>>>Now this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22026961
>>As long as they keep "shooting" at you ... you pretty much know you're on the right path.
>unless the shooting is somewhat friendly fire to manipulate perception and value - or
>even more so...


Yes. If you are doing the right thing for the right reasons, and not trying to be manipulative in this way you suggest, and they are shooting at you, then they are shooting at you because you are trying to do the right things for the right reasons. In short, they are trying to keep you "down in the negativity" where they are because that's the way of the world (apart from born again saints following God for right reasons -- because He asked them to, and because His Holy Spirit moves within toward those ends).

That's what I meant in my first post.