<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : $1 trillion : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[The world's first $1 trillion company]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40887/1/" /><id>40887</id><summary><![CDATA[The world's first $1 trillion company]]></summary><issued>2007-11-07T04:00:09+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-07T04:00:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The meaning of the term &quot;Big Oil&quot; has changed overnight, as state-controlled PetroChina became the first company worth more than $1 trillion, tripling its value Monday in its debut on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and making it by far the largest company in the world.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[BBC 4 Radio takes on the number trillion]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19585/1/" /><id>19585</id><summary><![CDATA[BBC 4 Radio takes on the number trillion]]></summary><issued>2007-05-09T08:42:09+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-09T08:42:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The producer of the BBC Radio 4's &quot;More or Less&quot; show, Michael Blastland, and his London team are taking on the challenge of describing the term &quot;Trillion.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The $5 Trillion Question]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/80025/1/" /><id>80025</id><summary><![CDATA[The $5 Trillion Question]]></summary><issued>2008-10-22T12:50:38+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-22T12:50:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[<a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.getliberty.org/content.asp?pl=3&amp;contentid=3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Getliberty.org</a> (who has not endorsed either candidate) questions Barack Obama's spending increase and tax increases on the upper class.  Can this fix the deficit?<br/><br/>(Please, don't just downvote this because you don't like anything that questions Obama.  If you don't like it, just don't upvote it.  It's not un-newsworthy.)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Feds Promise $7.7 Trillion to Ease Frozen Credit]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/82720/1/" /><id>82720</id><summary><![CDATA[Feds Promise $7.7 Trillion to Ease Frozen Credit]]></summary><issued>2008-11-24T14:21:38+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-24T14:21:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[And the little guy gets nothing.  Again.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Obama Spendometer]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/52922/1/" /><id>52922</id><summary><![CDATA[Obama Spendometer]]></summary><issued>2008-03-03T21:45:31+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-03T21:45:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An increase in spending of nearly $1 Trillion in over 4 years?<br/><br/>What happened to this talk of &quot;lowering spending?&quot;  Is this the change we're looking for?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[1 Trillion Dollars...in Hundies....]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/105787/1/" /><id>105787</id><summary><![CDATA[1 Trillion Dollars...in Hundies....]]></summary><issued>2009-04-09T01:34:31+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-09T01:34:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[remember, it is for your own good.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[&#163;4.4 Trillion To Prove Evolution]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/79337/1/" /><id>79337</id><summary><![CDATA[&#163;4.4 Trillion To Prove Evolution]]></summary><issued>2008-10-13T08:33:46+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-13T08:33:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Islamic Creationist Adnan Oktar (as previously mentioned <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/61713/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a> by Jetka) has offered 10 Trillion Turkish Lira to anyone who can provide a fossil sample that demonstrates evolutionary transition.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Zimbabwe to print first $100 trillion note]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/89639/1/" /><id>89639</id><summary><![CDATA[Zimbabwe to print first $100 trillion note]]></summary><issued>2009-01-16T12:59:45+01:00</issued><modified>2009-01-16T12:59:45+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Zimbabwe's central bank says it will soon introduce a 100 trillion dollar note as the once prosperous country battles to keep pace with hyperinflation that has caused many to abandon the country's currency.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bank Bailout to Cost Taxpayers $2 Trillion]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/95491/1/" /><id>95491</id><summary><![CDATA[Bank Bailout to Cost Taxpayers $2 Trillion]]></summary><issued>2009-02-20T06:06:58+01:00</issued><modified>2009-02-20T06:06:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The UK Government&#8217;s recent bailout of struggling financial giants Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds TSB looks set to add between &#163;1 trillion and &#163;1.5 trillion to national debt, figures out today have revealed.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Credit crisis could cost nearly $1 trillion, IMF predicts]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/57466/1/" /><id>57466</id><summary><![CDATA[Credit crisis could cost nearly $1 trillion, IMF predicts]]></summary><issued>2008-04-08T21:44:38+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-08T21:44:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that financial losses stemming from the U.S. mortgage crisis might approach $1 trillion, citing a &quot;collective failure&quot; to predict the breadth of the crisis.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Milky Way Is Weighed]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/63381/1/" /><id>63381</id><summary><![CDATA[The Milky Way Is Weighed]]></summary><issued>2008-05-27T20:36:08+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-27T20:36:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Previous estimates had ranged from 750 billion solar masses to up to 2 trillion. Lately, researchers have been leaning toward the higher figure. But now astronomers have used a more refined method to conclude that our galaxy's mass is slightly less than 1 trillion solar masses.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[5 governors unite, seek $1 trillion in federal aid]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/87477/1/" /><id>87477</id><summary><![CDATA[5 governors unite, seek $1 trillion in federal aid]]></summary><issued>2009-01-03T05:33:56+01:00</issued><modified>2009-01-03T05:33:56+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Governor Deval Patrick and four other influential Democratic governors pleaded their case yesterday for up to $1 trillion in federal assistance over the next two years, to help alleviate budget cuts, create jobs, and avoid inflicting irreversible damage to schools during a fiscal crisis.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The $2 Trillion Nightmare ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/53028/1/" /><id>53028</id><summary><![CDATA[The $2 Trillion Nightmare ]]></summary><issued>2008-03-04T11:23:39+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-04T11:23:39+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;....The Bush administration has tried its best to conceal the horrendous costs of the war. It has bypassed the normal budgetary process, financing the war almost entirely through &#8220;emergency&#8221; appropriations that get far less scrutiny.<br/>Even the most basic wartime information is difficult to come by. Mr. Stiglitz, who has written a new book with Ms. Bilmes called &#8220;The Three Trillion Dollar War,&#8221; said they had to go to veterans&#8217; groups, who in turn had to resort to the Freedom of Information Act, just to find out how many Americans had been injured in Iraq....&quot;<br/><br/>Not a popular topic but I think we should know the facts of this war and it's impact for many years to come.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Britain owes world &#163;31 trillion]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/21180/1/" /><id>21180</id><summary><![CDATA[Britain owes world &#163;31 trillion]]></summary><issued>2007-05-23T15:40:18+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-23T15:40:18+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[According to the International Coalition for British Reparations, Britain owes the world &#163;31 trillion! If you think they're right, sign the petition.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Largest diamond in galaxy predicts future of solar system - Pravda.Ru]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/45848/1/" /><id>45848</id><summary><![CDATA[Largest diamond in galaxy predicts future of solar system - Pravda.Ru]]></summary><issued>2008-01-02T22:03:08+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-02T22:03:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Astronomers discovered the largest diamond of all times in space. The weight of the precious stone reportedly makes up ten billion trillion trillion carats or five million trillion trillion pounds).]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Sunspot cycle beginning to rise]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/113196/1/" /><id>113196</id><summary><![CDATA[Sunspot cycle beginning to rise]]></summary><issued>2009-05-10T15:37:30+01:00</issued><modified>2009-05-10T15:37:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A report by the National Academy of Sciences found that if a storm as severe as one in 1859 occurred today, it could cause $1 trillion to $2 trillion in damage the first year and take four to 10 years to recover.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Debt Slavery: Why Are Americans So Willing to Dig Themselves Deep into Debt]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/69982/1/" /><id>69982</id><summary><![CDATA[Debt Slavery: Why Are Americans So Willing to Dig Themselves Deep into Debt]]></summary><issued>2008-07-25T01:25:35+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-25T01:25:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Just two generations ago, America was a nation of mostly thrifty people living within their means, even setting money aside for unforeseen expenses.<br/><br/>Today, Americans carry $2.56 trillion in consumer debt, up 22 percent since 2000 alone, according to the Federal Reserve Board. The average household&#8217;s credit card debt is $8,565, up almost 15 percent from 2000.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Man hit with $218 trillion phone bill]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31284/1/" /><id>31284</id><summary><![CDATA[Man hit with $218 trillion phone bill]]></summary><issued>2007-08-12T17:45:33+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-12T17:45:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Malaysian man gets gigantic bill, ordered to pay up or face prosecution.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Global financial crisis takes its toll on China]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/93581/1/" /><id>93581</id><summary><![CDATA[Global financial crisis takes its toll on China]]></summary><issued>2009-02-09T10:53:49+01:00</issued><modified>2009-02-09T10:53:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[- 20 million laid off<br/>- half of all toy factories have closed<br/>- government plans 4 trillion yuan ($USD 585 million) stimulus package.<br/>- risk of &quot;mass incidents and social unrest&quot; as jobless migrants return to the countryside.<br/><br/>I have also heard that the factories are just closing their doors - no back pay, no severance packages.  We are not talking wealthy people here but they all contribute to the developed world's way of life.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[33 ways to lace your shoes]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/arts/l/46861/1/" /><id>46861</id><summary><![CDATA[33 ways to lace your shoes]]></summary><issued>2008-01-11T09:12:50+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-11T09:12:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[While mathematics tells us that there are more than 2 Trillion ways to feed a lace through the six pairs of eyelets on an average shoe, this site presents a typical cross-section of traditional and alternative lacing methods.]]></content></entry></items></xml>