Apocalypse Weekend

  You don't need to be a crystal ball wielding psychic to see where humanities previous choices are pushing us towards. To figure out how we got to this point all you need is a history lesson. The collapse that's coming for the modern world won't start with a bang or a virus, in fact it has already started far before any of us were born. There's two decisions made in the past that make the inevitable collapse, well, inevitable: 1913, when the United States built a central bank on the European blueprint, and 1971, when money everywhere was cut loose from gold and became pure make-believe currency with a government logo stamped on it. Every dysfunction you see through your crisis rectangle, the wage gap, the debt spiral, the modern slavery in your supply chain, the planet slowly cooking, is downstream of those two dates. And Europe, fair warning, is not an innocent bystander in this story. In fact we invented the whole playbook.    Europe invented the money machine Here...

We've all read the lists of skills you need in an apocalypse. Farming, foraging, weapons training. How to make a water filter, rainwater collection, the list goes on. Every prepper blog on the planet has beaten those subjects to death harder than their annoying neighbour that recently turned into a zombie. But what about the things we haven't thought about yet? The unsexy, overlooked skills that will separate the people who survive and thrive from the people who'll be eating hard instant noodles underneath a leaky roof? When the apocalypse does finally happen, it won't be the machete-wielding, crazy eyed loudmouth who thrives. It'll be the weirdo down the street who knows how to wire a car battery to a solar panel and can pull a rotten tooth with a steady hand. So here are seven apocalypse survival skills nobody talks about, and honestly, you should probably start reading into a few of them this weekend.   1. Sewing skills (hand or machine) to fix your wasteland out...

When the world starts burning down in front of you, the last thing you want is to be stuck in traffic, idling away your expensive gasoline, waiting for the fallout to reach your rear tires. Running around doesn't seem like a good idea either. Unless you're the star of the treadmill, running around the wasteland trying to haul gear, supplies and foraged foods in your very expensive military grade backpack, you're going to need a functional set of wheels. Combustion powered vehicles are out because the simple fact is, there won't be any gasoline to go around. Sure you could run your own diesel fuel lab in the backyard but eventually even the sunflower oil will be gone and pressing new oil is just a waste of precious resources that are better used as sustenance rather than propellant. Every apocalypse-preppers wet dream is running around through the wasteland on a tricked out motorcycle or a zombie ready truck but the reality is much less appealing and sexy than looking ba...