2AC
Politics—
We haven’t read any link turns so far. We’e impact turned most every politics disad.
2AC Add-ons:
Aid Key to soft power
Radelet 2004
Heg good—Furgeson 2004
Stephen F. Austin RB – Negative
THE T shell
A) Interpretation—A topical affirmative must increase US-provided public health assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa.
First, Public denotes government provision.
Dictionary.com, 2007
Second, Its modifies USfg.
Dictionary.com, 2007("its”Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 06 Dec. 2007. .)
Third, To means Direct, OED 99
And, Public health assistance is the provision of public health services to the population.
Hyde, 95 (Henry, US Senator, text of a bill introduced in the Senate, 3/22,
http://www.eff.org/Legislation/Bills_by_number/hr1292_95.bill)
T—Increase
A) Interpretation—Increase implies pre-existing
Words and Phrases 59 [p384, ddi06]
LOST DISAD
1. Law of the Sea Treaty will pass now.
Ian Williams, Guardian Unlimited, December 1, 2007
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ian_williams/2007/12/anarchy_on_the_high_seas.html
2. Plan drains Bush’s political capital
Carol Lancaster 2000, “Transforming Foreign Aid: United States Assistance in the 21st Century”
http://www.iie.com/publications/chapters_preview/321/3iie2911.pdf pg12. [Bhattacharjee]
3. Bush polcap key to LOST
Krause in 2007 (Don, VP, Citizens for Global Solutions, http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4286)
4. The Law of the Sea treaty is crucial to United States’ environmental leadership and preventing the destruction of the oceans
Schlickeisen in 2007 (Rodger, Newsblaze News, http://newsblaze.com/story/20070925135019tsop.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html)
5. Ocean collapse causes planetary extinction
Craig 03, Associate Professor at Indiana University School of Law [Robin Kundis, “Taking Steps Toward Marine Wilderness Protection”, McGeorge Law Review, Winter, 34 McGeorge L. Rev. 155, p. 264-266, LN]
OIL 1nC
1. Uniqueness and internal link--Financial markets have survived the August credit shock, but highly-leveraged hedge funds are still at risk of implosion if their strategies go bad. Another severe shock to hedge funds could evaporate liquidity across global financial markets and collapse the global economy.
Rocker 9/17 – retired hedge fund manager
[David, “Wall Street Borrows, Main Street Pays,” Barron’s, Sept 17, 2007, http://online.barrons.com/article/SB118981089018628145.html?mod=googlenews_barrons]
OIL 1nC
2. These hedge funds have placed large bets on high oil prices in an attempt to capitalize on the instability premium over Iran’s nuclear program.
Mufson 9/22 – (Washington Post staff writer http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/21/AR2007092102126.html)
3. Plan Increases foreign investment in African Oil
Dr. Carol Lancaster, distinguished professor at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service and has been active in the U.S. government, “Economic development and investment in sub-Saharan Africa”, Law and Policy in International Business. Volume: 30. Issue: 4. Publication Year: 1999
3. This drives down oil prices.
John Ghazvinian, Washington Post, 4/3/07, “Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil”, l/n
4. Nuclear war Walter Mead, NPQ's Board of Advisors, New Perspectives Quarterly, Summer 1992, p.30
Stratford CK – Affirmative – RFID’s
NEW PLAN AND CARDS READ AT NDCA (Update 4/18)
The United States federal government should ensure that necessary pharmaceuticals shipped to resolutionally designated areas are used to treat or prevent disease by providing a nanobarcode ePedigree
2. Nano-encryption enables pharma to separate real drugs and prevent counterfeiting or diversion PR Newswire '6
(PR Newswire US, 4-7-06, NanoInk President and CEO, Cedric Loiret-Bernal, M.D., to Speak at BIO 2006 Annual International Convention, Lexis)
*Speaker's qualifications are internal to the card
Dr. Loiret-Bernal, a...and illegal diversion.
1. Nano-barcodes can be applied to pills to identify real ones—counterfeiters won't even know they're there
Converting Magazine '7
(Rebecca Roberts, Role of nanotechnology in brand protection, http://www.convertingmagazine .com/article/CA6479787.html, September 1)
Despite its high cost...information on the products
1AC
Contention I is the current lack of Radio Frequency Identification:
Same as before…it’s fucking inherency people…
Contention II is the inability of Africans to obtain pharmaceuticals:
1-4 are same as before
5. USAID policies discourage the use of the most effective treatment methods simply because they are perceived as too complicated for Africans.
Kurlantzik ‘6
(Joshua, special correspondent for The New Republic and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington Monthly, July 1, 2006, www.highbeam.com)
Stories about Africa frequently … deliver the help that he promised.
6. Rich nations must ensure Africans access to drugs to break the cycle of Global Apartheid
Brook and Minter ‘1
(Salih and William, Global Apartheid, July 9 http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010709/booker
Today's inequalities build … Brazil at the WTO, as it forms part of a strategy seeking to undermine those rights.
7. Nigerian-American public health personnel should become involved with solving African counterfeits to give back to their country
Orabuchi ‘7
(Acho, Lagos, “Nigeria: Akunyili On Drug Counterfeiting,” AllAfrica, 9-27-07, http://allafrica.com/stories/200709270140.html)
In the face of the daunting task …and regulated products in Nigeria.
Contention III is the danger of counterfeits to support terrorism:
1. African diseases make terrorism uniquely likely
Carfano and Gardener ‘3
(James Jay, PhD and Senior Research Fellow at Institute for Int’l Studies, and Niles, PhD and Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, Heritage Backgrounder #1697, http://www.heritage.org/Research/Africa/bg1697.cfm)
Africa's troubles are many, and …cells are also operating in neighbouring Somalia.
2. Terrorists can currently use drug counterfeiting both to directly poison us, and to finance future operations
Liang ‘06
(Bryan, Executive Director and Professor of Law, Institute of Health Law Studies, California Western School of Law; Co-Director and Adjunct Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, San Diego Center for Patient Safety, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine; Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health, College of Health and Human Services, San Diego State University; and Adjunct Professor of Aviation, College of Aviation, Western Michigan University. Professor Liang also serves on the Board of Directors of The Partnership for Safe Medicines. B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D., University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy Studies; J.D., Harvard Law School; M.D., Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, “STRUCTURALLY SOPHISTICATED OR LAMENTABLY LIMITED? MECHANISMS TO ENSURE SAFETY OF THE MEDICINE SUPPLY,” Albany Law Journal of Science and Technology, 16 Alb. L.J. Sci. & Tech. 483)
It is apparent that the production of fake … same time the drugs we are paying for kill us. 187
3. Terrorism leads to extinction
Al Ahram Weekly ‘4
(“Extinction!” August 26-September 1, http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/705/op5.htm)
A nuclear attack by terrorists … infects the whole planet, we will all be losers.
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