--- title: "While you were sleeping: 26 May 2016" description: "Stones, smoke, and xenophobia at Trump rally, oil tops $50 a barrel, and Depp gets a divorce." type: "NewsArticle" publisher: "Daily Maverick" site: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za" section: "South Africa" author: "John Stupart" author_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/author/johnstupart/" canonical_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-26-while-you-were-sleeping-26-may-2016/" published: "2016-05-26T06:12:34" updated: "2016-05-26T06:13:55" lang: "en-ZA" word_count: 738 --- # While you were sleeping: 26 May 2016 > Stones, smoke, and xenophobia at Trump rally, oil tops $50 a barrel, and Depp gets a divorce. By John Stupart · Published 26 May 2016, 08:12 SAST · Updated 26 May 2016, 08:13 SAST ## Content | \| \\| *"We face neither East nor West; we face forward."* **–****Kwame Nkrumah** \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \| \| --- \| | | --- | | \| \\| # Story of the Day \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| \\\| ![Image](//gallery.mailchimp.com/6170d6a6d93cac57e83ba137f/images/4f699af9-1850-4008-ac8b-1d6650b9ab30.jpg) \\\| \\\| --- \\\|\\\| ## [amaBhungane: Liberia, America’s outpost of financial secrecy](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-26-amabhungane-liberia-americas-outpost-of-financial-secrecy/)Hard on the heels of of the Panama leaks, an investigation by GEORGE TURNER and a Liberian journalist\* has turned a spotlight on a tax haven in the heart of Africa. By AMABHUNGANE. [Read more](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-26-amabhungane-liberia-americas-outpost-of-financial-secrecy/#.V0ZoHfl95hE) \\\| \\\| --- \\\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| # While you were sleeping \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| ## Organised chaos at Trump rallyRocks and smoke grenades have been hurled by anti-Trump protesters and police alike at Donald Trump's California rally. As always, the Orange Menace was in full form, blaming immigrants, Mexicans, and immigrant Mexicans for many of the US' woes. [Read more](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-26-trump-denounces-illegal-immigrants-as-tensions-flare) \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| ## Brent Crude tops $50The price of Brent Crude from the North Sea crude rose overnight to over $50 a barrel for the first time in 2016. Once Asian markets digested the news, a shortfall in North American crude inventories, largely due to the Canadian wildfires, was given as the primary cause of the increase. How long this will last, however, is the key question. [Read more](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-26-brent-crude-surpasses-50-a-barrel-for-first-time-this-year) \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| ## Report indicates floppy disks command the nukesA US watchdog organisation has revealed that many of the country's nuclear systems are run by very old hardware. Floppy disks, Assembly code language and computers from 1976 appear to still operate the command and control features of the United States' nuclear arsenal. In a weird way, resilience through obsolescence is not such a terrible cyber security plan at all. [Read more](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-26-us-nuke-force-still-using-floppy-disks-report) \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| ## Depp's wife files for divorceAmber Heard, Johnny Depp's, wife has filed for divorce. Reports have indicated Heard filed on Monday, citing "irreconcilable differences", less than a week after Deep's mother passed away. Dogs in Australia should surely now be the last priority in Depp's life. [Read more](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-05-26-johnny-depps-wife-files-for-divorce) \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| # In Numbers \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| **99.8** \\| \\| --- \\|\\| The conviction rate of the Japanese justice system. \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| # Facts of the Day \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| Today in 1966 **Zola Budd was born**.Fact of the day: **Google CEO, Larry Page,** has a condition that is slowly removing his ability to speak. \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| # Weather & Financial Data \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| BFN: min: 5° max: 21°, cloudy CPT: min: 11° max: 21°, cloudy DBN: min: 18° max: 22°, sunny EL: min: 15° max: 23°, sunny JHB: min: 6° max: 18°, sunny KIM: min: 7° max: 22°, sunny NLP: min: 8° max: 20°, rainy PMB: min: 7° max: 21°, sunny PKN: min: 6° max: 21°, rainy PE: min: 13° max: 19°, sunny PTA: min: 7° max: 20°, rainy \\| \\| --- \\|\\| Oil=$50.11Gold=$1,224.65 Platinum=$991.60 R/$=15.67 R/€=17.48 R/£=23.05 $/€=1.11 JSE All Share=53,721.88 DJIA=17,851.51 FTSE 100=6,262.85 [Source](http://dailymaverick.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6170d6a6d93cac57e83ba137f&id=6c17d969dc&e=371f6bebf2) \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| # Now on Daily Maverick \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \|\| \\| **FEATURED**\\\| ![Image](//ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/S5W80vxSL5njb3WjAlFbt-Z8irSKWMi6kETnRKJvVgD9CNR4grLj-n5_mopDrcpJIOWPwj3pOPklWSY_imfXC5tMUZsNiPAdPC9h3jMv7P6IV3ObenIxU1_RjdGBUlAYFN7QcafI_BL227Q6ITP6KCnT1g=s0-d-e1-ft#http://images.www.dailymaverick.co.za/images/resized_images/80x70q70LISCR-Monrovia-MAIN-PHOTO.jpg)where mail for the more than 40,000 companies registered to 80 Broad Street is delivered. 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