Susan Kokinda

And everybody plays their part.

In my show yesterday, I referenced a new book, which has just conveniently come out just as King Charles is arriving in Washington, D.C.

You referenced it.

It's entitled Queen Elizabeth and Her Presidents.

the hidden hand behind history.

And the author documents, Queen Elizabeth was more thoroughly briefed with daily intelligence briefings, national security briefings.

She was on top of the nuclear contingencies.

You could bet she had, you know, her hands all over the five, there it is, the Five Eyes operation.

And this author, I haven't read the book yet.

I've just read the blurbs and watched a couple of interviews because I just discovered it two days ago.

But I don't know if this author is saying this is a good thing or she's neutral.

I don't know the particular political take in terms of this.

But she describes how the monarchy uses what they call soft power to influence presidents.

But then, yes, you have the city of London.

you have the financial power that's embedded in the city of London.

And this is one of the things which I think illuminates what the Iran conflict is all about.

Because the city of London, Lloyd's of London, the people who set the oil prices with Brent Crude, which is set in London and has nothing to do with the delivery of a barrel of oil, it's just speculation.

They've used the instability, the choke point of the Strait of Hormuz

to extract what the president's trade advisor, Peter Navarro, calls a terror premium, basically a terror tax.

If you look at the price of a gallon of oil here in the United States, about 20% of that comes from the pricing from the Brent futures market, which is in London, which has nothing to do with the physical production of oil, unlike West Texas pricing, and it has to do with the insurance.