On August 12, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said that although he abused Philip Goldberg, U.S. ambassador to the Philippines, he would not make an apology to Goldberg.

His maybe most famous recording was something called The Goldberg Variations.

And they explained that they wanted kind of a Rube Goldberg machine.

One is a print on demand machine that looks like a Rube Goldberg machine.

But if Rube Goldberg machines and video poetry aren't quite your cup of tea, how about this.

And we came up with some parameters, because, you know, building a Rube Goldberg machine has limitations, but it also is pretty wide open.

On August 10, president of the Philippines, Duterte again criticized Goldberg, US ambassador to the Philippines, for interfering in the internal affairs of the Philippines.

Now, for those of you who don't know, a Rube Goldberg machine is a complicated contraption, an incredibly over engineered piece of machinery that accomplishes a relatively simple task.

On the 5th day of the month, Duterte raked up old stories and again expressed his dissatisfaction with Goldberg, criticizing the latter for interfering in the internal affairs of his country.

On August 12, the U.S. embassy in the Philippines said in a statement that the US side has noticed the reports about the criticism on Goldberg and these remarks were inappropriate and unacceptable .

During the election campaign of president of the Philippines this April, Goldberg criticized Duterte on the issue of human rights, and the two continued to accuse each other with sharp speech conflicts later on.

In this April, during the presidential campaign in the Philippines, on the pretext of the issue of human rights, Goldberg found fault with Duterte. Both sides continuously elucidated their own viewpoints and the speech conflict was intense.

And we put on one event in New York City, in the theater, and all these great actors came from Susan Sarandon, to Glenn Close, to Whoopi Goldberg and we did one performance on one evening, and that catalyzed this wave, this energy.

The band OK Go dreamed up the idea of a massive Rube Goldberg machine for their next music video and Adam Sadowsky's team was charged with building it. He tells the story of the effort and engineering behind their labyrinthine creation that quickly became a YouTube sensation.

The speakers were Peggy Antrobus, Development Alternatives for Women for a New Era (Barbados) Roberto Bissio, Instituto del Tercer Mundo (Uruguay) Ronnie Goldberg, International Organization of Employers (United States of America) Mama Koite, African Women's Development and Communication Network (Mali) Mathilde Manga, African Women's Association (Cameroon) Jens Martens, Global Policy Forum (Germany) and Saradha Ramaswamy Iyer, Third World Network (Malaysia).