Hello Australia!! - Trump's Chief of Staff caught in another lie, while his boss trashes an ally with ANOTHER lie - A judge's ridiculous reason for allowing a rapist to get away with it - An appalling plan to "feed" the poor - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

White House chief of staff John Kelly might want to spend the weekend wiping the self-inflicted tarnish off his retired General's stars, after video emerged showing he completely mischaracterized a US congresswoman's speech.  Kelly on Thursday indignantly claimed the US Rep. Frederica Wilson claimed credit for securing the funding for a FBI headquarters in her district; but on Friday, video of the 2009 speech Kelly cited surfaced, and it shows that Rep. Wilson did no such thing - and in fact she praised fallen FBI agents.  And not only that, but she wasn't even a member of congress yet in 2009.  Despite being confronted with this proof, the White House and John Kelly are refusing to back off and admit a mistake - meaning that Kelly and what's left of his reputation are now on the record as taking an active part in a willful lie, and one that can easily be debunked.

The British Foreign Office is being a good little ally and not saying anything, after the Orange Clown wrongly blamed terrorism as the driving factor behind higher crime numbers in the UK.  Donald Trump tweeted, "United Kingdom crime rises 13 percent annually amid spread of Radical Islamic terror."  But that's patently false, because the terrorist attacks in Manchester and London that killed 35 people only account for 1/100th of a percent of the total number of crimes recorded in the just-released UK crime report, and homicides are actually down 2 percent.  Again, Whitehall and Downing Street doesn't appear to be defending itself from this slander.  The myth of a UK under radical Islamic sharia law is a pervasive and completely false narrative in US right-wing media.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has come out against Quebec's new ban on facial coverings.  The law requires women wearing niqab or burqa wearers to unveil on public transit or while receiving government services; presumably, it would apply to wild west outlaws with bandanas over their faces, or perhaps Batman and Iron Man.  But let's be honest about who this law was intended to target, 'kay?  "I don't think it's the government's business to tell a woman what she should or shouldn't be wearing," PM Trudeau told reporters on Friday.  He didn't commit when asked if his government would challenge the ban in court, but several advocacy groups are already planning legal action.

Unfortunately, a Canadian judge cleared of man of raping his wife, ruling that it was okay because he didn't know that spousal rape was illegal.  Ontario Superior (to what?) Court (in)Justice Robert Smith ruled the prosecution didn't prove beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant had criminal intent, known as "mens rea" in the law, because he had an expectation of sex in his arranged marriage to the victim.  The couple are Palestinian immigrants, and the assault happened in 2002.  The wife reported reported it to police during their separation in 2013 when she learned that spousal rape was (supposedly) illegal in Canada. 

Prosecutors in Brazil are investigating an abominable plan to feed Sao Paulo's poor with pellets and powder made from dehydrated and reconstituted food that had reached the end of its shelf life.  This atrocity was announced by Mayor Joao Doria - a loud mouthed conservative tycoon who previously hosted Brazil's version of "The Apprentice" - and Roman Catholic Cardinal Dom Odilo Scherer, who said: "It offends me when people call this dog food."  Hey, if you don't like that, I'd call it "rejected food" or "soylent green".  The Regional Council of Nutritionists raised concerns about the nutritional value of what they call "farinata", and prosecutors want the conservative social engineers who came up with it to provide documentation.

Peru is legalizing medical marijuana.  "We've ensured that thousands of patients and their family members will enjoy a better quality of life," said governing party lawmaker Alberto de Belaunde, who voted with the 68-5 majority in Congress.  Decriminalization happened after police raided a lab ran by a group of mothers producing their own cannabis oil to treat their seriously ill children whose symptoms can be treated or at least eased by the oil.  "This was not an abstract debate, it had a human face," de Belaunde added.

Rights groups are incensed after the UN World Health Program named Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe its "goodwill ambassador".  Critics point out that not only has Mugabe pretty much destroyed the health care infrastructure in his country, leaving hospitals so short of medicine that patients are often required to buy their own drugs prior to operations.  But at 93-years old, he frequently flies abroad for his own medical treatment. "If the leader has to jet off to another country to get medical attention that shows you he cannot get that in Zimbabwe," said Salani Mutseyami, a spokeswoman for the campaign groups Zimbabwe Vigil and Restoration of Human Rights.  "The whole health system is in tatters.  So I don't know what political games are being played by the United Nations when they give such a man a platform."

Four people were hurt when a pair of wild boars rampaged through the northern German town of Heide.

Animals at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo enjoy pumpkin treats.