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Weak ontology ==The affirmative employs strong ontological claims as a basis for their affirmation. Assertions about agents, subjects, others, self and the world itself are premised in an orientation which presume certainity and resolution. The difference between weak and strong ontology is how you carry yourself and your most basic commitments. Strong ontology manifests in resolution and confidence while weak ontology acknowledges doubt and skepticism. Post 9/11 speeches by Bush and Graham demonstrate the subtle but important difference.== White 2005 (Stephen K., James Hart Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, “Weak Ontology: Genealogy and Critical Issues,” //Hedgehog Review//, Summer, p.14-15) PM From the point of .... evil, us and the enemy. == ==Weak ontology insists that our conceptions of self, other and the world are characterized by contingency and indeterminacy. This makes possible ethico-political practices of care. Strong ontological claims, on the other hand, assume with certainty to know they way the world is. Strong ontological orientations violently eliminate that which their claims cannot capture.== Howe 2006 (Louis E., associate professor in the Department of Political Science & Planning at the University of West Georgia, “Enchantment, Weak Ontologies, and Administrative Ethics,” //Administration & Society//, September, p.427-8) PM  In this section, I ... the term ontopolitcal interpretation (p. 1). == ==The alternative is to vote negative for a weak ontological orientation. Oliver and I are not resolved but contingently affirm with hesitation that Confronted with these biopolitical visa entry restrictions, we affirm resistance to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. .== Mustapha 2009 (Jennifer, Department of Political Science at McMaster University, “An Analytical Survey of Critical Security Studies: Making the Case for a (Modified) Post-structuralist Approach, Paper presented at the 2009 CPSA, Ottawa, [], p. 2-3) PM  At the outset, it ... affirmed in its wake  ” (White 2000, 8).

=Counter advocacy= Counter advocacy: Mark and I advocate an end to subcritical testing and abandonment of nuclear weapons and their development

Obama has recently capitulated to the status quo consensus - as he has appropriated 11.2 billion dollars towards to modernization of the nuclear stockpile
Pincus 2/3/10. Walter, staff writer. “Obama budget seeks 13.4 percent increase for National Nuclear Security Administration” Washington Post. /sal President Obama's fiscal ... and the 10-year modernization plan

And the euphemism of “stockpile management” disguises the fact that new rounds of nuclear testing at subcritical levels will be necessary
Larkin 2/13/10. Brian, former teacher and now anti-nuclear activist. “Modernisation Stands in the Way of Abolition” Trident Ploughshares. http://www.tridentploughshares.org/article1595 /sal The fact is Obama ... while upgrading their weapon systems. ==And status quo nuclear discourse is defined by the discourse of the nation-state and that of the non-nation state. Both construct nuclear war as comparable only to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, subordinating the constant nuclear war waged against Fourth World peoples, revealing a form of violent capitalist domination focused on destruction of the periphery== Kato 1993  (Masahide,  professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, “ Nuclear Globalism: Traversing Rockets, Satellites, and Nuclear War via the Strategic Gaze ,” //Alternatives// 18:3, p. 339-360) /sal The vigorous invasion of ... Nations almost on a daily basis.

=Counter-Advocacy= Fuck Obama. Bleiker 2000 p. 202-3 __ De Certeau focuses primarily ... ____ and public transcripts is torn apart. ____ 42 __ =oil da=
 * Solvency.**
 * Transversal dissent operates through the cracks and fissures, refusing to initially identify themselves – this transversal and tactical dissent makes possible the slow transformation of values.**

Rising oil prices and 2010 elections have given momentum to the push for more drilling - the only thing stopping it is Obama’s promise
HOTAKAINEN Jan. 26 ( ROB McClatchy Newspaper Key House Republican's fix: drill for more oil [], 2011) After getting trounced in ... to that is yes, including Alaska."

Turn – winner’s win- plan will build momentum for obama’s agenda
(David, “Do-Nothing 44th President” 6/18/10 []) JB
 * Green 10**

Moreover, __there is a continuously ...__ of being part of the winning team. And so, with virtually
Egyptian instability will cause oil prices to skyrocket and kill the us economy Goode January 30 (Darren Egypt's unrest sparks fears about oil http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=1E724542-7BDE-4A1A-ACE4-B41B95E6EDE6 2011)

Egypt is the 21st highest ... is not a strategy for creating new jobs.”

economic decline causes war
Lind 2010 (Michael // Michael Lind is policy director of the // [|//Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation//] //and author of "The American Way of Strategy., http://www.salon.com/news/economics/index.html?story=/opinion/feature/2010/05/11/great_recession_world_war_iv// May 11) If history is any guide, ... their conflicting national interests  ..

=Gabel 1nc=

Welcome to the Matrix:
There is no such thing as “the state,” “laws,” “visas,” or “rights.” These are all discursive constructs we periodically invoke in order to avoid authentic social interactions. Fearful that our innate desire for genuine intersubjective connection is not felt by others, we alienate ourselves by becoming mere actors on a stage. We breathe life into the false entity that is “the state” in order to justify and sustain this alienation. This is Gabel in 84 ( Gabel, professor of law at the New College of California School of Law (San Francisco), 1984 (Peter, Texas Law Review, May, page Lexis) (JMU- MPB) )

Let me start by making ... an appearance of false necessity.

===Genocide is a manifestation of alienated consciousness. When the fear of humiliation is projected onto a demonized other such catastrophe becomes justified in the collective consciousness. The holocaust was the inevitable outcome of the pain felt by the Germans’ social alienation.===

Gabel 2000
Gabel, professor of law at the New College of California School of Law (San Francisco), 2000 BK 37 As Bauman points out __...__ __again use Buber’s terminology.__

The alternative is to vote negative: and thus engage in a willful rejection of the 1AC knowledge construction. Not learning their flawed epistemology is a positive action that results in societal change by opening up the possibility of a new understanding of reality that embraces intersubjective interactions over alienated as-if performances.

__Kohl, 1994__ (Herbert, director – Coastal Ridge Research and Education Center, I Won’t Learn From You) MKD

__Learning how to ...__ __in many situations__.

== CP: The United States Federal Government should issue EB visas to individuals who receive advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields from institutions of higher education in the United States except for Chinese citizens

China is succeeding in reversing the brain drain
LaFraniere 10 SHARON LaFRANIERE The New York Times “Fighting Trend, China Is Luring Scientists Home“ January 6, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/world/asia/07scholar.html WM The surprise — shock, actually — ... technologically advanced nations.

Arlene Holen , senior fellow at the Technology Policy Institute, 3-  20   09  , “The Budgetary Effects of High-Skilled Immigration, http://www.techpolicyinstitute.org/files/the%20budgetary%20effects%20of%20high-skilled%20immigration%20reform.pdf

High-skilled workers can e ... drain on federal revenues.

Innovation and talent are key to China’s economic stability and growth
Simon 09 Simon, Denis Fred; Cong Cao. Issues in Science & Technology, Fall2009, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p29-42, 14p, 6 Color Photographs; (AN 44679042 )  China's Future: Have Talent, Will Thrive WM When China’s leaders ... engineers, and other professionals.

The Straights Times, 6/28/2003 (Tom Plate, UCLA professor, neo-cons a bigger risk to Bush than China,”) But __imagine a China ...__ White House now seems to prefer.

=Politics- skfta= 

Korus will pass now- obama focused
Shaun Tandon 06 February  2011 “Fight to finish on US-S Korea trade agreement” [] With US President ... two legislatures will approve it.

Capital is key to overcome opposition Wharton Business Journal, the online business journal of the Wharton School, 1/12/2011. “U.S.-South Korea Trade Pact: A Turning Point for American Exports?” http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2671

With Portman now ... and Tea Party Republicans.

the new republican house is pro restricting immigration and the public supports reducing legal immigration, means obama will have to burn a ton of political capital to get anything through
Brown 12/23/10 (carrie, Budoff, reporter for politico Lamar Smith avoids hard line on immigration http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46774.html) The GOP’s incoming... Center for Immigration Studies.

SKFTA key to the alliance, free trade, regional stability, and heg
Fred Hiatt, Editorial page editor for the Washington Post, 4/12/2010. “Will the U.S. commit to free trade with South Korea?” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/11/AR2010041102508.html

In a world of d..., in that regard , are timeless ."

War in Korea triggers every impact – kills the ozone, global ag, the economy, & prolif regime
Hayes and Green, 10 - *Victoria University AND **Executive Director of the Nautilus Institute (Peter and Michael, “-“The Path Not Taken, the Way Still Open: Denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia”, 1/5, http://www.nautilus.org/fora/security/10001HayesHamalGreen.pdf) The consequences of failing... from the international community.