November, 2024

LOGIC, LANGUAGE, SCIENCE, TRUTH - and the LAW


  • "Strictly a Science;" also "an Art." -Whately's Elements of Logic. Indeed ought we not to regard all Art as applied Science; unless we are willing, with "the multitude," to consider Art as "guessing and aiming well?" -Plato; Philebus.

Internal fraud and theft historically amounted for +90% of our corporate assignments. Now, external threats - via internet - account for the vast majority of our corporate and private missions. Also Walhallen / Bureau Ekman has evolved... Daring, deceit and surprise has brought many criminals resounding victories at very little cost. Questions like if, when, where, how and what occupy many internet investigators. As private detectives - private investigators we concentrate on "Why" and "Who". "Adaptation is the law of tomorrow." Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose; ending crime by abolishing all laws? Overcoming difficulties mean we draw on our experiences to spot patterns and connections. The drifting focus of law enforcement agencies and national authorities is sometimes discombobulating, at other times charming. Perfectly balanced deterrents remain as elusive as the promised land. Let us device your démarche for the 21st century.

Private Detective Claes Reinhold Ekman

Private Detective Claes Ekman in a television documentary solving a missing person case.
Private Detective Claes Ekman on a Cyber-security / Internet Security Mission.
Privatdetektiv - Private Detective - Private Investigator Claes Ekman being interviewed in Kiev.
Private Detective Claes Ekman - www.bureau-ekman.com - on a private / war investigator assignment during an intense Russian air raid in Ukraine.
Private Detective Claes Ekman - www.bureau-ekman.com - in western Ukraine during an extensive drone attack.
Missiles from "Osten" miss crucial targets, but still arrive in Kiev. The "Evil Empires" may have chosen to commence a war also with Bureau Ekman, albeit, should have chosen another bear to poke with. Our creative detective work and combined global intelligence logistics continue undeterred.
Private Detective Claes Ekman solves the largest football hooligan case as of today. FROM WWW.YOUTUBE.COM
"Few professional titles are surrounded by such a romantic shimmer and manage to arouse such curiosity as that of the private detective. And that curiosity is not exactly quenched when you meet Claes Ekman, a man who at first glance seems to have walked straight out of a Humphrey Bogart film. Claes, who has seen 400 detective films and solved thrice more ditto real investigator capers, dons the role of a fully-fledged private detective, complete with trench coat and bug detector. But who is he really? As the answer to the questions about Zlatan's nose lingers, new questions are raised about the investigator himself. It is when we begin to get answers to these that the very premise of the film shakes to its foundations. What is our interest in a bronze nose really about and who decides what is true and false, right and wrong?" - Nils T. / Executive Movie Producer
(MOVIE COMPANY WANTED US TO WITHDRAW FILMTRAILER UNTIL FULL OFFICIAL RELEASE BY MARCH 2025.)
"Private Detective Claes Ekman - www.bureau-ekman.com - solves [as expected] the football hooligan case concerning the vandalized statue of Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The case was unsolved for a few years, albeit Mr Ekman provides all the necessary and irrefutable / admissible evidence, admitted and palpable motive - even the 'corpus delicti' - and more... Do count and measure the cost of impunity! The full and whole movie will be coming to a cinema screen near you by March 2025.
'One needs power - absolute power - to prescribe what is truth and what is idiocy,' as Thomas Mann formulated it. Having a moral myopia on hand, most people choose to distance themselves and retreat into family life, like hostages. The state, however, stubbornly insists on a contract with the individual - against the family - and most submissively agree to it because anything else would cause a serious internal dissonance with their inner self, which still identifies strongly with the state. And then there is sports, with a certain 'fons et origo': a corporatism, a clan-style environment... We all know how much football matters - and how little. A football manager once said that "football is a matter of life and death". A feted football team owner thence retorted: "It's more important than that," adding, "it is enrapturing but only a game, and meant to be fun. Assuring people that defeat is okay can empower them to take risks, thus making them likelier to succeed in general life. As much as winning, sport teaches you how to lose, and carry on." Great men pass by silently. We live in a world in which the media makes morons famous people. Is it that exquisite balance of being really fun and deeply serious at the same time? This element of surprise 'can definitely be a secret sauce'. As an investigator I've realized there is physical bravery and there's courage. And they are quite different things. As a detective I finally understand what it is all about: being a doer rather than a talker, a fighter rather than an observer. In dire straits, tempers fray, truths are told, feelings run high and out of control, however, renowned Bureau Ekman remains steely cold and calculating. Our kindness should not be mistaken for weakness. Though, our prestige and modus operandi can not survive without some mystery. Familiarity mostly breeds discomfort and envious-driven emulation.
As for the mulishness of Bureau Ekman's private detectives / private investigators, we consider smart stubbornness a positive quality rather than the 'strong-arm manhood style' often associated with ruffians from various quarters. Most private detective / private investigator cases are 'Wars of Attrition', sometimes or often the defeated defeated and the victor lost.
Most secrets are heavily overvalued. The game today is to verify information, not to steal secrets. 'Seek and ye shall find.' The hare set running in 2019 has not quite been caught. The game's afoot. No amount of firepower, nor tide of gloop, is likely to be a satisfactory response on its own. In our combined (film and detective professionals) team's on-going investigation of this [culpable] mystery, the movie is a wonderful illustrative example of how the deliberate, collaborative pursuit of evidence can accomplish the previously unaccomplished.
This is an enthralling legal-procedural detective whodunnit narrative, as percolating evidence is slowly perused and unearthed from various human and signals intelligence sources. [Tempor-ized] with vague and apocryphal promises; Isolation as a source of creative investigative activity: VICTOR LUDORUM?"

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T R U T H - F o r T h e P r e p a r e d M i nd
An introduction or foreword, I belive, should prepare the reader for what lie ahead, for what he/she will find in the text; a sort of road map for the journey about to begin. Writing is in itself a way to commence understanding; understanding being the most valuable of all things. Having started as a natural science student, later adding degrees in economics and jurisprudence at university, I hope to be able to combine acquired knowledge into a comprehensible logic. As a private detective I have for years stood side-by-side with people who are sometimes in the worst moments of their lives - in courts, at police investigations' chambers, at social security offices - having an experience not everyone can bring to the bench. This implicitly carries a heavy responsibility. In lacunas or caveats between private detective assignments or missions globally - and the odd board meeting at Space Metals Group - there have at times been ample and necessary thoughts and dreams about the human condition. "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night," as the foremost poet and thinker E.A. Poe formulated it - and tempus fugit. Erit hora - and in language, norma loquendi - what is actually thought, said or written - is the highest authority. Da capo, motto vivace: Semantics, knowledge and experience of individuals' psychological and philosophical patterns in combination with pure logic will usually decide a successful analysis. However, proper decorum requires thinking along the lines of the the U.S. Supreme Court: "We are not final because we are infallible; we are infallible because we are final." That tastes differ is a palpable impression of things at present; at the moment, there is unity only in confusion. Evidence-based, scientific truth rather than emotion, superstition, tradition, revelation, authority, religion ... is what we need. Politics, philosophy and religion are mixed: There is a persistence of religion that has not only obstructed and undermined science in the age of Galileo and Copernicus; it has also survived Darwin, whose theory of evolution shocked us. "Man is the only religious animal. In the holy taste of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard," as Mark Twain formulated it. "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature ... it is the opium of the people," wrote Karl Marx in 1844. The idea - not unique to Marx - was that by promising rewards in the next life, religion helps the poor bear their lot in this one. Noble suffering and mutual aid are two themes on whether religious belief makes poverty more bearable. Religious belief offers an appealing lie of a beneficient force that cares about us if we do the "right" things. So fundamental a truth is a challenge few writers take on. But then, few are as able "to tell without distortions what they know". Religious competition is healthy. "If there was only one religion in England," argued the French writer Voltaire in the 1730s, "there would be danger of despotism. If there there were two they would cut each other's throats, but here there are 30, and they live in peace and happiness." What we call science had its advent some 500 years ago. Neither St Paul nor Moses had the slightest idea of relativity or gravitation. The writers of the Bible could see into "the question of salvation. On other questions they were as wise or as ignorant as their generation." Medieval science is not oxymoron, nor is religious rationalism. It is by his reason that man resembles God. Exploration of nature is itself a form of worship. Many pioneering scientists lived in times of religious and political strife and found in "natural philosophy", as pre-modern science was known, a "ministry of reconciliation". Science saved religion from itself. Science and religion are not different attempts to do the same thing. I worry about setting ourselves up for an unprofitable game of whack-a-mole if we try to counter each and every manifestation of religious influence. Instead, sociobiology seeks to explain all human life and behaviour, including morality and the mind, in terms of evolution. As well as clinging to a morality derived from scripture, some religious zealots still rejects Darwin's theory altogether. Pheeew! The tension between science and religion "exists only in people's minds ... not in the logic or proper utility of these entirely different [subjects]". There is an empirical realm, and a realm of values. Humans are complex and should be able to tolerate complexity without declaring war. It is "disciplinary overreach" for either side to dismiss the other entirely. The Pope - or any other priest, monk, imam or prelate - is not in the habit of taking advice from even Europe's most seasoned private detective. After all, the Roman Catholic Church and the rest take instruction from the creator of the universe. Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you'd have good people do good things and evil people do evil things, albeit for good people to do evil things you need religion. In art, as in life, feelings rise and boundaries blur when politicians mess things up with involving themselves in faith-based issues and ditto legal concoctions. The vice president of Argentine, Christina Fernández de Kirchner, recently uttered: "Remember that judges are just judges - they are not God. You only have to fear God. And me a little bit, too." Evil is misguided competition. "The most dangerous psychological mistake is the projection of the shadow on to others: this is the root of almost all conflicts," as Carl Jung emphasized. Cooperative behaviours have been selected for thousands of generations, so that a sense of justice and fairness is part of what makes us human. Indeed, we punish ourselves severely for bad behaviour by feeling shame and guilt. The ultimate reason for the environmental damage we cause is too many people. A steady population decrease is our best hope to avoid ruin. Migration to ease the pressure from over-crowded geographical areas is not a viable solution - offering a perverse prospect of dignity and freedom. The torment of mass [im]migration is easy to explain. But it points to a mystery, one this essay will outline - but with apologies - not solve: why is it that each political faction's grip on power, once attained, has become so fragile? Everyone knows Europe is polarized. Yet that does not explain why it is also so evenly divided. The ordinary EU citizen - and this goes for US dittos as well - realizes that immigration causes [grave] criminality, which is akin to moaning that water is wet. (Sweden, for example, has seen its police department budget increase by 65% - sixty-five-percent - since the wave of mass immigration commenced in 2015. A defence mechanism to guard against the bouquet of death that hangs in the air? Perhaps, and sucking up enormous amounts of resources generally, and manpower specifically.) "Well, they are needed due to labour shortages in elderly care, general services and industry," is a common argument. These arrivals will also get old - sooner than one might predict - and what kind of industry is worth outsourcing to such a degree we can not handle it with indigenous individuals? We have outsourced our descendants, and soon we will or might outsource the production of descendants as well... What kind of culture is that? The cold political silence reveals another truth. On migration, the U.S. has recently withdrawn from the UN Global Compact. The American ambassador stated: "Our decisions on migration must be taken by Americans, and only by Americans." Austria withdrew in October, 2022, declaring, "Migration is not, and cannot be, a fundamental human right." Australia says, according to their interior minister, "We won't sign any document that's not in our nation interest, and it's not in our national interest to sign our border protection policy over to the UN." All political policies have proved ineffective, and in fact misguided. History - istoría is a Greek word meaning "investigation". Politicians aim for "cultural and genetic diffusion". Trying to assist them with a little less talking is a fool's errand. Liberals hope in vain populism's moment is passing because voters is believed to see that it is long on rhetoric yet short on solutions. Why was the desire for power, and its dangers for both individuals and societies so evidently pressing a concern for Plato when he wrote the Republic in about 375 BC. Plato - so proud of Athens despite her military defeat - would by writing a book entitled Constitution reveal the deep an interconnected flaws in the way that psychological and political order had been conceived. For Constitution was the original title of the Republic. In Greek, it is called Politeia, which means "constitution", and can be understood in the broad sense of the fabric of a society and its ability to reproduce itself and its way of life. Mark the words: its ability to reproduce itself and its way of life!!! Plato signalled to the Athenians that the Spartans were right to believe that the unity of their (the Spartans') governing class was crucial to their society's success, and that such unity rested on the details of the social interaction and formation of their citizens. "Justice" (dikaiosune in Greek) meant more than administration of laws or legal rights; it could mean broadly what is right, as well as more specifically what is justly owed or justly expected. Do we have injustice - getting goods and sex and power beyond one's allotted share (pleonexia from a verb meaining 'outcompete' in Greek) - if only one can be sure of getting away with it? Plato showed that many people perform [what can be seen] as "just actions" for the wrong reasons. Is justice ordinarily thought of as a compromise between the desire to act unjustly and the constraints of reputation? Is injustice self-undermining? I hope Europe - and the West in toto - can learn something from Plato's history, a history that does not repeat itself, but does rhyme, as Mark Twain expressed it. To stand firm will require aretē - meaning simultaneously moral virtue and sharpness - as well as technē, meaning skill / knowledge.. All my writing is not a pedagogical instrument whatsoever, albeit an instrument for enhanced thinking; yours and mine. I am describing a farce, but not a funny one. "Fear has big eyes," as the old Russian proverb goes.. In statecraft, mental maps matter. These not only define a country's "natural" region. Mental maps signify national priorities, which in turn shape "the decisions of leaders, the destiny of nations, strategy itself." We might require or prepare the ground for a possible legal trial that may get all of us closer to the answer "Why". Or perhaps the truth will come out by a different route. Are present policies trying to transform the age-old clashes between Europe, Africa and Asia into the most creative synthesis and coexistence of cultures that the world has ever seen? I do not believe so, and I will explain why [I do not believe so]. This is poignant knowledge - and looking back is the only material we can access. We are not in the business of predicting - yet!!! Politicians - many - are piling flimsy evidence on dubious argument to produce politically correct hokum. Truth is beauty: the best weapon against misinformation is the truth, not an embarrassed silence. With regard to what one should do as a politician, there is always "a responsibility for consequences". Abuse and misuse of language when something is called something that it is not should be avoided. Real change in this matter "will not be won by 'nicely asking'". Arguments from authority in Brussels - and elsewhere: "I believe that the moon is made of green cheese because Professor Waffle says so and she is really clever" will not work here. Political meddling in these investigations has weakened the whole system. They are not meant so much a set of clinical doctrines as a climate of feeling. Cruelty is a choice, not a state of nature - however, political systems require constant renewal, through argument and competition. Publication of facts are critical - discoveries and revelations are of no use if no one hears about them. A paucity of data across swathes of Africa and the Middle East has left governments in Europe guessing. You only see the shadow when it strikes - then it is too late. "What is good for the heart is good for the brain" is a bromide often trotted out, albeit an ability to say No, is neither too big for Europe, nor too small for the world, but just right. Always aspire - never envy. And bear in mind - constantly - that it is difficult to block, obstruct or hinder a good person that shows sincerity, valour and boldness. War rages in Europe - not solely because of religious competion, albeit it is partly present. Small wars ... are already throwing up some quite big lessons. "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself," as president Roosevelt stated in 1941. Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
The thing to be known grows with the knowing. Reason is the discovery of truth or falsehood. Truth or falsehood consists in an agreement or disagreement either to the real relations of ideas, or to real existence and matter of fact. Three centuries ago Jonathan Swift wrote that "falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it; so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale has had its effect." To be continued on wordpress.com.../. "WHY POLITICIANS LIE & THE FLOW OF HOMO SAPIENS' GENES."
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Below: Private Detective Claes Ekman on a corporate fraud / cyber / internet security mission in Kiev, Ukraine.
Dr. Igor Galitsky is Special Advisor - and a fully qualified Lawyer - to our Chairman. Igor has a Ph.D. in corporate and international law from the University of Odessa, and handles Bureau Ekman's / Walhallen's assignments throughout Eastern and Central Europe, i.e., Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Visegrad Four, et seq, as well as being President of Ekman & Galitsky Cyber Security, LLC.
Private Detective Bogdan Kotenko has a lawyer's degree from Kyiv National University. Before joining Walhallen / Bureau Ekman as responsible for our cyber-security / internet security, Bogdan operated as a military detective within SBU (State Security of Ukraine) for a great many years.
Viktoria Brauschitz is a fully qualified Walhallen / Bureau Ekman lawyer operating throughout Europe on marital issues, child custody, alimony, et cetera. You will not find Viktoria without Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch-BGB in her briefcase.
Celine Makarova is a Walhallen Special Operative / Private Detective since a great many years. Celine has wide experience of investigative assignments throughout the Middle East, Asia and North America.
Marta Occam is mastering our global private detective / private investigator operatives' planning and implementation from "a location". Marta has a degree in Pedagogic Science - which is sometimes extremely useful coordinating crafty and wily international operatives.
Simo Bagh is handling our investigator assignments throughout North Africa and the Middle East, qualified with degrees in business law from universities in Casablanca and Bucharest.
Private Detective Anna Bloch has a long experience of investigative work throughout the Russian Federation and CIS countries. Anna has a degree in criminology.
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