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http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/northe...-1227575705149


A HORSE was left bloodied and horrifically injured after an assailant attacked the animal with a metal object.

The ferocity of the attack left Macca, a 20-year-old gelding, with a gash on his muzzle so deep it cut to the bone.

Police are investigating the incident as an act of animal cruelty.

Macca was donated to charity Riding for the Disabled at Catalina Rd, Marlow Lagoon last week.

The charity's centre manager Lesley Monro said Macca was treated by a vet and was recovering from his injuries.


She said the horses became restless around 3am.

"The horses were calling. When they are under stress or pressure or can't see they call. We got up and went outside. They were running around but we couldn't see anything," she said.

Yesterday morning Ms Monro couldn't find Macca in the stable.

"He was down in the bushes. We couldn't find him when we got here this morning and he was among all the trees looking very forlorn.

"I couldn't believe it. We walked him back and called the vet straight away."

She said it was the 11th time the centre had been the target of thieves and vandals in the past year.

Ms Monro said thieves targeted the centre twice in the days leading up to the attack on Macca. She said earlier in the year two cars and a television were stolen.

Ms Monro and her partner Ian have operated Riding for the Disabled to 15 years.

She said the horses brought joy to around 120 children with disabilities each week.

Territory police Superintendent Daniel Shean said Macca's injury was consistent with being hit by an object.

"The horse was recently donated to the riding school which caters for people with disabilities to participate in equine related activities in a safe environment," he said.

"It is disappointing to think a person could deliberately injure a horse in such a way and I urge anyone who can assist in this matter to contact police."



So who do you think in the Northern Territory would go around belting up horses in the middle of the night? The Local crew of German back packers? The local English boys? The boongs do all kinds of horrid things to animals including throwing homeless dogs at the crocodiles for kicks. Any money the boongs did this!

http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/reclai...-1227573792111


AN investigation aiming to expose and challenge the views of anti-Islam group Reclaim Australia has backfired for Channel Seven.

An interview with the political group's founders, who describe themselves as "patriotic Australians", aired on the network's Sunday Night program to a divided audience.


Sadly some of their organisers are just clowns who are frightened of being known as a racist group, so they have to race around hob-nobbing with nig -nogs. No point wearing the flag on the outside if it isn't worn on the inside!




While some criticised the program for publicising the group's "racist" views, a significant portion of the audience indicated they agreed with the controversial protesters.

Asking whether audience members thought Reclaim Australia represented Australian values, an online poll saw the majority of viewers vote yes while the story aired.

At one point, the vote sat at 78 — 22 in favour of Reclaim Australia, and has since evened out to 41 — 59.

Members of the provocative group celebrated the publicity opportunity, claiming the later numbers had been "fiddled with" and thanked the network for a boost in followers.

"The early results were the honest and true ones. It became clear it was going to be an onslaught in our favour," one commenter wrote on Facebook.

"Don't worry! It's a win. Great media exposure, page numbers are up!"

Reporter Alex Cullen who was embedded with Reclaim Australia leaders during a recent rally described the influence of the group's Facebook page, which now boasts more than 48,000 likes since Seven's story aired, as "downright scary".

Anticipating criticism for giving the controversial group airtime, Cullen had already prepared a justification for airing the story.

"A lot of people ask me, 'why are you giving these people airtime?' It's a fair question and one I have thought long and hard about. I have to then ask, why not?," he wrote.

"These are real people with a serious story to tell as are those who are standing up to oppose them. Their actions concern a lot of people, from the Prime Minister down. So, do they warrant our attention? Their motivations, views and aspirations should be questioned and that's exactly what we're doing."

Many viewers took to social media criticising the program for promoting "bigoted" views, while others claimed to have been converted after viewing.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/technology/science/ancient-human-teeth-discovered-in-china-could-rewrite-the-historic-migration-map-of-homo-sapiens/story-fnjwl5wr-1227573222217

HUMAN teeth discovered in southern China provide evidence that our species left the African continent up to 70,000 years earlier than prevailing theories suggest, new published research finds.


Homo sapiens reached present-day China 80,000-120,000 years ago, according to the study, which could redraw the migration map for modern humans.

"The model that is generally accepted is that modern humans left Africa only 50,000 years ago," said Maria Martinon-Torres, a researcher at University College London and a co-author of the study.

"In this case, we are saying the Homo sapiens were out of Africa much earlier," she told the peer-reviewed journal Nature, which published the study.

While the route they travelled remains unknown, previous research suggests the most likely path out of East Africa to east Asia was across the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East.

The findings also mean that the first truly modern humans — thought to have emerged in east Africa some 200,000 years ago — landed in China well before they went to Europe.
There is no evidence to suggest that Homo sapiens entered the European continent earlier than 45,000 years ago, at least 40,000 years after they showed up in present-day China.

The 47 teeth exhumed from a knee-deep layer of grey, sandy clay inside the Fuyan Cave near the town of Daoxian closely resemble the dental gear of "contemporary humans," according to the study.

They could only have come from a population that migrated from Africa, rather than one that evolved from an another species of early man such as the extinct Homo erectus, the authors said.

The scientists also unearthed the remains of some 38 mammals, including specimens of five extinct species, one of them a giant panda larger than those in existence today.

For me a dislocated finger, when I tried to apply a arm lock technique on an Arab. my palm didn't entirely push the elbow down of the adversary, my finger did and got dislocated.

Cool song!. Youngland came to Australia a few years ago and did that song on the new garrison 3 record, with members of Death's head and also Open Season. Cool version.