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I decided to delay my immediate comments about this major milestone for Laser Light. As with all things fundamental to one's work, relationships, and efforts, an event such as this - accessing a company' initial scale capital - which will forever change the present and future prospects of so many people - must be savored, appreciated, and shared. The announcement today about our debt financing is just such a moment. I have raised significant capital in my career. I am used to the time, emotional energy, and underlying effort that goes into securing the attention of any capital source. Long trips - now Zoom calls - and by far more than anyone wants to hear - "you are too early", "we look for larger EBITA ratios", "what's your revenue for the past 3 quarters". Notwithstanding, after each "No, or "Not Yet", or "Call me next year", this process is repeated with enthusiasm and high hopes. You try to "listen" to what the Market is telling you about your company, business and product plan. You try to adjust accordingly. The key, however, is that although hundreds of pitches can be made, only One is needed to secure your future. That One pitch is the only One you remember or need to remember. There are a lot of high-quality, innovative firms, and management teams deserved of capital. It is not appreciated how these seekers of funding do so not only for dreams of personal wealth - especially in start-ups - but for fuel, energy to drive certainty into their ideas, innovations, and ultimately their businesses. To do this work, every one - I mean everyone - in the company must be on message and be a Believer. Simply put, Believers work hard for THIS moment - The moment when their partners, investors, potential customers, and finally the capital markets also become Believers. So, I intend to savor this announcement not as a singular achievement of mine, but as the collective achievement of my family of Believers - financial advisors, management team, Friends and Family, partners, and present/future customers. My hopes and best wishes, also go out to all those other Believers who travel this same road, with my hope that all their pitch opportunities will be plentiful, but the One comes home sooner than later. Laser Light is entering a new phase in its growth and development. As I have said many times over these last 6 months. WOW!! More to Come!! Join Us!!

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Once again, an activist investor (in other words: a bully with a bag of money), has appeared on the scene to disrupt the enterprise of a long standing integrated refining and marketing company.  Last week, Elliott Investment Management unveiled a $1 billion stake in Phillips 66 and chirped about the company’s supposed underperformance.  Their all too familiar strategy is to create immediate shareholder value by ripping up the tracks of a company’s long term planning, investment and strategy. The activist investor cares little about the company’s employees, stakeholders or the communities that these rooted companies operate within. Much like pulling off the fruit before it’s ripe or killing the goose for the golden egg, these activists prey on the allure of the short term win vs. the long term rewards. I guess their parents never read to them the story about the tortoise and the hare.   The activist doesn’t make or produce anything. They often have nothing to do with the industry that they pillage. They don’t understand or care about the intricacies of a safe and efficient manufacturing process. Their game is simple: They buy stocks they view as undervalued and pressure management to do things they believe will raise the value, such as giving more cash back to shareholders, eliminating research and development, or shedding divisions that they think are driving down the stock price. They then find a few puppets and demand board seats, replace CEOs, and cook up specific business strategies with overweighted attention to financial metrics that reward the short run at the expense of the long run.  This opinion is supported by the fact that 40 percent of activist investors either reduce or sell out their positions in less than 6 months after making their investment.  There is no reason for a long term investor to accept the actions of an activist since it’s likely they have very different investment horizons.  Go away bullies. Citing all kinds of reasons other than the fact that the price of oil just wants to go down, the leaders of OPEC+ tried to convince their members to voluntarily adhere to existing cuts and to actually further curtail production.  They ended up looking like Georgia and Ohio State trying to woo the committee to let them into the playoffs. Traders likened this to shares of the Brooklyn Bridge being sold, and oil prices dropped for a sixth consecutive week.   WTI ended the week at $74.07.  The Brent Spread is close to $5 / barrel, indicating US production growth is real and spectacular. Meanwhile, the strong November rally in the stock market has been fueled by easing inflation, declining long-term U.S. Treasury yields and expectations for rate cuts (yay!) next year. Santa Rally! Ho ho ho!

Why are world leaders pressuring Israel and not Hamas or Qatar? They started this war when there was a ceasefire on Oct 7 and they could stop this war by giving back our hostages and surrendering - but they won’t because their only goal is not a Palestinian state that they have rejected over and over, but the destruction of Israel. Someone should tell the Biden administration (again) that Hamas (not Israel) continues to reject ceasefire deals (not Israel) because they (also the UN and other world leaders) wrongly puts pressure on Israel rather than where it belongs on Qatar (Hamas). And this pressure on the two state solution the day after? Equally naive. They are trying to bully Israel into agreeing to a two state solution so the Palestinians can use this state to destroy Israel and turn it into one Palestinian state without any Israel…. Yes, we know that’s their game plan and we aren’t so naive any more. So why don’t they pressure Egypt to take back the Palestinians from Gaza (where they came from)? Why don’t they pressure Jordan to take back Palestinians from “The West Bank of Jordan” which is actual Judea & Samaria where Abraham, the father of the Jews was buried 3,000 years ago? Because they won’t! They don’t want Palestinians threatening their kingdom/country either… So they come back to pressuring Israel because we always have the door open to discussions. We want peace. And have been willing to give painful concessions that do not reflect our ancestral roots to the land of Israel. Israel is not the obstacle to ending this war or peace in the region. If the Palestinians stopped fighting, there would be peace. If Israel stopped fighting, there would be no Israel. #standwithisrael #HamasisISIS #qatarishamas

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