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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
WikiLeaks CIA files: Are they
real and are they a risk?
Associated Press
Women go on strike in US to
show their economic clout
PHILADELPHIA — American women stayed home from
work, zipped up their wallets, wore red and joined rallies across
the country to demonstrate their economic clout today as part of
International Women’s Day events around the globe.
The Day Without a Woman protest in the U.S. was put together
by organizers of the vast women’s marches that were held coast-
to-coast the day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
School districts including those in Prince George’s County,
Maryland; Alexandria, Virginia; and Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
canceled classes because so many teachers and other employees
were expected to be out. In Providence, Rhode Island, the munic-
ipal court closed for lack of staff members.
Rallies were planned in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Milwaukee, Washington and Berkeley, California. Some busi-
nesses and institutions said they would either close or give female
employees the day off.
The U.S. event coincided with the U.N.-designated Interna-
tional Women’s Day. Germany’s Lufthansa airline had six all-fe-
male crews flying from several cities in the country to Berlin.
Sweden’s women’s football team replaced the names on the
backs of their jerseys with tweets from Swedish women. Finland
announced a new $160,000 International Gender Equality Prize.
Women also held rallies in Tokyo and Madrid.
Facing strong pushback, GOP
leaders advance health care bill
WASHINGTON — Over the strong objections of key con-
servatives and Democrats, House Republican leaders are forg-
ing ahead with a health care plan that scraps major parts of the
Obama-era overhaul.
The House Ways and Means Committee and the Energy
and Commerce Committee will convene what are expected to
be marathon sessions today to start voting on the legislation.
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence back
the plan to repeal Barack Obama’s health care law, and Speaker
Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is confidently predicting it will pass the
House.
But many fellow Republicans don’t seem to be listening.
On Tuesday, less than 24 hours after the GOP health bill was
launched, a powerful conservative backlash threatened to sink it.
“As the bill stands today, it is Obamacare 2.0,” according to
a statement by the billionaire Koch Brothers’-backed Americans
for Prosperity and FreedomWorks groups. “Passing it would
be making the same mistake that President Obama, Harry Reid
and Nancy Pelosi made in 2010. Millions of Americans would
never see the improvements in care they were promised, just as
Obamacare failed to deliver on its promises.”
Lawmakers eye homeowner tax
breaks for Oregon budget fix
SALEM — Faced with an estimated $1.6 billion-deficit in
the upcoming two-year budget cycle, policymakers in Salem are
looking to potentially boost the state’s revenue stream directly
from Oregon homeowners.
State lawmakers are hosting debates this week on two pro-
posals that would reduce or nix entirely the allowable deductions
that some taxpayers can claim from mortgage interest and prop-
erty taxes.
While the state so far hasn’t officially estimated how much
extra revenue might be raised, Jody Wiser, founder of Tax Fair-
ness Oregon, told lawmakers this week her organization recently
calculated that Oregon homeowners were saving $1.9 billion per
biennium from mortgage interest and property tax deductions
and also capital gains-tax exclusions.
“These help people buy bigger homes, but they don’t neces-
sarily help people buy a home,” said Wiser, who supports both
proposals but also acknowledged the changes may be “abrupt”
for those who’d be dually affected by each.
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A woman pushes a stroller past the Grindcore House
restaurant shuttered in solidarity with “A Day Without a
Woman” in Philadelphia today. Organizers of January’s
Women’s March are calling on women to stay home from
work and not spend money in stores or online to show
their impact on American society.
Wiser’s comments were heard during the first debate Tues-
day for House Bill 2771, which would revoke property tax
deductions for the wealthiest Oregon homeowners who earn
at least $125,000 annually, or $250,000-plus when married
and filing jointly. Others may deduct only a percentage of their
property taxes, the rates of which would be determined by
how much income they earn above $50,000, or $100,000 filing
jointly.
Oregon considers making
election ballots free to mail
SALEM — Two Democratic state senators are backing a bill
to provide free postage for Oregon election ballots.
The Statesman Journal reports that Michael Dembrow of
Portland and Richard Devlin of Tualatin pushed the idea Monday
before the Senate Rules Committee.
Oregon is one of three states that conduct elections entirely by
mail, eliminating polling centers.
Providing postage on mail-in ballots would cost taxpayers
about $650,000 per year. Devlin says if the legislation were to
increase voter turnout by even 5 percent, it would be money well
spent.
Voters who want to avoid paying postage already have the
option of taking their ballots to county-designated drop-off sites.
Devlin says those sites are not as numerous or convenient as for-
mer polling places.
The rules committee has not taken action on the bill.
Port of Vancouver votes to
extend oil terminal lease
VANCOUVER, Wash. — The Port of Vancouver has voted
to continue to lease land to Vancouver Energy for its proposed
oil transfer terminal while the evaluation and permitting process
continues.
The Columbian reports that port commissioners voted 2-1 to
continue the lease after a five-hour meeting Tuesday.
Vancouver Energy and supporters said the project deserves to
see the end of the state Energy Site Evaluation Council’s scru-
tiny. Opponents expressed frustration as some have spent years
protesting the terminal.
The project has been caught up in nearly four years of review
by the site evaluation council, which is expected to issue a rec-
ommendation to Gov. Jay Inslee in a few months on whether to
grant the project a permit.
The port has been collecting $100,000 per month in rent on
the vacant site.
WASHINGTON — WikiLeaks has published thousands of
documents that the anti-secrecy organization said were classified
files revealing scores of secrets about CIA hacking tools used to
break into targeted computers, cellphones and even smart TVs.
The CIA and the Trump administration declined to comment
on the authenticity of the files Tuesday, but prior WikiLeaks
releases divulged government secrets maintained by the State
Department, Pentagon and other agencies that have since been
acknowledged as genuine. In another nod to their authenticity,
the chairman of the House intelligence committee, Rep. Devin
Nunes, R-Calif., said he was very concerned about the release
and has sought more information about it.
The hacking tools appeared to exploit vulnerabilities in pop-
ular operating systems for desktop and laptop computers devel-
oped by Microsoft. They also targeted devices that included
Apple’s iPhones and iPads, Google’s Android cellphones, Cisco
routers and Samsung Smart TVs.
Some of the technology firms said they were evaluating the
newly released documents.
Rubble and ash in Mosul museum
retaken from Islamic State
MOSUL, Iraq — The antiquities museum in the Iraqi city of
Mosul is in ruins, with exhibition halls housing piles of rubble
and the basement filled with ankle-deep drifts of ash.
Associated Press reporters were granted rare access to the
museum today after Iraqi forces retook it from the Islamic State
group earlier this week.
They found the jagged remains of what appeared to have been
an ancient Assyrian bull statue and fragments from cuneiform
tablets.
IS captured Mosul in 2014 and released a video the follow-
ing year showing fighters smashing artifacts in the museum with
sledgehammers. The extremists view ancient artifacts as idols.
Iraqi officials at the time said most of what the militants
destroyed were copies, as much of the museum’s inventory had
been moved to Baghdad for safe-keeping.
10 years: No word of ex-FBI man
lost in Iran on CIA job
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Ten years after a former
FBI agent working on an unauthorized CIA mission disappeared
in Iran, his family hopes U.S. President Donald Trump will do
something America’s last two presidents have been unable to
achieve: Finally bring him home.
Robert Levinson’s family told The Associated Press this week
that Trump’s background as a deal-making businessman and his
harder line on Iran could be an asset in finally determining what
happened to the investigator, whose 69th birthday is Friday.
They described the heartbreak of seeing other American pris-
oners in Iran freed while the mystery surrounding his disappear-
ance remains. They also acknowledged the challenge of keeping
his case in the public eye, as he now has been held captive longer
than any American in history, if he remains alive.
“We believe people can survive 10 years under any circum-
stances. In the worst places, people survive. We know Bob is
alive,” his wife, Christine Levinson, told the AP. “Everyone else
has gotten out of Iran, but Bob has been left behind every single
time. It’s now time for him to be returned home to his family.”
Levinson disappeared from Iran’s Kish Island on March 9,
2007. For years, U.S. officials would only say that Levinson, a
meticulous FBI investigator credited with busting Russian and
Italian mobsters, was working for a private firm on his trip.
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