Label Ash , a Moroccan from Barcelona, is swamped by a sense of doom

And the Internet, having swamped the quality press, feeds and reinforces those prejudices, making it more difficult to distinguish the truth from lies.

But anxieties about being swamped by foreigners and dominated by outside powers are more acute in smaller countries, whose political elites seem particularly impotent.

E mails automatically become urgent, because I know that if I do not reply to one immediately, it will soon be swamped by 200 others.

But, in the coming decade, today s established middle class will be swamped by newcomers working their way up from the country s slums, small towns, and villages.

But Germany also swamped world s markets with mass consumption goods cheaper musical instruments than the traditional makers in France or Italy could produce, and lithographic prints used for Christmas cards and seaside postcards.

What he says feels right to his followers, because it conforms to their prejudices. And the Internet, having swamped the quality press, feeds and reinforces those prejudices, making it more difficult to distinguish the truth from lies.

This is small potatoes compared to the significant run up in prices that world markets have been experiencing recently, and it would in any case be swamped by the high volatility to which these markets are normally subject.

In short, the medium term benefits that emerging economies could receive from faster growth in the US are now being swamped by short term risks generated by the capital tsunami, as Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has called it.

And the reason why they have to go underground is that, if you did this experiment on the surface of the Earth, the same experiment would be swamped by signals that could be created by things like cosmic rays, ambient radio activity, even our own bodies. You might not believe it, but even our own bodies are radioactive enough to disturb this experiment.