Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte argues that Russia has to be allowed to join the G7 (to become G8), stating that some problems are currently unsolvable because President Vladimir Putin doesn't have a seat at the table.

"You have to move to get to a G8 with Putin sitting at the table, to be able to deal with problems that we are currently unable to solve because we are not all sitting around the table," Conte said during a Monday press conference.

Russia is an "important player for all international crises," which is precisely why dialogue with Moscow is extremely necessary.

Conte also weighed in on the issue of sanctions against Moscow, believing they're not the answer to solving problems. Rome does not want them to harm Russian civil society or businesses, he argued. The official still admitted that Rome consented to having restrictions renewed, as he understands they are linked to the Minsk agreement protocol.

Americans who recognize the central role played by biology in shaping human needs and desires are applauding a report by the New York Times that the administration will roll back President Barack Obama's establishment of the transgender ideology.

"It is high time that governmental agencies at the national and local levels return to valid science which reveals that there are two biologic sexes, and only two: male and female," said Dr. Quentin Van Meter, president of the American College of Pediatricians.

"President [Donald] Trump's commonsense decision to recognize gender as a biologically defined, immutable aspect of human nature" should be welcomed, said Arthur Schaper, organization director of MassResistance and state director of California MassResistance.

Trump's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is leading the effort to "establish a legal definition of sex under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that bans gender discrimination in education programs that receive government financial assistance," according to the Times' report. The new definition would ensure that people's recorded sex matches their actual biology.

But the transgender ideology demands that the federal government enforce rules which help people easily switch their legal sex, regardless of biology. This ideology would eliminate many single-sex institutions, including sports leagues, showers, and bathrooms,

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told a gathering at the 92nd Street Y in New York on Sunday that there may have to be "collateral damage" to those Americans who do not agree with the Democratic Party agenda.

Pelosi was being interviewed onstage by Paul Krugman, the left-wing New York Times columnist and Nobel economic laureate who predicted, the day Donald Trump won the presidency, that Trump would trigger "a global recession, with no end in sight."

The US policy of breaking treaties is "crude and blunt," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said, adding that if it continues, Moscow will have to take retaliatory steps, including "military-technical" measures.

"The сrude and blunt US policy causes more and more rejection in many countries," Ryabkrov told RIA Novosti, commenting on US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). "Washington should not underestimate the ongoing shift in sentiments."

If the US continues to unilaterally abandon major international agreements, as it has already done with the Iran nuclear deal, Moscow will be forced to take retaliatory measures, the official warned. These could include "military-technical" measures, Ryabkov added, without providing any details.

If you go back and read over my blog posts you'll notice I begin many of them with the words 'if you're paying attention...' One must be very keen, extremely awake and incredibly discerning during this historic time in which we find ourselves.

Most importantly, one must learn what to pay attention to.

This week, if you were paying attention, you noticed that the deep state was revealed. And I don't just mean hinted at or alluded to, I mean it was REVEALED, fully, in all its dark slithering unconstitutional unelected corrupt criminal subversiveness. Did you notice?

So, what did we learn this past week that was so different? I'm so glad you asked!

1. THE STATE DEPARTMENT LIED

We learned that the awesomely powerful government agency that is The State Department has not maintained allegiance to the law or to our nation when on Friday a federal judge complained that he was lied to by the State Department in a suit related to Hillary Clinton's private email server.

At a hearing on a Freedom of Information Act case about talking points related to the 2012 Benghazi attack, Judge Royce Lamberth complained that officials told the court that they had completed searching the agency's records for information on the topic even though they knew that Clinton and other officials had used private email accounts for official business.

"The State Department told me it had produced all the records," Lamberth complained. "That was not true at the time. It was not true. It was a lie."

During the hearing on Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth accused State Department officials of signing "clearly false" affidavits meant to thwart legal investigations into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

During the heated exchange, Lamberth said that he was left "shocked" and "dumbfounded" when he discovered that the Federal Bureau of Investigation granted former Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills immunity during the investigation of Clinton's infamous e-mail server - especially because Lamberth himself had found that she had previously perjured herself.

"I had myself found that Cheryl Mills had committed perjury and lied under oath in a published opinion I had issued in a Judicial Watch case where I found her unworthy of belief, and I was quite shocked to find out she had been given immunity in - by the Justice Department in the Hillary Clinton email case," Lamberth said.

How Big Of A Deal Is This?

It's huuuuuuge!

This is a very high-profile, very credible claim, based on a first-hand account by a federal judge, that he observed a lawless, rogue element within the highest and most powerful agencies of our government, working across the DOJ, FBI and State Department, operating completely outside the law in service of its own agenda.

If ever there was a definition of a deep state, or a state within a state, this my friends, is it.

This is a big deal. A very big deal. This story is disclosure.

This Judge's bombshell declaration is an important public piece added to the puzzle of what happened to our country, and it comes at a curious time (again, if you're paying attention.) It is a precarious time for the deep state, one where we see the noose of the truth tightening around the necks of its actors more and more.

There are no coincidences guys. Both the timing and content of this revelation are very noteworthy here. It lets us know things are moving swiftly enough for this Judge to suddenly be emboldened enough (read safe enough) to disclose this information.

2. The FBI Placed Spies on a US Presidential Campaign

Also on Friday, not coincidently, the U.S. government revealed that it used multiple informants to obtain information against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. In court filings, government officials also revealed confidential human sources were paid for their work. The FBI relied heavily on an uncorroborated dossier to obtain warrants to spy on Page.

The FBI's use of multiple confidential sources is not a surprise, but the disclosure is the first time that the government has acknowledged using sources beyond Steele, who was hired to investigate Trump by the Democrat-connected opposition research firm, Fusion GPS.

So, the FBI has now admitted to placing spies inside the campaign of a US presidential campaign. What do you think the implications of that are? What does that really say about how the most powerful agencies of our government view 'democracy?' All of this is very telling and paints a clear picture of the absolute irrefutable fact that a 'state within a state' has very clearly been operating within and throughout our government. In case you're not sure, a 'deep state' is by definition the opposite of democracy.

Another Important Tid Bit of Info

Combine these two revelations with what is being called a public service announcement issued by Politico, also on Friday, to all Russiagates, based on defense lawyers working on the Russia probe and more than 15 former government officials with investigation experience spanning Watergate to the 2016 election case. As the Mueller investigation shows clear signs of winding down, those waiting to see proof of collusion and treason by Donald Trump are being advised to 'prepare for disappointment.'

What we are looking at here is outward evidence that not only does the deep state very much exist but that the jig may be up. So up in fact that it's now safe to start disclosing how this lawless conspiratorial apparatus has functioned, in preparation for the next phase, where justice will be served.

My prediction is that there will be a lot more of this type of information hitting the mainstream. I also predict that as it does, the 'migrant caravan' will continue to swell and make noise. See how that works? Keep a keen eye out for deep state proof hitting the news! Be sure to Follow me on Twitter as I always share these critical nuggets of truth as they come in.

A former State Department employee from Alexandria, Virginia, has been sentenced to 26 years in prison for producing child pornography.

Skydance MacMahon, 45, was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty in July to production of child pornography, the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia said in a statement.

Prosecutors said that MacMahon worked with a woman in Canada, "using Skype and hidden cameras as well as overt recording," to produce more than a thousand explicit photos and videos of children in Canada, and to distribute that pornography through cloud-storage services such as Dropbox. He also had thousands of images and videos of child pornography himself.

In July, the prosecutors said they found child pornography on an Ohio man's cellphone last year and were able to trace it through Dropbox to an account linked to MacMahon.

MacMahon was a digital media administrator at the Foreign Services Institute at the State Department when he committed the crimes, prosecutors said. He faces up to 60 years.

"The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent. They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices. Their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness. We have been lulled into a trance. They have made us indifferent to ourselves, to others. We are focused only on our own gain."-They Live, John Carpenter

We're living in two worlds, you and I.

There's the world we see (or are made to see) and then there's the one we sense (and occasionally catch a glimpse of), the latter of which is a far cry from the propaganda-driven reality manufactured by the government and its corporate sponsors, including the media.

Indeed, what most Americans perceive as life in America-privileged, progressive and free-is a far cry from reality, where economic inequality is growing, real agendas and real power are buried beneath layers of Orwellian doublespeak and corporate obfuscation, and "freedom," such that it is, is meted out in small, legalistic doses by militarized police armed to the teeth.

All is not as it seems.

"You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they're people just like you. You're wrong. Dead wrong."

This is the premise of John Carpenter's film They Live, which was released 30 years ago in November 1988 and remains unnervingly, chillingly appropriate for our modern age.

Best known for his horror film Halloween, which assumes that there is a form of evil so dark that it can't be killed, Carpenter's larger body of work is infused with a strong anti-authoritarian, anti-establishment, laconic bent that speaks to the filmmaker's concerns about the unraveling of our society, particularly our government.

Time and again, Carpenter portrays the government working against its own citizens, a populace out of touch with reality, technology run amok, and a future more horrific than any horror film.

In Escape from New York, Carpenter presents fascism as the future of America.

In The Thing, a remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic of the same name, Carpenter presupposes that increasingly we are all becoming dehumanized.

After days of denial, Saudi Arabia has now said that the writer Jamal Khashoggi died in a 'fist fight' at its Istanbul consulate. Martin Chulov pieces together events surrounding this death and the investigation, and links to Riyadh's controversial crown prince

The Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul is a homely looking place, much smaller than it seems, nestled into a quiet suburban street, and painted pastel yellow. Were it not for a giant steel door and a green flag flying on the roof - both sporting two large swords - it could easily be an Ottoman-era cottage like many nearby.

Police barriers to the left of the building mark a point where visitors gather before being allowed through to apply for visas or tend to official business. On 2 October one Saudi citizen, Jamal Khashoggi, stood at the fence line, pondering his next move. Khashoggi needed to deal with paperwork that proved he had the legal right to marry the woman nervously standing with him that day, his new Turkish fiancee, Hatice Cengiz. He paced the barricade for around 20 minutes, removed his two phones from his blazer and gave them to Cengiz. "Wish me luck," Khashoggi said. "This will be a birthday present," she replied.

Speaking at the 15th annual Valdai forum in Sochi, in-between hilarious exchanges about the benefits of Western sanctions on the Russian cheese industry, President Putin made a number of strong statements directed at his 'Western partners'. These included an announcement that Russia is gradually 'de-dollarizing' its economy for security reasons; a droll warning that, should the worst come to pass and nuclear war break out, at least Russians would go to heaven as martyrs whereas her enemies would drop dead without time to repent; and a reminder that Russia has surpassed its competitors, for the foreseeable future, in hypersonic missiles. Far less publicized was his revelation about a recent incident involving ISIS in the Deir ez-Zor region of eastern Syria:

"We now see what is happening on the left bank of the Euphrates River, our colleagues know that. This territory is under the protection of our American partners, they rely there on the Kurdish armed forces. But they obviously did not work it through, members of Daesh remained in several settlements," Putin said at the annual Valdai Discussion Club meeting in Sochi.

The president further stressed that Daesh had recently started expanding its presence, taking 130 families hostage, which is nearly 700 people, including US and European nationals, in part of Syria controlled by US-backed forces.

"They [terrorists] put forward ultimatums and certain demands, and warned that if these ultimatums are not followed up to, they will be gunning down 10 people everyday. The day before yesterday they executed ten people," Putin stressed.

"Our information shows that several citizens of the United States and [some] European countries were also taken hostage [by Daesh]," Putin added.

You can listen to Putin describe this issue as a disaster, about which Western governments are keeping quiet, in this video, starting from 4:46. The reason they do not wish to talk about it is, of course, that it is not only an embarrassment for US coalition forces, but that it highlights their transparent intention to prevent the stabilization and reconstruction of war-torn Syria.

Following hours of talks behind closed doors in Moscow, US National Security Advisor John Bolton said that he now understands Russia's take on things much better, and added that more consultations on arms treaties are needed.

Bolton, the alleged mastermind behind the US pullout from the historic INF treaty, met with Secretary of Russian Security Council, Nikolay Patrushev on Monday. He arrived to Moscow shortly after the US President Donald Trump announced his desire to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF).

The main issue with the INF treaty, Bolton said in an interview to the Ekho Moskvy radio station, is that the weaponry systems it concerns are no longer exclusively operated by the US and Russia. Other countries, including China and North Korea, are developing and testing such systems, therefore the issue cannot be solved only by the two countries.

Apart from that, he also cited the "concerns" of the US and its allies over alleged Russian violations of the treaty, without detailing the supposed violations. Moscow has repeatedly denied such accusations. But the US still believes that Russia wants to develop intermediate-range missiles, prohibited by the INF.