Curious Worldview Podcast

117: Patrick Alley | Blood Diamonds, Kleptocrats, Very Bad People & The Investigations Of Global Witness

Dec 19, 2022

01:30:15

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Serendipity - The Secret of Life

04:28

The Kimberley Process - A Success Story

03:26

Benny Steinmetz and the Deal of the Century

03:43

Introduction

2min

What Was Your Life Like Up Until the Moment You Colluded in the London Pub?

3min

How Old Were You When Global Witness Was Birthed?

5min

How Did the Khmer Rouge Cut Away Their Illegal Supply of Money?

4min

What's the Short Answer to the Resource Curse?

3min

Sustainable Forest Management in the Tropics

2min

Climate Change and the Tropical Rainforests

2min

What's the State of the Tropical Rainforest?

2min

The Role of Banks in Offshore Finance

5min

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How Do You Manage Whistle Blowers?

4min

11.

Offshore Financing and Financial Secrecy

5min

12.

What's the Biggest Problem of Corruption?

4min

13.

Goethe's Bribery in the Congo

3min

14.

Dan Goetler, Benny Steinmets, and Ben Goettler

3min

15.

Why Do People Hate You?

2min

16.

Benny Steinmetz and the Deal of the Century

4min

17.

The Key Characters of Benny Steinmetz Group Resources

3min

18.

Don't Let Them Go Wrong, You Know?

4min

19.

The Problem With Diamonds in Angola

2min

20.

The Kimberley Process - A Success Story

3min

21.

The Globalization of Industry Corruption

2min

22.

Global Witness - What's the Key to Media Interest?

3min

23.

How Many Land and Environmental Defenders Are Killed Every Year?

3min

24.

Global Witness

2min

25.

Is There a Constant Concern About Donations?

3min

26.

Global Witness, You Know, I'm a Funder, Right?

2min

27.

I Don't Know Why Are We Not Funding a Lead?

3min

28.

Do You Feel the World Is Getting Better?

2min

29.

The Most Cancerous on the Planet and the Two Closest to My Heart

2min

30.

Serendipity - The Secret of Life

4min

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/patrick-alley/

Patrick Alley is a cofounder of an organisation called Global Witness which weeds out abuses of corruption, the environment and human rights across the world. Patrick recently wrote a book documenting these experiences and it all starts with the illegal timber trade in South-East Asia funding the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and making possible all the horror and violence of the Cambodian communists.

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