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Interesting box, but there's a slight issue with your virology.
H and N refer to the proteins hemagglutinin and neuraminidase. Therefore, a H1N1 strain expresses hemagglutinin antigen 1, and neuraminidase antigen 1.
Haemagglutinin is responsible for a viron attaching to a human cell surface, and neuraminidase essentially cleaves open the cell after viral replication, allowing for progeny to be released. Now, neuraminidase inhibition is a key development and is the primary mechanism for antiviral drugs targeting influenza viruses. Therefore, it makes sense that a bioterrorist group would be interested in changing out the neuraminidase protein for some other protein with a similar function that is not inhibited by antiviral drugs.
My question is, did you have this in mind?
Two things...
Why would WFP and Labor be separate? And isn't Elise Stefanik pretty Tea-Party-ish?
Labor in this TL Universe are more Left-Far Left socialists (with a minor but strong Marxist Caucus), while the working families IOTL and here are More Center-Left/progressive and are usually coalition partners with the Democrats, while the Democrats refuse to Coalition with Labor.
And with Elise Stefanik, she's more of your typical Right Wing Republican, I wouldn't classify her as Tea Party-ish.
Zephyr Teachout isn't a Marxist, she'd be much closer to the Labor or Green parties.
Labor isn't all marxist, All I said was that there was a minor marxist group inside this Labor Party.
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (3 April 1925– 11 November 2013) was British politician who served as the 2nd and penultimate Chairman of the Executive Council of the Organised Containment and Neutralization Alliance (OCANA) from 1983 to 1994, and Minister of Supply from 1971 until the dissolution of OCANA in 1995. Benn was known to his friends and allies as 'Wedgie', and later by the International Community as the 'Beast of Bristol' due to his actions during the OCANA War. He ascended to the Leadership of the Democratic Unionist Party and thus OCANA following the death of his mentor, Harold Wilson, coming to prominence due to his work as Minister of State for Agriculture and Livestock in combating foot-and-mouth disease, and later as Minister of Supply, selected by the Executive Committee over Peter Shore and Geir Hallgrímsson, emerging from the reformist wing of the Executive.
Born to a privileged background as son of a Liberal backbencher, Benn would be educated at the prestigious Westminster School and later Oxford, before traveling to Germany to fight with the International Brigades during the Civil War. Returning to England shorty after the end of the Second German Civil War, Benn would marry the Scottish Unionist Politician Winifred Woodburn in 1953, the couple having three children before their separation in 1978. He would also follow in his fathers footsteps and enter Politics, joining the Liberal Party and winning the Bristol North Constituency in the 1954 General Election. Following the seizure of Poland at the beginning of The Atomic War, Benn would be one of a few dozen MP's to enter Military service, enlisting in the Kings Rifles and seeing combat on the Battle of the Jutland Peninsula and the Retreat from Frankfurt. Returning to Parliament following the uneasy peace, Benn would become one of the driving forces behind the formation of the Democratic Labour, and later the Democratic Unionists, becoming a key ally for Harold Wilson in the Liberal faction of the DL and later DUP. Following the downfall of Thomas Driberg, Benn would be promoted to the Cabinet as a Junior Minister and then as Minister proper, Wilson grooming him to become his successor. Following Wilson's sudden death in 1983, Benn would be promoted to Chairman of the Executive Committee.
Benn's time as Chairman would be marked as a period of stagnation and decline, with to Benn often fighting with his Cabinet and the Executive over the contents of the Five Year Plan, wanting to move away from the Bevanite Doctrine and modernize, as well as end the cycle of purges and bring some semblance of liberalization to OCANA. It would not be until the official announcement of Harold Wilson's death in 1990 that Benn would be able to exert the same control as his mentor over the Executive, however by then his position had become intangible as OCANA rapidly dissolved. The ensuring conflict, the OCANA War, would see Benn fight to control the state, with the Party apparatus having broken down in the countryside and rural regions, resulting in dissidence on nearly every levels of the local parties stationed in these regions. In the ensuring Civil War, Benn would struggle to keep control of OCANA, forced to abandon Iceland and later Ireland. During this period, it is believed that Benn issued shoot-on-sight orders regarding refugees and POW's; he would later be indicted by a War Tribunal in Winchester for these alleged orders. Benn would resign from his position as Chairman following the UN intervention and subsequent cease fire, arrest shortly after with OCANA officially dissolved. Following a lengthy trial, in 2004 Benn would be found guilty of 21 of 32 charges of War Crimes, sentenced to a life imprisonment in Wandsworth Prison where he would ultimetly die.
Notably, Benn would be one of the few diarists in the OCANA Goverment, using his position to keep a personal diary of several dozen volumes. These diaries would prove a great deal of insight into the workings of the OCANA Goverment, and would help convict Benn and his fellow officials at the Winchester Trial, due to their survival whilst traditional Governmental archives were destroyed. His son, James Benn, would later publish the diaries, hoping to change public perception of his late father. Benn remains a divisive figure, with many viewing him as a perpetrator of atrocities and War Criminal, whilst others view him as an honest reformist who wanted to bring greater liberties back to OCANA.
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Harold Wilson
George Wallace was a Supreme Court Justice and a long time fixture of Democratic and Coalition politics. First becoming a small time judge in 1952, Wallace was regarded as about as moderate a Democrat could be in Alabama and still be popular. After becoming known in Democratic circles from his working class demeanor and attention towards poor whites, he was appointed as Attorney General part of a deal in the floor of congress to reelect ALP President Hubert Humphrey (after initially being appointed as an temporary placeholder during the acting first James Crawford presidency.) Coming into constant friction with Humphrey for his views on segregation (which Wallace still supported if only on more of a states' rights basis) it was no surprise that the President went around him to secure civil rights. Angered, Wallace actively campaigned against the ALP in 1964, focusing on states rights' and hard line anti-communism.
For his efforts, he was rewarded by a victorious James Crawford after the House contingent election in 1964. Despite the about turn on civil rights the Democrats were to make, Wallace's change was much slower, only announcing his support for the new status quo years later, in 1972. Despite the Democratic Party's landslide loss in 1968 (only registering 13% of the national popular vote), Wallace was key to the negotiations in the House that elected John McKeithen, and was reappointed as part of a deal again. Wallace started to eye a more permanent position, if another election was to end up not in his favor. He eventually did get what he wanted, a promised position on the Supreme Court.
Being appointed by Coalition President John Connally, Wallace carved out a niche for himself as an outspoken voice on the court for conservative ideology, only breaking left on some labor issues. He drew a sharp contrast with other more left leaning judges appointed by the ALP administration, and frequently found himself in the minority. However it would only be with the ascension of Matthew Cohle to the presidency that Wallace really showed his colors. Giving hundreds of pages of dissents against Cohle and the ALP's polices, like Mutualiztaion, the DSPFL, and most notably NAWPA, he only aligned with Cohle's anti-communism, and once held up a picture of Cohle and a copy of George Orwell's 1984, comparing him to Big Brother. Wallace did not, however, live to see Cohle's second term. He was slain by a gunman on the steps of the Supreme Court in 1988. Despite his high public profile, Wallace only ran for elected office once, in a failed bid for Alabama governor in 1958.
(This was from the Shared Worlds game Split The Vote, where I role played George Wallace)
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