There is no love lost between the Farc and the US: Washington put the guerrilla group on its list of terrorist organizations in 1997 and poured billions of dollars of military aid into a campaign to defeat them.
Her argument was to question why it is acceptable to discuss spending billions on HS2 to create links and work opportunities, but not on childcare.
After all, when it looked as if Scotland was thinking seriously about leaving the UK, billions of pounds were wiped off the stock market.
The union had been saved after a tumultuous end to the referendum campaign, which had seen billions wiped off the share prices of Scottish companies in the wake of a YouGov poll on 7 September giving the Yes side a narrow lead.
Switching public spending from "grey" projects such as roads and airports, to "green" schemes such as parks, tree planting and allotments, would not just save the government billions of pounds, improve health, and cut climate emissions, but it would create jobs and make British cities more attractive.
If the purpose of your existence is to make the world a better place, why would you invest billions of dollars in companies that make the greatest contribution to global climate change?
Billions of dollars of the government's proposed budget savings are under threat with Labor declaring opposition to more than half of their welfare reforms as the Greens revealed they would oppose the indexation of the fuel excise.
The EU is reviving efforts to strike a deal with Ukraine that could involve billions of euros in economic perks.
The Stern review provided cogent reasons for why private R&D will never provide a large share of the many billions needed around the world to shift energy use away from fossil fuels.
Russia's richest man, Oleg Deripaska, admitted in an interview with the Wall Street Journal earlier this month that he expected his losses to be "in the billions".
Greece has vowed to honour heavy debt repayments over the coming weeks but says it is counting on international creditors to release billions of euros in rescue funds before the end of the month as crisis talks between the two sides grind on.
