A's Card-Double: The UK Treasury

A Story by Abishai100

A fun tale about an intelligence-worker with blood-diamond labors mired in a baron-trickery and an Oakland A's baseball-card dilemma.

A fun blood-diamond related vignette with allusions to culture-symbolic Western sports-fanfare, in commemoration of this 20th-anniversary year of 9/11!

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Amlan Satan (code-name: Storm-Shadow) is a guerrilla-intelligence agent with Interpol-relations working with blood-diamond (conflict-zone gems from Africa/Europe mined by warlords and used to finance new era crime syndicates!) infiltration in sectarian troubled Northern Ireland (United Kingdom), where piracy/smuggling will only complicate modern affirmative-action employment assistance policy-reform talks aiding the unemployed frustrated youth of Belfast who're turning to crime out of angst.

As co-captain of the new world underground Interpol-relations group known as the 'Foreign Irish Republican Army' (F-IRA), Storm-Shadow works with blood-diamond highway dissections linking areas like Brussels to Belfast and creating smugglers vehicles corrupt official transports, requiring sabotage/substitutions.

After reading Eamon de Valera's India and Ireland, Storm-Shadow became intrigued by his own family-heritage relations/ties to the Algerian and Indian anticolonial resistance movement economics in comparison to the troubles between Catholics-Protestants in the UK regarding socioeconomic disparities, requiring serious new era Sinn Fein talks with Parliament!

Storm-Shadow set-up base of operations with cyber-work in Oakland (California), creating a vast underground communications network to establish protocols for seizures and identifications of diamond-movements designed to detect blood-diamond mixing into the global gem-market which is very challenging to identify! With his Interpol-relations, Storm-Shadow (co-captain of 'F-IRA') can traverse the United States and Northern Ireland with proper cyber-dialogue in groups working against the veiling of blood-diamonds as modern treasuries of piracy underground. Oakland is prime for such cyber-work since it represents new era traffic/populism in the West.

INTERPOL: Blood-diamond corruption today threatens the entire world-diamond exchange and capitalism itself!

Storm-Shadow lives in a very nice Oakland apartment with WiFi and uses his network liaisons to move intellectual property information regarding blood-diamond silo organization(s) in Europe, especially the UK and Belgium, and sometimes in Newfoundland (North America). His Oakland apartment is a nice place for him to move various communications with cyber-intelligence.

STORM-SHADOW: I like attending fun Oakland A's American baseball-games in the summertime to forget blood-diamonds!

Storm-Shadow lures to his Oakland apartment a known underground blood-diamond baron named Goldfinger and tells him that he himself works as an 'underworld blood-diamond pirate' in Belfast, coordinating ex-IRA/UVF men to smuggle and assist smugglers vehicles. Goldfinger's very impressed, and Storm-Shadow shows Goldfinger one of his very personally-valued Oakland A's rookie-card (Topps Traded) of Jose Canseco, a Hall of Fame caliber American athlete. The rookie-card is not extremely valuable, but it has high social symbolic value to Americans/baseball-fanfare. He allows Goldfinger to steal the card while he's very drunk, since he knows the baron will want to take the item as a 'trophy' of Western civilization iconography, perhaps even boasting he 'lifted' it from a known blood-diamond UK pirate (Storm-Shadow!).

Storm-Shadow then flies to Northern Ireland and raids a Belfast bank with a blood-diamond safe-box owned by Baron Goldfinger. He uses an acid-gun and a circus-costume to enter into the safe-box area and burn through the box and switch his piracy gems ('blood-diamonds') with toy diamonds, claiming he's doing a special Interpol-media message designed to draw a Goldfinger press-statement about modern publicized diamond-traffic securities, with the promise that his original gems will be returned to Interpol-relations for continued dialogue.

Goldfinger posts on the Internet after this blood-diamond media-stunt that he claims he 'knows' the 'Interpol-relations pirate' behind this Belfast bank safe-box gem-switch and it's a man from whom he 'lifted' a socially-symbolic Oakland A's Jose Canseco rookie-card (Topps Traded!) and therefore is simply 'amused' by all this recent Interpol-media inquiry-related press music. However, Storm-Shadow then blogs anonymously in reply to the Goldfinger cyber-post, "Actually, I 'gifted' that Jose Canseco rookie-card to Goldfinger myself and kept my replica-mint condition Topps Traded copy/version for myself...so this 'dollar' game continues!" He also posts a photo of his very nice Oakland A's Christmastime sweater (as a 'dialogue' gesture)!

SHELBYE: I have no idea what my boyfriend is involved with, but all this blood-diamond media music in the UK is deaf!

Storm-Shadow flies back to California on Aer Lingus to enjoy a late-autumn A's baseball-game, attended by Jose Canseco as a guest-appearance. This is great media work for blood-diamond exposure to the news-makers, right?