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Browsing through social media but never liking or commenting on posts may be a sign of a mental health condition, a new study has revealed. Researchers at the Central China Normal University found that people who use platforms 'passively' are more likely suffer from social anxiety compared to people who use it actively - uploading posts and sharing life updates. The team surveyed more than 500 college students on their mental health and social media use, finding that 'voyeurs' were more afraid of unfamiliar situations in their physical lives. On the other hand, those who used social media actively found...

First column in a series exposing the truth about PizzagateLiz Crokin Jan 15I want to start my Pizzagate series by establishing the fact that pizza has been a known pedophile code word used by predators to operate hidden in plain sight for many years. In October of 2016, when the Podesta E-mails were released, the Urban Dictionary actually had defined “cheese pizza” as child porn. At that time there were two definitions of pizza as a code word for child porn – one from 2010 and one from 2015. So it’s important to note these definitions were established long before...

GAITHERSBURG, Maryland, February 26, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – As parents around the country demand a return to in-person learning and educators rally against it, a Maryland teacher’s aide was caught masturbating on a zoom call in front of middle schoolers. Since then he has been placed on administrative leave by Montgomery County Public Schools after footage of the incident was shared on social media. Marc Schack, a 21-year veteran of special education, claims he didn’t know the camera was still rolling after his eighth-grade online history lesson had concluded, before proceeding to commit the grotesque act. Pleading ignorance, Schack told the...

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — A Los Angeles police detective has been charged with secretly videotaping dozens of men inside a restroom at Angel Stadium of Anaheim. The Anaheim city attorney's office says 42-year-old Ryan Caplette was charged Friday with 75 misdemeanor counts.

The state’s highest court says “upskirting,” the practice of secretly photographing under a woman’s skirt, is not prohibited by state law. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court said today that a state law intended to prohibit “Peeping Tom” voyeurism of completely or partially undressed people did not apply to people who take pictures of people who are fully clothed. House Speaker Robert DeLeo said this afternoon that the Legislature would immediately begin looking at ways of closing the loophole in the law. “The ruling of the Supreme Judicial Court is contrary to the spirit of the current law. The House will...

DEVELOPING: NEW CASTLE, Del. -- Police on Friday afternoon came to the home of a 17-year-old high school junior to ask her about direct online communications she has had with Rep. Anthony Weiner. Two officers from the New Castle County Police Department arrived at the girl's home around 4:30 p.m. and asked to speak with the girl's mother about the daughter's contact with Weiner. Another officer appeared at the home a short time later. A FoxNews.com reporter was at the home when the police arrived. The girl, whose name is being withheld because she is a minor, told FoxNews.com, "I'm...

We knew he was a “cool boss.” We … just didn’t know how “cool.” From a Daily Caller story on the chairman’s alleged desire to purchase a private jet — which seems only too plausible, given previous reports of RNC profligacy — spot the buried lede: While Steele has not purchased a plane, he continues to charter them. According to federal disclosure records, the RNC spent $17,514 on private aircraft in the month of February alone (as well as $12,691 on limousines during the same period). There are no readily identifiable private plane expenses for Democratic National Committee chairman Tim...

The Republican National Committee is asking one of its members to return nearly $2,000 that the member was reimbursed for a night out at a lesbian-themed bondage club. Doug Heye, a spokesman for the RNC, issued a statement Monday after two news agencies reported that the organization reimbursed a member $1,946 for a February trip to Voyeur, a bondage-themed nightclub in West Hollywood recently featured in The Los Angeles Times as the new hotspot. "We are investigating the expenditure in question," said Heye. "This was a reimbursement made an individual not on committee staff. ... The committee has requested that...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Two FBI workers are accused of using surveillance equipment to spy on teenage girls as they undressed and tried on prom gowns at a charity event at a West Virginia mall. The FBI employees have been charged with conspiracy and committing criminal invasion of privacy. They were working in an FBI satellite control room at the mall when they positioned a camera on temporary changing rooms and zoomed in for at least 90 minutes on girls dressing for the Cinderella Project fashion show, Marion County Prosecutor Pat Wilson said Monday. Gary Sutton Jr., 40, of New Milton...

In Chicago, people like Robert Perry are subjected to exhaustive security checks. He was patted down, his wheel chair was examined and his hands were swabbed, all in public view in a see-through room at the security checkpoint. Perry, 71, is not alone "It's humiliation," Perry said. Perry was also taken to a see-through room by a TSA agent when his artificial knee set off the metal detector. "He yelled at me to get the belt off. 'I told you to get the belt off.' So I took the belt off. He ran his hands down over and pulled the...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- New surveillance video was released, Friday, taken inside Orlando International Airport as former astronaut Lisa Nowak stalked and prepared to attack a romantic rival. SURVEILLANCE: Nowak Stalks Woman At OIANowak was in the airport for at least three hours, waiting for Air Force Captain Colleen Shipman. Nowak changed her appearance twice, ending up in a trench coat and wig. Orlando police said Nowak tried to kidnap Shipman in the airport parking lot, because they were both involved with Astronaut Bill Oefelein. Prosecutors released the surveillance DVD as part of their case against Nowak. They would not comment...

McKeesport Area School District has reached a $58,000 settlement with a teacher who district investigators said had sex with another teacher in a classroom and a men's room during school hours. Under the settlement package, Patrick Collins, who has taught for 31 years in the district and was the teachers union president, will retire Nov. 9 after receiving 98 paid unused sick and personal days and a 24-day paid leave. The total comes to $48,260. In addition, he will receive health insurance worth $10,305. School board member David Donato, who voted against the package, said the settlement is better than...

PROVO — A Brigham Young University assistant professor has resigned after being arrested Thursday night for investigation into allegations that he taped and watched pornographic videos of a 14-year-old girl on his computer. The 63-year-old man is being investigated for sexual exploitation of a minor, a second-degree felony, and voyeurism, a class-A misdemeanor, after Provo police found a video clip of a girl undressing on a laptop computer belonging to BYU. The Deseret Morning News does not name arrested persons until charges are filed. Acting on a tip, Provo police approached the man at his home and took him to...

A 23-year-old Broomfield man is accused of taking video up women's skirts over the weekend at the University of Colorado Book Store. Chun M. Chiang, who authorities said is not a CU student, was arrested Saturday at the bookstore in the University Memorial Center after employees called police. Three women victims were identified, and police believe there may be more. They are asking any women who were in the bookstore between 2 and 4 p.m. Saturday and wearing a skirt to call Detective Robert Axmacher at (303) 492-8168.

He used phone to take photos up women's skirts, police say ______________________________________________ In the crowded bar, police say, Brent Allen slipped his Sanyo cellular phone with built-in camera under several patrons' skirts, snapping photographs as the women moved about unaware. The photos could have been e-mailed to a home computer and easily posted on the Internet by pressing a single button. Instead, investigators said, a bar employee who said Allen bragged to her about the images grabbed his camera cell phone and called police. The employee, Christa Reynolds, told officers that Allen showed her one of the pictures and said:...

As if it was divine retribution, three men were struck by lightning while they peeped at a pair of passionate lovers having sex in a car in a hillside area in Taipei. Hiding in a broken hut and each using a high-powered telescope, the three were so oblivious as they watched the lovers' act that they did not notice lightning flashing in the sky before a bolt hit the hut, police said yesterday. "All three were hit at the same time, but survived as they appeared to have evenly shared the impact of the super-high voltage electric current when the...

Piscataway, New Jersey-AP -- A college student in New Jersey has been arrested for allegedly hiding a camera in a dorm room in an attempt to spy on his roommate and the roommate's girlfriend having sex. Officials at Livingston College say the student linked the camera to the Internet and planned to watch with some friends from another room. But his plan was foiled when the couple spotted the camera and called police. The student was charged with intercepting an oral communication. A spokeswoman for Rutgers University -- which oversees Livingston -- says the school may also take disciplinary action.

<p>After more than 20 years of operations, NASA provided a new view of a shuttle launch on Monday, as they returned to flight after a four-month hiatus.</p> <p>For the first time, television and internet viewers of the launch were able to see first the launch pad, then Cape Canaveral, then Florida, and finally the earth itself get rapidly smaller as the shuttle ascended on its tail of fire.</p>