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tommyschmitz - who has written 20 posts on Pakistan Times!.
tommy schmitz is a 52 year old recovering management consultant and began writing seriously about 18 months ago.
Besides writing, these days, he is an activist for very low income and homeless persons, and lives in solidarity with such wonderful friends since October 2003.
For a living, he runs a small fabrication shop for a small company in Des Moines, Iowa, and happily leave work filthy every day.
He Grew up in Cincinnati's west side, spent nine years in the corporate world, seventeen years running my own consultancy, mostly to car makers in Japan, China and the US.
He lived in Tokyo from 1992 to 1999. Besides serving auto industry clients (Toyota, Honda, Denso, Robert Bosch, Mitsubishi) he was the first non-Japanese accepted by the government as a paid advisor to Japanese small and medium sized companies. (Chushokigyochou, Division of JETRO and MITI).
Tokyo Twins - Chapters 8, 9 and 10
Tokyo Twins A serialized online story Introduction Tokyo Twins looks at two issues - what the roots of terrorism are, and what the end of terrorism might be. One or two new chapters, in both text and audio, will be posted each week to Pakistan Times. mp3 audio - Tokyo Twins - Chapters 8, 9 and 10 Chapter 8 - Superstition [...]
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
Tokyo Twins A serialized online story Introduction Tokyo Twins looks at two issues - what the roots of terrorism are, and what the end of terrorism might be. One new chapter, in both text and audio, will be posted each week to Pakistan Times. Tokyo Twins - Chapters 6 & 7 - mp3 audio Chapter 6 - Full moon rising and [...]
Continue reading...Tokyo Twins - Chapters 4 and 5
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Tokyo Twins A serialized online story Introduction Tokyo Twins looks at two issues - what the roots of terrorism are, and what the end of terrorism might be. One new chapter, in both text and audio, will be posted each week to Pakistan Times. Tokyo Twins - Chapters 4 & 5 - mp3 audio The girls did lightning fast rounds of [...]
Continue reading...“Tokyo Twins”, Chapter 3 - Unseeing a gathering storm.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Tokyo Twins A serialized online story Introduction Tokyo Twins looks at two issues - what the roots of terrorism are, and what the end of terrorism might be. One new chapter, in both text and audio, will be posted each week to Pakistan Times. Tokyo Twins-Chapter 3-mp3 audio Chapter 3 - Unseeing a gathering storm. Katie and Susan O’Brien [...]
Continue reading...“Tokyo Twins”, Chapter 2 – A workout, a day and a puzzle going home.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Tokyo Twins A serialized online story Introduction Tokyo Twins looks at two issues - what the roots of terrorism are, and what the end of terrorism might be. Two new chapters, in both text and audio, will be posted each week to Pakistan Times. Popularity: 31% [?]
Continue reading...Tokyo Twins - Chapter 01
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Tokyo Twins A serialized online story Introduction Tokyo Twins looks at two issues - what the roots of terrorism are, and what the end of terrorism might be. Two new chapters, in both text and audio, will be posted each week to Pakistan Times. Popularity: 29% [?]
Continue reading...Americans are informed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Friday, August 15, 2008
What I am seeing in the US mass media is a simplistic and systematic demonization of Pakistan. I could site many examples, but all one has to do is look at the New York Times. Here’s how it works. Al Qaeda is evil. Al Qaeda is gaining strength in Pakistan. Therefore, Pakistan is evil. Popularity: 27% [...]
Continue reading...The Lawyers’ Crusade
Sunday, June 1, 2008
By JAMES TRAUB In April, on the highway outside the little Punjabi town of Renala Khurd, Aitzaz Ahsan was waylaid by a crowd of seemingly deranged lawyers. The advocates, who wore black suits, white shirts and black hrefties, were not actually insane; they just seemed that way because they were so overcome with excitement at greeting [...]
Continue reading...34 sentenced to jail for protesting Gitmo at the US SC
Friday, May 30, 2008
34 Convicted in Display At U.S. Supreme Court Protesters Had Decried Guantanamo On Friday, 30 May 2008, four people from Iowa were sentenced to jail for their non-violent resistance against Gitmo. Christine Gaunt - 10 days. Christine is a mother of three, a librarian and a farmer. Brian Terrel - 10 days. Brian is a [...]
Continue reading...Guantanamo’s Day in Court
Monday, May 26, 2008
[note: Four of the 36 people on trial are friends of mine from Iowa... they are Brian Terrell, Chris Guant, Kirk Brown and Ed Bloomer. They have, together, spent years in jail for peacefully resisting injustice.] THE BOSTON GLOBE Guantanamo's day in court By James Carroll May 26, 2008 TOMORROW a number of the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay will finally get their day in court - although, alas, not literally. Thirty-five Americans who were arrested at the US Supreme Court last January during a demonstration protesting the illegal detention center will go on trial in Washington. They are charged with "causing a harangue." Instead of entering their own names, each defendant will enter the name of a prisoner held at Guantanamo. Father Bill Pickard, a Catholic priest from Pennsylvania, will identify himself as Faruq Ali Ahmed. "He cannot do it himself," Pickard says, "so I am called by my faith, my respect for the rule of law, and my conscience to do it for him."
Continue reading...Utah Phillips (1935-2008)
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Utah Phillips died last Saturday night. Although I never met him, I feel like I’ve just lost a brother and could write a book about it just to tell you why. But I won’t. You’re welcome. : ) I’ll just link over to this one song of his, “The Preacher and the Slave.” It was written [...]
Continue reading...The Peacemaker of the Pashtun Past
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
[Editor's note: Here is an article from the New York Times from December 7, 2001 written by Karl E. Meyer. It's interesting for perhaps more reasons than I can ponder - so, please do comment with your own - but here are two I can think of. (1) It suggests that the US [...]
Continue reading...Kashmir: The Scarred and the Beautiful by William Dalrymple
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Jammu and Kashmir is the only state with India that has Muslim majority. At the partition of Sub-continent back in 1947 of India and Pakistan, the state should logically have gone to Pakistan. But the pro-Indian sympathies of the state’s Hindu maharajah and those of its preeminent politician, Sheikh Abdullah, as well as the [...]
Continue reading...Pakistan Has Paid Dearly for America’s Most Generous and Tragic Patronage
Friday, February 1, 2008
by Roger Morris Benazir Bhutto was a precocious 23-year-old in 1976 when she noticed Army Chief of Staff Mohammed Zia ul-Haq come and go at the office of her father, Pakistani prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. “A short, nervous, ineffectual-looking man,” she remembered the general, “whose pomaded hair was parted in the middle and lacquered to [...]
Continue reading...Are some countries seriously dangerous? Reality; concrete or abstract
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
By tommy schmitz When I was teaching English in Japan, during the first class I would always ask, “Is America dangerous?” The answer was always “yes”! lol And this was the correct response, for these people. But it’s useful to answer closed questions (yes or no questions) with “it depends”. “Is America dangerous?” It depends. The [...]
Continue reading...US Military Escalation Gets Underway In Pakistan.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
An interesting Article and comments of the readers about the US Military Escalation plans in Pakistan, This is incomprehensible. Source: Common Dreams by Tom Hayden The US government is considering direct military intervention in the tribal areas of Pakistan, risking an escalated conflict with Pashtun nationalism in the name of crushing al Qaeda. An essay in last week’s [...]
Continue reading...Audio Visuals of Benazir Bhutto
Monday, December 31, 2007
- tommy schmitz Reactions From Around the Web A BlogRunner Community on internet has reacted the assassination of Ms. Benazir Bhutto, their response showed she was a popular leader in International Community. John Moore From New York Times Gatty Images has covered the Last Rally of Former slain Prime Minister of Pakistan, Ms. Benazir Bhutto. [...]
Continue reading...Pakistan speaks over Bhutto death
Saturday, December 29, 2007
By tommy Schmitz and Rubab Saleem AMBER KHAN, LAHORE The personality and the politics of Benazir Bhutto evoked various responses from various people. There are very few people who were so contradictory in their personality and popularity; she was revered as a politician nationally and internationally yet many didn’t approve of her political [...]
Continue reading...Musharraf’s Martial Plan
Friday, December 28, 2007
Post Author tommy schmitz Op-Ed Contributor, New York Times Written By BENAZIR BHUTTO Published: November 7, 2007 Islamabad, Pakistan NOV. 3, 2007, will be remembered as the blackest day in the history of Pakistan. Let us be perfectly clear: Pakistan is a military dictatorship. Last Saturday, Gen. Pervez Musharraf removed all pretense of a transition to democracy by conducting what [...]
Continue reading...Judges Are Heroes in Pakistan
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Source CommonDreams.org Judges Are Heroes in Pakistan by Medea Benjamin The heroes in today’s Pakistan are not the returning former Prime Ministers-Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif-but the Supreme Court and High Court judges who refused to accept General Musharraf’s emergency law putting the Constitution in abeyance. When asked to take a new oath pledging to uphold his “Provisional [...]
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