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Weblog editors found some gems on the web in the year 2000. Here are some of our favourites.

Only in America

America fails to decide
Even before the leadership of the free world went down to a recount in Disneyland, The Onion had nailed its colours to the mast. Its prediction turned out to be uncannily accurate.

Complete Bushisms
Brain-disengaged tongue-twisters by George W Bush, compiled by Slate magazine.

Doofy Dubya
Watch the next US president, pupils wandering and glass of unknown liquid in hand, being compassionately conservative about a couple of his friends at a wedding in 1992 - for the record, eight years after he kicked the booze. From The Smoking Gun. Quicktime plug-in required.

The Yankifier
Here's a new marketing opportunity, suggested Satire Wire - sifting non-American content out of the web.

Weblog: US election coverage

Special report: US elections

The fall of Milosevic

Vote Slobodan
From Beograd.com, a hilarious party election broadcast by JUL, a party controlled by the wife of Slobodan Milosevic. RealPlayer required.

When the brakes came off
Eastern Europe news weekly Transitions Online documented the irrepressible force of numbers that converged on Belgrade in October.

Was it a revolution?
From the New York Review of Books, an incisive overview of the insurrection in Belgrade. If the overthrowing of Slobodan Milosevic was a "revolution", the article says, then it was like no other.

Special report: Serbia

Climate change

The temperature of the earth ...
Grist magazine's Heat Beat is an excellent resource for following climate change, month by month.

.. and what we're doing about it
Bill Nye of the Union of Concerned Scientists produced a series of off-the-wall video reports of the Hague conference. His final film sends up the acronym-laden complexities of the political process: no wonder Madame Voynet felt tired.

Special report: global warming

Aids in Africa

Safe passage
Christine Chiweshe, a black middle-class 35-year-old from Zimbabwe, argues for the sexual rights of women in a country ravaged by Aids. With three of her four siblings dead and their six children living with her parents, Chiweshe declares that she will not be "a safe passage for babies" herself. From the Zimbabwe Independent.

The virginity tests
Eighty-five South African girls, aged from five to 22, lie in a football field to have their virginity "tested" for a fee. Three fail the test, the others get a certificate for their pains.

Special report: Aids crisis

Globalisation

Corporate imperialism
Speaking to Squall, Tony Benn says globalisation is "imperialism under a new form, only the agents of imperialism are companies rather than countries ... imperialism of course is coming back now, and it really is, I think, a direct counter-attack on democracy."

The global protests
Adbusters tracks the relative success of two very different groups of protesters - those complaining about the effects of corporate rule, and those complaining about the price of fuel.

Special report: globalisation

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