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Artist living in Costa Rica.

The Power of Lies

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Two weeks to flatten the curve

Safe and effective Vaccines are safe and effective

There are no aliens or flying saucers

There are aliens and flying saucers

Smoking weed leads to taking heroin (now it is legal, but wait / it is harmful)

Eating vegetarian is healthier

Eating eggs is harmful

Eating bacon is harmful

Eating butter is harmful

Meat is harmful

Alcohol is harmful

Additives in foods are safe

Violent games and movies do not cause people to be more violent

Freedom of speech

War is necessary

The Nazis were defeated after WWII

War is Peace

Weakness is Strength

Slavery is Freedom

Don’t ask, Don’t tell

Stupidity is Intelligence

Left is Right and Right is Left

You will own nothing and be happy

Do what thou wilt

Countries don’t need borders

DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)

Women are stronger than men

There are eight genders, um ten…well more than two

There are races of people

Critical race theory is entirely correct, incorrect, all correct, sort of correct

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory

White privilege isn’t real

Africans didn’t arrive in America, until the Trans-Atlantic slave trade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_voyage_of_the_predecessor_of_Mansa_Musa

Africa was an impoverished, underdeveloped continent until Europeans arrived

The world was an impoverished, underdeveloped place until Europeans arrived

The earth is/was flat The earth is flat, no round, no flat, no it is round, no – flat

Jesus Christ was white, was a woman, was an alien

The first human (homo-sapien) was a European

The out of African theory is incorrect

Africans had never traveled to the Americas prior to Columbus

The Indigenous inhabitants of the Americas were few in number

The Indigenous inhabitants of the Americas were savages prior to European contact

Antarctica is a deserted wasteland

The global climate is not getting hotter

Th oceans are not getting hotter

No one is spraying chemicals in the sky

The lines in the sky are jet exhaust (hmm, jet exhaust is carcinogenic)

The lines in the sky are condensation

There are no lines in the sky, they are clouds

There have always been lines in the sky

Feel free to add more….

Creating Our Own Systems: Start With Books and Uncensored Knowledge

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BrightLearn Just Got a Whole Lot Bigger: Free Books, Audiobooks, and Now en Español — Here’s Why This Matters

Mike Adams Apr 29
 
READ IN APP
 

Why I Built This: A Mission to Free Knowledge

I created BrightLearn.ai with a single, uncompromising goal: reduce the cost of learning to zero. Not just low — zero. No paywalls, no subscriptions, no gatekeepers. And it’s working.

Today, BrightLearn has become the fastest-growing book publisher in America, surpassing Penguin Random House and reaching over 54,000 free books as of today. We are now expanding the free tier even further, adding audiobooks without DRM and launching a full Spanish-language library.

This isn’t a vanity project. It is a war against the gatekeepers of knowledge — the publishing conglomerates, Big Tech platforms, and captured institutions that have locked information behind paywalls and censorship filters for decades. In my view, knowledge is a human right, not a commodity. That’s why I built this engine with my own local data center, over two years of development, and a massive indexed collection of books, science papers, and articles. We now host over 54,000 books, and every download is free.

I believe that the only way to empower a billion people with the truth about natural health, freedom, and self-reliance is to bypass the censors entirely. Mainstream media and Big Pharma don’t want you to know that cancer has natural cures or that vaccines carry serious risks. They profit from your ignorance. BrightLearn exists to shatter that monopoly. As I wrote in a recent blueprint, my strategic shift is to focus on building functional, empowering platforms rather than just commentary. This expansion is the direct result of that commitment.

Five Chapters, Zero Cost: The Free Tier Just Got Better

You can now generate a full five-chapter book completely free — no tokens required, no credit card. The system automatically conducts deep research, creates cover art, formats the PDF, and hosts the book on our platform. Over 367,000 downloads have already proven that people hunger for real, uncensored knowledge. When Salim Ismail said, ‘You’ve reduced the cost of knowledge to zero,’ he captured exactly what we’ve achieved. Soon after its launch, in less than 45 days, nearly 6,000 authors used our engine to publish over 20,000 books. That’s more than the annual output of Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, and HarperCollins combined. And every single one is free to download and share.

What’s more, we don’t use any digital rights management technology. You get to keep the PDF. You can store it locally, share it with friends, or print it. No one can revoke your access. This is digital freedom in practice. The free tier is our commitment to making sure that no person — regardless of income — is ever denied the ability to learn about health, nutrition, history, or survival skills. And with the addition of audiobooks and Spanish translations, that commitment is growing stronger by the day.

Audiobooks Without Strings: No DRM, No Fees, Just MP3s

I am proud to announce that BrightLearn is now producing hundreds of full-length audiobooks each month — all free, all without DRM, all generated on my own local data center. You can download the MP3 files, transfer them to any device, and listen offline.

No subscriptions, no apps that track you, no expiration dates. In a world where Amazon Audible and other platforms lock audiobooks behind paywalls and proprietary formats, this is a radical act of liberation. As I stated recently, ‘We are giving away the library’ because centralized knowledge is a form of control.

One example is the book on chlorine dioxide, a controversial health topic that has been censored everywhere else. It lives here, freely downloadable, with proper citations and facts. By the end of this month, we expect to release at least 500 new audiobooks monthly. All are produced using the same rigorous research engine that powers our written books, and all are free. I want to reach people who learn best by listening — truck drivers, factory workers, the visually impaired — and give them the same access to truth that everyone else deserves.

Books en Español: Breaking the Language Barrier

Knowledge should not be limited by language. That is why I built a local translation pipeline using open-source AI models, and we now have over 100 Spanish-language books live at BrightLearn.ai — with more being added every day. This matters because Spanish is spoken by over 500 million people worldwide, many of whom live in countries with limited access to uncensored health and freedom information.

In Mexico, Central America, and South America, the gatekeeping of medical and political truth is even more severe than in the U.S. By publishing books en español, we directly challenge the narrative being imposed by globalist elites and Big Pharma’s Spanish-language propaganda.

I have personally overseen the translation pipeline to ensure accuracy and cultural relevance. These books cover topics like natural medicine, herbal remedies, financial sovereignty, and anti-censorship strategies. And they are all free. No DRM, no restrictions. I am calling on Spanish-speaking communities worldwide to share these resources. The mission to reach a billion people cannot succeed if we leave out half a billion who speak Spanish. This is the beginning of a multilingual revolution that will soon include French, Chinese, and other languages.

This Is Where I Need Your Help

Mainstream media will not cover what we are doing. They have blacklisted natural health and freedom content for years, deplatforming me and countless others. The corporate press is in the pocket of Big Pharma and the censors. That is why I am asking you: share BrightLearn.ai with everyone you know. Tell them about the free books (at books.brightlearn.ai), the audiobooks, the Spanish library. Post it on social media, email it to your family, and talk about it in your community. If you speak Spanish, spread the word in your networks. The power of this platform grows with every download and every share.

This is not about me. It is about building a decentralized global library that cannot be shut down. When you share a BrightLearn book, you are helping to bypass censorship and bring the truth about natural health, self-reliance, and freedom to people who desperately need it. I cannot do this alone. I rely on the support of those who shop at our clean-food store and those who spread the word. Every share is a brick in the foundation of a freer world.

The Mission Continues

Decentralizing knowledge is the only way to bypass censorship and empower individuals. I am committed to adding more languages, more formats, and more free content. We will continue to expand the audiobook library, translate books into French and Chinese, and improve the AI engine that makes it all possible. All of it will remain free and open. No paywalls, no censorship, no gatekeepers.

Thank you for supporting this vision. Now go to BrightLearn.ai, download a book, listen to an audiobook, or share a Spanish title. Together, we can put the power of knowledge back into the hands of the people — a billion people, one book at a time.

References

  1. How AI is Driving the Cost of Knowledge to Zero: The BrightLearn.AI Revolution. NaturalNews.com. Mike Adams. February 3, 2026.
  2. Health Ranger’s 2026 Blueprint: AI, Science & Decentralization to Empower a Billion People. NaturalNews.com. Mike Adams. February 6, 2026.
  3. We’re Giving Away the Library: Why I Believe Free, Decentralized Audiobooks Are an Act of Liberation. NaturalNews.com. Mike Adams. March 18, 2026.
  4. BrightLearn AI is Now the Fastest Growing Book Publisher in America, Surpassing Penguin Random House and Reaching 20,000 Books Milestone. NaturalNews.com. Mike Adams. January 14, 2026.
  5. 2026-03-17-BLearnNews-Brightlearn audiobooks announced_otter_ai-RESTATED. BrightVideos.com. Mike Adams.

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The Matrix

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To escape you need to first realize what it is. The Matrix is a metaphor. It is not concrete walls or iron bars. The Matrix is what lies behind the propaganda, theater, camouflage, make-up, plastic surgery, acting, special effects, sensationalized stories, wealthy celebrity status, and 5G radiation.

These things can be ignored. The people behind the curtain depend on you to let them do evil, to open the door and let them in. That is part of the charm; when you willingly believe the greatest lies and are manipulated into the trap. The Matrix has the power to swallow us ordinary people whole at anytime, but that is not the source of power. The power comes from your willing acceptance and compliance. So we are toyed with, strung along with carrots such as easy money, easy sex, and fast food.

The book 1984 was a blueprint, not a work of fiction. If you have not read it recently, read it now in light of all the crazy events that are going on around the world. Everything is very plainly revealed.

Escape by becoming aware of the traps. Then educate yourself to become self-sufficient.

To the Real

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We had a profound experience with the lab-created virus called Sars-Covid2 and the lung infection Covid-2019. It was mind-altering, it was thought-provoking, and it was eye-opening.

We are under a full worldwide assault called fear. We are at war.

The result is that everyone is afraid. In being afraid one becomes insecure and looks to an authority to take control and alleviate the fear. People stop being rational, stop thinking for themselves, and feel paralyzed.

People are stressed out and worried about their lack of money, insecure housing, inflation, and the plandemic. They turn on the TV and soak up the latest lies.

Grid Trek Magazine issued its last issue in June 2021. We are no more.

We are fighting the battle against fear by turning to the real.

That means we are disengaging from all electronic, Wi-fi, network power waves. We are pulling ourselves out of the electronic matrix. This matrix is not like in the movie. No one has a plug in the back of their head. The matrix is Wi-fi, it is you connected to your phone and computer, and other electronic devices.

Being plugged in prevents you from thinking for yourself. It prevents you from asking important questions. You get into a mental fog. You stop doing things you used to love to do. You believe whatever is repeated over and over in the mainstream media.

Want to join in this fight for our lives? UNPLUG. Literally, unplug all of your electronic devices every day when you are not using them and definitely at night when you are sleeping. Limit your time online. 30 minutes or less.

Delete all unnecessary apps from your phone. Delete all game apps. Unsubscribe and delete all social media accounts. Take those earbuds out and stop pounding that music into your head all day. Do you feel some tension with this idea? – that is the matrix tugging at you. Nothing will collapse in your life without these things, yet why do you feel a twinge of panic set in at the idea of deleting this stuff from your life? – Think about that.

NONE OF THIS STUFF IS REAL. Remember that.

You know what is real? The sky at dawn. Birds and animals. The trees and flowers in your yard – if you are lucky enough to have a yard. Go to a park and sit in the grass. Talk face-to-face with another human being. If you do not have some sort of live pet – get one. Care for it. Disengage yourself and your life from anything that is not real. Put houseplants in your living space. Learn to grow your own food, make your own cleaning products, sew your own clothes. Begin your journey to self-sufficiency.

Connect with like-minded people.

By doing these things we will stop being fearful, we will stop being manipulated, we will stop being controlled.

Turn to the Real.

Self-sufficiency, healthy food, nature, family, and human contact.

We wish to thank all the people who supported Grid Trek Magazine. We are now undertaking this new journey towards, health, freedom, and reality-based living.

Spread the word.

2025

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I have had nothing to write for the whole year. The whole year has been one fiasco after another as the government squeezes people who have left the country. You quickly discover that you are not free when you try to move out.

The United States is just that: a collective of little separate states. After you leave you realize that in any other country of the world you can travel about with only one form of identification. In the states you need another ID for each state you move to.

Try to leave and you quickly discover that you cannot be out of the country too long. It is like a very bad divorce and will cost you a lot of money to stay out.

Slavery never actually ended. You realize that the slaves were emancipated but never became naturalized citizens. Yep, freed slaves not really citizens. Then you realize that slavery never really ended – like energy, it just changed form.

Now instead of a plow you are yoked to debt.

Instead of sharecropping, you have to pay off a student loan while working for Uber in your car that you make monthly payments on while living in an AirBNB because you do not have three months of rent in your account to qualify for a studio apartment.

They said you will own nothing and be happy. Half that sentence is true. You are slowly being divested of any possibility of owning anything. Happiness is more likely to come at the end of a needle filled with some god awful flesh dissolving drug.

It is bleak. But even bleaker is the harm the U.S. has inflicted on countless millions.

Covid-19 injections. Even before that – mandated vaccines with toxic ingredients. You now see and hear of adults in the prime of life falling down dead – cause of death unknown.

Gaza. Genocide in real time, live video.

Ukraine – support of a Nazi regime? I do not think the Nazis were defeated in WWII. They were moved and rebranded. They are the Zionist in Israel. Which would explain how the orthodox Jewish population in Israel is being abused.

Greed, corruption, narcissistic behavior is everywhere. Children in the thousands cannot be located.

The children.

We are a failed species. We cannot even protect our children. Many are not inclined to raise children – too much money and too much trouble for the adults in the room who scan dating apps all day and night.

I know why marijuana was legalized – to dumb everyone down even further than the broke educational system was doing.

Porn, narcotics, criminal behavior, all just par for the course.

I had nothing to say for a year. As I watched, read, studied the unfolding events.

2020 + – the following family members died: We had a lot of funerals in just a few years.

Vernon Joseph MICHEL Jr

Birth 17 JAN 1935 • New Orleans City, Orleans, Louisiana

Death 09 APR 2020 • Burbank, California, USA

Jacqueline Virginia ELLISON

Birth 3 FEB 1938 • Washington City, District Of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA

Death 17 SEPT 2020 • Burbank, California, USA

Xavier Salvador Gomez

Birth 25 JAN 1961 • Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Death 25 MAY 2020 • Mississippi

Carmillia Mary Grimes

Birth 05 JUN 1952 • Washington City, District Of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA

Death 18 OCT 2021 • Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Alfred M Powell

Birth 28 FEB 1930 • Prince William, Virginia, USA

Death 29 JUL 2020 • Maryland, USA

Donna L Powell

Birth 13 SEPTEMBER 1958 • Virginia

Death 20 JULY 2024 • Virginia,USA

Rosa Lucille Ellison

Birth 7 AUG 1937 • Washington DC, District of Columbia, USA

Death 15 JAN 2020 • Washington DC, District of Columbia, USA

Brenda Sharlene Ellison

Birth 23 OCT 1947 • Washington DC, District of Columbia, USA

Death 11 MAY 2020 • Bethesda, Montgomery, Maryland, USA

Marvin Claud Ellison Jr.

Birth 28 MAY 1943 • Washington DC, District of Columbia, USA

Death 11 APRIL 2024 • Florida

Nicole Giovanni Philpot Starkey

Birth 26 SEPT 1975 • Washington D.C.

Death 20 DEC 2020 • Upper Marlboro, Prince George’s County, Maryland, United States of America

J.T. Grider 

Birth Abt. 1920 Homer, Claiborne, Louisiana

Death Abt. 2020 Homer Claiborne, Louisiana, USA

Willie Clyde Myles 

Birth May 16 1939 Homer, Claiborne, Louisiana, USA

Death Mar 2025 Los Angeles

Now, I just watch, read, and research. And I write. We all need to document what is happening.

The New Way Forward

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Off the cliff….

https://aztec8888.substack.com/p/the-new-way-forward

…unburdened by the past…

I heard these slogans and thought about my own life as an example.

I imagined I had a condition where I could not remember what I did before.

What would my life be like?

#1 I would never be able to learn from past mistakes.

#2 I would never become wise.

#3 I would never grow.

My life would be a long line of mistakes that I would keep repeating, and I would never be able to improve my condition.

Now, imagine a whole society acting this way.

Who benefits?

The people in control will be able to maintain their power and wealth without having their actions questioned.

I remember teaching and how the students had very short attention spans, and education policies reinforced that short attention span.

Our lifestyles reinforce the need not to memorize anything. Just ask Siri. Do not use passwords—use Q.C.R. codes and your fingerprint.

Artificial Intelligence with stress on the first word.

Our lives get ¨easier¨as we get dumber being loaded up with S.M.A.R.T. devices.

Do not ever look back; do not ever analyze current policies and compare them with older policies. Repeat the saying ¨we can never go back because this is the new normal.¨