Okay, look at it today for example (FTC that is). Price this morning was what.. 0.00103ish. They put out a bounty to get miners back involved because lets face it there was hardly ANY miners working on it for the past little bit. NOW the hashrate has gone up, the price of the coin is now at 0.00150 (High of 0.00189) Could it be a pump and dump? Sure it could... but either way life has been put back into it and the initial driving force IN MY OPINION is the bounty + miners gaining interest in it again.
If there is a pump and dump going on in BTC-e then that has nothing to do with mining.
Okay then. You have YOUR OPINION. I have MINE. Lets agree to disagree..