Hello Australia!! - A critic of the gruesome Philippine drug war is charged, supporters cry "foul" - An alleged member of a North Korean hit team claims she thought she was playing a prank - Is there a narc in your little girl's bed? - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The White House is denying it is considering using National Guard troops to help immigration agents round up and deport undocumented people.  This, after an eleven-page draft memo purportedly written by Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly surfaced spelling out plans to do exactly that.  While White House spokesman Sean "Spicy" Spicer said the report is "100 percent not true", a Department of Homeland Security spokesman said the administration is "no longer considering" any National Guard-related round up - meaning that YES, it WAS at one point.  Under US law, military troops cannot take part in policing.  But National Guard troops, which operate under the states can, although it is highly unlikely any of the Democratic Party governors would take part in any such mission. 

It wasn't an undocumented immigrant or a Muslim, but a white male terrorist who opened fire with a sniper rifle in Oakland, California across the bay from San Francisco.  Police say Jesse Enjaian fired shots around his neighborhood and at police and their vehicles; police shut down a major highway and locked down a Catholic high school during the siege.  A cop eventually shot and seriously wounded him.  Enjaian is a law school grad and tech developer who recently started spouting race hate on his Twitter account, now deleted but cached. 

In Florida, police arrested a man who allegedly planned to set off bombs at Target stores in a scheme to drive down the price of stock so he could buy it at abnormally low prices.  Once again, the suspect wasn't a Muslim or a Central American, but a white, male capitalist - with prior child sex abuse convictions.  Police say 48-year old alleged terrorist mastermind Mark Charles Barnett of Ocala stuffed bombs into emptied packages of breakfast foods and pasta.  He is accused of paying another person US$10,000 to plant the bombs in Target grocery sections, but that person took the money and evidence and immediately went to police.

Well, that's stupid America.

Critics and human rights activists say Philippine prosecutors filed "politically motivated" drug charges against a prominent critic of President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody and murderous "war on drugs".  Senator Leila de Lima is accused of receiving money from detained drug lords, which she strongly denies.  "If the loss of my freedom is the price I have to pay for standing up against the butchery of the Duterte regime, then it is a price I am willing to pay,'' she said in a statement.  "But they are mistaken if they think my fight ends here. It has only begun.''  More than 7,000 people have been killed by police or vigilantes - no trial, no investigation - just for being accused of being drug dealers. 

Malaysia is refusing to release the body of Kim Jong-nam to North Korea unless the hermit kingdom sends a sample of the Kim family's DNA for positive identification.  Police arrested three people in the assassination of Jong-nam, carried out by two women who grabbed him and administered poison.  But one of the women claims she thought she was pulling off a harmless prank for a TV reality show, involving telling men to close their eyes and spraying them with water.

Pakistan forces killed a hundred "terrorists" in retaliation for the Islamic State bombing of a Sufi Muslim shrine in which 88 people died.  Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif vowed to eliminate militants "with the full force of the state".  The growing presence of IS and a resurgent Taliban is dampening hopes that Pakistan may have finally begun to turn a corner with its security.

A day after Donald Trump called for his release, Venezuela upheld the 14 year prison term given to conservative firebrand Leopoldo Lopez for encouraging political violence that eventually killed 43 people.  People from both sides of the country's deep political divide lost their lives as the wealthy, US-educated Lopez posed for the cameras and engaged in revolutionary cos-play.  Lopez' wife claimed "every (prison) sentence is null" and said US fascist demagogue Donald "Trump is with the people of Venezuela".  If that's the case, good luck Venezuela because he's f__king up as much as he can in America.

Germany is banning a doll that call listen to and record children's conversations while connected to the Internet, and telling parents to destroy.  The little narc is called "My Friend Cayla", and while the Germans are telling parents to get rid of them, it's also sold in Australia.  The German feds say the adorable spy uses "unauthorized wireless transmitting equipment" that can "transmit data without detection" and "compromise people's privacy".  The toy also "converses" with the user, meaning that the maker could conceivably beam commercials directly to the kids without their parents' consent.  But UK-based security consultant Ken Munro worries about the lack of security built into the toy:  "If you can connect your phone to your hands-free car kit, you can hack Cayla," he says, setting up potential scenarios of nefarious elements contacting children.

Chicago-based Kraft Heinz foods is making a play for Unilever, but the Dutch multinational food giant is rejecting the US$143 Billion offer as too low.  Shares of both were up as capitalists relished the possibility of cost-cutting through consolidating manufacturing systems, and firing lots of human beings who in turn won't be able to afford their frigging ketchup and Velveeta.  Regulators on both sides of the ocean would have to approve the deal, assuming that Kraft Heinz would come up with an offer the Europeans would approve.