Drowning Kiribati – News and views for Saturday 23 November

News and views noted along the way.

• Drowning Kiribati
• Buzzkill – Washington State discovers that it’s not so easy to create a legal marijuana economy.
• Stuxnet’s Secret Twin – “The real program to sabotage Iran’s nuclear facilities was far more sophisticated than anyone realized.”
• Machiavelli Was Right - “The shocking lesson of The Prince isn’t that politics demands dirty hands, but that politicians shouldn’t care.”
• India: Modi muscles in – “Even the politician’s admirers in the business community admit he could be a risky choice.”