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Sky News AU
a day ago
- Politics
- Sky News AU
‘Mouthpiece for Hamas': Journalist calls out Al Jazeera's ‘opposition' to Israel
Freelance Journalist Ian Lloyd Neubauer calls out Al Jazeera for being a 'mouthpiece' for the terrorist organisation Hamas. 'Al Jazeera is focused on one thing, Al Jazeera suffers from Israel's compulsive obsessive disease, and it is because it is ideologically opposed to the existence of a Jewish state,' Mr Neubauer told Sky News host Chris Kenny. 'They are known as a mouthpiece for Hamas.'
South China Morning Post
6 days ago
- Health
- South China Morning Post
A trip to the Bone Healer – and a different side of Bali
'The Bone Healer can fix anything but a broken heart.' Advertisement I whisper this to myself over and over as I crawl through the narrow, traffic-choked carriageways that fan out from downtown Denpasar. It takes an hour's drive to clear Bali 's capital and reach an east-coast highway, where I pick up speed before detouring up a winding road to Besakih. Set in the western foothills of the Mount Agung volcano , the village is home to the Besakih Great Temple, the largest religious site on the Indonesian island. But I have not come to explore the tiered shrines and labyrinthine alleys of the 10th century complex. I have come to see Mangku Sudarsana, aka the Bone Healer, a balian, or holy man, who practises medicine in the courtyard of his ancestral home (Klinik Mangku Sudarsana), about 1km down the road from the temple. Mangku Sudarsana, aka the Bone Healer, giving writer Ian Lloyd Neubauer 'a whopping back crack'. Photo: Ian Neubauer Balians are said to harness energy from the universe and are called upon to cure everything from the common cold to cancer. Most are quacks and there is no empirical evidence to show their methods deliver results. But the Bone Healer's patients swear by him, claiming he provides better long-term outcomes than modern medicine. I know this because I'm one of them. Five years ago, I herniated two discs in my lower back and consulted a conga line of healers for the chronic pain : masseuses, physiotherapists, chiropractors, acupuncturists and, finally, an orthopaedic specialist. The only solution was surgery, or so I was led to believe, until the day I overheard a conversation at a beach club in Bali about a miracle man who lived in the mountains and had helped people walk again. The very next day, I went to see him. The treatment took less than a minute and the effect was immediate: a 70 to 80 per cent reduction in pain. It was also permanent, or it had been until a few weeks ago, when I hurt my back again. When the pain returned with a vengeance, I knew what I had to do. Advertisement Now 72, Sudarsana doesn't appear to have aged a single day since I last saw him. Dressed in a sarong with a decorative sash and sporting a mane of long white hair collected loosely into a bun, he looks the archetype of an Asian healer but does not act the part, asking to see any scans or diagnoses from a hospital or Western practitioner. After glancing at my X-rays, he tells me to sit on the floor with my back towards him. Pressing his knee into my lower spine, he grabs my shoulders and, in one quick move, gives me a whopping back crack, the same thing he did last time I visited. I yelp with fright and then sigh as the pain melts away. And with that, my treatment is complete. I thank him profusely, stuff a few notes into a donation box and leave.
