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This is the title of an October 25 article published by Politico, which quotes former Prime Minister Michel Barnier as saying, “France is on the brink of a financial crisis.” The European Union’s second-largest economy is now €3.5 trillion in debt and is being crushed under the weight of an “unsustainable pension system.” Two leaders now contending for the French presidency plan to spend billions of euros to lower the retirement age.

“This year’s WHO global status report on cancer found ‘persistent and widening’ inequities in access to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care” (The Guardian, July 8, 2026), and the World Health Organization warns that cancer “will touch 92% of people, either through their own diagnosis or that of a close family member.” More than twenty million people are diagnosed with cancer every year, and estimat

“Close to five sexual crimes against children aged 12 and younger were recorded on average by police every day in primary and secondary schools in England and Wales, according to Guardian analysis of police data for 2021-25. The figures include reports of almost 2,000 rapes and attempted rapes, which is equivalent to an average of one allegation of rape at a school received by the police every single day” (The Guardian, October 4, 2026).

For centuries, the skull was viewed as a hard, simple structure protecting the fragile brain. And, for nearly 100 years, scientists thought the brain was protected from immune activity that could damage it (Deutsche Welle, August 24, 2026). However, the historic view of immunity and the brain is rapidly changing!