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Based on the unexpected quality of the previous movie in the Invisible Man series, I was looking forward to The Invisible Woman. Unfortunately, there's not a whole lot happening here to prevent your mind from wandering. At 72 minutes, it’s repetitive and generic. It'll disappear from your mind as surely as its heroine does.

Professor Gibbs (John Barrymore) has developed a process that’ll make anyone invisible. He just needs a subject to test it on to ensure his continued funding from Dick Russell (John Howard). After putting an ad in the newspaper, department store model Kitty Carroll (Virginia Bruce) volunteers. While she uses her new-found invisibility to get revenge upon her jerk of a boss, Mr. Growley (Charles Lane), a group of mobsters have their own nefarious plans for the machine…

Unlike the previous Invisible films, this one’s a comedy. Russell’s butler is always fainting, falling down or getting knocked over. The crime boss who wants to make people invisible employs a trio of goons who might as well be the Three Stooges (in fact, one of them is played by Shemp Howard). While Jack Griffin was strangling his enemies to death with his bare hands, Kitty is pretending to be her boss’ conscience while she kicks him in the behind. While invisible, she gets drunk and the flustered men around her barely know what to do while she runs circles around them. There are some laughs, the kind that you’d find in a sitcom. In fact, the ending comes straight out of a TV show that's run out of ideas but desperately wants to go on for another season.

There’s an overall lack of imagination throughout and while the special effects were impressive for the time, they’re noticeably worse than in The Invisible Man Returns (released earlier the same year) or in the 1933 original. If you find yourself watching this screwball comedy, it moves quickly enough for you not to be bored but you won’t care about the plot. You’ll be more amused by random things throughout, like Professor Gibbs’ maid, played by Margaret Hamilton (better known as the Wicked Witch from The Wizard of Oz) or the realization that, for the time, this was considered a risqué film because of the scenes in which Virginia Bruce disrobes down to her underwear and then runs around naked (although invisible) for most of the film. How times have changed…

The Invisible Woman is not really any worse than some of the other bad Universal Monsters sequels but it doesn't feature any of the original “monsters” and isn't in the same continuity as the other movies. Completists will watch it once and that's it. Everyone else needn't bother. (On DVD, March 5, 2020)

Immigrazione e integrazione: in questo articolo citiamo il famoso messaggio dell'ex Primo Ministro dell'Australia John Howard. Non condividiamo affatto il suo pensiero, ma piuttosto desideriamo invitarvi a riflettere sulle sue parole, così attuali, divisive, e cariche di odio.

Vale la pena ricordare che nell'ambito dei problemi legati all'Immigrazione e integrazione, nel 2017 la nostra Suprema Corte di Cassazione ha formulato una sentenza "sparticque", che ha sancito un punto di equilibrio sul tema.

I dettagli del caso e della Sentenza del 2017 della Suprema Corte, sono inclusi nella fonte.

In sintesi, la Prima sezione penale della Suprema Corte ha puntualizzato al meglio il senso dell'art. 2 della Costituzione, in un passaggio della sentenza: "se l'integrazione non impone l'abbandono della cultura di origine, in consonanza con la previsione dell'art. 2 della Costituzione che valorizza il pluralismo sociale, il limite invalicabile è costituito dal rispetto dei diritti umani e della civiltà giuridica della società ospitante".

A nostro giudizio, in quest'ambito delicatissimo dell'Immigrazione e integrazione, la Suprema Corte ha trovato un perfetto punto di equilibrio tra sicurezza, convivenza pacifica, integrazione e rispetto dello Stato di Diritto.

GLI IMMIGRATI NON AUSTRALIANI DEVONO ADATTARSI! “Prendere o lasciare, sono stanco che questa nazione debba preoccuparsi di sapere se offendiamo alcuni individui o la loro cultura. La nostra cultura si è sviluppata attraverso lotte, vittorie, conquiste portate avanti da milioni di uomini e donne che hanno ricercato la libertà. La nostra lingua ufficiale è l’INGLESE, non lo spagnolo, il libanese, l’arabo, il cinese, il giapponese, o qualsiasi altra lingua. Di conseguenza, se desiderate far parte della nostra società, imparatene la lingua! La maggior parte degli Australiani crede in Dio. Non si tratta di obbligo di cristianesimo, d’influenza della destra o di pressione politica, ma è un fatto, perché degli uomini e delle donne hanno fondato questa nazione su dei principi cristiani e questo è ufficialmente insegnato. È quindi appropriato che questo si veda sui muri delle nostre scuole. Se Dio vi offende, vi suggerisco allora di prendere in considerazione un’altra parte del mondo come vostro paese di accoglienza, perché Dio fa parte della nostra cultura. Noi accetteremo le vostre credenze senza fare domande. Tutto ciò che vi domandiamo è di accettare le nostre, e di vivere in armonia pacificamente con noi. Questo è il NOSTRO PAESE; la NOSTRA TERRA e il NOSTRO STILE DI VITA. E vi offriamo la possibilità di approfittare di tutto questo. Ma se non fate altro che lamentarvi, prendervela con la nostra bandiera, il nostro impegno, le nostre credenze cristiane o il nostro stile di vita, allora vi incoraggio fortemente ad approfittare di un’altra grande libertà australiana: IL DIRITTO AD ANDARVENE. Se non siete felici qui, allora PARTITE. Non vi abbiamo forzati a venire qui, siete voi che avete chiesto di essere qui. Allora rispettate il paese che vi ha accettati”. Ai musulmani che vogliono vivere secondo la legge della Sharia Islamica, è stato detto di lasciare l’Australia, questo allo scopo di prevenire e di evitare eventuali attacchi terroristici.

Questa volta, seppur sia inusuale per Vortici.it vorrei riflettere insieme a voi. Sebbene il messaggio che avete letto, sia stato pronunciato anni fa dall’allora Primo ministro australiano John Howard, (che ha ricoperto la carica, dal 1996 fino al 2007), rileggendolo attentamente, (dopo averlo riscoperto in questi giorni del tutto casualmente), ho trovato il suo contenuto gravissimo nella sua interezza e contemporaneamente tremendamente attuale, nonostante sia passato diverso tempo.

Mi sono posta diverse domande ovviamente. A voi lettori ne porto all’attenzione solo tre, unicamente per riflettere, non certo per avere una risposta giusta o sbagliata come nei quiz televisivi. - In che mondo viviamo? - Che società costruiamo? - Che futuro lasciamo alle prossime generazioni? A voi le risposte, io personalmente le cerco ancora… Scoprite la nostra rubrica Editoriali

Immagine di copertina: https://vivereinaustralia.com/continente/

Former PM John Howard and his treasurer Peter Costello were warned about the dangers of rapidly rising Australian property prices back in 2004. These two were the architects of the capital gains tax concession. The Productivity Commission flagged the interaction between negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount as driver of the huge increases in property prices. John Howard and Peter Costello: Masters of a runaway property market downunder. It is interesting to note that Howard was a real estate agent prior to entering federal parliament.

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Unaffordable Property Prices Thanks To Howard & Costello

Could the moral of the story be beware of former real estate agents bearing gifts in the form of tax relief? Howard and Costello did not heed the warnings from the Productivity Commission and shelved their advice on this. Twenty years later and we are in the midst of a housing crisis with unaffordable homes everywhere you look in Australia’s capital cities. Interestingly, they were pointing the finger at a shortage of housing stock as the culprit back then. In truth, this has remained a common theme throughout the history of the nation. The call to build more houses has been an enduring, if not successful, one. It is easier to cry out into the wilderness than change the settings already in place.

Aussie Property Prices & The Voter Split

Of course, those who have bought into this overinflated market at the top do not want their property prices to go down. Thus, you have a split electorate between the haves and the have nots. The rental residential property market has been a driver of record inflation for several years now. Therefore, we have a third of the adult electorate in stress over the housing crisis because of unaffordable rents and property prices making buying a house impossible. Another third, who have bought into the property market and are stressed because of steeply risen interest rates on their home loans. And a third who already own their homes outright and may be a mix of investors and simply content property owners. Of course, they may have kids and friends who are renting and/or have mortgages. This is the Australian electorate in 2025. Australia & Its Private Property Culture John Howard and Peter Costello: Masters of a runaway property market. For the last 20 years, both sides of politics in Australia have been listening to the property owners and mortgage holders living in the suburbs. Labor and LNP have been courting their vote primarily. Renters have always been second class citizens in the bigger scheme of things. Their voice, however, is growing louder and more numerous in the economic wasteland left to them by Howard and Costello. There are more folk unable to buy a home in 2025 than there were 20 years ago. Rents on residential property have never been higher in Australian history. This is what you get when one section of the community are looked after to the detriment of the rest of us. The result are spikes in crime and civil unrest, as the ‘have nots’ eventually get angry and desperate at their economic poverty.

No Voice For Some Take a look at the neglected Indigenous communities up in Alice Springs and other parts of Australia. Locals are wondering why they are copping it from this disaffected youth. Well, their parents are in gaol and these kids have no opportunity and no hope. White residents are saying poor us but don’t lift a finger to do anything to help – its not their problem, apparently. This is the Australia we live in, where everyone is looking out for themselves. This is the progeny of Howard and Costello. Community spirit does not extend to some and does not exist for many modern Australians full stop.