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 WORLD-INFOSTRUCTURE > DISINFORMATION AND DEMOCRACY
  1. Abstract
  2. Introduction
  3. Disinformation - A Definition
  4. The Inflation of Disinformation-Messages
  5. A non-history of disinformation
  6. Propaganda
  7. The history of propaganda
  8. The ancient Greek
  9. The Egyptians ...
  10. The Romans
  11. The Catholic Church
  12. The big "change" ...
  13. New Forms of Propaganda (in the 19th Century)
  14. World War I ...
  15. The British Propaganda Campaign in World War I
  16. The "Corpse-Conversion Factory"-rumor
  17. U.S.-Propaganda in World War I
  18. World War II ...
  19. The Post-World-War II-period
  20. The Tools of Disinformation and Propaganda
  21. Atrocity Stories
  22. Cartoons
  23. Posters
  24. Movies as a Propaganda- and Disinformation-Tool in World War I and II
  25. Radio
  26. Television
  27. Positive Images
  28. Two Examples of Disinforamtion in the Eastern Bloc
  29. White Propaganda
  30. Bandwagon
  31. Democracy
  32. A Republican Example
  33. Disinformation and the Media
  34. A Democratic Atrocity Story
  35. Doubls Bind Messages
  36. The Secret Behind
  37. It is always the others
  38. The Role of the Media
  39. Credibility
  40. Changes
  41. The Theory of the Celestro-Centric World
  42. The Right to get Disinformed
  43. Another voluntary Disinformation
  44. Globalization as a modern Disinformation
  45. An Example of commercial Disinformation on the Internet
  46. Infowar
  47. Racism on the Internet
  48. Disinformation and Science
  49. Kyoko Data
  50. Further Tools: Photography
  51. Exchange of the Text
  52. The Gulf War
  53. The Kosovo-Crisis
  54. The 2nd Chechnya-War
  55. Conclusion
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Roman smoke telegraph network, 150 A.D.
The Roman smoke signals network consisted of towers within visible range of each other and had a total length of about 4500 kilometers. It was used for military signaling.

For a similar telegraph network in ancient Greece see Aeneas Tacitus' optical communication system.