Trying to find a movie for the baby

[Cebu_4_2]

So I search and see this IMDB link to children's movies

http://www.imdb.com/list/ls050016602/

What a bunch of fuck!

The movie name I was looking for escapes me. It has something to do with the place flooding over the city and momma was at the bottom in the water and the little kid does stuff and then the momma dies and the kid hangs out... movie theme sucked but my old kid liked it. Maybe I should forget about it.

Just want something for the kid to learn from, she is only 1 though. Learning movies are already good here.

[Shami-Amourae]

I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure TeeVee for a kid that young is going to screw them up. They'll turn out like me, LOL.





The first 2 years of your kid is a critical time for brain development. Watching TV steals time away from your kid’s exploring, interacting, playing with you and others, and actively learning by manipulating things around him. These are activities that help your kid develop the skills they need to grow intellectually, socially and emotionally.
When your kid plays, he is actively learning about how the world works. He wires his brain by experimenting with cause and effect. When your kid interacts with people, he meets his emotional milestones. TV keeps your kid away from these activities.
The first 2 years of your kid is also a critical time for learning language. Language is only learned through interaction with others, not by passive listening to TV. If you not respond to your kid's attempt to communicate, your kid could miss this important milestone. Also, your kid will not learn to talk by listening to TV characters baby talk or talk down to him. Your kid learns to talk by mimicking adult language. He learns from the adults’ simplified but correctly pronounced speech.
Note that when your baby smiles at the TV, the TV does not smile back. This may affect him socially and psychologically.

http://www.raisesmartkid.com/pre-natal-to-1-year-old/2-articles/22-the-effects-of-tv-on-baby

[Cebu_4_2]

I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure TeeVee for a kid that young is going to screw them up. They'll turn out like me, LOL.

[/LIST]
http://www.raisesmartkid.com/pre-natal-to-1-year-old/2-articles/22-the-effects-of-tv-on-baby

Shami, I thank you big time!

[Shami-Amourae]

Shami, I thank you big time!

I did some research. Basically I think the message is to allow the child to discover and explore as much as possible on their own.

I remember my cousin was put on that Baby Einstein program when he was little and didn't turn out so smart. That stuff is a total sham.

This might help you:





http://www.mamanatural.com/how-to-raise-a-low-media-child/

http://mamanatural.mamanatural.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/how-to-raise-a-low-media-child-mama-natural.jpg


Enter Mindy

We all know that screen time in excess can be harmful to infants and toddlers, and that it isn’t great for older children either. And I would guess that there aren’t too many parents out there that want their children to struggle with things like obesity, ADHD or or cognitive and language development; so why are so many young children still watching too much TV? Well, because parents are tired! Caregiving—especially quality caregiving—requires a ridiculous amount of attention, patience and energy. It’s totally understandable to want a few moments of peace every day to (gasp!) use the bathroom alone. So, are a few minutes of television going to irrevocably damage your child? Of course not. But what if you could have a break without using the TV or your iPhone to entertain your little one?


Luckily there IS a way to have a low media (or media free) child without losing your mind. The answer is…


Self-directed play!

Self-directed or independent play is play chosen, initiated and directed by the child. When your child is able to engage in independent play, being with your child becomes less demanding. You are no longer the entertainment. You can sit back and just observe what your child is exploring. You may be able to read, check your email, work, eat chocolate—whatever—and all while he plays and explores. What a relief! Cultivating intrinsically motivated, independent exploration does more than just give parents a break though. Self-directed play builds social and emotional health, confidence, creativity, self-discipline and problem solving skills. TV can’t even touch those awesome benefits! In fact, TV damages a child’s instinct for discovery and self-directed play. Not only is increased TV viewing linked to shorter attention spans (http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2010/07/05/video-games-and-tv-linked-to-decreased-attention-span/), but TV viewing encourages the need and desire to be entertained over interest in discovery and exploration. So the more TV they watch the less they are able to engage in self-directed play and the more they “need” TV. Well, that’s a bummer. Luckily, self-directed play can take care of your need for a break as well as encourage your child to engage in more self-directed play! So, the 10 million dollar question is: how do you get your child to play independently?



Turn Off the TV

As I said, watching TV can actually decrease children’s ability to engage in self-directed play so stopping TV viewing is an obvious first step. Some families will find that going cold turkey works best while others gradually wean TV watching out of their child’s daily schedule. It will also depend on your child’s age. The AAP (http://www.aap.org/en-us/advocacy-and-policy/aap-health-initiatives/pages/media-and-children.aspx) recommends no TV for children under 2, and no more than 1-2 hours a day for older children. If you need some help breaking a TV habit this article (http://www.janetlansbury.com/2012/07/how-to-break-your-toddlers-tv-habit/) written by Janet Lansbury is very useful.


Create a Safe and Engaging Environment

The way you design your environment will depend on many factors but here are some guidelines to get you started. Don’t be overwhelmed; there are many inexpensive ways to create an appealing environment for your child. Be creative!
http://mamanatural.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Depositphotos_girl-montessori.jpg
Safety is the number one concern. If you want to be able to leave the room or focus your attention elsewhere, the environment must be 100% safe. This might mean gating off unsafe rooms or gating an area of your living room for the child to enjoy. If you can, an outdoor space is wonderful! If you have an open floor plan, a wood stove or lots of stairs it can be challenging but gates, outlet covers and drawer locks are your friends! Organize your child’s play space so that it is engaging and orderly. Children are especially sensitive to disorder. Keeping things neat, tidy and uncluttered (as best you can!) helps your child to stay focused. Instead of putting toys into large toy boxes, place materials in smaller baskets, on trays or on shelves. This makes viewing and choosing materials easy (learning to put them away is much easier too). Make sure all materials are accessible to your child (they don’t have to ask you to get something down) but remember that if they are not using a material appropriately you can always put it away for another day. Find a balance between enough toys to offer choices but not too many so that your child feels overwhelmed or overstimulated. When there are too many toys children tend to play with each one for a shorter time. You can store excess toys and rotate them out depending on what she is most interested in. When you rotate these toys back in it’s like having brand new toys! Child sized tables and chairs are a great addition to the play space. When a child sits in a chair that is just his size he is more confident and able to focus on his activities. Child size furniture can be expensive but you can save a lot by finding them used or you can get creative and use what you have available (we used a file folder as a mini table for the longest time!). Stools are great for cultivating independence as they help your child to do a lot for themselves that they would otherwise need help with (reaching the sink, removing clothing, helping with cooking).



Choose Toys Wisely

When selecting or deciding whether to keep a toy remember that simple is good. Choose toys that will foster imagination and discovery rather than toys that move or make noise. In fact, get rid of (or take the batteries out of) all battery-powered toys. As infant expert Magda Gerber (http://www.magdagerber.org/) said “Active toys make passive children; passive toys make active children.” And active children are wonderful at discovering fun and entertaining activities that will keep them engaged! Here are some ideas for toys and stations that you can incorporate into your child’s play space.http://mamanatural.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Depositphotos_boy-montessori.jpg (http://mamanatural.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Depositphotos_boy-montessori.jpg)


Montessori style grasping toys (http://amzn.to/18ik1Up)
Montessori (rolling cylinder)
Textures basket
Containers to be opened and closed. Recycled food containers are great for this.
Art table. Add crayons, paper, stickers, and scissors in neat containers. You can opt for washable crayons, for easier cleanup.
Dress up basket. Collect old clothes, costumes, scarves etc.
Nature tray. Go outside and pick up a few leaves, pinecones, rocks etc.
Blocks (http://amzn.to/18Wa1Eb)
Cars or trains
Books
Musical instruments (http://amzn.to/1bbQqPN)
Kitchen with play food (http://amzn.to/18yZOiY), pots and pans, broom and dust pan (http://amzn.to/18csGLb), and dust rag.
Puzzles
Sensory materials that your child can put her hands in. Offer different spoons, cups or other tools for her to manipulate the materials with. Some ideas: sand, rice, water, beans, play dough, ooblek (http://www.instructables.com/id/Oobleck/).
Sorting or matching trays (http://www.howwemontessori.com/how-we-montessori/2012/10/sorting-and-matching.html).


How to Cultivate Self-Directed Play

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/237x/4d/bc/69/4dbc693a67e384421a5c42c8b0aede3d.jpg (http://gold-silver.us//www.pinterest.com/pin/277182552039941446/repin/x/)


Observe and follow your child as they explore their surroundings. You will learn more about which materials she enjoys and which ones she ignores (those can be put away).

Resist the urge to help. Allow your child to struggle a bit. It’s all part of learning. Don’t show them the “right way” to use a material. Let them explore! If you choose materials that are age appropriate then your child will be able to use them without your help anyway. There will be times when you may need to offer some support and that’s ok too.
Don’t interrupt. Children are doing very important work when they are playing. When you let them explore their environment on their own terms they are learning that what they are interested in is worth being interested in.
Trust him. Let him decide what to play with, how to play with it, and for how long. Some days he may focus on one toy for a long time, others he may jump from one toy to another. Both are ok. The important thing is that he learns to follow his inner compass and develop the ability to direct his own play for long periods of time. It will take time and effort but soon you will find that your child is so focused on what she’s doing that you can read a few lines of the newspaper, get dinner started, or just relax… Phew!

[BrewTech]

I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure TeeVee for a kid that young is going to screw them up. They'll turn out like me, LOL.
[/LIST]
http://www.raisesmartkid.com/pre-natal-to-1-year-old/2-articles/22-the-effects-of-tv-on-baby

Whaddaya mean "you're no expert"? Of COURSE you're an expert, just like everyone here! Hell, there's enough expertise on this forum that we could just rename it "expertsoneverything.com"!

;)

ETA: just checked, domain name not in use! ;)

[Shami-Amourae]

Whaddaya mean "you're no expert"? Of COURSE you're an expert, just like everyone here! Hell, there's enough expertise on this forum that we could just rename it "expertsoneverything.com"!

;)

Usually when someone says they're an expert they don't know what the Hell they are talking about.

Source: I'm an expert.

[Cebu_4_2]

I did some research. Basically I think the message is to allow the child to discover and explore as much as possible on their own.

I remember my cousin was put on that Baby Einstein program when he was little and didn't turn out so smart. That stuff is a total sham.

This might help you:





http://www.mamanatural.com/how-to-raise-a-low-media-child/




Enter Mindy

We all know that screen time in excess can be harmful to infants and toddlers, and that it isn’t great for older children either. And I would guess that there aren’t too many parents out there that want their children to struggle with things like obesity, ADHD or or cognitive and language development; so why are so many young children still watching too much TV? Well, because parents are tired! Caregiving—especially quality caregiving—requires a ridiculous amount of attention, patience and energy. It’s totally understandable to want a few moments of peace every day to (gasp!) use the bathroom alone. So, are a few minutes of television going to irrevocably damage your child? Of course not. But what if you could have a break without using the TV or your iPhone to entertain your little one?


Luckily there IS a way to have a low media (or media free) child without losing your mind. The answer is…


Self-directed play!

Self-directed or independent play is play chosen, initiated and directed by the child. When your child is able to engage in independent play, being with your child becomes less demanding. You are no longer the entertainment. You can sit back and just observe what your child is exploring. You may be able to read, check your email, work, eat chocolate—whatever—and all while he plays and explores. What a relief! Cultivating intrinsically motivated, independent exploration does more than just give parents a break though. Self-directed play builds social and emotional health, confidence, creativity, self-discipline and problem solving skills. TV can’t even touch those awesome benefits! In fact, TV damages a child’s instinct for discovery and self-directed play. Not only is increased TV viewing linked to shorter attention spans (http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2010/07/05/video-games-and-tv-linked-to-decreased-attention-span/), but TV viewing encourages the need and desire to be entertained over interest in discovery and exploration. So the more TV they watch the less they are able to engage in self-directed play and the more they “need” TV. Well, that’s a bummer. Luckily, self-directed play can take care of your need for a break as well as encourage your child to engage in more self-directed play! So, the 10 million dollar question is: how do you get your child to play independently?



Turn Off the TV

As I said, watching TV can actually decrease children’s ability to engage in self-directed play so stopping TV viewing is an obvious first step. Some families will find that going cold turkey works best while others gradually wean TV watching out of their child’s daily schedule. It will also depend on your child’s age. The AAP (http://www.aap.org/en-us/advocacy-and-policy/aap-health-initiatives/pages/media-and-children.aspx) recommends no TV for children under 2, and no more than 1-2 hours a day for older children. If you need some help breaking a TV habit this article (http://www.janetlansbury.com/2012/07/how-to-break-your-toddlers-tv-habit/) written by Janet Lansbury is very useful.


Create a Safe and Engaging Environment

The way you design your environment will depend on many factors but here are some guidelines to get you started. Don’t be overwhelmed; there are many inexpensive ways to create an appealing environment for your child. Be creative!

Safety is the number one concern. If you want to be able to leave the room or focus your attention elsewhere, the environment must be 100% safe. This might mean gating off unsafe rooms or gating an area of your living room for the child to enjoy. If you can, an outdoor space is wonderful! If you have an open floor plan, a wood stove or lots of stairs it can be challenging but gates, outlet covers and drawer locks are your friends! Organize your child’s play space so that it is engaging and orderly. Children are especially sensitive to disorder. Keeping things neat, tidy and uncluttered (as best you can!) helps your child to stay focused. Instead of putting toys into large toy boxes, place materials in smaller baskets, on trays or on shelves. This makes viewing and choosing materials easy (learning to put them away is much easier too). Make sure all materials are accessible to your child (they don’t have to ask you to get something down) but remember that if they are not using a material appropriately you can always put it away for another day. Find a balance between enough toys to offer choices but not too many so that your child feels overwhelmed or overstimulated. When there are too many toys children tend to play with each one for a shorter time. You can store excess toys and rotate them out depending on what she is most interested in. When you rotate these toys back in it’s like having brand new toys! Child sized tables and chairs are a great addition to the play space. When a child sits in a chair that is just his size he is more confident and able to focus on his activities. Child size furniture can be expensive but you can save a lot by finding them used or you can get creative and use what you have available (we used a file folder as a mini table for the longest time!). Stools are great for cultivating independence as they help your child to do a lot for themselves that they would otherwise need help with (reaching the sink, removing clothing, helping with cooking).

Choose Toys Wisely

When selecting or deciding whether to keep a toy remember that simple is good. Choose toys that will foster imagination and discovery rather than toys that move or make noise. In fact, get rid of (or take the batteries out of) all battery-powered toys. As infant expert Magda Gerber (http://www.magdagerber.org/) said “Active toys make passive children; passive toys make active children.” And active children are wonderful at discovering fun and entertaining activities that will keep them engaged! Here are some ideas for toys and stations that you can incorporate into your child’s play space.


Montessori style grasping toys (http://amzn.to/18ik1Up)
Montessori (rolling cylinder)
Textures basket
Containers to be opened and closed. Recycled food containers are great for this.
Art table. Add crayons, paper, stickers, and scissors in neat containers. You can opt for washable crayons, for easier cleanup.
Dress up basket. Collect old clothes, costumes, scarves etc.
Nature tray. Go outside and pick up a few leaves, pinecones, rocks etc.
Blocks (http://amzn.to/18Wa1Eb)
Cars or trains
Books
Musical instruments (http://amzn.to/1bbQqPN)
Kitchen with play food (http://amzn.to/18yZOiY), pots and pans, broom and dust pan (http://amzn.to/18csGLb), and dust rag.
Puzzles
Sensory materials that your child can put her hands in. Offer different spoons, cups or other tools for her to manipulate the materials with. Some ideas: sand, rice, water, beans, play dough, ooblek (http://www.instructables.com/id/Oobleck/).
Sorting or matching trays (http://www.howwemontessori.com/how-we-montessori/2012/10/sorting-and-matching.html).


How to Cultivate Self-Directed Play

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/237x/4d/bc/69/4dbc693a67e384421a5c42c8b0aede3d.jpg (http://gold-silver.us//www.pinterest.com/pin/277182552039941446/repin/x/)


Observe and follow your child as they explore their surroundings. You will learn more about which materials she enjoys and which ones she ignores (those can be put away).

Resist the urge to help. Allow your child to struggle a bit. It’s all part of learning. Don’t show them the “right way” to use a material. Let them explore! If you choose materials that are age appropriate then your child will be able to use them without your help anyway. There will be times when you may need to offer some support and that’s ok too.
Don’t interrupt. Children are doing very important work when they are playing. When you let them explore their environment on their own terms they are learning that what they are interested in is worth being interested in.
Trust him. Let him decide what to play with, how to play with it, and for how long. Some days he may focus on one toy for a long time, others he may jump from one toy to another. Both are ok. The important thing is that he learns to follow his inner compass and develop the ability to direct his own play for long periods of time. It will take time and effort but soon you will find that your child is so focused on what she’s doing that you can read a few lines of the newspaper, get dinner started, or just relax… Phew!



Seems I am following the basics here. 1st kid is 18 and I only had weekend control til 16. Also no media for him.

[Twisted Titan]

I would concur with self directed play as much as possible

But when you do want to concede at get videos

The three i recommend are

Franklin and friends
Maggie and the Ferocious Beast
Blues Clues
Oswald


All three a educational Blue being the most what i like most about them is there is no properganda the characters are respectful,no hard words, lots of coperation, and no white guilt / bashing


The more i think of it.....i can better understand why they all went defunct because they didnt posion young minds fast enough.


There are lots of old episodes you can rip off of youtube for free.

[Spectrism]

As they get a little older, the Odyssey tapes/ cds are quite good.

http://www.aiowiki.com/wiki/Main_Page

[madfranks]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre? My kids always loved that one.

[Dogman]

Oldy but goody!

Willard !

A fine story about a young man and his pet rat !

;)

[singular_me]

If you believe in reincarnation and thus spiritual evolution of the souls, first it would be useful to know if your kid is a Indigo. if not, well forget about it.

unfortunately the topic has been highjacked by the new age movement. But as much as reincarnation is a field of investigation onto itself, I wouldnt discount it, as a shift in consciousness is essential to get rid of the NWO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUp2EWsGs3I

[ximmy]

Every anglo home should have these classics in them for the kids...

Willy Wonka & the chocolate factory (1971)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78gt7pfjlCU

Tom Sawyer (1973)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yqzIPjRv2k

....

[ximmy]

Sound of Music (1965)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vtq9t08ktU

Chitty chitty bang bang (1968)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQgXccbxHbM

[monty]

http://youtu.be/uy1lzFu34Xo

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

[Cebu_4_2]

http://youtu.be/uy1lzFu34Xo

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Holey 11 hours!

Mark Twain was involved in creating the linotype machine which I discovered when I tried to use the thing and researched how it was supposed to work. Hot lead spraying on my leg a few times taught me to not like that thing much. I eventually figured it out by trial and error over a month or so. Many many stress headaches, had to learn because the shop was 100% letterpress at the time and our regular supplier quit the day after I bought the shop.

Here is a picture of it, not my pic but same machine... could in fact be my old machine:

http://www.mccunecollection.org/images/Equipment/Linotype%20Model%208/%5B01%5D%20Front%20View.jpg

[Serpo]

http://marcmyers.typepad.com/.a/6a00e008dca1f08834016304dc64c3970d-800wi

[Cebu_4_2]

Every anglo home should have these classics in them for the kids...

Willy Wonka & the chocolate factory (1971)
This made her cry half way through....

Tom Sawyer (1973)
Showed no interest right now

....

...

[Cebu_4_2]

http://marcmyers.typepad.com/.a/6a00e008dca1f08834016304dc64c3970d-800wi

Absolutely no televitz here, just sometimes watch movies for family night. Usually educational in nature. I got rid of all my cds/dvds when my boy was around 15 and I knew I would never watch them again... I was wrong.

I like your Sig, have any links?

[Serpo]

Absolutely no televitz here, just sometimes watch movies for family night. Usually educational in nature. I got rid of all my cds/dvds when my boy was around 15 and I knew I would never watch them again... I was wrong.

I like your Sig, have any links?

https://www.google.com/search?q=Boron+will+inactivate+fluoride&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

[Shami-Amourae]

https://www.google.com/search?q=Boron+will+inactivate+fluoride&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Just a couple drops in a meal or drink...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001ECXJ5Q

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71GoRd-IwUL._SL1500_.jpg

[Cebu_4_2]

Just a couple drops in a meal or drink...


So from what I quickly looked up a 1/8 teaspoon of borax per liter in conjunction with magnesium (epsom salt) and a hot foot soak should do wonders. Tried the epsom soak way to strong and shed a ton of old skin debris. Still looking into this but I think the combination might be good. Found a foot soak tub at a garage sale for $2.00, wife asked if they would take a dollar and yes. 100% works and saved about 59 bux plus tax.

[monty]

http://youtu.be/uy1lzFu34Xo

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Actually it is an e-book and is suited for 10 years and older.

Audio book.

[Cebu_4_2]

Actually it is an e-book and is suited for 10 years and older.

Audio book.

Thanks Monty, I have 9 years to work forward to. Looks enticing though.

[monty]

Thanks Monty, I have 9 years to work forward to. Looks enticing though.

I got a copy for my 10th birthday. I really enjoyed it. I think it and Tom Sawyer have been banned from schools for being racist.

[Cebu_4_2]

I think it and Tom Sawyer have been banned from schools for being racist.

Banned Books Awareness: “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”

Posted on 2 September, 2012 (http://bannedbooks.world.edu/2012/09/02/banned-books-awareness-the-protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion/)
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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, also referred to as The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion, is an anti-Semitic hoax first published in Russia in 1903 claiming to document the minutes of a late 19th-century meeting of Jewish leaders discussing their goal of global Jewish dominion by “subverting the morals of Gentiles” and through the control of the press and the world’s economies.

It was translated into multiple languages and distributed internationally in the early part of the 20th century.
In the United States, The Protocols was circulated amid American governmental circles, specifically diplomatic and military, as part of the First Red Scare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Red_Scare) (1917-1920) and it would appear in the Public Ledger (http://javascript<strong></strong>:void(0)) as a pair of serialized newspaper articles in 1919, but all references to Jews were replaced with references to Bolsheviki as an exposé by the journalist and subsequently by highly-respected Columbia University School of Journalism dean Carl W. Ackerman. A typescript copy is archived by the Hoover Institute.

Famed American industrialist Henry Ford funded the printing of 500,000 copies that were distributed throughout the United States in the 1920s. From 1920 to 1922, Ford also published a series of anti-Semitic articles titled “The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem”, in The Dearborn Independent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dearborn_Independent), a newspaper he owned. In 1921, Ford cited evidence of a Jewish threat and said, “The only statement I care to make about The Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on. They are 16 years old, and they have fitted the world situation up to this time.” In 1927, however, he was under court order to retract his publication and apologize; he complied, claiming his assistants had misled him. He remained, however, an admirer of Nazi Germany.

Adolf Hitler would publicize the text as if it were a valid document even though it was exposed as a fake in 1921. After the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933, he ordered the text to be studied in German classrooms. Historian Norman Cohn suggested that Hitler used the Protocols as his primary justification for initiating the Holocaust.

It is still widely available today and continues to be presented by some as a genuine document despite widespread proof by scholars and historians that it is a hoax and blatant plagiarism. Source material for the deceptive claims includes Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dialogue_in_Hell_Between_Machiavelli_and_Monte squieu), an 1864 political satire by Maurice Joly, and a chapter from Biarritz (http://javascript<strong></strong>:void(0)), an 1868 novel by the anti-Semitic German novelist Hermann Goedsche, which had been translated into Russian in 1872.

Political leaders have not referred to The Protocols since World War II; the exception to this is in the Middle East, where several Muslim regimes and cultural leaders throughout the end of the 20th century endorsed it as authentic, including Anwar Sadat of Egypt, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, and Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi. The 1988 charter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_Covenant) of Hamas states that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion “embodies the plan of the Zionists.”

Recent endorsements in the 21st century have been made by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Ekrima Sa’id Sabri, and the Education Ministry of Saudi Arabia; televised dramatizations of The Protocols have appeared on Egyptian television and on Al-Manar (Hezbollah) television.

In 2003 the manuscript library at Alexandria, Egypt reportedly displayed an Arabic edition of The Protocols as an example of a Jewish holy book and in 2005 Iranian booksellers displayed copies of The Protocols and The International Jew at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Wal-Mart was criticized for selling The Protocols of the Elders of Zion on its website with a description that suggested it might be genuine. It was removed in September 2004 as “a business decision.”

In 2010, Italian philosopher and novelist Umberto Eco released his novel The Cemetery of Prague (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cemetery_of_Prague) which contains a fictional account of the origin of The Protocols forgery.

It is most often found today on websites either as a downloadable document or for order as a paperback. Powerhouse bookseller Amazon continues to list a copy (http://www.amazon.com/Protocols-Learned-Elders-Sergyei-Nilus/dp/0944379427) for sale on its popular service as well.

A review posted on the website in 2000, in which the company addressed some of the widespread, yet patently false, internet rumors that the company endorses the book and gives it a favorable rating the company states:
“Does Amazon.com sell this book? Of course we do, along with millions of other titles. The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is classified under “controversial knowledge” in our store, along with books about UFOs, demonic possession, and all manner of conspiracy theories. You can also find books in other sections of Amazon.com’s online bookstore that analyze The Protocols‘ fraudulent origins and its tragic historical role in promoting anti-Semitism and Jewish persecution, including A Lie and a Libel: The History of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0803242433/$%7B0%7D).

Should Amazon.com sell The Protocols and other controversial works? As a bookseller, Amazon.com strongly believes that providing open access to written speech, no matter how hateful or ugly, is one of the most important things we do. It’s a service that the United States Constitution protects, and one that follows a long tradition of booksellers serving as guardians of free expression in our society.

Amazon.com believes it is censorship not to sell certain books because we believe their message repugnant, and we would be rightly criticized if we did so. Therefore, we will continue to make this book and other controversial works available in the United States and everywhere else, except where they are prohibited by law.

Furthermore, because we strongly believe that the appropriate response to repugnant speech is not censorship, but more speech, we will continue to allow readers, authors, and publishers to express their views about the books and other products we offer on our Web site.”

Apple’s iTunes Bookstore has been the latest to face heated criticism for selling the book despite the publisher’s description clearly labeling it as a fraud:

“The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is the one of the world’s most famous conspiracy theories. It is a statement of prejudice and paranoia, a fake historical record and a grand hoax all rolled into one.”

Earlier this month The Conference of European Rabbis demanded that Apple remove the book, which is being sold as a 99-cent eBook through iTunes.

They say that the book’s availability will make it easier to be used by “bigots and conspiracy theorists,” according to comments in a report by USA Today.

In a statement, Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, conference president, said that “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion can and should be available for academics to study in its proper context, but to disseminate such hateful invective as a mobile app is dangerous and inexcusable,” but he maintains that the app is being sold in a context aimed at “propagating hatred.”
Apple has been through this before, when, in 2009, Hitler’s “Mein Kamph” made a brief appearance as an iTunes app (http://www.jpost.com/HealthAndSci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=159905) before Apple quickly took it down, according to the Jerusalem Post.

The question remains, how far should Apple, Amazon, or other publishers go in restricting controversial material?

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