Hello Australia!! - Thousands of people escape Myanmar violence by fleeing into Bangladesh - Widespread condemnation for the cop who arrested a nurse for doing her job - Fears grow the Texas floods are releasing deadly toxins into the environment - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Police in Bangladesh are ignoring government orders to prevent Rohingya Muslims from fleeing across the border from Myanmar, where security forces have reportedly killed hundreds of the oppressed minority group in the predominantly Buddhist country.  The United Nations estimates that 58,000 refugees have made it across since the current spate of violence started a week or so ago.  Refugees say Myanmar troops and mobs are burning entire villages down, and the group Human Rights Watch (HRW) appears to have proof of this:
Human Rights Watch
The group has released new satellite imagery from Myanmar which they say shows that more than 700 homes have been burned down in one Rohingya village.

Thousands marched in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires to demand answers in the disappearance of a human rights activist.  Santiago Maldanado was last seen in police custody when he was arrested for takng part in an indigenous rights protest in the southern Patagonia region.  "One month after Santiago's forced disappearance, the state continues to deny it," said his brother Sergio Maldanado.  "The only people they have questioned are his friends and family," he said.  The disappearance hits Argentina on a sore spot:  More than 30,000 Left wing activists and others were abducted by police and "disappeared" during the US-backed fascist dictatorship of the 1970s and 1980s, and the country still has not accounted for all of the police crimes.

Salt Lake City Police have been forced to apologize after a psycho, out-of-control cop was caught on video violently and wrongly arresting an emergency room nurse because she followed hospital policy and refused to allow him to draw blood from an unconscious car crash victim.  The video of angry, unhinged Salt Lake police Detective Jeff Payne abusing nurse Alex Wubbels went viral, and officials are lining up to condemn Payne's actions as "unacceptable".  The car crash victim was an off duty cop from another jurisdiction whose chief thanked Nurse Alex for "for standing firm, and protecting Officer (William) Gray's rights as a patient and victim".  You got to wonder why this cro-magnon dope didn't immediately put in his retirement papers, but he waited - now, Detective Payne and the cop who grabbed the nurse from behind are on leave pending a disciplinary investigation. 

The death toll from Hurricane Harvey and the resulting flood in Texas is now more than 50 lives lost.  The orange clown returned to Texas for a bunch of Photo-ops, but who really cares.

More than a dozen "Superfund" sites are in the flood zone surrounding Houston, Texas.  "Superfund" is the designation given to the most-polluted, most-toxic places in the US that are marked for clean-up by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  This means that the deadly toxins that are deeply soaked into the soil in these places are now part of the flood waters spreading around to surrounding areas, or even released into the air.  Associated Press reporter Jason Dearon says he "visited seven Superfund sites in and around Houston during the flooding"; All had been inundated with water," and, "Some were only accessible only by boat." 

There have been concerns that the EPA had been conspicuously absent from the scene where Hurricane Harvey hit Texas, so densely packed with petro-chemical companies involved in the manufacture and storage of toxic, volatile, and otherwise dangerous chemicals.  After the Associated Press report came out on Saturday, the EPA responded:  "We are inspecting flooded Superfund sites as quickly as our personnel can access them as the floodwaters recede."  The concerns are amplified by the fact that the Trump White House has rolled back dozens of environmental regulations - particularly in the petro-chemical sector.

Contrary to the moronic and paranoid accusations made by the orange clown, the US Justice Department has quietly admitted that US President Barack Obama last year did not wiretap Donald Trump's offices in Trump Tower in New York City.  The Justice Department responded to a freedom of information lawsuit filed by the watchdog NGO American Oversight by stating, "Both FBI and (National Security Division) confirm that they have no records related to wiretaps as described" by Trump last year.  This confirms the testimony of former FBI director James Comey before a congressional committee earlier this year.  Trump fired Comey shortly after that.

Colombia's FARC rebels have rebranded:  No longer armed Marxist revolutionaries, the peace process has brought them in from the jungle as a fully legitimate political party with a Red Rose as their logo.

For something that's supposed to be exceedingly rare, there sure are a lot of oddly-colored lobsters lately. 
Translucent Lobster
Lobsterman Alex Todd of Maine recently caught a translucent "white" lobster.  "It was really different and really cool," said Todd, a 10th generation fisherman who's had his lobster license since he was 6 years old.  He threw it back, rather make it into a $10 meal.  The Maine Lobster association believes it has a condition called Leucism that causes it to lost most of its pigments, but not enough to make it a full albino.
Yellow Lobster in lower right
A normal lobster gets its color by mixing yellow, blue, and red protein pigments.  Meanwhile, a Massachusetts Lobsterman donated a Yellow Lobster to the New England Aquarium, where it has joined a bunch of other oddly-hued shellfish in a living display.  One in every 30 million lobsters is yellow, so this one was a lucky catch.

Argentine police just knew that prison inmates were using homing pigeons to smuggle in drugs and other contraband, and now they have proof:  Cops shot a pigeon with a back-pack strapped on it over the grounds of the jail in the central city of Santa Rosa.  Inside the pack, they found sedative pills, marijuana, and a USB drive.