SAVAGES: America's backyard

Three-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone tackles the drug war in

America's backyard

Stone has a terrifying and convincing thesis as to why the film has to be set in America, with American characters: "The point," he says, "is that wars come home, they come home to roost. And there are connections: one of the two main guys has come home from Afghanistan and Iraq, and he's brought all that with him, what I think are new levels of cruelty and combat technology we have out there."

The thriller Savages is in the same brutal, druggy realm of Natural Born Killers, but Stone has evolved in the past decade and a half, and the new film has a deeper, more complicated perspective. The violence isn't a kick. It's horrifying, senseless. Amid the mayhem, you think, "It didn't have to go down this way."   Why does it? Business.

Oliver Stone's film, Savages, with  Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Taylor Kitsch,  Blake Lively ,
Salma Hayek, Benicio del Toro,  John Travolta ,  Demián Bichir...   C A S T
Dirty, Rotten, (Industrialized) ‘Savages’!

Salma Hayek’s Fierceness Is The Only Reason We Will Be Seeing Savages

Hayek had plenty to draw from in the lives of 

Griselda Blanco and the "La Reina del Pacífico" (Sandra Ávila Beltrán).

(Still at large though are such notorious female narcos as Ana Cristina Aguirre Monje)

The film is based on a book with the same name by Don Winslow, but while the book was released to acclaim, the film was released to mixed reviews.  The consensus is that the performances, with the exception of Blake Lively, are riveting. 

"How liberated from an agenda is this movie? 

Savages will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 13, 2012.  

WILL SAVAGES INFORM THE REST OF THE COUNTRY 

ABOUT THIS LITTLE SLICE OF AMERICAN BACKYARD? 

 Are homespun entrepreneurs/Pharma V the Mexican drug cartels coming to a turf near you?  Presidential contender Romney knows what American addicts have known for years, send the uninsured to a nearby hospital emergency room.  Some addicts go bi-weekly and are well known by staff.  "Yes every medic and ER doc knows... "  

Why not ask them?

"Drug addiction should be treated as a potentially fatal illness and not a crime"

Russell Brand

CRY FOR HELP/RUSSELL BRAND BEFORE COMMONS SELECT COMMITTEE

"My problems have gotten worse. Now I am also dealing with health issues, and it is definite that I will be needing surgery some time in the next month or so. 
I was served an eviction notice yesterday and am facing that situation also.
I have zero income, no phone, no car, and soon no house. I am at a check mate position 
and just want to give up. I cant take this anymore."

Liver transplantation / Kidney transplantation

Lost, alone and steps away from homeless, it is not enough of a deterrent.  (the fastest-growing group of homeless people in the United States is composed of single women with two or three children)  The characters change, the locations change, the substances change, yet it is the same stories told time and again.  "After Helen persuades him that "Don the writer" and "Don the drunk" are the same person, Don finally commits to writing his novel The Bottle, dedicated to Helen, which will recount the events of the weekend. He drops a cigarette into a glass of whiskey rather than drink it. He recalls that while packing for his lost weekend his mind was on a bottle suspended just outside his window, he ponders, over a reversal of the opening shot, how many other people in New York City are in the same position as he." 1945 The Lost Weekend

It seems simple when it was just The Bottle.  Now there is an excess from street drugs to pharmaceuticals.  With no end in sight of tortured addicted souls.  Growing are the professionals who make it all too easy:   Emergency room doctors at a Santa Barbara hospital saw a disturbing trend for more than a decade – patient after patient hooked on prescription drugs shared the same physician.   Dr. Julio Gabriel Diaz  "In addition, two women taken to a hospital emergency room indicated they were among numerous people who used sex to pay Diaz for narcotics, according to an affidavit filed in the case."
"Yes every medic and ER doc knows him. His nickname is Dr. Candy. Yes, every time I ran a call and found his name on the bottles, I documented it. As did Cottage hospital. We and they can only do so much and document so much. However, there is nothing more we could do but document and file complaints. For whatever reason, someone decided to take us seriously and take the next step. It is a shame it took so long."

Drug addiction should be treated as a potentially fatal illness and not a crime, 

comedian Russell Brand has told a parliamentary select committee.

RUSSELL BRAND BEFORE COMMONS SELECT COMMITTEE

THE FOLLOWING VIDEO IS WORTH A LISTEN.

  There is a bit of a culture clash here which makes his words and reactions to the committee members comments all the more valuable.  Parliament UK


Brand told MPs that more money should be devoted to treating and educating drug users, instead of punishing them, and suggested that ministers should consider decriminalisation.
What Happened When Portugal Decriminalized Drugs?
Santa Barbara girl Katy Perry & Russell Brand Are Now Official DIVORCED!!

Teenage Russell Brand  Ay ay ay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This story blows away all those “Faces of Meth” ads

Jael Strauss was on Cycle 8 of America’s Next Top Model  five years ago looking gorgeous, and now her face is ravaged by a six-year meth, cocaine, and painkiller addiction (that’s right, she was using while on the show.) She is unrecognizable now, and her family staged an intervention on Dr. Phil.

FALLING APART WITH DR.PHIL

Consider this your 

“Don’t do drugs” 

PSA for the day.

(Jael’s mother initially believes her daughter is addicted to Vicodin, Oxycontin, 

and possibly meth.  Jael agrees to rehab)

A former “America’s Next Top Model” contestant who we haven’t seen in a long time
is headed back to our television sets, but this time the reason is not so pleasant. Jael Strauss, who participated in the 8th cycle of Tyra Banks’ model competition,
is set to appear on an intervention-style episode of “Dr. Phil” tomorrow when her family confronts her about her addiction to methamphetamine.

Where are the models of ANTM now?

America’s Next Top Model Winner CariDee English 

Describes How Sucky It Is To Win ANTM

FACES OF METH

Stay off the pipe!
Officials said containment of the blaze, which quickly lapped up a hillside during the height of Friday's rush-hour commute and prompted temporary closure of the Getty Center, remained at 40%, a figure reached by Friday night.

Assassinated

Griselda Blanco, Original Cocaine Kingpin With SoCal Ties, 

Assassinated in Colombia

You're probably asking, What took so long?  Blanco was one of the most murderous drug kingpin's in recorded history, having turned Miami into a city of blood in the late '70s and early '80s before coming to Orange County.

February 15, 1943 ~ September 3, 2012

1.  Gerald Posner (interview) Back in the Limelight In 

Biography Channel's Griselda Blanco Doc.

2.  Cocaine Cowboys  is a 2006 documentary (Official Thread). 

3.  Cocaine Cowboy2

4.  El Colombiano reporting that Griselda Blanco has been murdered in Medellin.

5.  Cocaine 'Godmother' Who Was Proud of Murdering 2-Year-Old Was No Hero.

DRUGS AND THE DRUG WAR ARE BAD FOR WOMEN

Whether a pill popping wife of a Senator or scraping the bottom of a barrel there

is no glamour and lasting win.  Money does help but that is not the reality for most women.

Santa Barbara police arrest the Cook Avenue residents after month-long investigation.

In the most lovely of cities you can hear story after story of women desperate

enough to  prostitute or forced into some form of slave labor.  Their faces meld into a  stereotypical archetype you can recognize as if you knew them.  Age is not their friend. For many of these women their drug addled brains convince them it is love with their captors.  For years Santa Barbara's  family and geriatric physician, Dr. Julio Diaz, 

better known as the "candy man" was in business.  Eleven known fatalities later and  the DEA stepped in.  Dr. Diaz was also known to trade pills for sex in the typical way female addicts become manipulated by anyone they
may meet or in a business association.  It is part of the lifestyle.
Tragically, the drugs take away any sense of self and well being.
There are thousands of these stories.  The few that the "candy man" brings up is a small evident part of these monstrous crimes.

GORE, GUTS AND GONADS they didn't come more treacherous than the