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Stax
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lubbarlubab wrote:
Wow. Very interesting. For some reason, it strikes me as Canal Street. I'll have to rewatch the segment where she leaves the restaurant a couple more times, but that's my first reaction. I'm sending it to a friend who speaks Russian for a quick translation. Where'd you find this, btw?

Also, I think it's obvious that the lady in the youtube video = http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w222/Iniscool/04-opr-sinoil.jpg. Are we all on the same page about that? If so, that'd lend credibility to my gut reaction - that this is NYC.


My first reaction was NYC, but the siren sounding in the background suggest otherwise, not that it couldn't have been added to the audio track.
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 		Do you mean the truck siren in the beginning, or the car alarm at the end? I've definitely heard both in NYC.

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lubbarlubab wrote:
A Russian friend watched it and confirmed that it was not Russian. They actually felt that it wasn't Slavic at all. I wonder if it's Middle Eastern. (It's not Hebrew.) I also did a quick shot-by-shot, which I posted on my LJ. It's as close to a transcript as I could do, and I omitted all the foreign language shots for obvious reasons. You can read that here: http://wwo-mordy.livejournal.com/2089.html

I think we need a translation. Also, a read on the car would be nice (any car people around here?). At some point, I'll analyze my transcript for hints (some ready ones: she removes her sunglasses during the foreign language part, we have some location hints, we might be able to figure out whether she took the footage herself or if someone took it of her, etc).


I beleive the car is a Citroen, a French manufacturer.

Edit: Like this one (?)
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lubbarlubab wrote:
Do you mean the truck siren in the beginning, or the car alarm at the end? I've definitely heard both in NYC.


The one at the end. I associate that siren sound with Europe for some reason.
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lubbarlubab wrote:
Do you mean the truck siren in the beginning, or the car alarm at the end? I've definitely heard both in NYC.


Actually, in rewatching, I think you are right. There is a Town Car parked in front of the restaurant. Not many of those in Europe.
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 		localboy?
i don't think we have anything on localboy yet. found the following del.icio.us:
http://del.icio.us/imalocalboy

4 links tagged with worldwithoutoil
haven't looked for this username anywhere else yet, nor had a look at the articles

this found using yuckymuck's tag search facility - http://www.keotag.com/

- also he's (yuckymuck that is) just posted a new entry, worried about grace's mom

edit: there is a teasingly empty lj for imalocalboy http://imalocalboy.livejournal.com/, no vox

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 		iamlocalboy seems to have an AIM account, although I can't confirm.

Regarding the latest video, the woman's reference to Grace is very odd. Almost as if she knows of Grace in a way that is more personal than one who would only know of Grace because of Nico's stories about the airport meeting. Has there been any intel on the identity of Grace's father?
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 		COST8
I just noticed that one of the meta-tags in worldwithoutoil.org is "cost8". After some googling, I came up with the Best practice in sustainable urban infrastructure, an environmental action plan that a number of European countries signed in 1998, ended in 2004 with extension. There was this conference on the results (I'm looking for the actual transcriptions of the conference), and here are some of the case studies. The main website has been replaced by an R&D company based in Finland. Note, none of this stuff is fictional. It's the only real-world thing in the meta tags of the WWO website. I think it might be important, but there's no reason to know why yet. Maybe Nico is connected with this (real) research?

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 		Today has been a big deal for me, as some of you may know. I apologize if I may be stretching.


I honestly feel that Nico is tied to A FEW "real" events.
They may be the past, yes.


My brain is aching...going to bed. Nice work ALL of you today. It has been a real blast talking to all of you so far, the last few days I have met some really nice, cool, and interesting souls. Thanks 4 letting me have FUN.

...game hasn't even started

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 		A friend and I started reading into this ARG as possibly a first one to try.

I apologize if I missed this posted somewhere. Skimmed through the thread and didn't notice it posted (unless I missed it). Probably me just just getting a little too excited about my first ARG.

World Without Oil on Myspace.

Figured since alot of the info takes place on Blog and such, we would check MySpace for one. It says it's by Inky_Jewel.

The latest blog (March 30th) has a link to http://www.worldwithoutoil.org/teach/.

You can download the page as a PDF as well.

Once again, sorry if I just reposted known information. Might not mean anything, but thought I would mention it.

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 		re: triox post
wow, nice

that's a new one to me
seems to be a few things to look at too

i'm excited with you

edit: the 'mr.' myspace that links from this seems ig, 'independentlens' refers to wwo

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 		Doing a search on Keotag with 'worldwithoutoil' I came across this link

http://www.crisisenergetica.org/search.php?author=2002&dateend=&datestart=&keyType=phrase&mode=search&query=&topic=0&type=forum

From first blush, there's nothing of import. Until you look at the author . . .

'SINOIL' which might just be a coincidence or not. Hard to say.

This also leads to yuckmuck's del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/yuckymuck)

Later edit: Digging around, SINOIL is a real company.
From - http://www.nbr.org/publications/analysis/pdf/vol9no2.pdf

At the same time, CNPC and Sinochem formed Sinoil (China National United Oil Corpora-
tion, also called Chinaoil) to import and export crude oil, to import equipment needed by CNPC,
and to engage in exploration and development of oil fields overseas. Sinoil was formed to be a
"global industrial conglomerate," able to compete in the world oil economy for exploration
contracts in foreign oilfields. Initially Sinoil obtained most of its crude exports from Daqing and
exported these primarily to Japan (9.3 million tons in 1994). The corporation will concentrate on
retapping old oil fields. Forming a joint venture with an American partner, Sinoil bought 98 old
oil wells in east Texas. Sinoil will expand overseas into Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and the
United States. Sinoil invested in a Hong Kong holding company, Seaunion Holdings Ltd., to
develop fields in Indonesia and Mongolia
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 		Krgyz(?) speech
I was gonna say, not that I am a slavic languages expert, I feel that she (in the nico message video) is definitely speaking some kind of Russian. The fact that it's not Russian makes sense, considering it's probably a dialect. It's like if you came across someone with a scottish accent saying something nonsensical because it's not english, until you realize it's gaelic. It's gotta be a similar situation here...

Also, some of you are pointing to Nico's pics, but when I check it out the link is down. Anyone else having this problem?

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 		It's not Polish
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 		Lucy and squirrels
Just checked up on Illianaspeedsters youtube contributions. You can see lucy chase squirrels here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fihc0xUNpR0

"Damn, just a leaf.." "The squirrels aren't there..."

Speculate people!

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