{
  "updated": "2026-06-25",
  "pageTitle": "Atlas Layers",
  "pageSubtitle": "A living public-record map for entity pages, weekly source checks, and reader navigation.",
  "entrySchema": ["name", "role", "why", "sourceLabel", "sourceUrl", "checked", "relationshipType", "evidenceClass", "updateRule"],
  "boundary": "Atlas entries are navigation leads, not accusations. Every relationship must be labelled by evidence type.",
  "layers": [
    {"slug":"people","title":"People","definition":"Public institutional actors and leadership figures.","updateRule":"Refresh official leadership and office pages weekly.","entries":[
      {"name":"Donald J. Trump","role":"U.S. President","why":"Executive-power node for appointments, foreign policy, military command, sanctions, regulation, and national-security direction.","sourceLabel":"White House Administration","sourceUrl":"https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Public office","evidenceClass":"Confirmed office-holder","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from the official White House administration page."},
      {"name":"António Guterres","role":"United Nations Secretary-General","why":"Global institution node for diplomacy, humanitarian response, migration, development, conflict statements, and UN reform debate.","sourceLabel":"United Nations Secretary-General","sourceUrl":"https://www.un.org/sg/en","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Public office","evidenceClass":"Confirmed office-holder","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from the official UN Secretary-General page."},
      {"name":"Larry Fink","role":"Chairman and CEO of BlackRock","why":"Finance node for asset management, market influence, stewardship policy, pension exposure, and institutional capital maps.","sourceLabel":"BlackRock Leadership","sourceUrl":"https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/about-us/leadership","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Corporate leadership","evidenceClass":"Confirmed leadership role","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from BlackRock leadership page."},
      {"name":"John G. Roberts, Jr.","role":"Chief Justice of the United States","why":"Judicial-power node for constitutional rulings, agency power, election law, executive authority, and federal court administration.","sourceLabel":"Supreme Court Current Members","sourceUrl":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Public office","evidenceClass":"Confirmed office-holder","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from Supreme Court current members page."},
      {"name":"Ursula von der Leyen","role":"President of the European Commission","why":"EU executive node for regulation, sanctions, defence policy, digital rules, industrial policy, funding, and health-policy oversight.","sourceLabel":"European Commission President","sourceUrl":"https://commission.europa.eu/about/organisation/president_en","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Public office","evidenceClass":"Confirmed office-holder","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from the official European Commission president page."}
    ]},
    {"slug":"institutions","title":"Institutions","definition":"Agencies, banks, foundations, courts, universities, media groups, contractors, and standards bodies.","updateRule":"Refresh official institution pages, reports, and leadership pages weekly.","entries":[
      {"name":"Central Intelligence Agency","role":"Foreign-intelligence agency","why":"Source lane for declassified files, oversight records, agency history, contractors, and intelligence-reader routes.","sourceLabel":"CIA","sourceUrl":"https://www.cia.gov/","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Agency mandate","evidenceClass":"Confirmed institution","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from official agency and reading-room pages."},
      {"name":"National Security Agency","role":"Signals-intelligence and cybersecurity agency","why":"Source lane for surveillance, cyber security, cryptography, metadata, and oversight boundaries.","sourceLabel":"NSA","sourceUrl":"https://www.nsa.gov/","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Agency mandate","evidenceClass":"Confirmed institution","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from official agency pages."},
      {"name":"International Monetary Fund","role":"Global financial institution","why":"Finance lane for sovereign debt, surveillance reports, crisis lending, and macro policy pressure.","sourceLabel":"IMF","sourceUrl":"https://www.imf.org/","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Institutional mandate","evidenceClass":"Confirmed institution","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from IMF official pages and reports."},
      {"name":"World Bank Group","role":"Development-finance institution","why":"Funding lane for infrastructure, poverty programs, food stress, reconstruction, and development policy.","sourceLabel":"World Bank","sourceUrl":"https://www.worldbank.org/","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Institutional mandate","evidenceClass":"Confirmed institution","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from World Bank official pages and project data."},
      {"name":"Supreme Court of the United States","role":"Highest U.S. federal court","why":"Legal-record lane for constitutional power, rights cases, agency limits, election law, and public judgments.","sourceLabel":"Supreme Court","sourceUrl":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Court record lane","evidenceClass":"Confirmed institution","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from Supreme Court official pages."}
    ]},
    {"slug":"operations","title":"Operations","definition":"Public investigations, trials, programs, sanctions, and policy lanes.","updateRule":"Refresh public investigation, document release, court, policy, and sanctions lanes weekly.","entries":[
      {"name":"Epstein public-record releases","role":"Court and document-release lane","why":"Tracks public records while separating contact, allegation, witness, victim, employee, defendant, and conviction categories.","sourceLabel":"Epstein Evidence Watch","sourceUrl":"epstein-files.html","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Court and document lane","evidenceClass":"Public record lane","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from court records, official releases, and evidence-watch data."},
      {"name":"Declassification and FOIA releases","role":"Document-release lane","why":"Tracks newly released records, redactions, oversight files, court exhibits, and archive updates.","sourceLabel":"Evidence Vault","sourceUrl":"evidence-vault.html","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Document release","evidenceClass":"Official and public archive lane","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from reading rooms, archives, FOIA lanes, and court exhibits."},
      {"name":"AI regulation and compute concentration","role":"Technology governance lane","why":"Tracks regulation, model releases, safety institutions, export controls, chip supply, infrastructure, and lobbying.","sourceLabel":"AI Answer Engine","sourceUrl":"answer-engine.html","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Regulatory and technology policy lane","evidenceClass":"Public policy lane","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from regulator, standards-body, company, and public hearing sources."},
      {"name":"Procurement and contractor lanes","role":"Government contracting lane","why":"Tracks contracts, outsourcing, vendor concentration, oversight gaps, and revolving-door records.","sourceLabel":"Blackwater Atlas Node","sourceUrl":"atlas-blackwater.html","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Contract and procurement record","evidenceClass":"Procurement lane","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from procurement databases, regulator releases, and contractor disclosures."},
      {"name":"Sanctions and crisis-policy lanes","role":"Policy-pressure lane","why":"Tracks official sanctions programs, emergency powers, supply-chain impact, and public crisis response.","sourceLabel":"Live Intel","sourceUrl":"live-intel.html","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Public policy record","evidenceClass":"Official/public record lane","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from official sanctions pages, government statements, and Live Intel source lanes."}
    ]},
    {"slug":"money-flows","title":"Money Flows","definition":"Contracts, grants, donations, lobbying, fines, settlements, and public funding lanes.","updateRule":"Refresh contract, grant, lobbying, regulator, and settlement lanes weekly.","entries":[
      {"name":"U.S. federal procurement","role":"Contract and vendor lane","why":"Maps which agencies spend money, which vendors receive it, and where contract concentration appears.","sourceLabel":"USAspending","sourceUrl":"https://www.usaspending.gov/","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Contract record","evidenceClass":"Confirmed public database","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from USAspending award and agency records."},
      {"name":"EU funding and tenders","role":"EU contracts and grants lane","why":"Maps grants, tenders, project finance, policy programs, and institution-level public funding flows.","sourceLabel":"EU Funding & Tenders","sourceUrl":"https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Grant and procurement record","evidenceClass":"Confirmed public database","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from EU funding, tender, and project records."},
      {"name":"U.S. lobbying disclosures","role":"Lobbying influence lane","why":"Tracks paid representation, clients, lobbying firms, issue areas, and legislative pressure points.","sourceLabel":"U.S. Senate LDA","sourceUrl":"https://lda.senate.gov/","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Lobbying record","evidenceClass":"Confirmed public database","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from Lobbying Disclosure Act filings."},
      {"name":"EU Transparency Register","role":"EU interest-representation lane","why":"Tracks organizations seeking influence over EU policy and institutional decision-making.","sourceLabel":"EU Transparency Register","sourceUrl":"https://transparency-register.europa.eu/","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Lobbying and interest-representation record","evidenceClass":"Confirmed public database","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from EU Transparency Register entries."},
      {"name":"SEC filings and enforcement releases","role":"Market-regulator lane","why":"Tracks public-company filings, disclosures, enforcement actions, penalties, settlements, and regulator findings.","sourceLabel":"SEC","sourceUrl":"https://www.sec.gov/","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Regulatory and enforcement record","evidenceClass":"Regulator record","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from SEC filings, litigation releases, and enforcement pages."}
    ]},
    {"slug":"legal-records","title":"Legal Records","definition":"Court records, hearings, exhibits, judgments, official releases, and regulator findings.","updateRule":"Refresh court, hearing, regulator, archive, and release lanes weekly.","entries":[
      {"name":"PACER federal court dockets","role":"U.S. federal court lane","why":"Primary route for complaints, indictments, exhibits, judgments, and docket histories.","sourceLabel":"PACER","sourceUrl":"https://pacer.uscourts.gov/","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Court record","evidenceClass":"Official court-access lane","updateRule":"Refresh weekly where docket access or case references are used."},
      {"name":"Supreme Court opinions and orders","role":"High-court record lane","why":"Tracks opinions, orders, agency-power cases, election cases, rights cases, and executive-power disputes.","sourceLabel":"Supreme Court Opinions","sourceUrl":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/opinions.aspx","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Judgment and order record","evidenceClass":"Court record","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from Supreme Court opinion and order pages."},
      {"name":"Congressional hearings and records","role":"Oversight hearing lane","why":"Tracks testimony, committee reports, oversight failures, subpoenas, and public institutional questioning.","sourceLabel":"Congress.gov","sourceUrl":"https://www.congress.gov/","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Hearing and legislative record","evidenceClass":"Congressional record","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from hearing, bill, and committee-record lanes."},
      {"name":"CIA Reading Room","role":"Released intelligence-record lane","why":"Public archive for released intelligence records, historical files, and declassification routes.","sourceLabel":"CIA Reading Room","sourceUrl":"https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Document release","evidenceClass":"Official archive","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from reading-room release paths."},
      {"name":"Federal Register","role":"Official notice and rulemaking lane","why":"Tracks agency rules, official notices, executive actions, designations, and administrative changes.","sourceLabel":"Federal Register","sourceUrl":"https://www.federalregister.gov/","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Regulatory record","evidenceClass":"Official record","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from Federal Register notices and rules."}
    ]},
    {"slug":"symbolic-layer","title":"Symbolic Layer","definition":"Public logos, patches, architecture, language systems, and symbolism.","updateRule":"Refresh official visual records and keep interpretation clearly labelled.","entries":[
      {"name":"NASA mission patches","role":"Official mission-symbol lane","why":"Tracks public symbolism, mission language, mythic naming, and space-program iconography.","sourceLabel":"NASA Images","sourceUrl":"https://images.nasa.gov/","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Public symbolism","evidenceClass":"Symbolic commentary with official source","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from official NASA image and mission sources."},
      {"name":"NRO mission patches","role":"Intelligence-space symbolism lane","why":"Tracks official patch language, agency imagery, mission names, and public intelligence aesthetics.","sourceLabel":"National Reconnaissance Office","sourceUrl":"https://www.nro.gov/","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Public symbolism","evidenceClass":"Symbolic commentary with official source","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from official NRO public pages."},
      {"name":"Corporate and institutional logos","role":"Public visual-language lane","why":"Tracks recurring imagery as symbolic comparison, not proof of wrongdoing.","sourceLabel":"Authority Symbolic Power","sourceUrl":"authority-symbolic-power.html","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Visual comparison","evidenceClass":"Symbolic commentary","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from official brand pages and clearly label interpretation."},
      {"name":"Public monuments and national architecture","role":"Civic-symbolism lane","why":"Tracks inscriptions, geometry, public ritual, state memory, and national myth-making.","sourceLabel":"Power Atlas","sourceUrl":"power-atlas.html","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Public architecture","evidenceClass":"Public record and symbolic commentary","updateRule":"Refresh weekly where official monument or architecture sources are available."},
      {"name":"Language systems and policy slogans","role":"Narrative-analysis lane","why":"Tracks repeated public language such as security, resilience, emergency, risk, misinformation, and reform.","sourceLabel":"AI Answer Engine","sourceUrl":"answer-engine.html","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Public statement analysis","evidenceClass":"Public-record language analysis","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from official statements, reports, and speeches."}
    ]},
    {"slug":"human-cost","title":"Human Cost","definition":"Public datasets showing the real-world impact of policy, war, finance, health, and institutional failure.","updateRule":"Refresh official public-impact datasets weekly and keep category boundaries visible.","entries":[
      {"name":"Conflict impact datasets","role":"Human-impact lane","why":"Tracks deaths, injuries, displacement, aid access, reporting gaps, and source boundaries.","sourceLabel":"UN OCHA","sourceUrl":"https://www.unocha.org/","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Human impact record","evidenceClass":"Human-cost dataset","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from official humanitarian reporting pages."},
      {"name":"Displacement and refugee flows","role":"Migration and displacement lane","why":"Tracks displacement, refugee status, asylum pressure, internal movement, and border-system strain.","sourceLabel":"UNHCR","sourceUrl":"https://www.unhcr.org/","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Migration and displacement record","evidenceClass":"Human-cost dataset","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from official displacement and refugee data lanes."},
      {"name":"Food stress and famine warnings","role":"Food-security lane","why":"Tracks hunger, food stress, emergency warnings, aid disruption, and supply-chain pressure.","sourceLabel":"World Food Programme","sourceUrl":"https://www.wfp.org/","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Food security record","evidenceClass":"Human-cost dataset","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from official food-security source lanes."},
      {"name":"Health-system and mortality data","role":"Public-health impact lane","why":"Tracks public-health indicators, mortality patterns, health-system stress, and source warnings.","sourceLabel":"WHO Data","sourceUrl":"https://data.who.int/","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Public-health record","evidenceClass":"Official public-health dataset","updateRule":"Refresh weekly from WHO data and official public-health sources."},
      {"name":"Compensation and causation boundaries","role":"Compensation-record lane","why":"Separates reports, claims, compensation, legal standards, and causation findings before figures are presented as settled.","sourceLabel":"Evidence Policy","sourceUrl":"evidence-policy.html","checked":"2026-06-25","relationshipType":"Compensation boundary","evidenceClass":"Public record source-boundary lane","updateRule":"Refresh weekly where official compensation, court, or regulator records are used."}
    ]}
  ]
}