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The equipment and tanks at the now-closed Oberti Olive canning plant in Madera are to be sold at auction Oct. 10, ending an era in the Central Valley that goes back to the days of the Great Depression.

California Olive Growers, a farmer co-op that took over the Oberti Olives brand following the bankruptcy of Tri Valley Growers in 2000, has itself ceased operation.


The beginnings of Oberti Olives began in the 1930s on a family-run farm, where Oberti began producing olive oil. The Oberti taste quickly gained popularity, eventually necessitating modern machinery and several hundred employees to produce enough oil to meet the demand. With time, the Oberti brand diversified to black ripe olives and a host of other supermarket goods.


Oberti joined Tri Valley in 1964, a year after that co-op was formed. Tri Valley eventually grew into California’s largest fruit canner, owned by more than 500 member-growers.


But a market basket of problems, which have since become the fodder for several management studies, brought down Tri Valley in 2000.


Oberti’s rescue by Central Valley olive growers was to be short-lived, however. The plant shut down about a month ago, according to the auctioneer.


Complete olive and tomato processing and canning lines will be available, in addition to warehouse and office equipment, according to the San Francisco auction firm Rabin Worldwide, which will handle the public auction onsite in Madera and online at http://www.rabin.com.

For the first time ever in print, The Virgin and The Priest unravels the Infancy Narratives of the New Testament to reveal how they were compiled to protect the truth of Jesus' parentage from those deemed incapable of receiving it.



An ancient formula, explaining why "holy births" in the messianic lineage resulted from questionable sexual relationships, was insinuated into the gospel accounts. These trysts of the Old Testament heroes were necessary to purify Jesus' ancestry and allow his genetic inheritance to be "sinless." Far from advocating a miraculous birth, the New Testament reveals that Zacharias, the priestly father of John the Baptist, was Jesus' biological father



This information is long overdue, but absolutely vital to understand what really happened two thousand years ago. Jesus was the younger brother of John the Baptist. A bitter sibling rivalry was behind Jesus' desperate failure to gain public acceptance - failure that led to his execution and to the prolongation of the disastrous course of human history. Everything from the dark ages, the Nazi holocaust and the war in the Middle East is part of the legacy of schism within the messianic family.



Although the Church discarded the truth in favor of a theological construction, much of the real story was always known to the elites of heretical secret societies. However, they acknowledged John the Baptist as the true Christ.



This conflict was documented in the Dead Sea Scrolls using pseudonyms for the protagonists. It was alluded to in apocryphal gospels, writings of early Church Fathers, the Koran, and in Renaissance masterpieces, and can no longer be ignored.