Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Countries Offering U.S. Aid for Katrina - SERBIA IS NOT ON THE LIST!

Many nations have offered the United States aid in dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, including an agreement by European governments to release 2 million barrels of oil per day from strategic reserves. Other offers include:

-- AFGHANISTAN: $100,000.

-- ARGENTINA: Six disaster relief and rescue coordinators.

-- AUSTRALIA: $8 million to American Red Cross.

-- AUSTRIA: Water pumps, plastic sheets, cots; An Austrian Red Cross team is in Houston to set up a communication network.

-- BAHAMAS: $50,000 for U.S. victims and additional aid to Bahamian citizens in stricken areas.

-- BANGLADESH: $1 million.

-- BELGIUM: Medical, logistics, civil engineering and diving teams, pumps, generators.

-- BRAZIL: Willing to contribute but awaiting specific request from United States.

-- BRITAIN: 500,000 ready-to-eat meals; medical experts, search-and-rescue gear, marine engineers, high-volume pumps.

-- CANADA: three navy ships, a coast guard vessel, several Sea King helicopters and about 1,000 personnel, including navy divers to help clear waterways and inspect damaged levees.

-- CHILE: Plans to contact U.S. authorities to see what is needed.

-- CHINA: $5 million to aid survivors. Says it will help with medical treatment and epidemic prevention if necessary.

-- COLOMBIA: Offers rescue and paramedic teams.

-- CUBA: Offers 1,100 doctors.

-- CZECH REPUBLIC: Rescue teams, field hospital and pumps and water processing equipment, as well as transport planes.

-- DENMARK: Water purification units.

-- DOMINICA: Police to help patrol disaster zone.

-- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Offers rescue workers, doctors and nurses.

-- EL SALVADOR: 100 army troops, including medical personnel and engineers.

-- FINLAND: A search-and-rescue team.

-- FRANCE: Flying in 300 tents, 980 cots; 60 generators, three water purification units; 30 water pumps. Offering aircraft and two ships with helicopters, disaster unit with 20 soldiers, civil defense detachment of 35 people.

-- GERMANY: 40,000 meals; 30,000 more coming. Offering medical supplies, vaccination teams, water purification equipment, medical evacuation aircraft and crisis management experts.

-- GREECE: Two cruise ships to help house homeless, as well as relief supplies and rescue crews.

-- GUATEMALA: 80 specialists from army, health and interior departments.

-- HONDURAS: 134-member medical and rescue brigade. Mayor of capital, Tegucigalpa, offers a similar group.

-- INDIA: $5 million to American Red Cross. Offering medical teams with experience in waterborne diseases and to set up community water purification plants.

-- INDONESIA: Medical team of 45 doctors and 155 other staff and 10,000 blankets.

-- IRAN: Offers to dispatch unspecified aid through its Red Crescent agency if needed.

-- ISRAEL: Sending medical team. Offering hundreds of doctors, trauma experts and other medical staff as well as field hospital.

-- ITALY: 300 cots, 300 blankets, 600 sheets, a water pump, six life rafts, 11,200 chlorine tablets, first-aid kits; baby food.

-- JAPAN: $1 million in aid and offers to send tents, blankets, power generators and portable water tanks.

-- KOSOVO: $500,000.

-- KUWAIT: $500 million worth of oil and other aid.

-- LATVIA: A disaster relief team, financial aid, blankets, bottled water.

-- LITHUANIA: Rescue teams, meals, building materials.

-- LUXEMBOURG: two jeeps, 1,000 cots, 2,000 blankets.

-- MEXICO: Navy ship carrying food, amphibious vehicles, helicopters and medical team to arrive Wednesday. Fifteen army vehicles carrying food, health brigades, water-treatment plants and mobile kitchens with capacity to feed 7,000 people a day heading to U.S. border. Government sets up bank accounts to collect donations and donates $1 million. Offer comes from search-and-rescue group called "topos" -- "moles" -- organized by youths digging through collapsed buildings after Mexico City's 1985 earthquake.

-- THE NETHERLANDS: A frigate with water, medicine, helicopters and beds to arrive Wednesday. Three giant water pumps have been offered, as well as expertise in dike and water engineering, and forensic ID help.

-- NEW ZEALAND: $1.4 million. Government has also offered to send an urban search and rescue team, a disaster victim identification team or recovery personnel.

-- NICARAGUA: Flooding and sanitation experts.

-- NORWAY: Navy divers, 10,000 blankets and unspecified financial aid.

-- ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES: $25,000 to American Red Cross.

-- PAKISTAN: Doctors and paramedics.

-- PANAMA: 120,000 pounds of bananas for hurricane victims.

-- PERU: 80 to 100 doctors with expertise in tropical diseases and disasters. But President Alejandro Toledo said Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld requested Peru instead send medical supplies and canned foods. Peru will try to comply.

-- THE PHILIPPINES: Philippines Red Cross donating $25,000. Government offers 25-man relief team.

-- PORTUGAL: Lending 2 percent of its strategic oil reserve, equivalent to 500,000 barrels of oil.

-- QATAR: $100 million in humanitarian assistance.

-- ROMANIA: Two teams of medical experts.

-- RUSSIA: Three transport planes with generators, food, tents, blankets, drinking water and medical supplies.

-- SAUDI ARABIA: Offers to increase oil production to replace shortfalls caused by Katrina.

-- SINGAPORE: Three CH-47 transport helicopters and 38 soldiers in training unit at Grand Prairie, Texas, to Fort Polk, La., to work with Texas Army National Guard in disaster relief operations, including resupply and airlift missions.

-- SLOVAKIA: Water purification gear, cots, water.

-- SLOVENIA: Cots, bedding, first-aid kits.

-- SOUTH KOREA: $30 million in government and civilian assistance and sending search team and relief supplies.

-- SPAIN: Firefighters and equipment, medical staff, search-and-rescue expertise, tents, cots, blankets, water treatment units, heating equipment, meals, water, generators.

-- SRI LANKA: $25,000 to American Red Cross.

-- SWEDEN: First-aid kits, blankets, meals, generators, plastic sheeting, 2 water purification units and instructors; aircraft ready for immediate deployment.

-- SWITZERLAND: Blankets, 50 tons of aid supplies, two logistic experts from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, two doctors and two water specialists.

-- TAIWAN: $2 million.

-- THAILAND: At least 60 doctors and nurses along with supplies of rice.

-- TRINIDAD: Local Red Cross sending 10-15 relief workers.

-- URUGUAY: Two mobile water purification units and two tons of powdered milk.

-- VENEZUELA: Offers 1 million barrels of gasoline, $5 million in cash, water purification plants, rescue volunteers and more than 50 tons of canned food and water. Government's Citgo Petroleum Corp. pledges $1 million.

-- UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Tents, clothing, food and other aid.

35 comments:

Anonymous said...

They forgot Albania with $700,000. It's a poor country too but it chiped in.

Anonymous said...

And this comes as a surprise for the article poster? Serbia doesn't know how to help, too busy making trouble everywhere else - any serbs planing to bring up americas war on terror to prove me wrong, don't!

Anonymous said...

ooops!

Anonymous said...

What i find amazing is a country like Venezuela, that has been quite affected by US policy still helps out.

It shows US has many friends, at least the US people if not the govt.

Thank you

Anonymous said...

[snip]
...blankets.

-- IRAN: Offers to dispatch unspecified aid through its Red Crescent agency if needed.

-- ISRAEL...
[snip]

Iran offers to dispatch 'unspecified' aid? I wonder does it glow bright green? ;-)

Anonymous said...

[snip]
...blankets.

-- IRAN: Offers to dispatch unspecified aid through its Red Crescent agency if needed.

-- ISRAEL...
[snip]

Iran offers to dispatch 'unspecified' aid? I wonder does it glow bright green? ;-)

Anonymous said...

LOL that's a good one...still though I'm quite impressed they are :)

Anonymous said...

can u tell the world where you got the $500K in teh first place??? was it from selling drugs or pimping out your women in london and other cities accross europe? or was it money you got from selling off serbian property and companies that serbs built for you?? which one is it?

Anonymous said...

Young Serb, it looks as if you are enraged by the Albanian culture. Perhaps I sense a bit of jealousy there. Please take a good look at your self and your people before you start analyzing Albanians. I believe you are in shit up to your nose and you are trying to avoid it at all cost, even if that means propagandizing against the Albanians. Well, a word to the wise, shit will not disappear unless you clean it up. Worry about yourself before you start collecting false facts about Albanians in a desperate attempt to make them look bad at the top of their game.

Anonymous said...

- This is perhaps the money that Albanians were using in the past to bribe the Serbian government and police to allow them to operate their small businesses, their bakeries, their food markets. They no longer have to bribe anyone to exist, therefore it may be considered a surplus. :-)

- Or perhaps this is a portion of the money that the United States provided to Kosova in 1999 (while they were bombing the shit out of Serbia). No wonder, the grudge will not allow Serbs (a.k.a. "НЕБЕСКИ НАРОД" - Heavenly Nation)to offer aid.


"07/27/99- Updated 09:58 AM ET

U.S. offers $500 million in aid to Kosovo
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States will provide up to $500 million in food, shelter and other humanitarian aid for Kosovo civilians rebuilding their lives following destruction by Serb forces. "

We will never forget!

Anonymous said...

Since Iran and Cuba have offered aid, and Serbia and North Korea are missing from the list, I suggest Rummy updates his Axis of Evil list. Just a suggestion.

Anonymous said...

To the Serb loser:

We can talk where we got the $500.000 when you tell me where is my TV set that you stole from my house during the NATO bombing. When you tell me where is my bed, my CD player, my curtains, my oven, my fridge, my freezer, my DVD player, my radio, my PC... where is my car (an old Golf 2, nevertheless in good working order) that you stole and drove to Serbia?

The only thing that you cowards left behind was the kettle for Albanian tea which was dumped in the garden. It was very simbolic, but I was really happy that there is something that makes me different to you cowards, and that day the difference was my tea kettle.

Disappear you coward!

Anonymous said...

Absurdities and Atrocities

I believe a blogg of this nature is an incredible outlet. It brings out the worst in the Serbs. They do not even know what they fight for: some absurd concept that dates back to some even more historically absurd time. Someone once said “ Those who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” This quote is perfect depictions of the Serb nation from their 5th century move to the Balkans and very much alive today. I wonder if the Byzantine brought them the Balkans (as Servants) by making them believe in absurdities. (By the way, original bed of Servs is modern day Iraq, who could have thought this, they brought their troubles with them to the Balkans. I think the Serbs are lucky the Illyrians allowed them to stay otherwise they would be Iraqis today. Come to think of it you owe everything to the Illyrian hospitality.)

Anonymous said...

hahah "albanian culture" hahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahha
i NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SEE THOSE TWO WORDS TOGETHER!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!! THAT IS SOOO FUNNY!!!

Anonymous said...

All Serbs believe what they hear. That's why they will never have the 'Greater Serbia' they wanted. They have no spirits! no money! and every word that comes out of their mouth is either a fantasy idea like greater serbia and a lie. LONG LIVE 'ALBANIAN KOSOVA' SERBS, IF YOU LIKE RUSSIA SO MUCH GO LIVE THERE!

Anonymous said...

What happened. No made up historical comments for our readers. Serbs came from the Ural mountains of Russia end of 6th cent. And yes, ALbanians were found by them in all of Kosova. Albania is a very generous country. They know how to return a favor and help. GOD BLESS ALL THE PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS AND MISSISSIPPI.

Anonymous said...

hahahahha SHOW ME ONE SOURCE THAT MENTIONS THE WORD "ALBANIAN" PRIOR TO THE 12th cen.!!!! SHOW ME!!!! HAHAHHAHAHAHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAH idiots. all the peoples from teh balkans have illiriyan, thracian, ancient greek blood in them, ALL of them do that is a FACT IDIOTASSSSSS!!!! ALBOS CAME FROM THE ALBANIA IN AZERI BAKU!!!!

Anonymous said...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Balkans

Continuity in Balkans

Despite the multiethnic nature of the Balkans, it seems that most inhabitants of the peninsula share common ancestors. Scientists feel that we will have a better picture of these ethnic trajectories within the next several years. The genetic marker M170 appears to have come from the Middle East to the Balkan region roughly 20,000 years ago. It seems today that this marker is unique to the Balkans area, though research suggests that about 80% of European genetic stock goes back to Paleolithic period.

Anonymous said...

Just yesterday they found a 10 thousand years old graveyard in Sovian this is in the Korca reagion. Yesterday they also found an ancient city which is 8 thousand years old form the Enkelei kingdom.

10 thousand years ago the Serbs didn't even exist. They were living the life of a big ape keeping company to cave bears in the URAL mountains.

Anonymous said...

if they found dinosaur remains too, would you claim you were a dinosaur?

Anonymous said...

that would explain the albanian features..

Anonymous said...

They found the remains of the oldest existing a$$ in the Ural mountains. That explains the Serbs' features.

Anonymous said...

ALBANIANS ARE ILLYRIAN. ALL NAMES WERE ILLYRIAN AT THE TIME THE WORLD WAS CREADTED. ALL SERBS PRIESTS KNOW IT AND ALL POLITICIANS KNOW IT EXCEPT SERB PEOPLE.

Anonymous said...

THE SERBS ARRIVED AT (ILLYRIA) AT END OF 6TH CENT. THEY ADOPTED ILLYRIA. WAS'NT BORN ILLYRIAN. YOU ARE ALL DUMB PEOPLE. YOU HAVE NO CLUE WHERE YOU CAME FROM. NONE OF YOU LOOK NORMAL OR LIVE NORMAL. ALL THE WARS YOU STARTED YOU LOST. GIVE IT UP.

Anonymous said...

RIGHT!

ALBANIANS ARE THE OLDEST, THEY CAME RIGHT AFTER THE AMOEBAS!

NO, THEY CREATED THE WORLD AND EVERYTHING ON IT!!

THEY ARE MASTERS OF ALL LIFE IN UNIVERSE AND EVERYBODY ELSE ARE DAMNED USURPERS!!!


Serbs and everybody alse must be freed from these Nazi fanatics, while there are still some left alive, at all cost!!

Anonymous said...

SERBS HAVE IN THEIR HISTORY: MILOSEVIC,KARADZIC,MLADIC,DRASKOVIC,SESELJ,RANKOVIC,KARADORDEVIC, NJEGOS DRAZA. ALL CRIMINALS. NOT ONE DID ANYTHING BUT CAUSE WAR. LOSE THE PEACE WIN THE WAR? HAS IT WORKED?

Anonymous said...

That's funny after 8 thousand years the albanian culture is still a$$ backwards and primative.

Anonymous said...

THAT MEANS YOU DEFEND THOSE CRIMINALS. YOU ARE PRIMITIVE AND RETARTED.

Anonymous said...

I'm not defending anybody, I just stating an observation. I was in Skopje, Macedonia recently on a job related visit and noticed how archaic the Albanians were. It's hard to believe the poster above said the Ablanian culture is 8000 years old. It's almost like time has past them by.

Anonymous said...

I think the Serbs are right - and not only because it would be stupid to send aid to someone who tried to bomb them to the stone age just a few years ago.

When I see Albania, Kosovo and all the other poor countries offer aid while they themselves get lots of aid I can only wonder. For me it doesn't make any sense at all. Just pumping around money and giving the diplomats yet another occasion to party.

Anonymous said...

IM ALBANIAN AMERICAN AND I CANT UNDERSTAND WHY OUR LEADERS ALWAYS ARGUE WITH ONE ANOTHER AND AT THE SAME TIME DON'T GVE A SHIT ABOUT US! YES MONEY IS ALWAYS THE ANSWER. BUT WHEN WILL THEY LEAVE THE POSTS. THEY MAKE US LOOK BAD .

Anonymous said...

why didnt they give that money locally for the Serbs to rebuild their churches if they care about a (Independant) multiethnic state?

lets not forget it was the Serbs and Tito's Yugoslavia that educated the Albanians...

you seem to know alot about war generals... what about ppl like Tesla? Andric? (ok debatable, but he tends to side with serbian side)...

Anonymous said...

It's obvious they don't give shit to the serbs you little prick..What did the serbs for the albanians? I tell you what...you are cowards that deserve nothing else but to be locked in a zoo along with your spiritual leaders like Milosevic ang Amfilohije. It is not brave to rape women and then kill them just like you did previously in Bosnia Croatia and then in Kosovo.You will all burn to hell for this.Anywhere you went you caused nothing else but war, hatred and crimes.And now you ask for help to rebuild your churches. It will NEVER happen !! Kosovo WILL become indipendent whether you like it or not !!!

Anonymous said...

...another 'flower' of the albanian nation speaks before me. Nice.
Independece is but a dream. Fact. It has been 6 long years and Pristina resembles Baghdad and Gaza. Get real. Your little narc/terrorist cesspool you've created will remain a protectorate for generations while the internatioanl community fails to teach you how to create a civil society.

Anonymous said...

"any serbs planing to bring up americas war on terror to prove me wrong, don't! "

Serbs don't have to. Americans do. We have intelligence officers over there for that very reason. Our troops are there for that very reason. Get real.