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- Solvency Turn- U.S. efforts to enforce labor rights have actually increased abuses
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2NC/1NR Solvency #2—ImperialismThey say They’re not imperialist, but [GIVE :05 SUMMARY OF OPPONENT’S SINGLE ARGUMENT]
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[EXPLAIN WHY YOUR OPTION MATTERS BELOW] and this reason matters because: our imperialism impact is extinction. Once countries dominate others—war and international violence become inevitable.
The Guardian, 2009 [“Beware human rights imperialism”, June 23, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/jun/23/human-rights-imperialism-western-values] In his new book on the Darfur crisis, Mahmood Mamdani lambasts those "human rights fundamentalists" who, he claims, "argue for an international legal standard regardless of the political content of the country in question". Although I agree with most of his criticisms of the way in which the ICC has handled two of its first cases in Darfur and northern Uganda, I would argue that the problem is the opposite. Human rights organisations are in danger of allowing themselves to be co-opted into strategies that compromise their independence and impartiality. The concept of "rights-based development", for example, holds that there is a universal set of standards, located in international human rights law, that are applicable in all countries throughout the world. Western donors and international aid organisations are spending increasing amounts of time drawing up guidelines and developing monitoring mechanisms to impose these on poor countries. "Poverty is a human rights violation" has become the latest rallying cry for a growing number of western NGOs. Yet it does not require that much thought to realise that people in different countries may have different views about what policies would be most appropriate for achieving economic growth or that attitudes towards certain human rights are quite socially and culturally specific. No one should ever be tortured, arbitrarily executed or held in slavery, but notions such as freedom of expression, religion and sexual relations do vary in different parts of the world. The right to private property is basically a western concept, which may be politically sensitive in societies where it is associated with capitalism and colonialism. 2NC/1NR Solvency #3—Sullivan Principles Bad for the EconomyThey say __________________________________________________, but [GIVE :05 SUMMARY OF OPPONENT’S SINGLE ARGUMENT]
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Barboza, 2006 David, “China Drafts Law to Boost Unions and End Abuse< October 13 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/business/worldbusiness/13sweat.html?_r=3&%27& The move, which underscores the government’s growing concern about the widening income gap and threats of social unrest, is setting off a battle with American and other foreign corporations that have lobbied against it by hinting that they may build fewer factories here. The proposed rules are being considered after the Chinese Communist Party endorsed a new doctrine that will put greater emphasis on tackling the severe side effects of the country’s remarkable growth. Whether the foreign corporations will follow through on their warnings is unclear because of the many advantages of being in China — even with restrictions and higher costs that may stem from the new law. It could go into effect as early as next May. It would apply to all companies in China, but its emphasis is on foreign-owned companies and the suppliers to those companies. The conflict with the foreign corporations is significant partly because it comes at a time when labor, energy and land costs are rising in this country, all indications that doing business in China is likely to get much more expensive in the coming years. But it is not clear how effectively such a new labor law would be carried out through this vast land because local officials have tended to ignore directives from the central government or seek ways around them. China’s economy has become one of the most robust in the world since the emphasis on free markets in the 80’s encouraged millions of young workers to labor for low wages at companies that made cheap exports. As a result, foreign investment has poured into China. Some of the world’s big companies have expressed concern that the new rules would revive some aspects of socialism and borrow too heavily from labor laws in union-friendly countries like France and Germany. The Chinese government proposal, for example, would make it more difficult to lay off workers, a condition that some companies contend would be so onerous that they might slow their investments in China. “This is really two steps backward after three steps forward,” said Kenneth Tung, Asia-Pacific director of legal affairs at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in Hong Kong and a legal adviser to the American Chamber of Commerce here. The proposed law is being debated after Wal-Mart Stores, the world’s biggest retailer, was forced to accept unions in its Chinese outlets. State-controlled unions here have not wielded much power in the past, but after years of reports of worker abuse, the government seems determined to give its union new powers to negotiate worker contracts, safety protection and workplace ground rules. Hoping to head off some of the rules, representatives of some American companies are waging an intense lobbying campaign to persuade the Chinese government to revise or abandon the proposed law. The skirmish has pitted the American Chamber of Commerce — which represents corporations including Dell, Ford, General Electric, Microsoft and Nike — against labor activists and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the Communist Party’s official union organization. The workers’ advocates say that the proposed labor rules — and more important, enforcement powers — are long overdue, and they accuse the American businesses of favoring a system that has led to widespread labor abuse. On Friday, Global Labor Strategies, a group that supports labor rights policies, is expected to release a report in New York and Boston denouncing American corporations for opposing legislation that would give Chinese workers stronger rights. “You have big corporations opposing basically modest reforms,” said Tim Costello, an official of the group and a longtime labor union advocate. “This flies in the face of the idea that globalization and corporations will raise standards around the world.” China’s Labor Ministry declined to comment Thursday, saying the law is still in the drafting stages. Several American corporations also declined to comment on the case, saying it was a delicate matter and referring calls to the American Chamber of Commerce. But Andreas Lauffs, a Hong Kong-based lawyer who runs the China employment-law practice at the international law firm of Baker & McKenzie, said some American companies considered the proposed rules too costly and restrictive. Mr. Lauffs said the new rules would give unions collective-bargaining power and control over certain factory rules, and they would also make it difficult to fire employees for poor performance.
Contescu, 2012 Professor Emeritus of Geology and Geography at Roosevelt University, Ph.D. (Lorin, "600 MILION YEARS OF CLIMATE CHANGE; A CRITIQUE OF THE ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING HYPOTESIS FROM A TIME-SPACE PERSPECTIVE”, Geo-Eco-Marina, 2012, Issue 18, pgs. 5-25) The other side of the coin shows that climate warming has also important favorable effects, mostly on plants and indirectly on animals that feed on the plants. Studies concluded that the most feared doubling of the atmospheric CO2 will increase the productivity of herbs by 30%-50% and of trees by 50%-80%. Many plants will grow faster and healthier during a warmer climate (Idso et al., 2003), and produce more offsprings. It also appears that plants can survive quite well when climatic conditions change, even when change is rapid. For instance, cold-adapted trees can still grow to maturity (though slower) even 100-150 km north of their natural range, and they also grow as well as much as 1,000 km south of their southern boundaries. Shifting climate boundaries will also generate competition among species of grasses and trees, leading to the selection of those most adaptable to changing conditions. The conclusion that can be drawn from the above considerations is that both the vegetal and animal kingdoms are far more resilient and adaptable even for relatively quickly environmental modifications. If a species becomes extinct, a biological niche becoming thus empty, it will be quickly occupied by another species better adapted to the new eco logical conditions, as bio-ecological history of the planet has demonstrated time and again.
NBC, 2014 “China on U.S. Criticism on Human Rights: 'Hold Up a Mirror' http://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/china-u-s-criticism-human-rights-hold-mirror-n555826 China condemned America's human-rights record on Thursday, alluding to the White House campaign and suggesting that "money politics and family politics went from bad to worse." The broadside came amid heightening tensions in the South China Sea where the U.S. is conducting war games with the Philippines to counter China's maritime claims. China's document was prepared by a Cabinet office and was released by the state-run Xinhua News Agency. It was a response to a global human-rights survey issued Wednesday by the State Department which criticized China and other countries. The U.S. report cited China's "particularly severe" crackdown on the legal community and "extralegal measures" of enforced disappearances and house arrest against government critics. Related: Disappearances Raise Fears of China Crackdown "The United States made comments on the human-rights situation in many countries while being tight-lipped about its own terrible human-rights record and showing not a bit of intention to reflect on it," Xinhua said. "Since the U.S. government refused to hold up a mirror to look at itself, it has to be done with other people's help." China alleged the "wanton infringement" of civil rights and "rampant gun-related crimes" in the United States, citing a toll of 13,136 killed and 26,493 injured by gun violence last year. Xinhua said 965 people had shot dead by U.S. police. "The frequent occurrence of shooting incidents was the deepest impression left to the world concerning the United States in 2015," the news agency said. PlayHow Guns Stack Up to Other Causes of Death in America Facebook Twitter Google Plus Embed How Guns Stack Up to Other Causes of Death in America 1:10 It added that 560,000 people were homeless and said that 33 million Americans didn't have health insurance. The report has tallied more than 6,000 airstrikes in Syria and Iraq, allegedly causing "between 1,695 and 2,239" civilian deaths. Xinhua's report attracted attention on China's Twitter-like Weibo social network. "China and the U.S. quarrel about human rights every year which makes them look like little kids," one user wrote. "If America has no human rights, why are rich Chinese going there?" another asked.
International Business Times, 2015 International Business Times, “Trans-Pacific Partnership: Are Free Trade Agreements Like TPP Really A Tool For Fixing Labor Rights Abuses?”, http://www.ibtimes.com/trans-pacific-partnership-are-free-trade-agreements-tpp-really-tool-fixing-labor-2041003 The recent history of trade deals suggests they don’t to hold trade partners to high human rights standards. As a member of the ten-year-old Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) with the United States, Guatemala fell under labor rights side agreements aimed at protecting Guatemala’s workers. But more than seven years after the AFL-CIO labor union filed a complaint over Guatemala’s unwillingness to protect union activity and to improve working conditions in Guatemala’s apparel, agriculture and shipping sectors, problems endure. Guatemalan authorities have managed to use CAFTA-DR’s toothless enforcement mechanisms to keep disputes locked in a seemingly perpetual state of consultations between U.S. Department of Labor officials and their Central American counterparts. “The experience lobbying the US government to enforce CAFTA in Guatemala—along with the US government’s failure to enforce trade deals with other countries like Honduras and Colombia—calls into question whether the US government will fully enforce the labor provisions in the TPP,” Sean Savett, AFL-CIO spokesman said in an email in April ahead of a June dispute settlement hearing on Guatemala. The hearing led to no enforcement action as Guatemalan authorities fought back on allegations of labor violations brought forth by the U.S. Labor Department. Similar foot-dragging and lack of enforcement mechanisms have led to protracted labor rights “consultations” with free-trade counterparts in Honduras, Colombia and Peru. Labor rights activists argue that side-agreements on labor protections in each of these counties have not improved conditions for workers in these countries. For example, despite a “labor action plan ” under the U.S.-Colombia Trade Agreement that went into effect in 2012, workers continue to be threatened – especially in the country’s shipping industry – and more than 100 union activists have been killed, according to a 2015 report on the status of labor rights in the South American country commissioned by Colombia’s National Union School. Still, pro-business interests and libertarian free-traders say trade liberalization delivers economic empowerment to workers over time—and with it greater freedom and less oppression. Others argue the free trade deals aren’t the venue for improving human rights, and that side-agreements act as a distraction to the ultimate goal of these transactions: the removal of tariffs and investment rules that impede global trade activities. “It’s easy to point to bad examples, like the Thailand slavery issue , but it’s unfair to paint a country’s entire industry with the same brush. There are a lot of people in Thailand that depend on seafood harvesting and there’s a real economy there,” says Bill Watson, trade policy analyst, trade policy analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute. “There are other ways for the United States to engage countries on these issues, but we shouldn’t use these issues to keep trade barriers in place.” Jagdish N. Bhagwati agrees. As a free-trade purist, the professor of economics at Columbia University says trade pacts are more likely to lure countries like India into future deals if they aren’t weighed down with side-agreements. “If we do regional trade agreements like the TPP we can’t overload them with side demands, like intellectual property requirements, or labor and environmental conditions,” he says. “India – which is a democracy, by the way – doesn’t want trade pacts weighted down with side conditions. The Indian position is that these issues are important, but linking them to free trade agreements doesn’t work.”
Li and Brown, 2015 [Wenhong, Assistant Professor of Climate at Duke University, Patrick, PhD student in the Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences under the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, “Global Warming More Moderate Than Worst-Case Models”, Duke Environment, Apr 21 2015, https://nicholas.duke.edu/news/global-warming-more-moderate-worst-case-models] DURHAM, N.C. – A new study based on 1,000 years of temperature records suggests global warming is not progressing as fast as it would under the most severe emissions scenarios outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). “Based on our analysis, a middle-of-the-road warming scenario is more likely, at least for now,” said Patrick T. Brown, a doctoral student in climatology at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment. “But this could change.” The Duke-led study shows that natural variability in surface temperatures -- caused by interactions between the ocean and atmosphere, and other natural factors -- can account for observed changes in the recent rates of warming from decade to decade. The researchers say these “climate wiggles” can slow or speed the rate of warming from decade to decade, and accentuate or offset the effects of increases in greenhouse gas concentrations. If not properly explained and accounted for, they may skew the reliability of climate models and lead to over-interpretation of short-term temperature trends. The research, published today in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports, uses empirical data, rather than the more commonly used climate models, to estimate decade-to-decade variability. “At any given time, we could start warming at a faster rate if greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere increase without any offsetting changes in aerosol concentrations or natural variability,” said Wenhong Li, assistant professor of climate at Duke, who conducted the study with Brown. The team examined whether climate models, such as those used by the IPCC, accurately account for natural chaotic variability that can occur in the rate of global warming as a result of interactions between the ocean and atmosphere, and other natural factors. To test how accurate climate models are at accounting for variations in the rate of warming, Brown and Li, along with colleagues from San Jose State University and the USDA, created a new statistical model based on reconstructed empirical records of surface temperatures over the last 1,000 years. “By comparing our model against theirs, we found that climate models largely get the ‘big picture’ right but seem to underestimate the magnitude of natural decade-to-decade climate wiggles,” Brown said. “Our model shows these wiggles can be big enough that they could have accounted for a reasonable portion of the accelerated warming we experienced from 1975 to 2000, as well as the reduced rate in warming that occurred from 2002 to 2013.” Further comparative analysis of the models revealed another intriguing insight. “Statistically, it’s pretty unlikely that an 11-year hiatus in warming, like the one we saw at the start of this century, would occur if the underlying human-caused warming was progressing at a rate as fast as the most severe IPCC projections,” Brown said. “Hiatus periods of 11 years or longer are more likely to occur under a middle-of-the-road scenario.” Directory: wp-content -> uploads -> 2015 2015 -> Police Militarization 2015 -> 2015 ihbb championships: hs history Bowl Round 4 – Prelims First Quarter 2015 -> Wrtp/big step · 3841 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, wi 53208 2015 -> Rao bulletin 1 December 2015 html edition this bulletin contains the following articles 2015 -> Darton College 2015 -> Training Workshop on Planning and Implementation of Multi-Sectoral Development Programme (MsDP) in Bihar Date : 6th 2015 -> Rao bulletin 15 June 2015 html edition this bulletin contains the following articles 2015 -> Rao bulletin 1 September 2015 html edition this bulletin contains the following articles 2015 -> Rao bulletin 1 August 2015 html edition this bulletin contains the following articles 2015 -> Science, and transportation united states senate Download 2.62 Mb. Share with your friends:
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