http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen02192004.html
Even before Mrs. Kerry married the wealthy John Heinz in 1966, her family's fortune is said to have rivaled and even exceeded that of Heinz. Although Mozambique's Marxist government nationalized Mr. Simoes-Ferreira's property and finances in Mozambique, his investments in DeBeers in South Africa were untouched.
In 1999, Mrs. Kerry, through her Heinz Family Philanthropies, attempted to broker a land development deal between an extreme right-wing Republican Texan billionaire and supporter of George W. Bush named James U. Blanchard III -- a past supporter of the right-wing Mozambican rebel group RENAMO and the pro-Bush Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC -- and the Mozambican government to develop a huge eco-tourist area south of Maputo to the Kwazulu Natal border of South Africa. The tourist mecca was to have included five star hotels and villas, floating casinos, golf courses, scuba diving schools, game fishing enterprises, and marinas. The deal collapsed after Blanchard died and some Mozambique politicians expressed their opposition to the deal. The area Blanchard and Mrs. Kerry hoped to develop was a primary zone of RENAMO guerrilla activity and includes one of Africa's last protected elephant areas, the Maputo Elephant Preserve. According to US intelligence sources, the area also attracted the attention of Zimbabwean diamond magnate John A. Bredenkamp, a former backer of RENAMO, who owns some of the same region's off-shore barrier islands, which he also hopes to develop into major resorts. The Kruger National Park in South Africa is planning to join with parks in neighboring Mozambique and Zimbabwe to form one of the world's largest parks, the "Transnational Park." It is this same area that attracted the interests of Blanchard and Mrs. Kerry and may have been an attempt to "privatize" one of Africa's last protected wildlife areas.
So with all the "ties that bind" the Kerrys to unsavory characters, whether accidental or intentional, one is reminded of the present dilemma with the crooked machinations of the Bushes, Cheneys, and their friends and associates. Kerry can do something to allay my fears about the aura, both perceived and real, that surrounds him and his friends. First of all, he can bring up on the campaign trail what he knows for a fact about the ties of the Bushes to international scams and scandals. Second, he must come clean about the Skull and Bones. Is whatever oath he took at "The Tomb" at Yale more important than the presidential oath of office? I think not.
>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>Subject: [lbo-talk] report: Teresa worse than Hillary
>Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:43:18 -0500
>
>John Kerry's Wife May Be Worse Than Hillary Clinton
>
>Summary: A report in a recent edition of WorldNetDaily describes the
>radical causes funded by Teresa Heinz Kerry. She appears to be even more
>overtly radical than New York Senator Hillary Clinton.
>
>Teresa Heinz Kerry, the Heinz ketchup heiress worth an estimated quarter of
>a billion dollars, has donated through the Howard Heinz Endowment, more
>than $4 million to the Tides Foundation. This foundation funds pro-Marxist
>anti-war groups, abortionists, the radical homosexual group ACT-UP, and
>even Islamist organizations such as the Council on American Islamic
>Relations.
>
>For more on Kerry's radical projects and views, access:
><http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37244>http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37244
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