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The Manifest Archive
By Jerry
Jerry van der Laan
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Jerry van der Laan

Jerry van der Laan is an independent analyst and the author of The Manifest Archive. He reconstructs how energy, money and state power interact from public data and primary documents.

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The Second American Civil War Has Already Begun
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The Second American Civil War Has Already Begun

How America’s empire began to fear itself.

Geopolitics Oct 21, 2025
Why Gold Rises Before the Crash: What the Price Is Really Measuring
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Why Gold Rises Before the Crash: What the Price Is Really Measuring

Gold is the only major reserve asset that is no one's liability. Its price is not a forecast of crashes but a barometer of trust in the monetary system, and central banks have been voting against that system with their reserves since the day money became a weapon.

Financial Architecture Oct 20, 2025
The Strange Death of Prince, and the Industry That Took Over His Estate
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The Strange Death of Prince, and the Industry That Took Over His Estate

He became The Symbol to escape control, and died inside the system that turned freedom into property.

Surveillance, Tech & Intelligence Oct 18, 2025
Digital ID: The new face of obedience
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Digital ID: The new face of obedience

From Queen Máxima to Melania Trump, the world’s most trusted faces now sell the architecture of control.

Surveillance, Tech & Intelligence Oct 17, 2025
Did Wernher von Braun Predict the Alien Card?
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Did Wernher von Braun Predict the Alien Card?

Carol Rosin, Fear Escalation, and the Architecture of Modern Threats.

Fourth Reich & Postwar Continuity Oct 16, 2025
Gaza, Israel and Tony Blair: The illusion of peace
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Gaza, Israel and Tony Blair: The illusion of peace

When the man who failed in Iraq returns to rebuild another war.

Geopolitics Oct 15, 2025
How Addiction Quietly Ruled the World
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How Addiction Quietly Ruled the World

The lurid story says history was steered by drugged and drunken leaders. The real one is colder: the fitness of the most powerful is the least audited fact in government, guarded by a personal physician who answers to the patient, not the public.

Geopolitics Oct 14, 2025
How Russia’s Money Is Funding Ukraine
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How Russia’s Money Is Funding Ukraine

What Europe calls solidarity may be its most profitable illusion, a moral crusade fueling its own economy.

Geopolitics Oct 13, 2025
How John Lennon Was Silenced
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How John Lennon Was Silenced

He sang of peace. They gave him a bullet, and a story neat enough to forget why he was dangerous.

Manufactured Culture Oct 12, 2025
How Jimi Hendrix Was Consumed by Fame and Fire
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How Jimi Hendrix Was Consumed by Fame and Fire

The night the sound went silent, and how the truth was rewritten in red wine and control.

Manufactured Culture Oct 11, 2025
Secrets from September
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Secrets from September

The beginning of The Manifest: A new voice, a living memory

The Track Record Oct 10, 2025
Inside Europe’s Secret War, 1945-1990
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Inside Europe’s Secret War, 1945-1990

A hidden network built by NATO, the CIA and Western Europe’s intelligence services that turned peace into strategy.

Surveillance, Tech & Intelligence Oct 10, 2025