Protest Babes ArchivesRussian Protest Babes Demand a Volunteer ArmyFiled under: Protest Babes ~ RussiaOleg Kozlovsky's new English language blog reports on a recent protest march calling for the end of universal military conscription and slavery, as well as the horror of the infamous dedovshchina hazing rituals. After the jump, images of some of the hot babes who supported their Russian men by marching with them (in another act of blatant sexism, women are excluded from universal conscription). Nothing's sexier than a man out of an illegally and psychopathically imposed uniform!  del.icio.us |  digg |  technorati |  stumble upon |  furl |  redditAnnals of Anti-Protest Babes: Foxy Fascists Fuel Frenzy in DumaFiled under: Protest Babes ~ Russia"Heated debates in Russia's State Duma could be about to get even hotter. Among the brand new deputies to win seats are four female ex-athletes who have a history of letting it all hang out - for the cameras. All eyes are now on the Duma, to see whether these beautiful ladies bring a new kind of passion to political discussions." del.icio.us | digg | technorati | stumble upon | furl | redditDid you know John McCain's daughter has a blog?Filed under: Protest Babes ~ US Elections
Over on my blog La Russophobe we note that the U.S. Ambassador to Russia is going to be replaced, and call for McCain to have a role in naming his successor (if not actually becoming that successor should he fail to get the nomination). Did you know McCain's daughter (pictured, a major protest babe if there ever was one!) has a great blog relating her experiences on the campaign trail? Check it out! del.icio.us | digg | technorati | stumble upon | furl | redditThe Students of Venezuela, Roaring Like LionsFiled under: Protest Babes ~ Venezuela Writing in the International Herald Tribune Enrique Krauze, a Mexican historian, editor of the magazine Letras Libres and author of Mexico: Biography of Power states that "if President Hugo Chavez dreams of turning Venezuela into a Cuba with oil, the Venezuelans who oppose him have discovered the perfect antidote: the student movement." He concludes his scintillating and incisive essay by asking: "Can they remain united?" He answers: "Their enemy is formidable, and the chances of a violent or even tragic conclusion are very likely. But against the Chavez slogan, 'Socialism or Death,' they have their own: 'Liberty and Life.' In the battle of words they might have the upper hand. Perhaps they can take hope from a line by the Mexican poet-diplomat Octavio Paz: 'We must give back transparency to words.'" Click through the link to read the full details. 
The protest babes of Venezuela are much more than pretty faces. del.icio.us | digg | technorati | stumble upon | furl | redditThe Mother of All Protest Babes Takes Power in UkraineFiled under: Protest Babes ~ Ukraine It's getting to be just kind of pathetic how utterly incompetent the New York Times is when trying to report on Russia and the former Soviet bloc. On Sunday, it ran a huge story singing the praises of Kremlin lackey Viktor Yanukovich, assisted by an American political consultant in the parliamentary elections taking place in Ukraine, in his efforts to "remake his image" and thereby dupe the people of Ukraine into moving back into the position of a slave state of Russia. The ink was hardly dry on this "story" before Bloomberg was reporting that "Ukraine's reborn Orange alliance of former Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko [pictured above] and President Viktor Yushchenko is poised for victory after yesterday's parliamentary election, the latest results showed." The protest babe's side (that is, democracy) was kicking some major ass: "Timoshenko's bloc and Yushchenko's Our Ukraine party had 48.6 percent of the vote with 59 percent counted by noon, the Central Election Commission said on its Web site. Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's party and his Communist and Socialist allies had 38.2 percent." Later results showed the margin narrowing to about 6%. The AFP reported: "'The Orange Revolution has been saved by Tymoshenko's election results. She saved it from oblivion,' said Taras Kuzio, a Ukraine specialist at George Washington University in Washington, D.C." With 68 percent of the vote counted, Tymoshenko had 32.59 percent, vs. 31.62 percent for Yanukovych. Add in Yuschenko's smaller share, and the Orange side has a clear win. And let's not forget: The only reason Yanukovich, a convicted criminal, is even remotely competitive is that he has the support of Ukraine's communist party and the illicit backing of Russia, which is seeking to subvert his country's independence (it's useful, too, that his opposition is not totally united, as real democrats never are). That just about says it all. The man is pond scum.  Yanukovich (shown above) became unhinged in classic neo-Soviet style: "He said his party had been given 'carte blanche' to form the next government. 'We will ask all parties that entered the parliament to start talks with us,'' he said in a television interview. 'We will unite all pragmatic forces that will be able to unite Ukraine and stimulate economic development.'" The man had, in the best-case scenario, one-third of the country's support, and he claims carte blanche authority. Another demented neo-Soviet madman. How very predictable. Score one for the protest babes! Score one for our side! Monitor voting results here. UPDATE: In its Monday follow-up story, the Times still can't believe it could have been so wrong and insists Yanukovich could still outpoll Tymoshenko by a tiny margin, featuring the latter's photograph being congratulated by cheering supporters and totally ignoring Yushchenko, as if he might make common cause with Yanukovich and the Russians who poisoned him rather than Tymoshenko -- absolutely without any basis at all. Another dark, dark day for the gray lady. del.icio.us | digg | technorati | stumble upon | furl | redditSaudi Protest Babes Take it All OffFiled under: Middle East ~ Protest BabesIt's being reported that Saudi Arabia has also released its first music video, entitled "You Only have God to Count on." Strangely, the YouTube link given in the AP article is broken. Read more about it in the Arab News. If anyone knows the proper YouTube link, please let us know. A helpful reader supplied the unbroken link to the video, above. del.icio.us | digg | technorati | stumble upon | furl | redditThe Condom Corps: Annals of Chinese Protest BabesFiled under: Asia ~ Protest BabesClick the jump to see a fashion show spread on Chinese protest babes decked out in outfits (including chapeaux) made from condoms in an effort to promote safe sex. Courtesy of Pravda. These are women who truly come prepared -- especially the wedding gown! Now if only they could adopt the same pro-active attitude towards their government . . . del.icio.us | digg | technorati | stumble upon | furl | redditMerkel: The Mother of All Protest Babes?Filed under: Europe ~ Protest Babes The BBC reports that the above image "appears on the cover of the Polish weekly Wprost, and is titled 'Stepmother of Europe'" and that "a Polish council overseeing ethics in the media said the montage overstepped 'the limits of good taste.' The mocked up image shows Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski and his twin brother, President Lech Kaczynski, nuzzling at [German Chancellor Angela] Merkel's chest." The Beeb explains the background thusly: Ahead of the Brussels summit Poland demanded a boost to its EU voting rights at Germany's expense and threatened to refuse to sign up to a new EU treaty because it would give bigger countries such as Germany too much decision-making power. Poland eventually persuaded Ms Merkel, whose country oversaw the summit as the current EU president, to insert a clause into the treaty postponing the introduction of the voting system until 2014. In arguing for an extension of the vote system the Polish Prime Minister raised Poland's World War II suffering under Nazi Germany. And a day after Berlin said it wanted to heal the tensions exposed during the summit, Jaroslaw Kaczynski told Polish public radio "something very negative" is happening in Germany. He went on to compare modern-day Germany to the Nazi era of the 1930s but said Europeans did not dare speak out. "Like in an era which has already passed, the large majority of Europeans didn't have the courage to talk about it, it is the same today," Mr Kaczynski said. It seems Europe is just one big happy family after all! And there's obviously much Americans have to learn from them as far as cultural sophistication and savoir faire are concerned. del.icio.us | digg | technorati | stumble upon | furl | redditProtest Babe Tregubova SpeaksFiled under: Protest Babes ~ Russia
del.icio.us | digg | technorati | stumble upon | furl | redditIn Neo-Soviet Russia, Being a Protest Babe Will get you Blown UpFiled under: Europe ~ Protest Babes ~ Russia
She is a vivacious blonde who narrowly escaped death from a bomb which exploded outside her flat, thanks to a last-minute decision to give her hairstyle a final crimping before running out to a waiting cab. Now she sits in an anonymous hotel lobby in central London having fled Russia to seek political asylum in Britain because she is in "mortal danger". Her crime? Apparently having offended the master of the Kremlin with her bestselling writings that have accused President Vladimir Putin of stifling political and press freedoms in Russia. Tregubova published her account in October 2003 after spending three years travelling the country with President Boris Yeltsin, and another year covering his successor, Putin. "The main point was to say: Putin has killed freedom of speech in Russia. Of course, Yeltsin had his problems, but it was an era of freedom, an era of hope." Despite the pretense of strength that he projects, Vladimir Putin is desperately afraid of individual female writers, like Tregubova and Anna Politkovskaya, in just the same way that the Politburo, which claimed to be so strong, cowered before Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn. It's really quite pathetic. More images and info after the jump. del.icio.us | digg | technorati | stumble upon | furl | redditTurkish Protest Babes Defend SecularismFiled under: Protest BabesThere is something we the women can't stand the most: religious fundamentalism, which denies our individual liberty. There is, in my opinion, a religion that oppresses the women more than all the others in the recent history: Islam. And its political wing, Islamism, is a totalitarian ideology that makes of oppression of the woman its raison d'etre. That is why, the protest babes are always on the side of secularism, compared to the old, black-dressed Islamist women. Turkey also has its protest babes, and they are there to defend secularism against the Islamist threat.
del.icio.us | digg | technorati | stumble upon | furl | redditBelarusian Protest Babes Remember ChernobylFiled under: Belarus ~ Europe ~ Protest BabesEvery year, the Belarusian opposition holds a demonstration to commemorate the world's worst nuclear disaster, which to this day still affects their country. You will want to check out Charter 97 for all the details, including more picture and briefings on police beatings. However, I know what you're all actually interested in is the protest babes... so click "read more". del.icio.us | digg | technorati | stumble upon | furl | redditNow THAT'S a Protest Babe!Filed under: Protest Babes ~ Russia
According to the Russian internet publication Obozprevatel ("the Critic"), shown in the photographs are colleagues of the provocative Russian-Ukrainian performance artist Oleg Kulik who "conducted their own Moscow own protest action recently, commemorating not only the larger and more well-publicized 'March of the Dissidents' but also the 46th birthday of Mr. Kulik, as Oleg himself reports on Invivio.net." Apparently the group was inspired to enact their own unique sort of protest action by mounting a mattress on the roof of a car and then driving it through the streets of Moscow while copulating after witnessing the Moscow protest action last weekend led by dissident politicians Garry Kasparov and Mikhail Kasynanov as the "Other Russia" coalition. It seems they wanted to emphasize the "make-love-not-war" theme in the most visceral manner possible. According to the participants, they received a much more "sympathetic" response from the local police than was the case in regard to Kasparov's forces; the cops they passed only laughed and waived. Wisely, it seems, the participants somehow managed to refrain from referring to Vladmir Putin at all, not even as the nation's "phallic symbol." One can also see this as a significant commentary on the Other Russia protest itself; the ragtag protest groups that comprise it are badly organized, poorly funded, and receive scant Western media attention except when there is violence or when somebody prominent like Kasparov gets arrested. Their platforms are not widely available in English. The turnout for the followup protest in St. Petersburg after the major crackdown in Moscow was atrocious, easily crushed by the Kremlin's heavy-handed tactcs, and the action largely ineffective. State-owned Russian TV broadcast virtually nothing about the events, and one must wonder what the protesters would in fact have to do in order to register such coverage. del.icio.us | digg | technorati | stumble upon | furl | redditUkraine's Protest Babes Show Their True ColorsFiled under: Europe ~ Protest Babes ~ Ukraine del.icio.us | digg | technorati | stumble upon | furl | redditThe Mother of all Protest BabesFiled under: Protest Babes ~ UkraineSeeing as how we are having some difficulty finding examples of protest babes in the recent Yushchenko-Yanukovich brouhaha, perhaps some nostalgia is in order:  Above, a poster supporting Yulia Tymoshenko. The slogan reads: "ONLY FORWARD!" Interestingly, the same Russian phrase was used to translate "full throttle" in the movie "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle." No, this has not been "shopped." Its from her website. Below, an evocative wallpaper also from her site.  That's one choice for Ukraine, the anti-Russian one. Here's a supporter of her rival, Victor Yanukovich, convicted criminal and Russian sycophant:  The choice is yours, Ukraine! del.icio.us | digg | technorati | stumble upon | furl | redditWhither The Protest Babes?Filed under: Europe ~ Protest Babes ~ Ukraine
Supporters of the pro-Russian government coalition protest on Independence square in Kiev. Ukraine's pro-Western president Viktor Yushchenko held crisis talks Tuesday with his prime minister, as a deepening power struggle between the two rivals brought thousands onto the streets in protest.(AFP/Sergei Supinsky) Normally this isn't a problem, but Yahoo! News doesn't have a single picture of a protest babe on either side. Neither Yanukovich nor Yushchenko have babe backing, and Tymoshenko doesn't have the protest appeal like she used to. That must mean that, indeed, Ukraine is in a true crisis. del.icio.us | digg | technorati | stumble upon | furl | reddit |
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