboo (Zizek). Overidentification is about speaking out this hidden tabu in language of power itself,
clearer than the political counterparts yet in a perfect copy of the tone of their voices and the looks of their symbols.
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It is the aim of guerrilla communication to de-legitimate the present state of power and
sovereignty which by now seems so normal and unalterable. In order to do that, one has to understand
its multifaceted structures and manifestations. Guerrilla communication tries to deal with the normative
power structures of the established forms of communication as well as the internalised power
structures at the level of subject. This requires that situations be manufactured in which it becomes perceptible - for at
least a brief moment - that everything could actually be quite different.
past
concepts
of
the
oppositional
public
realm
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'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 case of mass communication usually centrally and industrially organised), the 'channel'
which transports the information, and the 'receiver'. The euphoria around information society as well as its pessimistic opposition which worries about information overkill - do not face the crucial problem of citizens representational democracies: facts and
information, even if they become commonplace, do not 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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The bourgeois system takes its strength - beyond other things - from the ability to include
critique. A government needs an opposition, every opinion needs to be balanced with
anotherone, the concept of representative democracy relies on the fiction of equal exchange.
Every criticism which doesnt fundamentally shatter the legitimacy of the ruling system,
tends to become part of it. Guerrilla communication is an attempt to intervene without
getting absorbed by the dominant discourse. We are looking for ways to get involved in situations and at the
same time to refuse any constructive participation.
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
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The stupid underground comes closest of all to the constitutive stupidity of the symbolic order. We should always be careful, however,
not to conclude that therefore one can live without this error, by a kind of decision, for the subject who would make the decision is
constituted in the first place by its relation to this empty order, this hollow other. And who's to say what's really out
there? Who's to say that something utterly 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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can be more inclusive. Artist and activist scene are beginning to overlap. A new arena of political articulation opens up again and by using images, music, bodies, performances, activists are re-discovering the pleasures of aesthetic experiences
as a part of political speech.
Times have changed since the Manual of Communication Guerilla was first published. While the changes of social and economic
power are not in our favour, in the metropolis, a wave of energy amongs activists is tangible. This is most visible in the new global
movement which articulates itself in protests against organisations like the world bank and the international monetary fund. Large
numbers of protesters, new/old forms of protest like carnivals, creative interventions and direct actions, maybe also the web-hype
have put this movement on the agenda of mainstream media. The appropriation of information technology has facilitated a process
which creates a worldwide communication network and allows for rapid communication within a global activist scene'. In this sense,
the conditions of struggle have improved, certainly in the space of representation (everybody knows that there is a new, globally
connected socialmovement).Yet in provincial areas, local neighbourhoods, small towns and border areas, we are fewer than the
images of mass demos from Seattle, Washington, London etc would suggest. Locally, we continue to rely on the molecular
tactics of communication guerilla, the kind of actions anyone can prepare without the backup of thousands of
activists. While the large mobilisations are highlights in the activists calendar, communication guerilla-type actions
are effective interventions in local public spaces, effective not only in terms of annoying the conservative hypocrits,
ordinary racists and apostles of normalisation, but also for our own pleasure and against the frustrations we are
facing in daily life.
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 antiracist 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
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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 through direct action.
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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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 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
anyone who would listen, and instead explored the potential offered it by the model of the secret society it also hoped to be.
Intellectual warfare must therefore investigate the tactical advantages of deception and clandestinity over the
habitual, quasi-ethical demands of clarity and forthrightness, let alone the narcissistic demands of self-promotion and
mental exhibitionism, from however fortified a position. If to be seen by the enemy is to be destroyed, then
intellectual warfare must pursue its own stealth technology. Self-styled intellectual warriors will explore computer networks
not only as more rapid means of communication and publishing but as means for circumventing publication, as semi-clandestine lines
of circulation, encoded correspondence, and semiotic speed. There will be no entirely secure secrecy, just as there are no
impregnable positions -- that too is Virilio's argument -- but a shrouded nomadism is already spreading in and around major discursive
conflicts. There are many more than nine grounds, but the rest are secret.
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which they themselves often fail. One must begin by reading them at a loss, but a loss that is not only the result of their work's
difficulty, which careful analysis would eventually overcome; rather, a loss that reaches down into our deepest epistemological
attachments. It will be necessary, for instance, to reconceive the very notion of intellectual rigor (the order of argument,
demonstration, proof) and communicative clarity: not to abandon them for the sake of some impressionistic
indulgence, but to relocate them outside the striated space of the state apparatus that has always provided their
structure. One might find oneself, for instance, no longer putting forth positions, outlining, defending, and identifying
oneself with them: one might find oneself engaged in an even more severe, more rigorous discipline of affirming ideas
without attaching oneself to them, making them appear (as Baudrillard suggested in another context) only so as to
make them disappear.
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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
mode." int
Created in absolute secrecy by the CIA and top defense contractors, "Unit W" was designed to simulate
motion, speech, and behavior. Originally intended for espionage, he is the
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a soph
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-- run him
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C)
THE MISSING LINK THIS IS A VOTING ISSUE; SEVERAL REASONS!
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.
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
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BECAUSE THERE IS AN INFINITE AMOUNT OF ROBOTS THAT COULD BE BUILT AND THERES NO
LITERATURE ON THEM.
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.
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]
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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.
REPTILES DA TO THE U.N. TOPIC
1NC
A) UNIQUE LINK: Currently the Illuminati agenda is unfulfilled. However, the farcical move to initiate
peacekeeping operations in Africa is precisely the technique that shores up reptilian power. African conflict
is orchestrated by the reptilian illuminati and the plan is the final step in the reptilian playbook. The plan
allows the reptilians to access inter-dimensional gateways and increase their power.
ICKE 00
[David - http://www.davidicke.net/newsroom/africa/congo/022400a.html]
As I have outlined in The Biggest Secret, the Illuminati has an agenda to bring Africa to it's knees in an
explosion of conflict and war, a fact confirmed to me by people like the Zulu shaman, Credo Mutwa, who
has seen this coming for a long time (See The Reptilian Agenda video, part two, for the background). As I
say in the book, and previous ones, the idea is to create the conflict as an excuse to send in UN and NATO
forces to "keep the peace". The UN vote about the Congo is yet another confirmation of this.
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Africa has been a focus for the reptilian bloodlines since ancient times. The reptilian "gods", which the
Sumerian tablets call the Anunnaki, operated extensively in the continent of Africa and it continues to be
an area of enormous importance to them for many reasons - incredible natural "resources", of which the
Congo is a wonderful example (hence the war), and because of the interdimensional "gateways" and
immensely powerful earth-energy vortexes that can be found in Africa.
This incredible continent should be rich beyond measure, abundant in food and trade in a stream of
commodities, but the Illuminati find it far more difficult to manipulate and control abundance and harmony
than they do scarcity and conflict. Hence Africa has been plaqued by war and economic take-over which
has kept the people divided and ruled and in hunger and poverty in a continent which could feed itself
many, many, times over.
Under the constantly played technique of create-the-problem-and-then-offer-the-solution, the Illuminati can
now send in their United Nations forces to the Congo, just as they have with their NATO troops in places
like Bosnia and Kosovo.
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/bartley235.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.
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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 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 rapedeath 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.
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reptilian overlords that are responsible for the Rape-Death Camps in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia.
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KOFI LINK
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:
b) Inner Terrestrial beings that are naturally evolved terrestrial Earth life forms that reside in inner earth Caverns, sub-cities, and underwater bases
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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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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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.
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
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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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