June+&+Ryan

ryan 2N - rpowell311@gmail.com june 2A - jchoe001@gmail.com

if embassies v.1 is actually banned, embassies v.2 will be used =embassies v. 1=

Snowden’s leak exposed secret US surveillance of foreign ambassadors – this caused massive backlash to US surveillance policy
//**__US intelligence services are spying on the European Union mission in New York and its__**// //**__AND__**// // . **__The 2010 document describes the operation as "close access__**// **__domestic collection//".__**
 * MacAskill and Borger 13** (Ewen is the Guardians defense and intelligence correspondent, previously the DC bureau chief and diplomatic editor and Julian is the Guardians diplomatic editor and author of The Butchers Trail, 6/30, “New NSA leaks show how US is bugging its European allies”, [] )//cc//

This surveillance serves no national security purpose – it’s being done exclusively to eavesdrop
The New York Times revealed that the NSA monitored an American law firm representing a AND
 * CoE 15** (Council of Europe Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights. “Mass Surveillance”. 26 January 2015. https://ccdcoe.org/sites/default/files/documents/CoE-150126-MassSurveillance.pdf)//JuneC//
 * __the contention that the purpose of surveillance is the protection of //national security//.__**

====The largest impact has been in Europe – and still on-going – US surveillance of diplomats undermines US-EU cooperation on a host of issues – even when cooperation happens, a chilling effect makes it ineffective==== this storm and it will be business as usual to a great degree.
 * EUCE 14** (European Union Center of North Carolina “The NSA Leaks and Transatlantic Relations”. EUCE. 4 July 2014. http://europe.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Brief_1407.pdf)//JuneC//
 * __The diplomatic fallout has been limited, but Snowden's revelations have impacted relations on a__**
 * __AND__**

Embassy spying is perceptually the worst form of surveillance – Aff’s curtailment sends a __symbolic signal__ that rebuilds trust and emboldens counter-terror efforts
//will be better to offer symbolic reforms to curb the NSA’s perceived excesses.//
 * EUCE 14** (European Union Center of North Carolina “The NSA Leaks and Transatlantic Relations”. EUCE. 4 July 2014. http://europe.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Brief_1407.pdf)//JuneC//
 * __In diplomatic terms, there is likely to be a symbolic push for a formal__**
 * __AND__**

ISIS acquiring and developing chemical and nuclear weapons now – plotting attacks
The risk of a terrorist attack using nuclear or chemical __//weapons has just gone up//__ AND built. Without this deal, ISIS would likely already have these weapons.
 * Cirincione 14** (Joe [president of Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation]; ISIS will be in position to get nuclear weapons if allowed to consolidate power, resources, says expert; www.nydailynews.com/news/world/isis-nukes-allowed-consolidate-expert-article-1.1958855; kdf)

EU and US cooperation deters ISIS
The September 2014 NATO summit took several steps to energize the transatlantic community to confront AND allies in the Middle East and local communities on counter-radicalization efforts.
 * Katulis et al 14** (Brian, 9/10, senior fellow at the center for American progress, “Defeating ISIS: An Integrated Strategy to Advance Middle East Stability”, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/report/2014/09/10/96739/defeating-isis-an-integrated-strategy-to-advance-middle-east-stability/)//cc

ISIS wmd attack cause extinction
// The head of the nation’s chemical defense program warned that the nation faces “an // // AND // our first responders and medical personnel are ready to respond,” she said.
 * Straub 15** /23 March 2015, Bill Straub is a Washington freelancer and a former White House correspondent for Scripps Howard News Service, ‘Important Time’ to Prep Country for Chemical Weapons Attacks, [], spark/

Our methodology is sound – ISIS threat is evaluated through a variety of governmental and academic sources
// The Department of State prepared this report using info rmation from U.S. embassies // // AND // // guiding principle was that all information be reported // objectively, thoroughly, and fairly //
 * Eisenbraun et al 14** - chief editor for the US Dept. of State Report on Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2014 (Stephen, “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2014”, US Department of State, http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/236536.pdf)//WK//

Russia and allied forces are militarizing now and will lead to conflict – rationality can’t check - NATO cohesion is failing and financial constraint incentivizes first strike
// The start of the Ukraine crisis caused Russia’s Baltic neighbors to declare //all previous measures AND// to the rebels in the Donbas, which the West believes is happening.
 * Kureev 6/29** – staff writer @ Russia Direct (Artem Kureev, 6/29/15, “Does Europe need a new arms race?,” http://www.russia-direct.org/opinion/does-europe-need-new-arms-race)//twemchen//

Renewed US-Europe cooperation is __vital__ to project a __unified front__ in the face of Russian aggression – it’s in their common interest
"We lived next to Russia for 500 years—listen to what we have AND  state the obvious, policy prescriptions often get foggy without a clear strategy.
 * Cohen 6/25** (Ariel, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Global Energy Center and the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, He is also Director of the Center for Energy, Natural Resources and Geopolitics at the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security and Principal of International Market Analysis Ltd, 2015, “Hey, Remember Me? It’s Europe. The Transatlantic Alliance is in Trouble” [] )//cc

The threat of nuclear conflict is real – Russia’s spoiling for a fight – a credible and unified deterrent is key
// Tension s //continues to ramp up //**__between Russia and the U__** nited S tates, as //geopolitical manoeuvers// AND , one can only hope that this verdict turns out to be accurate.
 * Morris 6/27** – staff writer at the Valuewalk (Christopher Morris, 6/27/15, “Russia And NATO Prepare For Possible War,” http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/06/russia-and-nato-prepare-for-possible-war/)//twemchen//

Even if there’s no direct intentional conflict, increasing tension makes nuclear miscalc likely - err on the side of caution
***We don’t endorse the ableist language** Farmer and Bradshaw 15** – Defense Correspondent at The Daily Telegraph, citing General Sir Adrian Bradshaw, Deputy Commander of NATO Forces in Europe, and former Director of British Special Forces, and Michael Fallon, British Secretary of State for Defence (“NATO general: Russia tensions could escalate into all-out war,” Business Insider, 2-20-2015, [] )//twemchen// // Tensions with Russia could blow up into //all-out conflict//, posing “an AND I believe we will find a way to react to Mr Secretary's statements."

Curtailing embassy surveillance is __critical__ to US-India relations – perceived as undermining its sovereignty
// The US N ational S ecurity A gency may have accessed computers //within the Indian embassy //**__in Washington__**// //**__AND__**// // same way as India "are generally //seen as adversarial"// by Washington.
 * Burke 13** – south Asia correspondent for the Guardian (Jason Burke, 9/25/13, “NSA spied on Indian embassy and UN mission, Edward Snowden files reveal” http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/25/nsa-surveillance-indian-embassy-un-mission)//twemchen//

US-India cooperation key to a host of issues
//**__The most obvious opportunity for the United States in the twenty-first century is__**// //**__AND__**// ties should be the top foreign-policy priority// **__of the next administration.__**
 * Miller 12**, PhD in International Relations, a former officer in the U.S. intelligence community and veteran of the war in Afghanistan, (Paul, “American Grand Strategy and the Democratic Peace,” Taylor and Francis Online, Survival 54:2 (2012), pp. 49-76.)//IB//

China will react to revitalized US-India relations by re-posturing to form relations with its neighboring countries – this alleviates anti-American sentiment while stabilizing central Asia
With the “pivot to Asia”, in sum, the Obama administration has demonstrated AND
 * Trang 13** - research fellow at the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (Le Thuy, “The (continued) need for American Pivot to Asia,” http://southchinaseastudies.org/en/publications/vietnamese-publications/863-the-continued-need-for-american-qpivot-to-asiaq)
 * __similar direction__** if the door of engagement is simultaneously kept open for Beijing.

Indo-Sino relations ease tension and de-escalates arms race – Pivot is key
In the kaleidoscopic world of power politics in Asia, the United States' pivot to AND
 * Gady 13** Franz-Stefan Gady, (military analyst and world affairs commentator), 3/18/13, Huffington Post, "consequences of obama's asia pivot," []
 * __of a deadlocked alliance -- little growth of both Indian and Chinese power.__**

Indo-Sino arms-race turns Asia into a nuclear playground – erupts hotspots in South China Sea, North Korea, and Pakistan
on potentially vulnerable overseas trade: that creates the conditions for heightened insecurity.
 * Sullivan 10** – research fellow @ AEI Tim Sullivan, research fellow and program manager at the American Enterprise Institutes Centre for Defence Studies. “The next nuclear arms race”. Pakistan Observer. 9/29/10. Lexis.
 * __India and Pakistan are the two countries most likely to engage in nuclear war or__**
 * __AND__**

=embassies v. 2=

Snowden’s leak exposed secret US surveillance of foreign ambassadors at US embassies – this caused massive backlash to US surveillance policy
//**__US intelligence services are spying on the European Union mission in New York and its__**// //**__AND__**// // . **__The 2010 document describes the operation as "close access__**// **__domestic collection//".__**
 * MacAskill and Borger 13** (Ewen is the Guardians defense and intelligence correspondent, previously the DC bureau chief and diplomatic editor and Julian is the Guardians diplomatic editor and author of The Butchers Trail, 6/30, “New NSA leaks show how US is bugging its European allies”, [] )//cc//

This surveillance serves no national security purpose – it’s being done exclusively to eavesdrop
The New York Times revealed that the NSA monitored an American law firm representing a AND
 * CoE 15** (Council of Europe Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights. “Mass Surveillance”. 26 January 2015. https://ccdcoe.org/sites/default/files/documents/CoE-150126-MassSurveillance.pdf)//JuneC//
 * __the contention that the purpose of surveillance is the protection of //national security//.__**

====The largest impact has been in Europe – US surveillance of personnel at our embassies undermines US-EU cooperation on a host of issues – even when cooperation happens, a chilling effect makes it ineffective==== this storm and it will be business as usual to a great degree.
 * EUCE 14** (European Union Center of North Carolina “The NSA Leaks and Transatlantic Relations”. EUCE. 4 July 2014. http://europe.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Brief_1407.pdf)//JuneC//
 * __The diplomatic fallout has been limited, but Snowden's revelations have impacted relations on a__**
 * __AND__**

Embassy spying is perceptually the worst form of surveillance – Aff’s curtailment sends a __symbolic signal__ that rebuilds trust and emboldens counter-terror efforts
//will be better to offer symbolic reforms to curb the NSA’s perceived excesses.//
 * EUCE 14** (European Union Center of North Carolina “The NSA Leaks and Transatlantic Relations”. EUCE. 4 July 2014. http://europe.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Brief_1407.pdf)//JuneC//
 * __In diplomatic terms, there is likely to be a symbolic push for a formal__**
 * __AND__**

Failure to reverse status quo embassy spying spills over by generating friction on the overall transatlantic relationship
B. European Union. Traditionally, strong diplomatic and intelligence sharing relations hips with members AND standards of privacy and data protection will diminish American and European Union security.
 * Young 14** – Senior VP and Chief Strategy Officer of National Security Parnters, LLC, served as the Executive Director for the Directorate of Plans and Policya t the United States Cyber Command, and as a senior leader at the NSA (Mark Young, Summer 2014, “National Insecurity: The Impacts of Illegal Disclosures of Classified Information,” 10 ISJLP 367, Lexis)//twemchen

Renewed US-EU relations is __vital__ to project a __unified front__ in the face of Russian aggression
"We lived next to Russia for 500 years—listen to what we have AND  state the obvious, policy prescriptions often get foggy without a clear strategy.
 * Cohen 6/25** (Ariel, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Global Energy Center and the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, He is also Director of the Center for Energy, Natural Resources and Geopolitics at the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security and Principal of International Market Analysis Ltd, 2015, “Hey, Remember Me? It’s Europe. The Transatlantic Alliance is in Trouble” [] )//cc

The threat of nuclear conflict is real – Russia’s spoiling for a fight – a credible and unified deterrent is key
// Tension s //continues to ramp up //**__between Russia and the U__** nited S tates, as //geopolitical manoeuvers// AND , one can only hope that this verdict turns out to be accurate.
 * Morris 6/27** – staff writer at the Valuewalk (Christopher Morris, 6/27/15, “Russia And NATO Prepare For Possible War,” http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/06/russia-and-nato-prepare-for-possible-war/)//twemchen//

Even if there’s no direct intentional conflict, increasing tension makes nuclear miscalc likely - err on the side of caution
***We don’t endorse the ableist language** Farmer and Bradshaw 15** – Defense Correspondent at The Daily Telegraph, citing General Sir Adrian Bradshaw, Deputy Commander of NATO Forces in Europe, and former Director of British Special Forces, and Michael Fallon, British Secretary of State for Defence (“NATO general: Russia tensions could escalate into all-out war,” Business Insider, 2-20-2015, [] )//twemchen// // Tensions with Russia could blow up into //all-out conflict//, posing “an // AND// I believe we will find a way to react to Mr Secretary's statements."

Reports of NSA spying in the United States’ Paris embassy __a couple days ago__ reignited friction and threatens trust – the aff’s reverses that
PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama reaffirmed in a AND the future of the European Union, ties between Hollande's administration and Merkel's government
 * Irish and Pineau 6/24** (John is a correspondent at Reuters and Elizabeth is a journalist at Reuters, the worlds’ largest multimedia news agency, 2015, “Obama reassures France after 'unacceptable' NSA spying”, [] )//cc

This chills US-French cooperation on sensitive info sharing – overwhelms the formal status of relations
But the scope of the damage the Americans have inflicted so far is still only AND use them to play loud lounge music, hoping to confuse unwelcome listeners.
 * Spiegel 14** – German news thing (7/14/14, “Germany Prepares Further Spying Clampdown,” Lexis)//twemchen

US-French cooperation on Space Situational Awareness now - Unhindered __classified data-sharing__ is key
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – **__U.S. Strategic Command and the French__** , commander of U.S. Strategic Command said in a statement.
 * Gruss 4/16** (Mike. Mike Gruss covers military space issues, including the U.S. Air Force and Missile Defense Agency, for SpaceNews. “U.S., France Expand Space Data-sharing Agreement”. 16 April 2015. Space News. http://spacenews.com/us-france-expand-space-data-sharing-agreement)//JuneC//
 * __AND__**

France is crucial – only country with necessary tech
Observation **__The domain of observation plays a key role in our capability of autonomous evaluation__** several countries, itself based on real confidence between each of the partners.
 * Collet-Billon 9** (Laurent. heads the DGA, France’s armaments agency. “New trends in defence aerospace”. 2009. http://www.diploweb.com/New-trends-in-defence-aerospace.html)//JuneC//
 * __AND__**

SSA’s detection systems avoid inevitable space debris and Russia/China ASAT attacks
Beneath George Clooney’s steely gaze, the crisis at the heart of the 2013 movie AND land and sea, the still skies above us run deep, too.
 * Brown 5/2** (James. is the director of the Alliance 21 program at the US studies centre, University of Sydney. “The new Space Race”. The Saturday Paper. 2 May 2015. https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2015/05/02/the-new-space-race/14304888001824#.VZA1gRNViko)//JuneC//

Space arms race goes nuclear. Independently, debris collapses communications infrastructure
Weaponization of outer space, mainly Earth’s orbit, has been a controversial matter throughout AND //future conflicts// **__that can cause reverse development of peaceful purposes of Earth’s orbit.__**
 * UCIMUN 15** (“1st Disarmament”. 2015. http://www.socsci.uci.edu/mun/webdocs/2015_Committees/1st%20Disarmament/1st%20Disarmament%20-%20Weaponization%20of%20Space.pdf)//JuneC//

Internet connectivity contains pandemics and natural disasters – prevents civilization collapse
Many great civilisations have fallen, leaving nothing but cracked ruins and scattered genetics. AND to suggest that the net may just be the technology that saves us.
 * Eagleman, 10** - American neuroscientist and writer at Baylor College of Medicine, where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action and the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law (David, “Six ways the internet will save civilization” Wired, 9/10, []

Relations key to __cooperation__ over Iraq - France and US bilaterally command sensitive missions
// Facing the National Assembly, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls asked the U nited S tates to // AND// said Stephane Le Foll, the government's spokesman after a weekly cabinet meeting.
 * China Daily 6/25** – China Daily European Edition (China Daily European Edition, 6/25/15, “What’s after WikiLeaks revelations of NSA spying on Paris?” Lexis)//twemchen//

This is critical to preventing a complete Iraq collapse
The spokesman, who under French rules speaks anonymously, said Chirac "confirmed that AND  The world works better when America and Europe work together," he said.
 * Wright and Richburg 5** – staff writers at Washington Post (Robin Wright and Keith Richburg, 2/9/5, “Rice Reaches Out to Europe; Paris Speech Urges 'New Chapter' in U.S. Alliance,” Wash Post, Lexis)//twemchen

Iraq’s counterbalancing force is key to Middle east stability – Iraq collapse turns the region into a nuclear hotspot
The **__Middle East conflict is unparalleled in terms of__** its **__potential for spreading globally__**. AND seems that President Obama’s position does not completely rule out such a possibility.
 * Primakov 9** (Yevgeny, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Russian Federation, Member – Russian Academy of Science, “The Middle East Problem in the Context of International Relations”, Russia in Global Affairs, 3, July/September, http://eng.globalaffairs.ru/number/n_13593)//twemchen

This distracts allied forces and allows rising powers to pursue their own expansionist goals - leads to world war
AND = = =insiders=
 * Corsi 7** (Jerome, Ph.D. in Political Science – Harvard University, Staff Reporter – World Net Daily, “War with Iran is imminent”, 1-8, http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53669)//twemchen
 * __If a broader war breaks out in Iraq__**, Olmert will certainly face pressure to
 * __a third world war__**, much as World Wars I and II began.

The United States federal government should substantially curtail its domestic surveillance conducted under the National Insider Threat Policy.
====The United States federal government should substantially curtail its domestic surveillance of its federal employee activities on United States Government networks and federal personnel background information.====

FDA is conspiring with “Big Pharma” – corruption guts credibility and tolerates abuse
Do you read the labels of food and drugs to know exactly what you're getting AND ? Are you still willing to have the FDA to safeguard your health?
 * Mercola 11** - world-renowned physician and multiple New York Times bestselling author (Mercola, Dr. Joseph; The FDA exposed; mercola.com; no date; 08/07/15; []) JG

Whistleblowers are key to pressure the FDA to cut its ties with Big Pharma – Inside information channels public pressure towards specific instances of corruption

 * Mercola 13** - world-renowned physician and multiple New York Times bestselling author (08/13/12; Mercola, Dr. Joseph; Shocking Story Reveals How the FDA Is Recklessly Abandoning Drug Safety; mercola.com; no date; 08/08/15; []) JG
 * __In the wake of shocking reports on how the FDA, terrified of being outed__**
 * __AND__**
 * __simply copy and paste whatever claims the company made in the summary document."__**

Global food crunch is coming now – drives food insecurity

 * Strasser 14** --- Senior Editor of ThinkProgress (4/21/2014, Annie-Rose, “The New, Innovative And More Efficient Way Of Feeding People,” [])

Don Kent, President of the Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute, was standing in the seafood aisle of a Whole Foods in the affluent San Diego neighborhood of La Jolla recently when he took out his phone and snapped a photo of a fresh-looking branzino. “Branzino is European sea bass,” Kent explained. “It’s grown in the Mediterranean. And it’s flown 6,900 miles from Greece to here and then it’s put on ice in La Jolla.” Kent, whose organization studies the intersection of nature and human activity and offers solutions on how the two can co-exist, is one of the people who believes there’s a different way to approach how we get our protein here in the //U// nited //S// tates. He insists that there’s a new, innovative, and more efficient method of feeding people — not just in La Jolla, but all over the world. Aquaculture. Or, as it’s known to most people, fish farming. “We spend 130 million dollars a year on air freight for the 300,000 metric tons of salmon that get flown into the U.S. from Chile. Think of the carbon footprint associated with that,” he says. “There’s absolutely no reason why that brazino shouldn’t be a white sea bass grown three miles off the coast. And then imagine the carbon footprint that’s saved in doing that.” What, exactly, is aquaculture? The basic idea is that you’re farming aquatic life. The specifics, however, vary quite a bit. In the case of fish, eggs are fostered into small fish at a hatchery, raised for food, and farmed whenever they’re needed. The fish can be raised in tanks or in net pens, in fresh water, off the coast, or out in the open ocean. And fish are just one kind of aquaculture; a similar process is utilized to farm shellfish — like mussels or oysters — and for seaweeds. Aquaculture right now is in an age of innovation. The advent of indoor tank farming is one promising way fish farming could grow. Another would be going out into the open ocean and dropping fish in large, globe-shaped aquapods down below the surface. “Open-ocean aquaculture is one of the emerging frontiers,” says Michael Rubino, Director of the Aquaculture Office at the //N// ational //O// ceanic and //A// tmospheric //A// dministration. “There’s not much of it yet but we have crowded coastlines, we have coastlines that have a lot of new trees and they’re shallow, or they’re multiple uses, so some people think that going further offshore, you avoid those multiple use conflicts and get a more stable environment.” Attempts to take aquaculture offshore include building farms off of decommissioned oil rigs. Farmers also hope it can help them to farm in rougher waters where weather events like hurricanes might get in the way. Some aquaculture groups even hope that there is a way to fuse offshore farms with renewable energy projects. Spend just a few minutes reading news about agriculture and climate change these days, and you’ll understand what’s driving people to consider scaling up aquaculture : The latest report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tells us //we’re headed toward a “breakdown of food systems linked to warming, drought, flooding, and precipitation variability and extremes.”// Studies come out every week, practically, that say drought threatens our supply of key grains like wheat, corn, and rice. The warming globe is even slowing down cows’ production of milk. And not only is our food on the fritz, but it’s causing a lot of the problems that seem to be leading to its own demise. Cows, a growing source of protein here in the United States, are major emitters of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Meat production is also a serious drain on other resources: A quarter pound of hamburger meat uses up 6.7 pounds of grains and 52.8 gallons of water. We’re paying a high price to get our protein, and all the while our population is growing at a breakneck speed. There are a lot of hungry mouths to feed. The United Nations has urged “a substantial worldwide diet change, away from animal products” altogether. But aquaculture might be a good stepping stone. “Overall, if we’re going to if we’re going to adequately nourish the increasing number of billions of people on this planet continue to consume the amount of seafood we consume — or put more apocalyptically, //if we’re going to adequately nourish the increasing number of billions of people on this planet// ,” Michael Conathan, Director of Ocean Policy at the Center for American Progress, told ThinkProgress, //“more and more protein is going to have to come from aquaculture.”// Experts say there are myriad reasons why the world can and should shift toward getting more of its sustenance from aquaculture. For one thing, it can be much more efficient than the status quo. “The thing about aquaculture is that from a resource efficiency perspective it’s one of //the most resource-efficient ways to produce protein// in terms of the amount of food and the amount of space it takes,” says NOAA’s Rubino. “Far more than land animals. You’re not using fresh water [to grow crops to feed land animals], and the feed conversion of fish is roughly one to one — one pound of food for one pound of flesh — as opposed to pork or beef where it’s seven or //ten to one// … So //from an environmental footprint perspective, it’s very efficient//. You can also grow a lot of fish in a very small space. They don’t need a lot of space whether it’s a pond or a tank, as opposed to grazing land or all the corn or soybeans that it takes to feed animals.” As it stands now, 40 percent of the non-water surface of earth is used for agriculture. A whopping 30 percent of land that’s not covered in ice is being used not to feed us directly, but to feed the things that feed us, namely chickens, cows, and pigs. One of the effects of this is that agriculture is //driving massive deforestation//.

FDA credibility is key – sets up a global framework for sustainable biotech-based aquaculture
OPPORTUNITIES FOR INTERNATIONAL BIOTECHNOLOGY COOPERATION The U nited S tates has been an //important leader// in promoting AND can help humanity avoid being seduced by the dim light of technological stagnation.
 * Jurma 11** (Calestous Juma, PhD Professor of the Practice of International Development Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Universit Testimony to the US House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Research, Biotechnology and Foreign Agriculture, June 23, 2011, pg online @ [])

Food insecurity is highly probable – escalates to global war
There is a //growing appreciation// that the conflicts in the next century will //most likely// AND //identify// famine as a potential trigger for conflicts and possibly even //nuclear war//.
 * FDI 12**, Future Directions International, a Research institute providing strategic analysis of Australia’s global interests; citing Lindsay Falvery, PhD in Agricultural Science and former Professor at the University of Melbourne’s Institute of Land and Environment, “Food and Water Insecurity: International Conflict Triggers & Potential Conflict Points,” http://www.futuredirections.org.au/workshop-papers/537-international-conflict-triggers-and-potential-conflict-points-resulting-from-food-and-water-insecurity.html

FDA is supporting marijuana research under its approval process now but refuses to take a stance - whistleblowers are essential to trigger a concrete response towards legalization
Looking for Treatment **__The FDA understands that caregivers and patients are looking for treatment options__** its derivatives to ensure that their plans meet federal requirements and scientific standards.
 * FDA 6/13** - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration; (06/13/15; FDA and Marijuana; www.fda.gov; Protecting and Promoting Your Health; [|www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/PublicHealthFocus/ucm421163.htm]) JG
 * __AND__**

Corporate influence specifically fuels anti-legalization forces within the government
On TV and billboards, the fight against legalizing marijuana is about health, safe AND reflect the people they govern, it’s up to us to fight back.
 * Cohen 14** - the co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream and the founder and head stamper of StampStampede.org, a non-profit dedicated to reducing the corrupting influence of money in politics (Cohen, Ben; Dec. 8, 2014; Who's Really Fighting Legal Weed; US News; 07/13/15; .www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/12/08/pot-legalization-opponents-aim-to-protect-their-bottom-line) JG

Prohibition drives cartel violence - artificially high prices sustain criminal enterprises and allow them to proliferate
The U.S. Office of Drug Control Policy (more commonly known as AND  The only way to reduce violence, therefore, is to legalize drugs.”
 * Armentano 9**, Deputy Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, an expert in the field of marijuana policy, health, and pharmacology, has served as a consultant for Health Canada and the Canadian Public Health Association, “How to End Mexico's Deadly Drug War”, 1/18/09, The Foundation for Economic Education, http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/how-to-end-mexicos-deadly-drug-war

Legalizing marijuana is the only way to weaken cartels
Instead, we have to face up to the hard reasons why thousands of young AND really want to hand them another trillion dollars over the next three decades?
 * Grillo 12** [Ioan, 11-1. Grillo is a journalist and author of “El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency.” Hit Mexico’s Cartels With Legalization. [] 7/12]//kmc

Hezbollah and cartels are currently cooperating to against the US – all current strategies fail
In Mexico, Hezbollah’s operations include drug and human trafficking and providing explosives and tunneling AND operatives and cocaine smugglers throughout the hemisphere and right up to our border”
 * Costine 14** Kenneth Costine is an analyst within with in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and assists in the development and validation of reporting requirements and information gathering strategies, August 2014, “Hezbollah and the Mexican Connection”, http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kenneth_Costine/publication/268226249_Hezzbollah_and_the_Mexican_Connection/links/5466e1b20cf2397f7829e6fa.pdf

Successful Hezbollah WMD attack ends in annihilation
In order to understand the threat Hezbollah poses it is important to understand the regional AND
 * Farah 11** [Douglas. Senior Fellow at the Intl Assessment and Strategy Center. President of IBI Consultants. “Hezbollah in Latin America: Implications for US Security” Testimony of Douglas Farah before the US House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security. July 2011. ln]
 * __ultimately will cost U.S. lives, including possibly terrorist attacks.__**

Hezbollah is a real threat – has nuclear, chemical, and biological WMDs – our methodology is credible
- [1] The Black Six pathogens are anthrax, botulinum, plague, smallpox, tularemia, and viral hemorrhagic fever(s). provocative today, could readily become reality tomorrow if not stopped in time.
 * Gordon 14** [ Jeff - Sr. Vice President of World Encounter Institute and Sr. Editor for the New English Review. He is a former Army Intelligence officer who served during the Vietnam era. “ISIS Poses Potential Bio-Threat — But Not Equal to al Qaeda or Hezbollah”, Drrichswier.com, 9/04/14, []] Schuler 16
 * __We contacted noted Bio-Warfare (BW) expert, Dr. Jill Bellamy__**
 * __AND__**

The Insider Threat Program criminalizes the work space and creates a chilling effect
On October 7, 2011 President Obama released Executive order 13587, presenting a program AND the information passed along to the media by whistleblowers like Manning and Snowden.
 * Kuvach 13** - Writing Fellow at Hampshire College, Research intern, Published research on corporate codes of conduct in Pakistan and The Philippines in Verité’s 2011 global update on 27 emerging market countries, Researched key aspects of country labor laws relating to standard corporate codes of conduct in Pakistan and The Philippines, including: child labor, freedom of association and collective bargaining, contract labor, wages and benefits, Edited 2010 report on corporate codes of conduct in Pakistan and The Philippines (Kyla, “’Insider Threat’ program promotes spying on colleagues,” July 2, 2013 []

That spills-over – crushes free-thinking, and encourages a federal groupthink throughout the government
Even before a former U.S. intelligence contractor exposed the secret collection of AND violent acts against the government or the nation” and “potential espionage.”
 * Taylor and Landay 13** (MARISA, Investigative Reporter, McClatchy Washington Bureau, Jonathan, @McClatchyDC National Security Correspondent, June 20, 2013, “Obama’s crackdown views leaks as aiding enemies of U.S,” mcclatchydc, [], Accessed: July 7, 2015, YDEL)

Groupthink within the intelligence apparatus is especially devastating – ensures serial policy failure and miscalc in foreign policies
AMY GOODMAN: Can you tell us who Ilana Greenstein is? JONATHAN LANDAY: AND or abuse, and being retaliated against rather than having their concerns addressed.
 * Maté, Goodman, and Landay 13** (AARON, ,an independent journalist and as a researcher for the author and journalist Naomi Klein.. His writings have appeared in publications including the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, and the Guardian of London. B.A. in Communication Studies from Concordia University Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard honored Goodman with the 2014 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence Lifetime Achievement Award. She is also the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize' for the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media.” She is the first co-recipient of the Park Center for Independent Media’s Izzy Award, named for the great muckraking journalist I.F. Stone. Goodman has received the American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Award; the Paley Center for Media’s She’s Made It Award; and the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship.. She has also received awards from the Associated Press, United Press International, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Project Censored. S “Insider Threat: Government Employees Urged to Tattle On Coworkers in Effort to Stop Classified Leaks,” Democracy Now, JUNE 25, 2013, [], Accessed: July 8, 2015, YDEL)

And, a failure to protect individual dissenters results in a rogue Executive that collapses effective foreign policy
// The attack line against whistleblowers Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden – that they should have // // AND // // and the media defer to authorized sources, //we will need courageous whistleblowers//.
 * Goodman 13** (Melvin, PhD, former CIA Analyst, adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University, former professor of international relations at the National War College, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, “The Need for National Security Leaks,” pg online @ https://consortiumnews.com/2013/06/19/the-need-for-national-security-leaks/ //um-ef)//

Lack of executive transparency, oversight, and accountability makes the risk of nuclear conflict high
Nov. 17 — //“A symbiotic pathology between Executive overreach and Congressional abdication// ,” identified AND based on cooperation around high-technology development could be put in place.
 * Spannaus 14** – Editor at the Executive Intelligence Review News Service. Mrs. Spannaus has written a book on The Political Economy of the American Revolution, and countless articles. (11/21/2014, Nancy, “A ‘Symbiotic Pathology’ Threatens U.S. Survival”, Executive Intelligence Review National, [|http://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2014/eirv41n46-20141121/09-11_4146.pdf //] SM)

====Groupthink is especially true in context of Russia foreign policy – Cold War paranoia and McCarthyism proves credible concern for a new propagandized red scare - ceding power to the war hawks leads to US-Russia conflict and extinction==== Exclusive: America and Russia have two nearly opposite narratives on Ukraine, which is AND nuclear showdown over Ukraine that could put all life on earth in jeopardy.
 * Parry 15** (Robert, an American investigative journalist best known for his role in covering the Iran-Contra affair for the Associated Press (AP) and Newsweek, including breaking the Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare (CIA manual provided to the Nicaraguan contras) and the CIA and Contras cocaine trafficking in the US scandal in 1985. He was awarded the George Polk Award for National Reporting in 1984. He has been the editor of Consortium News since 1995, February 6, 2015, “Nuclear War and Clashing Ukraine Narratives,” Consortium News, [], Accessed: July 13, 2015, YDEL)

Tensions are high now – both sides are rapidly militarizing in fear of each other
AND , one can only hope that this verdict turns out to be accurate.
 * Morris 6/27** – staff writer at the Valuewalk (Christopher Morris, 6/27/15, “Russia And NATO Prepare For Possible War,” http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/06/russia-and-nato-prepare-for-possible-war/)//twemchen
 * __Tensions continues to ramp up between Russia and the U__** nited States, as geopolitical manoeuvers

Escalation is likely – both sides pushing for a quick victory
// The start of the Ukraine crisis caused Russia’s Baltic neighbors to declare //all previous measures AND// to the rebels in the Donbas, which the West believes is happening.
 * Kureev 6/29** – staff writer @ Russia Direct (Artem Kureev, 6/29/15, “Does Europe need a new arms race?,” http://www.russia-direct.org/opinion/does-europe-need-new-arms-race)//twemchen//

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