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REVIEWS @ HEALTH BETRAYAL: Staying Away from the Sickness Industry by Eve Hillary Synergy Books, Australia, 2003 ISBN 0-9750594-0-8 (243pp tpb) Availability: Synergy Books Pty Ltd, tel +61 (0)2 4388 9533, email evehillary@smartchat.net.au A’stzatian nurse and natural healthcare professional Eve Hillary outlined her experiences with multiple chemical sensitiv- ity in her 1997 book, Children of the Toxic Harvest, and 2000 video, Healing the Toxic Domain (reviewed in NEXUS 4/04 and 8/06). With the help of a rare doctor who did not see her health problems as psycho- logical, she managed to treat her condition, which was caused by exposure to OP pesti- cides on the family farm in the 1980s. Ever since, she has been a staunch advocate of healthy living and an opponent of the so- called "sickness industry". In Health Betrayal, Eve expands on her earlier themes with details of her battles with the Australian health and chemical authorities, media apologists and "experts", and on the industries that profit at the expense of human and animal health. She highlights the plight of doctors and thera- pists who are promoting wellness but are subjected to unjustified harassment because of their practices. She despairs at how glob- alised farming, genetically engineered food and mass vaccinations are being foisted upon the public to the detriment of personal, social and environmental health, and backs up her stance with some frightening facts. Eve gives the UN Codex Alimentarius a serve, explaining how its rulings are putting our health freedoms under siege and pander- ing to the hidden agendas of transnational food and drug corporations. She also rails against the health horrors of depleted urani- um weapons used in the Gulf War, in the Balkans, in Afghanistan and now Iraq. But Eve Hillary also delivers a positive message with suggestions for how we can bring on a "wellness revolution" by making a difference in small ways—from choosing to eat organic food and lobbying our super- markets not to stock GE food, to throwing out toxic household products and doing our own research. She urges us to empower ourselves by becoming better informed. SOLOMON - FALCON OF SHEBA: The Tombs of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba Discovered by Ralph Ellis Edfu Books, UK, 2002, AUP, USA, 2002 ISBN 0-9531913-4-6 (384pp tpb, UK), 1-931882-12-6 (384pp tpb, USA) Availability: Edfu Books, website http:/www.edfu-books.com; Adventures Unlimited Press, website http://www.adventuresunlimitedpress.com aking up where he left off with Jesus, Last of the Pharaohs and Tempest & Exodus (NEXUS 6/04, 9/02), Ralph Ellis asks why the biblical archaeological record can't account for the true history of the Queen of Sheba, supposedly of Ethiopia, and the apparently Israelite King David and King Solomon. Wondering why the burial places of these ancient monarchs have not been confirmed, Ellis went in search of their tombs and sarcophagi and concludes that these key figures had Egyptian origins. According to Ellis, King David of Israel was actually the 21st dynasty (c. 990-970 BC) Egyptian Pharaoh Psusennes II, and 70 = NEXUS when crowned he presided over a united Egypto-Judaean-Israelite empire—which is somewhat at odds with the officially sanc- tioned version of history. Having analysed the correlations between the biblical and his- torical records, Ellis proposes one theory that the Queen of Sheba was a princess from Lower Egypt whose hand was given in mar- riage to David's son, the Judaeo-Israelite King Solomon—an arrangement that sug- gested Solomon had a close relationship with her pharaonic family line. Ellis delves into the meanings behind vari- ous Egyptian and Hebrew terms in his quest for the truth. He concludes that the Queen of Sheba was actually the Queen of the Sabbath day and had a role as Queen of the Great Pyramid (Mt Sinai); thus, as the Hyksos-Israelite god was considered to live inside the Pyramid, she was regarded as hav- ing the position of the Wife of God. Ellis's thesis requires much focus and isn't easily explained in a short review. Nor is his final assertion that the whole of Judaic, Christian and Islamic belief systems and iconography were based upon Egyptian antecedents. JUNE — JULY 2003 www.nexusmagazine.com