A UN Security Council statement puts Australia in an uncomfortable spot – After two years of pointless hearings, US conservatives finally admit there was no conspiracy in Benghazi – No time can erase their crimes, as justice comes for fascists – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The United Nations Security Council is criticizing those nations that discriminate against countries caught up in the West African Ebola Epidemic – and since Australia has the rotating chairmanship of the Council, the statement was read by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.  AWKWARD!  Because just last month, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison announced that Australia had closed its doors to people from the region because of concerns about Ebola.  Critics such as Labor’s Matt Thistlethwaite says the Abbott government is being hypocritical for saying one thing in New York but doing the opposite in Australia.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says the West African Ebola Outbreak can be ended “by the middle” of 2015.   More than 5,400 people have died, mostly in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.  Ban says this can be done, “if” the world continues to step up its response.  Earlier this week, the advocacy group One unveiled an online tracking tool which shows how much funding, equipment and health personnel have been pledged by donor countries and large foundations.  So far, only 38 percent of Australia’s pledged assistance has been distributed.

The UN World Health Organization is sounding the alarm about a Plague outbreak on Madagascar.  So far, 40 people have died out of 119 infections.  But two cases and one death have occurred in the capital Antananarivo, and officials are worried about the possibility of the disease spreading in a crowded city.

A two-year investigation by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee has found that the CIA and the military “acted properly” in responding to the 2012 attack on the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.  The committee also concluded there was absolutely “no wrongdoing” by Obama administration appointees.  For two years, US republicans have hammered the White House about the attack, in which four people including the US ambassador were murdered by terrorists.  Republicans made allegations of official incompetence, and their surrogates in the conservative media hinted at dark conspiracies.  Now, their own committee says these conservatives were all totally full of crap the entire time.

A judge in Santiago sentenced two retired Chilean army colonels to prison for the 1973 torture of dissident General Alberto Bachelet – the father of the current President Michelle Bachelet.  This happened during the bloody rule of fascist scum dictator Augusto Pinochet, when thousands of Leftists were killed and imprisoned so that University of Chicago-trained conservative economists could exploit a two-tiered economic system, and claim it worked because the top half did well.  Anyway, General Bachelet died in custody, and the fascists claimed he died of a heart attack.  Young Michelle and her mother were also imprisoned and tortured.

Thailand’s military junta now say martial law will remain in place indefinitely.  The pretend government of coup leader and PM Prayuth Chan-ocha had earlier hinted at a return to democracy, but now “justice” minister Paiboon Koomchaya says martial law will remain in place “indefinitely”, amid mounting protests of military rule.  The militarists stepped up arrests of protesters in recent weeks, many of whom did nothing more than give the three-finger salute seen in the movie franchise “The Hunger Games”, which has been adopted as an anti-coup gesture.  A Thai cinema chain has cancelled screenings of the latest film this week, saying it wanted to avoid trouble.

The indignation over the disappearance of 43 student teachers in Iguala, southern Mexico has morphed into an organized, national movement that threatens President Enrique Pena Nieto.  Protests are happening all over Mexico, frequently growing violent.  And calls for Pena Nieto’s resignation are growing, as are the demands for an end to drug gang violence including murder, kidnappings, and extortion.  The government has admitted that its response was lackluster and late, and says the 43 teachers were likely delivered by police to a drug gang, which murdered them and burned the bodies – all on the orders of Iguala’s mayor.

Spanish prosecutors filed charges against Catalonian leader Artur Mas over last month’s independence referendum.  Mas, his deputy Joana Ortega, and the Catalan government’s education minister will face charges of civil disobedience, abuse of power, usurpation of duties, and embezzlement of public funds.  The Madrid government strenuously opposed the independence referendum – which was non-binding but passed overwhelmingly – and the supreme court ruled it unconstitutional even before anyone cast a ballot.

A San Francisco window washer is in critical condition, somehow surviving a fall from outside the eleventh floor of a central business district highrise.   The man crashed into the roof of a Toyota Camry, the driver of which emerged unscathed despite the top of the car being caved in.  Federal safety regulators had fined the window washer’s employer for several violations in 2008.