If you want more help tracking down the company, you might want to contact a research librarian at an academic Business library — assuming they take questions from the public.

Oh, Jeebuz…

Taxpayers always pay for the Archives part of a Presidential Library. That’s where they store everything in secure, climate controlled conditions, and where reading rooms are provided for Historians, scholars and the like. Legislation is needed to make clear exactly what these basics are that have public support, and we also need legislative clarification of ownership aspects of the Presidential Records Act — passed after Nixon tried to take his tapes home with him to California — and put it beyond executive orders when papers are opened, and how the powers of declassification actually are to work. Clinton made it 12 years which is very reasonable, But Bush came along and has tried to give presidential families near century long control — in a sense revising everything that was litigated with regard to Nixon’s papers, and which he lost at all stages. It is simply time for Congress to adopt and put into statutes clear rules that cannot be changed administration to administration, and I would add — a statute that is Historian Friendly.

What President’s raise money for is not really their library — it is their museum. Taxpayers don’t support these. Likewise, Taxpayers normally don’t support other things that are done in the Museum — some are very valuable, as for instance, the Kennedy Library is attached to the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, a certain number of Fellows and Faculty are supported by an endowment, and the School does Conferences, publications, supports research and the like. Example, something like the three way conference series about the Cuban Missle Crisis that the Kennedy center organized — first in Cuba with their archives and surviving players, then in Moscow with again archives, surviving players, and an audience of International Historians, and finally in Cambridge, with a major release from the National Archives and again a gaggle of Historians, some surviving players (not many left now), and about a week of scholarly debate directed toward synthesis of all the materials, resulting in at least a dozen major publications. Since Cuban Missle Crisis was about as close as we got to Armageddon in the Cold War — this about six or seven year process was profoundly valuable, and it is hardly just “all about Kennedy.” It is, in my mind, what the programatic/museum side of a Presidential Library ought to be about. What Congress needs to deal with is creating rules for these associated museums (which they can do as they share some administrative services, space, and above all, donations are to a non-profit foundation that serves as an endowment for the museum.) Congress needs to draw a line between a “Shrine” and a Museum with a public historical program tied to events and themes in a particular presidency. I suspect if they put their minds to it Congress could write such a statute — and that would be respectful of both Citizens who want to comprehend a presidency and its era, and Scholars and Historians who want to research a presidency and its era.

So please call attention to this NEED, and at the same time argue that the corruptions of recent years need to be ripped out of this collection of institutions.

thought it did say that phoenix systems international is in pine brooke, nj…….but it doesn’t exist anywhere else.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2857…..tional-Inc

…only other mention of the company is on the patent release from nasa…….and on the site of the advanced clean air technologies company where stephen payne is president, the company with exclusive rights to market the patent…..

i think it’s very strange that a company who holds and ’co-developed’ a nasa patent isn’t anywhere to be found…….if you ’co-developed’ a clean coal technology, seems you’d have to have a lab/building somewhere, or at the very least, funding if that’s how you ’co-developed’……

nothing anywhere, this is strange.

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and in the same thread, william ockham posted at 61 that world wide strategies-payne’s lobbying outfit had a date with the court for backruptcy.
http://emptywheel.firedoglake……ment-86513

guess ol’ stephen’s havin’ a bad month.
i wish i could find something on phoenix systems international inc..is buggin’ me…until i do, it smells to high heaven……

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found some more interesting things about stephen payne—
from info on his dhs advisory committee page–somehow they got a nasa patent for private use.
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He currently serves as President of Advanced Clean Air Technologies which holds an exclusive patent license from NASA for one-of-a-kind breakthrough technology that removes NO2, SO2, and Mercury from coal powerplants.
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http://advancedcleanairtechnol…..story.html
almost same photo as the one on world wide strategies website–handshake…..
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Advanced Clean Air Technologies (ACAT) has the exclusive rights to market the Phoenix-NASA ”Mercury Emission Control System”, a multi-pollutant emission control technology.
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http://advancedcleanairtechnologies.net/home.html
This low temperature oxidation process developed jointly by NASA at Kennedy Space Center and Phoenix Systems International, Inc. (PSII) meets and even surpasses regulations of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments.

Uh- sorry- but eight points is NOT competitive.

Of course these early polls don’t matter, but it’s amazing how far these newspapers will go to make it seem that the race is a tie.