Tournament: Sunvite | Round: 1 | Opponent: x | Judge: x
Jeff Nesbit. May 02, 2013 http://www.livescience.com/29287-is-china-mining-a-rare-earth-monopoly-op-ed.html

EPA Document-908R11003. Justin Paul and Gwenette Campbell. “Investigating Rare Earth Element Mine Development in EPA Region 8 and Potential Environmental Impacts.”

March 2010 Annual Meeting of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration. James Kennedy, president of Wings Enterprises.

Precision Guided Weapons Aim for Increased War Impact
ACI Technologies

Thomas P.M. Barnett, chief analyst, Wikistrat, “The New Rules: Leadership Fatigue Puts U.S. and Globalization, at Crossroads,” WORLD POLITICS REVIEW, 3—7—11,

Tournament: Sunvitational RR | Round: 1 | Opponent: Daisy Massey | Judge: Emily Massey
Explanation of action by causally prior mental states is impossible. Setiya
Kieran Setiya.  Intention.  SEP Article.
A more subtle … one can do.

Our inner freedom, or our ability to set ends for ourselves, justifies our right to do whatever we want, including resource extraction, on our own land. Ripstein
Arthur Ripstein. Force and Freedom. Pg 67
In order to … and setting ends.

He continues
Arthur Ripstein. Force and Freedom. Pg 68
Property is a … persons interact interdependently.

Tournament: Harvard RR | Round: 1 | Opponent: Not sure | Judge: Not sure
Presume neg

Constituitivism

(1) Needed to explain obligations

(2) Necessitated from the meaning of moral language. Geach
Peter T. Geach. "Good and Evil" Also reprinted in Foot, Philippa (ed.) (1967). Theories of Ethics United States: Oxford University Press. pp. 64–73.

The way of referring to an agent determines which constitutive standard is being appealed to. Robertson
Robertson, Teresa, "Essential vs. Accidental Properties", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2008/entries/essential-accidental/.

Standard is acting to increase development

Only intent matters
John McDowell, “Anscombe on Bodily Self-Knowledge,” Essays on Anscombe’s Intention, 146.

Countries intend to develop through resource extraction
A Bhardwaj - ?2002. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07012002-110048/unrestricted/MAJORPAPERFINAL.pdf