Hong Kong police dismatle more protest sites – A Liberal government curriculum advisor is revealed as a nasty old racist – Human Rights activists give up on Egypt – And much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Hong Kong police cleared out more protest sites, taking down barricades in the Mong Kok area of the city.  Similar operations earlier in the week in the Admiralty and Causeway Bay areas resulted in clashes, but this time out it went pretty smoothly.  Hong Kong chief executive C.Y. Leung says he wants city officials to meet with the protesters, although he’s not about to meet their demands for free elections in 2017.

Warning:  Vile and hateful language ahead.  The Liberal government’s curriculum reviewer is a hateful, racist, sexist, classist jerk.  Emails obtained by NewMatilda.com reveal the author Professor Barry Spurr referring to Indigenous Australians as “Abos”, Muslims as “Mussies”, Asian-Australians as “Chinky-poos”, and sexual assault victims as “worthless sluts”.  And that’s just some of it, there’s actually a lot more and it forms the pattern of a truly repugnant individual advising the government on the National Curriculum review.  University of Sydney suspended Spurr in light of the emails.

Nurse Nina Pham has been moved from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas to the National Institutes of Health outside Washington, DC to an isolation unit better prepared to treat an Ebola patient.  The hospital released a video of Pham before she left, appearing to be in good spirits and probably healthier than expected.  Pham jokes, “Party in Maryland!”  Another nurse from the Dallas facility – Amber Joy Vinson – was transferred to Emory University in Atlanta, which successfully treated two American Ebola patients earlier this year.  Both contracted Ebola while treating Thomas Duncan, the Liberian man who died at the Dallas hospital earlier this month.

Infectious disease specialists two three schools in Texas and two in Ohio overreacted when they cancelled Thursday’s classes in fear of Ebola.  The Ohio schools were particularly stupid – a middle school staff member apparently traveled on the same airplane the Amber Joy Vinson was on, but not on the same flight – and that was enough to panic.  Ebola spreads through direct contact with bodily fluids, such as blood, feces, or saliva – not through the air, and not by magic.

The death toll in Nepal is now 29 after the tail end of a monsoon dumped a ton of snow on the Himalayas, causing avalanches and all sorts of trouble.  More than 200 climbers and hikers were rescued in the Mustang and Manang districts.  Many of those folks were foreigners who come to Nepal for the October Trekking season, when the air is clear and cool.

The Human Rights group formed by former US President Jimmy Carter will not monitor Egypt’s upcoming parliamentary elections and is in fact pulling out of the country.  The Carter Center blames the government crackdown on free speech, journalists, and dissidents.  It came to Cairo in 2011 to support the transition to Democracy after the fall of Hosni Mubarak.  But now that Abdel al-Sisi is in charge.. it’s “meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”

Cops in Brazil say a 26-year old security guard has confessed to being a serial murderer of 39 people.  Thiago Henrique Gomes da Rocha reportedly admitted to donning a mask and approaching his victims on a motorcycle before shooting them and taking their possessions.  Police say Gomes targeted homeless people, women, and homosexuals.

The RAAF has carried out 43 sorties in Iraq, and two of them resulted in deadly strikes against Islamic State targets.  Vice Admiral David Johnston says the Aussies picked up the slack while the US flew more missions against IS in Syria, reversing the momentum of the battle for Kobani.  The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that 374 Islamic State militants have been killed fighting Kurdish defenders.