..."ASIC said it had observed “blatant attempts” by some local...

..."ASIC said it had observed “blatant attempts” by some local investors to pump share prices by using social media to announce a target stock or designated time to buy, and a target price or percentage gain to be reached, before dumping the shares."

So given the, FACT, that ASIC, ...NEVER, EVER, raises so much as even a, murmur, of disapproval, about ..ANY, of the ABSOLUTELY BLATANT, ..daily, 'Stock Price Manipulation' activities of the BEOT, then it's entirely bleeding obvious, to even the deafest, mutest and most blind man, here in Australia, that you are only ever likely, to see a slap on the wrist with a wet lettuce leaf, from them, ..if, you are ..NOT, one of their, 'approved, and fully paid up and card carrying members' of, their own bunch of 'good-ole-boys' mates, over in "the Wall St 'insiders' Club".

.....I fear, "Pathetic", is too, insufficient, a word, to utter ..in the same breath, as ASIC.